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[The Book of Kells]

• Preface

[Trinity College, Dublin]

•

Geography

Bookcases A-Z:

1. BACH - Bookcase A: English Poetry
   • [4 shelves / 115 books]


2. HOUSE - Bookcase B: English Literature
   • [9 shelves]


3. HOUSE - Bookcase C: German & Russian Literature
   • [9 shelves]


4. HOUSE - Bookcase D: Foreign & Science Fiction
   • [9 shelves]


5. BACH - Bookcase E: English Literature
   • [7 shelves / 480 books]


6. HOUSE - Bookcase F: Spanish & Latin American Literature
   • [7 shelves]


7. HOUSE - Bookcase G: Science & French Literature
   • [7 shelves]


8. BACH - Bookcase H: Reference & Children’s Books
   • [4 shelves / 586 books]


9. BACH - Bookcase I: Australian & NZ Literature
   • [7 shelves / 729 books]


10. BACH - Bookcase J: Eastern Stories
    • [4 shelves / 131 books]


11. FLAT - Bookcase K (i): Poetry & Spain
    • [4 shelves / 35 books]


12. FLAT - Bookcase K (ii): Art Books
    • [7 shelves / 194 books]


13. BACH - Bookcase L: Foreign Literature
    • [7 shelves / 380 books]


14. BACH - Bookcase M: Fantasy & Supernatural
    • [9 shelves / 1289 books]


15. BACH - Bookcase N: Comics & Outsize
    • [7 shelves / 470 books]


16. BACH - Bookcase O: Classical Literature
    • [5 shelves / 314 books]


17. FLAT - Bookcase P: French & Italian Literature
    • [6 shelves / 234 books]


18. FLAT - Bookcase Q: NZ Literature
    • [7 shelves / 471 books]


19. HOUSE - Bookcase R: American Literature
    • [7 shelves]


20. HOUSE - Bookcase S: English Fiction
    • [7 shelves]


21. BACH - Bookcase T: Chinese Literature
    • [4 shelves / 129 books]


22. OFFICE - Bookcase U: Coursebooks & Anthologies
    • [4 shelves / 126 books]


23. OFFICE - Bookcase V: Criticism & Theory
    • [7 shelves / 959 books]


24. BACH - Bookcase W: Scottish Literature
    • [4 shelves / 174 books]


25. BACH - Bookcase X: Cupboard I: Audiobooks & Ms’s
    • [2 shelves / 193 books]


26. BACH - Bookcase Y: Cupboard II: Civil War & Occult
    • [6 shelves / 355 books]


27. BACH - Bookcase Z: Cupboard III: Ms's & Publications
    • [6 shelves / 494 books]

[Carl Spitzweg: The Bookworm (1850)]

Bookboxes 1-24:

• HOUSE - Bookboxes I - 1-4: History & WWII
  • [1 shelf / 42 books & 2 layers / 110 books = 152 books]


• HOUSE - Bookboxes II - 5-10: Shakespeare to Shaw
  • [1 shelf / # books & 3 layers / 165 books = # books]


• HOUSE - Bookboxes III - 11-24: Miscellaneous Literature
  • [2 shelves / # books & 2 layers / 461 books = # books]

[Elias Canetti: Auto-da-fé (1935)]

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Categories

1. Africa
   • [Bookcase S & Bookbox 16]
     • (# books)


2. Art & Music
   • [Bookcases C, D, E, M, N & Bookbox 12]
     • (# books)


3. Australian & Pacific Literature
   • [Bookcase I]
     • (# books)


4. Celtic Literatures
   • [Bookcases B, E, M, W & Bookboxes 5 & 6, 13 & 22]
     • (# books)


5. Children's Books
   • [Bookcase H]
     • (# books)


6. Chinese Literature
   • [Bookcases D & T]
     • (# books)


7. Cinema & Drama
   • [Bookcase D]
     • (# books)


8. Classical Literature
   • [Bookcase O]
     • (# books)


9. Comics & Graphic Novels
   • [Bookcases M & N]
     • (# books)


10. Eastern-European Literature
    • [Bookcases L & M]
      • (# books)


11. Eastern Frame-stories
    • [Bookcases J, M & N]
      • (# books)


12. English Fiction & Other Prose
    • [Bookcases B, E, M, S & Bookboxes 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18 & 19]
      • (# books)


