Perfect Library (Fiction)

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  • 1. Anonymous, ca. 2000 BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
  • 2. Homer, ca. 800 BCE. The Iliad.
  • 3. Homer, ca. 800 BCE. The Odyssey.
  • 5. Aeschylus, 525-456/5 BCE. The Oresteia.
  • 6. Sophocles, 496-406 BCE. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
  • 7. Euripides, 484-406 BCE. Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; Trojan Women; Electra; Bacchae.
  • 11. Aristophanes, 448-388 BCE. Lysistrata; The Clouds; The Birds.
  • 15. Valmiki, ca. 300 BCE. The Book of Ramayana.
  • 16. Vyasa, ca. 200 BCE. The Mahabharata.
  • 20. Virgil, 70-19 BCE. The Aeneid.
  • Part Two
  • 23. Kalidasa, ca. 400. The Cloud Messenger; Sakuntala.
  • 26. Firdausi, ca. 940-1020. Shah Nameh.
  • 28. Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015. Tale of Genji.
  • 30. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The Divine Comedy.
  • 31. Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
  • 32. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400. The Canterbury Tales.
  • 33. Anonymous, ca. 1500. The Thousand and One Nights.
  • 35. François Rabelais, 1483-1553. Gargantua and Pantagruel.
  • 36. Wu Cheng-en, 1500-1582. Journey to the West.
  • 38. Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
  • Part Three
  • 39. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Complete Works.
  • 41. Anonymous, 1618. The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P'ing Mei)
  • 45. John Milton, 1608-1674. Paradise Lost; Lycidas; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; Sonnets; Areopagitica.
  • 46. Molière, 1622-1673. Selected Plays.
  • 50. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694. The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
  • 51. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
  • 52. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745. Gulliver's Travels.
  • 53. Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide and Other Works.
  • 55. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754. Tom Jones.
  • 56. Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in, 1715-1763. The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone).
  • 58. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768. Tristram Shandy.
  • Part Four
  • 62. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832. Faust.
  • 66. Jane Austen, 1775-1817. Pride and Prejudice; Emma.
  • 67. Stendhal, 1783-1842. The Red and the Black.
  • 68. Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850. Père Goriot; Eugénie Grandet.
  • 70. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864. The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales.
  • 74. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852. Dead Souls.
  • 75. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. Short Stories and Other Works.
  • 76. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. Vanity Fair.
  • 77. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend; Little Dorrit.
  • 78. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882. The Warden; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Eustace Diamonds; The Way We Live Now; Autobiography.
  • 79. The Brontë Sisters
  • 79A. Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre
  • 79B. Emily Brontë, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.
  • 81. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883. Fathers and Sons.
  • 83. Herman Melville, 1819-1891. Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener.
  • 84. George Eliot, 1819-1880. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch.
  • 86. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.
  • 87. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov.
  • 88. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910. War and Peace.
  • 89. Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906. Selected Plays.
  • 91. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass.
  • 92. Mark Twain, 1835-1910. Huckleberry Finn.
  • 94. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928. The Mayor of Casterbridge.
  • 96. Henry James, 1843-1916. The Ambassadors.
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  • Part Five
  • 99. George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950. Selcted Plays and Prefaces.
  • 100. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924. Nostromo.
  • 101. Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904. Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; Selected Short Stories.
  • 102. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth.
  • 104. Natsume Soseki, 18676-1916. Kokoro.
  • 105. Marcel Proust, 1871-1922. Remembrance of Things Past.
  • 107. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955. The Magic Mountain.
  • 108. E. M. Forster, 1879-1970. A Passage to India.
  • 109. Lu Hsün, 1881-1936. Collected Short Stories.
  • 110. James Joyce, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
  • 111. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; The Waves.
  • 112. Franz Kafka, 1883-1924. The Trial; The Castle; Selected Short Stories.
  • 113. D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love.
  • 114. Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965. The Makioka Sisters.
  • 115. Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953. Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night.
  • 116. T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965. Collected Poems; Collected Plays.
  • 117. Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. Brave New World.
  • 118. William Faulkner, 1897-1962. The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying.
  • 119. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1962. Short Stories.
  • 120. Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972. Beauty and Sadness.
  • 121. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986. Labyrinths Dreamtigers.
  • 122. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977. Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory.
  • 123. George Orwell, 1903-1950. Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Burmese Days.
  • 124. R. K. Narayan, 1906- . The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets.
  • 125. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989. Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape.
  • 126. W. H. Auden, 1907-1973. Collected Poems.
  • 127. Albert Camus, 1913-1960. The Plague; The Stranger.
  • 128. Saul Bellow, 1915- . The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt's Gift.
  • 129. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918- . The First Circle; Cancer Ward.
  • 131. Mishima Yukio, 1925-1970. Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
  • 132. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- . One Hundred Years of Solitude.
  • 133. Chinua Achebe, 1930- . Things Fall Apart.