Almost to the End of the List

April 7th, 2009. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.

This week’s installment will bring us up to 500 as we go through the list of the world’s greatest books.  I actually managed to come up with thirteen of these that I’ve read. 

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Wikipedia The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) PG
Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Wikipedia The Last Days of Humanity (1922)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Wikipedia The Last of the Mohicans (1826) PG
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Wikipedia The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) PG
James Boswell (1740-1795) Wikipedia The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD (191) PG
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) Wikipedia The Little Prince (1943) PGA (French Language)
Plutarch (46-127) Wikipedia The Lives of the Noble Romans (100) PG
Bret Harte (1836-1902) Wikipedia The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) PG
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Wikipedia The Making of Americans (1925)
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) Wikipedia The Man of Feeling (1771) PG
Robert Musil (1880-1942) Wikipedia The Man Without Qualities (1933)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Wikipedia The Marble Faun (1860) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Masque of the Red Death (1842) PG
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Wikipedia The Master of Ballantrae (1889) PG
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Wikipedia The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Freeread
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia The Merchant of Venice (1596) PG
George Eliot (1819-1880) Wikipedia The Mill on the Floss (1860) PG
Molière (1622-1673) Wikipedia The Misanthrope (1666)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Wikipedia The Monastery (1820) PG
M G Lewis (1755-1818) Wikipedia The Monk (1796) PG
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) Wikipedia The Moonstone (1868) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1845) PG
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) Wikipedia The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) PG
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Wikipedia The Nose (1836)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Wikipedia The Nun (1796)
Homer (c700bc-) Wikipedia The Odyssey (-800) PG
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) Wikipedia The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) Freeread
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Wikipedia The Open Boat (1898) PGA
Saki (1870-1916) Wikipedia The Open Window (1914)
Bret Harte (1836-1902) Wikipedia The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) PG
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Wikipedia The Overcoat (1842)
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Wikipedia The People of Hemsö (1887)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Wikipedia The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) FreereadPG
John Bunyan (1647-1688) Wikipedia The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Pit and the Pendulum (1843) PG
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) Wikipedia The Playboy of the Western World (1907) Freeread
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia The Plumed Serpent (1926) PGA
Aristotle (384bc-322bc) Wikipedia The Poetics (-334) PG
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Portrait of a Lady (1881) PG
Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) Wikipedia The Possessed (1871) PG
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Wikipedia The Praise of Folly (1511) PG
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Wikipedia The Prelude (1850) PG
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Wikipedia The Prince (1532) PG
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Wikipedia The Prince and the Pauper (1882) PG
Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne (1634-1693) Wikipedia The Princess of Cleves (1678) PG
James Hogg (1770-1835) Wikipedia The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) PG
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Wikipedia The Professor’s House (1925) PGA
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia The Prussian Officer (1914) PGA
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Purloined Letter (1844) PG
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) Wikipedia The Radetzky March (1932)
Robert Tressell (1870-1911) Wikipedia The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (1914) Freeread
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia The Rainbow (1915) PGA
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Wikipedia The Rape of the Lock (1712) PG
Somerville/Ross (1858/1862-1949/1915) Wikipedia The Real Charlotte (1894)
Stendahl (1783-1842) Wikipedia The Red and the Black (1831) PGA
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Wikipedia The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Freeread
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Wikipedia The Red Room (1879)
Plato (c427bc-c347bc) Wikipedia The Republic (-400) PG
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Wikipedia The Return of the Native (1878) Freeread
Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) Wikipedia The Riddle of the Sands (1903) Freeread
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Wikipedia The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) PG
Robert Browning (1812-1889) Wikipedia The Ring and the Book (1868) PGA
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) Wikipedia The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) PG
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia The Rocking-Horse Winner (1933) PGA
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) Wikipedia The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) PG
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Wikipedia The Scarlet Letter (1850) PG
Jack London (1876-1916) Wikipedia The Sea Wolf (1904) Freeread
Unknown (-) Wikipedia The Seafarer (970)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Wikipedia The Sea-gull (1896) Freeread
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Wikipedia The Secret Agent (1906) Freeread
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Wikipedia The Secret Sharer (1912) Freeread
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Wikipedia The Shadow Line (1917) Freeread
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Wikipedia The Sickness unto Death (1849)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Wikipedia The Song of Hiawatha (1855) PG
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Wikipedia The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) PG
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) Wikipedia The Spanish Tragedy (1586) PG
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) Wikipedia The Stechlin (1899)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Wikipedia The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1886) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia The Taming of the Shrew (1593) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia The Tempest (1610) PG
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Wikipedia The Temptation of saint Anthony (1874)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) Wikipedia The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) PG
John Buchan (1875-1940) Wikipedia The Thirty-Nine Steps (1913) Freeread
Anonymous (-) Wikipedia The Thousand and One nights (850) PG
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) Wikipedia The Three Musketeers (1844) PG
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Wikipedia The Three Sisters (1901) Freeread
H G Wells (1866-1946) Wikipedia The Time Machine (1895) Freeread
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Wikipedia The Torrents of Spring (1872) PG
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Wikipedia The Trial (1925) PG
Euripides (480bc-406bc) Wikipedia The Trojan Women (-415) PG
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Turn of the Screw (1898) Freeread
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Wikipedia The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Wikipedia The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) PG
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia The Voyage Out (1915) Freeread
Unknown (-) Wikipedia The Wanderer (900)
H G Wells (1866-1946) Wikipedia The War of the Worlds (1898) Freeread
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Wikipedia The Water Babies (1863) PG
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia The Waves (1931) PGA
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Wikipedia The Way of All Flesh (1903) Freeread

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