13. English Poetry
    • [Bookcases B, E, M, P & S]
      • (# books)


14. Fantasy & Science Fiction
    • [Bookcases D & H]
      • (# books)


15. Folklore & Fairy Tales
    • [Bookcase M]
      • (# books)


16. French Literature
    • [Bookcases D, G & P]
      • (# books)


17. Germanic Literature
    • [Bookcases C, L & Bookboxes 20, 23 & 24]
      • (323 books)


18. History & Archaeology
    • [Bookcases F, G, I & Bookboxes 1-4 & 20]
      • (# books)


19. Italian Literature
    • [Bookcase D, L & P]
      • (# books)


20. Japanese Literature
    • [Bookcases D & L]
      • (# books)


21. Literary Theory & Linguistics
    • [Bookcases M & V]
      • (# books)


22. Mathematics & Science
    • [Bookcase G]
      • (# books)


23. New Zealand Literature
    • [Bookcases I, Q & V]
      • (# books)


24. North American Literature
    • [Bookcases C, E, P, R & Y]
      • (# books)


25. Occult & Supernatural
    • [Bookcase M & Y]
      • (# books)


26. Psychology & Religion
    • [Bookcases D & M]
      • (# books)


27. Russian Literature
    • [Bookcases C, L & Bookboxes 21 & 22]
      • (# books)


28. Scandinavia & the Netherlands
    • [Bookcases C & L]
      • (# books)


29. Spanish & Latin-American Literature
    • [Bookcase F]
      • (# books)


30. Travel & Exploration
    • [Bookcases I, V & Bookbox 12]
      • (# books)

[Erik Desmazières: The Library of Babel (1997)]

Preface

[Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)]

'How many shelves have you built for your father?' said the Earl to his daughter with a ghastly smile.

'Seven shelves, father,' said Fuchsia. Her eyes were very wide and her hands trembled as they hung at her sides.

'Three more shelves, my daughter - three more shelves, and then we will put the volumes back.'

'Yes, father.'

Fuchsia, picking up a short branch, scored across the needled ground three long lines, adding them to the seven which already lay between her father and herself.

'That's it, that's it,' came the melancholy voice. 'Now we have space for the Sonian Poets. Have you the books ready ­- little daughter?'

Fuchsia swung her head up, and her eyes fastened upon her father. He had never spoken to her in that way - she had never before heard that tone of love in his voice. Chilled by the horror of his growing madness, she had yet been filled with a compas­sion she had never known, but now there was more than compassion within her, there was released, of a sudden, a warm jet of love for the huddled figure whose long pale hand rested upon his knees, whose voice sounded so quiet and so thoughtful. 'Yes, father, I've got the books ready,' she replied; 'do you want me to put them on the shelves?'

She turned to a heap of pine cones which had been gathered. 'Yes, I am ready,' he replied after a pause that was filled with the silence of the wood. 'But one by one. One by one. We shall stock three shelves tonight. Three of my long, rare shelves.'

'Yes, father.' ...

- Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan. 1946. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Penguin Modern Classics. 1968 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975): 345-46.

The most poignant piece I know of about the after-effects of the death of a library is this passage from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy (worse even than the final moments of Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé). Perhaps its effectiveness comes from the fact that Peake himself may already have known about his own Parkinson's disease. It's hard not to feel him imagining the successive loss of his faculties, both as artist and author.

Building a library is always, as Canetti reminds us, an act of faith. One one level, of course, it's at the mercy of so many factors: fire, flood, domestic turmoil, and all the other vagaries of life. On another, it needs a logic and a raison d'être to justify its existence. But without some kind of catalogue or indexing system, can it really be said to be a library - or just an opportunistic huddle of books?

A website seems to me not such a bad place to compile such a catalogue raisonnée. The pages can be edited and re-edited as often as one wants, and (what's more) decorated with the other people's art. With the aid of labels, hypertext and sidebars, it can even be effectively cross-indexed.

Since my own books are scattered over four locations, I decided I needed, first, a clear geographical map of them. Since each location includes a number of books from different, overlapping categories, I realised I also needed to list them under various headings to coincide with my various areas of interest.

This blog, then, A Gentle Madness (the title borrowed from Nicholas Basbane's entertaining account of the vagaries of eccentric bibliophiles throughout history) is the result. It's very much a work in progress (but then what library could ever be said to be finished? Only when people stop writing new books, or re-editing old ones, I suppose). It's not - I suspect - of particularly absorbing interest (or use) to anyone but me, but, for what it's worth, it's now accessible to all.

'My books .. .' he said.

'I have them here, father. Shall I fill up the first long shelf for you?'

'With the Sonian Poets, Fuchsia.'

Yes.'

She picked up a cone from the heap at her side and placed it on the end of the line she had scored in the ground. The Earl watched her very carefully.

'That is Andrema, the lyricist - the lover - he whose quill would pulse as he wrote and fill with a blush of blue, like a bruised nail. His verses, Fuchsia, his verses open out like flowers of glass, and at their centre, between the brittle petals lies a pool of indigo, translucent and as huge as doom. His voice is unmuffled - it is like a bell, clearly ringing in the night of our confusion; but the clarity is the clarity of imponderable depth - depth - so that his lines float on for evermore, Fuchsia - on and on and on, for evermore. That is Andrema ... Andrema.'

The Earl, with his eyes on the cone which Fuchsia had placed at the end of the first line, opened his mouth more widely, and suddenly the pines vibrated with the echoes of a dreadful cry, half scream, half laughter.

Fuchsia stiffened, the blood draining from her face. Her father, his mouth still open, even after the scream had died out of the forest, was now upon his hands and knees. Fuchsia tried to force her voice from the dryness of her throat. Her father's eyes were on her as she struggled, and at last his lips came to­gether and his eyes recovered the melancholy sweetness that she had so lately discovered in them. She was able to say, as she picked up another cone and made as if to place it at the side of 'Andrema': 'Shall I go on with the library, father?'

- Peake. Titus Groan: 347.

[Mervyn Peake: Alice]

Notes:

• Requests for the loan of any of the books or materials listed here will not be entertained seriously. It seems most unlikely you won't be able find a nearby public library which can obtain the titles you're searching for.


• The pages are organised in the following way:
  
  
  
  • This image denotes a category:
  
  
  
  [Erik Desmazières: The Library of Babel (1997)]
  
  
  
  • This image denotes a bookcase:
  
  
  
  [Carl Spitzweg: The Bookworm (1850)]
  
  
  
  • This image denotes a bookbox:
  
  
  
  [Elias Canetti: Auto-da-fé (1935)]
  
  
  
• The following key to my mapping conventions is (I hope) self-explanatory:
  

  
  1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
  [b] = back row of a double row
  i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
  • = on top of other books (left to right)
  […] = bound Xerox copy
  

  
  

[Steerpike comes to Fuchsia's Attic]

Travel & Exploration

[Le douanier Rousseau: La cascade (1910)]

A Bibliography of my Collection:

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[b] = back row of a double row
i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
• = on top of other books (left to right)
[…] = bound Xerox copy

[Singapore Airlines: Romance of Travel playing-cards]

Travel

• Primary Texts



Bill Bryson


1. Bryson, Bill. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America & Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe. 1989 & 1991. London: Secker & Warburg, 2003.


2. Bryson, Bill. Made in America. Illustrated by Bruce McCall. London: Secker & Warburg, 1994.


3. Bryson, Bill. The Complete Notes: Notes from a Small Island & Notes from a Big Country. 1995 & 1998. London: Doubleday, 2000.


4. Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods. Illustrated by David Cook. London: Doubleday, 1997.


5. Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. 2003. London: Black Swan, 2004.


6. Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels through My Childhood. 2006. London: Black Swan, 2007.


James [Jan] Morris


7. Morris, James. Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire. Pax Britannica, 2. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.


8. Morris, James. Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress. Pax Britannica, 1. 1973. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.


9. Morris, Jan. Conundrum. 1974. London: Faber, 2002.


10. Morris, James. Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat. Pax Britannica, 3. 1978. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.


11. Morris, Jan, ed. The Oxford Book of Oxford. 1978. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.


12. Morris, Jan. Among the Cities. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


13. Morris, Jan. Fifty Years of Europe: An Album. London: Viking, 1997.




• Secondary Literature



...

[Séraphine de Senlis: L'arbre de vie]

Exploration

• Primary Texts



Frank Hurley


1. Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. The Knickerbocker Press. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925.


2. Antarctic Eyewitness: Charles F. Laseron’s South with Mawson & Frank Hurley’s Shackleton’s Argonauts. 1947 & 1948. Introduction by Tim Bowden. 1999. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 2000.


Sir Douglas Mawson


3. Mawson, Sir Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1915.


4. Mawson, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. 1915. Abridged Popular Edition, 1930. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1996.


5. Mawson, Douglas. Mawson’s Antarctic Diaries. Ed. Fred Jacka & Eleanor Jacka. 1988. North Sydney: Susan Haynes / Allen & Unwin, 1991.


H. W. Tilman


6. Tilman, H. W. The Seven Mountain-Travel Books: Snow on the Equator; The Ascent of Nanda Devi; When Men and Mountains Meet; Everest, 1938; Two Mountains and a River; China to Chitral; Nepal Himalaya. 1937, 1937, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951 & 1952. Introduction by Jim Perrin. London: Diadem Books Ltd. / Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1983.




• Secondary Literature




1. Hemming, John. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians. London, 1978.


2. Honour, Hugh. The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time. New York, 1975.


3. Von Hagen, Victor W. The Golden Man: A Quest for El Dorado. Westnock, Hampshire, 1974.


4. Wilcox, Desmond. Explorers. London, 1975.

Spanish & Latin-American Literature

[Map of South America (1935)]

A Bibliography of my Collection:

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[b] = back row of a double row
i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
• = on top of other books (left to right)
[…] = bound Xerox copy

[Borges]

Argentina

Jorge Luis Borges ()


1. Borges, Jorge Luis. Obras completas. 9 vols. Buenos Aires, 1965.


2. Borges, Jorge Luis. Prosa completa. 4 vols. Barcelona, 1985.


3. Borges, Jorge Luis. The Book of Sand & The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems. Trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni & Alastair Reid. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.


4. Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. Ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. Harmondsworth, 1979.


5. Borges, Jorge Luis. A Universal History of lnfamy. Trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Harmondsworth, 1975.


Ricardo Guïraldes ()


6. Guïraldes, Ricardo. Obras completas. Ed. Juan Jose Guiraldes & Augusto Mario Delfino. Buenos Aires, 1962.


7. Guïraldes, Ricardo. Don Segundo Sombra: Shadows on the Pampas. Trans. Harriet de Onís. West Drayton, Middlesex, 1948.


José Hernández ()


8. Hernández, José. The Gaucho Martín Fierro. Trans. Walter Owen. Oxford, 1935.


Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ()


9. Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie - Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga. Colección Hispanica. New York, 1961.


10. Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days at the Tyrants: or, Civilization and Barbarism. Trans. Mrs. Horace Mann. New York, 1961.

[Machado de Assis]

Brazil

1. Bishop, Elizabeth, & Emanuel Brasil, ed. An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry. Middletown, Connecticut, 1972.


2. Brant, Dona Alice. The Diary of 'Helena Morley'. Trans. Elizabeth Bishop. London, 1981.


3. da Cunha, Euclides. Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões). 1902. Trans. Samuel Putnam. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1944.


4. de Assis, Machado. Helena: A Novel. Trans. Helen Caldwell. Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1987.


5. Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-grande & senzala]: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. Trans. Samuel Putnam. 2nd edition. New York, 1966.

[Derek Walcott]

The Caribbean & the West Indies

1. Harris, Wilson. The Guyana Quartet. London, 1985.

[Pablo Neruda]

Chile

Isabel Allende Llona (1943- )

1. Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. Trans. Magda Bogin. London, 1986.


2. Allende, Isabel. Inés of My Soul. 2006. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Harper Perennial, 2007.


Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto ['Pablo Neruda'] (1904-1973)


3. Neruda, Pablo. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. [‘20 Poemas de amor y una Canción desesperada’, 1924]. Trans. W. S. Merwin. 1969. Cape Editions. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.


4. Neruda, Pablo. Residencia en la tierra. 1933, 1935, 1947. Ed. Hernán Loyola. Letras Hispanicas, 254. Ediciones Cátedra, 1987.


5. Neruda, Pablo. Residence on Earth. [‘Residencia en la tierra’: I, 1933; II, 1935; III, 1947]. Trans. Donald D. Walsh. New York: New Directions Press, 1973.


6. Neruda, Pablo. Canto General. Biblioteca de Bolsillo. Barcelona; Editorial Seix-Barral, 1983.


7. Neruda, Pablo. Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition. 1958. Trans. Alastair Reid. Cape Poetry Paperbacks. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.


8. Neruda, Pablo. 100 Love Sonnets. [‘Cien sonetos de amor’, 1960]. Trans. Stephen Tapscott. Texas Pan American Series. 1986. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.


9. Neruda, Pablo. Fully Empowered: A Bilingual Edition. [‘Plenos poderes’, 1962]. Trans. Alastair Reid. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1976.


10. Neruda, Pablo. Isla Negra: A Notebook. A Bilingual Edition. [‘Memorial de Isla Negra’, 1964]. Afterword by Enrico Mario Santí. Trans. Alastair Reid. 1981. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1982.


11. Neruda, Pablo. Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta. [‘Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta’, 1966]. Trans. Ben Belitt. 1972. Noonday Press. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.


12. Neruda, Pablo. Selected Poems: A Bi-lingual Edition. Ed. Nathaniel Tarn. Trans. Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, & Nathaniel Tarn. 1970. Introduction by Jean Franco. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


13. Neruda, Pablo. Memoirs. [‘Confieso que he vivido: Memorias’, 1974]. Trans. Hardie St. Martin. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.


14. Neruda, Pablo. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

[Gabriel García Márquez]

Colombia

1. García Márquez, Gabriel. Cien años de soledad. Ed. Joaquin Marco. Madrid, 1985.


2. García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. London, 1980.


3. García Márquez, Gabriel. El olor de la guayaba: Conversaciones can Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. Barcelona, 1982.


4. García Márquez, Gabriel. The Fragrance of Guava: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in Conversation with Gabriel García Márquez. Trans. Ann Wright. London, 1983.


5. García Márquez, Gabriel. El otoño del patriarca. Barcelona, 1975.


6. García Márquez, Gabriel. Autumn of the Patriarch. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. London, 1978.


7. Minta, Stephen. Gabriel García Márquez: Writer of Colombia. London, 1987.

[Alejo Carpentier]

Cuba

1. Carpentier, Alejo. Los pasos perdidos. Ed. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. Letras Hispanicas. Madrid, 1985.


2. Carpentier, Alejo. The Lost Steps. 1953. Trans. Harriet de Onìs. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.

[Miguel Angel Asturias]

Guatemala

1. Asturias, Miguel Angel. Mulata de tal. Buenos Aires, 1963.


2. Asturias, Miguel Angel. Mulata. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. Boston, 1967.


3. Asturias, Miguel Angel. Obras escogidas. 2 vols. Madrid, 1964.


4. Asturias, Miguel Angel. The President. Trans. Frances Partridge. London, 1963.

[Juan Rulfo]

Mexico

1. Fuentes, Carlos. Gabriel García Márquez and the Invention of America. E. Allison Peers Lectures, 2. Liverpool, 1987.


2. Fuentes, Carlos. Myself with Others: Selected Essays. London, 1989.


3. Fuentes, Carlos. Terra Nostra. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.



4. Paz, Octavio. El laberinto de la soledad. 1950. Colección Popular. Mexico, 1988.


5. Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico. 1950. Trans. Lysander Kemp. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.

[Sergio Ramírez]

Nicaragua

...

[Augusto Roa Bastos: Yo el supremo]

Paraguay

...

[Mario Vargas Llosa]

Peru

1. Vallejo, César. The Complete Poetry. Trans. Clayton Eshleman. Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa. Introduction by Efrain Kristal. Chronology by Stephen M. Hart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.


2. Vargas Llosa, Mario. La guerra del fin del mundo. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981.


3. Vargas Llosa, Mario. The War of the End of the World. 1981. Trans. Helen R. Lane. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.


4. Vargas Llosa, Mario. A Writer’s Reality. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.

[Luís de Camões]

Portugal

...

[Salvador Dalí: Cervantes]

Spain

...

[Juan Carlos Onetti]

Uruguay

...

[E. Caracciolo-Trejo, ed. The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse (1971)]

Anthologies & Secondary Literature

1. Caracciolo-Trejo, Enrique, ed. The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.


2. de Onís, Harriet, ed. & trans. The Golden Land: An Anthology of Latin American Folklore in Literature. New York, 1948.


3. King, John, ed. Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey. London, 1987.


4. Martin, Gerald. Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Critical Studies in Latin American Culture. London: Bloomsbury, l989.


5. Pike, Frederick B., ed. Latin American History: Select Problems: Identity, Integration. and Nationhood. New York, 1969.

Scandinavia & The Netherlands

[Snow Cover Across Scandinavia (2002)]

A Bibliography of my Collection:

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[b] = back row of a double row
i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
• = on top of other books (left to right)
[…] = bound Xerox copy

[Søren Kierkegaard]

Denmark

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


1. Dru, Alexander, trans. The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard: A Selection, 1834-1854. 1938. The Fontana Library. London: Collins, 1958.


2. Kierkegaard, Søren. The Last Years; Journals 1853-1855. Trans. Ronald Gregor Smith. 1965. The Fontana Library. London: Collins, 1968.


3. Hollander, Lee M., trans. Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard. 1923. A Doubleday Anchor Book. New York: Anchor Books., 1960.


4. Kierkegaard, Søren. Edifying Discourses: A Selection. Trans. David F. & Lilian Marvin Swenson. 1944. Ed. Paul L. Holmer. The Fontana Library. London: Collins, 1958.


5. Kierkegaard, Søren. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing; Spiritual Preparation fro the Office of Confession. Trans. Douglas Steere. 1938. The Fontana Library. London: Collins, 1961.


6. Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling & The Sickness Unto Death. Trans. Walter Lowrie. 1941. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.


7. Kierkegaard, Søren. Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Trans. David F. Swenson & Walter Lowrie. American Scandinavian Foundation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, n.d.


8. Lowrie, Walter. Kierkegaard. Vol. 1. 1938. Harper Torchbooks. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962.

[Elias Lönnrot: The Kalevala]

Finland

Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884)


1. Lönnrot, Elias. Kalevala: The Land of the Heroes. Trans. W. F. Kirby. 2 vols. Everyman’s Library 259 & 260. 1907. London & New York: J. M. Dent and Sons & E. P. Dutton & Co., inc., 1951.


2. Lönnrot, Elias. The Kanteletar: Lyrics and Ballads after Oral Tradition. Trans. Keith Bosley. The World’s Classics. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

[Saga of Erik the Red (c.1450)]

Iceland

Edda & Saga


1. Blake, N. F. ed. The Saga of the Jomsvikings: Jómsvíkinga Saga. Nelson’s Icelandic texts, ed. Sigurður Nordal & G. Turville-Petre. London: Nelson, 1962.


2. Cook, Robert, trans. Njal’s Saga. From The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (including 49 Stories). Ed. Viðar Hreinsson, Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Keneva Kunz & Bernard Scudder. 1997. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001.


3. Dasent, George. M., trans. The Saga of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of Njal’s Saga. Everyman’s Library. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, n.d.


4. Hight, George Ainslie., trans. The Saga of Grettir the Strong: A Story of the Eleventh Century. Everyman’s Library 699. 1914. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1929.


5. Johnston, George, trans. The Saga of Gisli. Ed. Peter Foote. 1963. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent, 1984.


6. Jones, Gwyn, trans. Eirik the Red and other Icelandic Sagas. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Pres, 1980.


7. Magnúson, Eiríkr, & William Morris, trans. Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda. 1870. Ed. H. Halliday Sparling. London: Walter Scott, 1888.


8. Morris, William, trans. Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. 1870. Ed. Robert W. Gutman. 1962. New York & London: Collier & Collier-Macmillan, 1971.


9. Pálsson, Hermann, & Magnus Magnusson, trans. Njal’s Saga. 1960. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


10. Pálsson, Hermann, & Magnus Magnusson, trans. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America – Grænlendinga Saga & Eirik’s Saga. 1965. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.


11. Pálsson, Hermann, & Magnus Magnusson, trans. King Harald’s Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway – from Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla. 1966. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.


12. Pálsson, Hermann, & Magnus Magnusson, trans. Laxdaela Saga. 1969. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.


13. Pálsson, Hermann, trans. Hrafnkel’s Saga and Other Stories. 1971. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


14. Pálsson, Hermann, & Paul Edwards, trans. Hrolf Gautrekkson: A Viking Romance. New Saga Library 1. Edinburgh: Southgate, 1972.


15. Pálsson, Hermann, & Paul Edwards, trans. Eyrbyggja Saga. New Saga Library 2. Edinburgh: Southgate, 1973.


16. Pálsson, Hermann, trans. The Confederates and Hen-Thorir: Two Icelandic Sagas. New Saga Library 3. Edinburgh: Southgate, 1975.


17. Pálsson, Hermann, & Paul Edwards, trans. Egil’s Saga. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.


18. Pálsson, Hermann, & Paul Edwards, trans. Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney. 1978. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.


19. Pálsson, Hermann, & Paul Edwards, trans. Seven Viking Romances. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.


20. The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. From The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (including 49 Stories). Ed. Viðar Hreinsson, Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Keneva Kunz & Bernard Scudder. Iceland: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing Ltd., 1997. Preface by Jane Smiley. Introduction by Robert Kellogg. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001.


21. Sturluson, Snorri. Edda. Trans. Anthony Faulkes. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent, 1987.


22. Sturlason, Snorre. Heimskringla: The Olaf Sagas. Trans. Samuel Laing. Ed. John Beveridge. Everyman’s Library 717. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1930.


23. Sturlason, Snorre. Heimskringla: The Norse King Sagas. Trans. Samuel Laing. Ed. John Beveridge. Everyman’s Library 847. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1930.


24. Terry, Patricia, trans. Poems of the Vikings: The Elder Edda. Introduction by Charles Wisden. 1969. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1981.


25. Whaley, Diana, ed. Sagas of Warrior-Poets. From The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (including 49 Stories). Ed. Viðar Hreinsson, Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Keneva Kunz & Bernard Scudder. 1997. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.

Halldór Guðjónsson [Halldor Kiljan Láxness] (1902-1998)


26. Láxness, Halldor. Salka Valka. 1932. Trans. F. H. Lyon. 1936. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.


27. Láxness, Halldor. The Fish Can Sing. 1957. Trans. Magnus Magnusson. London: Methuen, 1966.

[Maurice Maeterlinck: The Blue Bird (1909)]

The Netherlands

1. Coenen, Frans. The House on The Canal / Van Oudshoorn, J. Alienation. Trans. James Brockway & N. C. Clegg. Bibliotheca Neerlandica. Leyden & London & New York: Sijthoff & Heinemann & Maxwell, 1965.

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (1929-2008)


2. Claus, Hugo. The Sorrow of Belgium. 1983. Trans. Arnold J. Pomerans. London: Viking, 1990.

Alfons-Jozef De Ridder [Willem Elsschot] (1882-1960)


3. Elsschot, Willem. Three Novels: Soft Soap / The Leg / Will-o-the-Wisp. Trans. A. Brotherton. Bibliotheca Neerlandica. Leyden & London & New York: Sijthoff & Heinemann & Maxwell, 1965.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c.1466/69-1536)


4. Erasmus. Praise of Folly & Letter to Martin Dorp 1515. Trans. Betty Radice. Introduction by A. H. T. Levi. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.


5. Kopland, Rutger. Memories of the Unknown: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. James Brockway. Foreword by J. M. Coetzee. London: the Harvill Press, 2001.

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949)


6. Maeterlinck, Maurice. The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts. Trans. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 1909. London: Methuen & Co., 1911.

Frans Masereel (1889-1972)


7. Masereel, Frans. Passionate Journey: A Novel Told in 165 Woodcuts. Trans. Joseph M. Bernstein. Introduction by Thomas Mann. 1919. London: Penguin, 1988.

Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli] (1820-1887)


8. Multatuli. Max Havelaar, Or The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. 1860. Trans. Roy Edwards. Introduction by D. H., Lawrence. 1967. Afterword by E. M. Beekman. Amherst, Mass: the University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (1898-1989)


9. Walschapp, Gerard. Marriage / Ordeal. Trans. A. Brotherton. Bibliotheca Neerlandica. Leyden & London & New York: Sijthoff & Heinemann & Maxwell, 1963.

[Henrik Ibsen]

Norway

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (1894-1954)


1. Bengtsson, Frans. The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age. Trans. Michael Meyer. 1954. A Fontana Book. London: Collins, 1956.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (1832-1910)


2. Björnson, Björnstjerne. Three Comedies. Trans. R. Farquharson Sharp. 1912. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1925.


3. Björnson, Björnstjerne. Three Dramas. Trans. R. Farquharson Sharp. 1914. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924.

Knud Pedersen [Knut Hamsun] (1859-1952)


4. Hamsun, Knut. Hunger. 1890. Trans. Robert Bly. Introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer. 1967. London: Picador, 1976.


5. Hamsun, Knut. Mysteries. 1892. Trans. Gerry Bothmer. 1971. London: Picador, 1977.


6. Hamsun, Knut. Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers. 1894. Trans. James W. McFarlane. 1955. A Condor Book. 1974. London: Souvenir Press, 1980.


7. Hamsun, Knut. Victoria. 1898. Trans. Oliver Stallybrass. 1969. London: Picador, 1979.


8. Hamsun, Knut. The Wanderer: Under the Autumn Star & On Muted Strings. 1937. Trans. Oliver & Gunnvor Stallybrass. 1975. London: Picador, 1977.

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906)


9. Ibsen, Henrik. The Oxford Ibsen. Vol I: Early Plays. Ed & Trans. James Walter McFarlane & Graham Orton. 8 vols. London: Oxford University Press., 1970.


10. Ibsen, Henrik. The Oxford Ibsen. Vol II: The Vikings at Helgeland; Love’s Comedy; the Pretenders. Ed. James Walter McFarlane. 8 vols. London: Oxford University Press., 1962.


11. Ibsen, Henrik. Brand: A Dramatic Poem. Trans. F. E. Garrett. 1894. Introduction by Philip H. Wicksteed. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, n.d.


12. Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. Trans. Michael Meyer. Anchor Books. New York: Doubleday, 1963.


13. Ibsen, Henrik. The Oxford Ibsen. Peer Gynt: Play in Five Acts. Ed. James Walter McFarlane. Trans. Christopher Fry & Johan Filllinger. London: Oxford University Press., 1970.


14. Ibsen, Henrik. The Oxford Ibsen. Vol IV: The League of Youth; Emperor and Galilean. Ed & Trans. James Walter McFarlane & Graham Orton. 8 vols. London: Oxford University Press., 1963.


15. Ibsen, Henrik. Three Plays: The Pillars of the Community; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler. Trans. Una Ellis-Fermor. 1950. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954.


16. Ibsen, Henrik. Rosmersholm; The Master Builder; Little Eyolf; John Gabriel Borkman. Trans. Una Ellis-Fermor. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958.


17. Ibsen, Henrik. Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Wake. Trans. Peter Watts. 1964. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.


18. Ibsen, Henrik. Plays: The League of Youth; A Doll’s House; The Lady from the Sea. Trans. Peter Watts. 1965. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.


19. Ibsen, Henrik. The Complete Major Prose Plays. Trans. Rolf Fjelde. A Plume Book. New York: New American Library, 1978.


20. Meyer, Michael. Ibsen: A Biography. 1967 & 1971. Abridged by the Author. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)


21. Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter. 1937. Trans. Charles Archer & J. S. Scott. 1930. London: Picador, 1980.

[Richard Bergh: Portrait of August Strindberg (1905)]

Sweden

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)


1. Lagerlöf, Selma. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. 1906. Translated by Velma Swanston Howard. 1911. Illustrated by Hans Baumhauer. The Children’s Illustrated Classics. 1950. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1962.


2. Lagerlöf, Selma. The Further Adventures of Nils. 1907. Translated by Velma Swanston Howard. 1911. Illustrated by Hans Baumhauer. The Children’s Illustrated Classics. 1953. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1957.

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974)


3. Lagerkvist, Pär. The Dwarf. Trans. Alexandra Dick. New York: Hill & Wang, 1945.


4. Lagerkvist, Pär. Barabbas. Trans. Alan Blair. Preface by Lucien Maury. Letter by André Gide. 1951. Bantam Modern Classics. New York: Bantam Books, 1968.


5. Lagerkvist, Pär. Pilgrim at Sea: A Novel. Trans. Naomi Walford. 1951. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964.


6. Lagerkvist, Pär. The Eternal Smile and Other Stories. 1920, 1925 & 1933. Trans. Erik Mesterson, Denys W. Harding & David O’Gorman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1971.


7. Lagerkvist, Pär. Guest of Reality. Trans. Robin Fulton. 1985. Quartet Encounters. London: Quartet Books, 1989.


8. Lagerkvist, Pär. Modern Theatre: Seven Plays and an Essay. Trans. Thomas R. Buckman. A Bison Book. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.

Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912)


9. Strindberg, August. The Son of a Servant: The Story of the Evolution of a Human Being, 1849-67. Trans. Evert Springhorn. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.


10. Strindberg, August. Inferno and From an Occult Diary (Selected by Torsten Eklund). Trans. Mary Sandbach. 1962 & 1965. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.


11. Strindberg, August. The Red Room: Scenes of Artistic and Literary Life. 1879. Trans. Elizabeth Sprigge. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent / New York: Dutton, 1967.


12. Strindberg, August. Getting Married: Parts I and II. 1884-5. Trans. Mary Sandbach. 1972. London: Quartet Books, 1977.


13. Strindberg, August. Plays: The Dream Play; The Link; The Dance of Death, Parts 1 & 2. Trans. Edwin Björkman. London: Duckworth & Co., 1913.


14. Strindberg, August. Seven Plays. Trans. Arvid Paulson. Introduction by John Gassner. 1960. New York: Bantam Books, 1964.


15. Meyer, Michael, trans. The Plays of Strindberg. 2 vols. 1964. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.


16. Meyer, Michael. Strindberg: A Biography. 1985. Oxford Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Russian Literature

[Russia]

A Bibliography of my Collection:

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[b] = back row of a double row
i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
• = on top of other books (left to right)
[…] = bound Xerox copy

[Pushkin graffiti]

Poets

Anna Andreëvna Gorenko [Anna Akhmatova] (1889-1966)


1. Akhmatova, Anna. Избранное.


2. Akhmatova, Anna. The Complete Poems (Revised and Expanded Edition). Trans. Judith Hemschemeyer. Ed. Roberta Reeder. 1990. Boston: Zephry Press / Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1997.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921)


3. Blok, Aleksandr. Selected Poems. Ed. James B. Woodward. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841)


4. Lermontov, Mikhail. Сочинения.

Osip Emilyevich Mandel'shtam (1891-1938)


5. Mandel’stam, Osip. Сочинения.


6. Mandel’stam, Osip. Библиотека Поэзии.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)


7. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Сочинения.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)


8. Pasternak, Boris. Сочинения.


9. Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. 1957. Trans Max Hayward & Manya Harari. 1958. Fontana Modern Novels. London: Collins Fontana, 1974.

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)


10. Pushkin, Aleksandr. Сочинения. 10 vols. Vols 1-6.
    


11. Pushkin, Aleksandr. Повести Белкина.

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)


12. Tsvetayeva, Marina. Стихи и Проза.

[Tolstoy at Home]

Prose-writers

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (1894–1940)


1. Babel, Isaac. The Collected Stories. Trans. Walter Morison. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. 1957. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.

Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev [Andrei Bely] (1880-1934)


2. Bely, Andrei. Пєтєрбург.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)


3. Bulgakov, Mikhail. Сочинения.


4. Bulgakov, Mikhail. The White Guard. Trans. Michael Glenny. Epilogue by Viktor Nekrasov. Fontana Books. 1971. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1979.


5. Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita. Trans. Michael Glenny. Fontana Books. 1967. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1971.


6. Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Heart of a Dog. Trans. Michael Glenny. 1968. London: Collins Harvill, 1989.


7. Bulgakov, Mikhail. Diaboliad. Trans. Carl Proffer. Introduction by Julie Curtis. 1972. Harvill Press. London: HarperCollins, 1991.


8. Bulgakov, Mikhail. Manuscripts Don’t Burn: A Life in Diaries and Letters. Ed & trans. J. A. E. Curtis. 1991. Harvill Press. London: HarperCollins, 1992.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)


9. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Повести и Рассказы. 2 vols.


10. Dostoïeffsky, Fedor. The House of the Dead, or Prison Life in Siberia. Trans. Marie V. Thilo. 1881. Introduction by Jules Bramont. Everyman’s Library. 1911. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1923.


11. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Insulted and Injured. 1861. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1915. Grafton Classics. London: Grafton Books, 1987.


12. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Insulted and Humiliated. 1861. Trans. Olga Shartse. 1957. Russian Classics Series. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976.


13. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot. 1868. Trans. Julius Katzer. 1971. Russian Classics Series. 2 vols. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975.


14. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground / The Double. 1864 & 1846. Trans. Jessie Coulson. 1972. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.


15. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground. 1864. Trans. Mirra Ginsburg. Introduction by Donald Fanger. New York: Bantam Books, 1974.


16. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground. 1864. Trans. Michael R. Katz. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, n.d. [c.1981].


17. Troyat, Henri. Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevsky. Trans. Norbert Guterman. Woodcuts by Stefan Mrozewski. London: William Heinemann, 1946.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852)


18. Gogol, Nikolai. Невский Проспект.


19. Gogol, Nikolai. Собрание Сочинений. (10 vols in 8)

Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)


20. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail. Judas Golovlyov. 1880. Trans. Olga Shartse. Classics of Russian Literature. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982)


21. Shalamov, Varlam. Kolyma Tales. Trans. John Glad. 1980-81. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)


22. Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don. 1929. Trans. Stephen Garry. 1934. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.


23. Sholokhov, Mikhail. The Don Flows Home to the Sea. 1940. Trans. Stephen Garry. 1940. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)


24. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. August 1914. The Red Wheel / Knot 1. 1983. Trans. H. T. Willetts. New York: The Noonday Press, 1989.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)


25. Tolstoy, Lev. Анна Каренина.


26. Tolstoy, Lev. Fables, Tales & Stories.


27. Tolstoy, Lev. Севастопольские Рассказы.


28. Tolstoy, Leo. Tales of Courage and Conflict. 1852, 1854 & 1857. Trans. Nathan Haskell Dole & Isabel F. Hapgood. Ed. Charles Neider. 1958. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1985.


29. Tolstoy, Leo. Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. 1852, 1854 & 1857. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1930.


30. Tolstoy, Lev. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. 1852, 1854 & 1857. Ed. D. Bitsi. Classics of Russian Literature. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.


31. Tolstoy, Leo. Tales of Army Life. 1852-89. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1916. The World’s Classics. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1946.


32. Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 1869. Trans. Rosemary Edmonds. 1957. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.


33. Tolstoy, Leo. What Then Must We Do? 1886. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1925. The World’s Classics. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1950.


34. Simmons, Ernest J. Leo Tolstoy. Vol. 1: The Years of Development, 1828-1879. 1945. Vintage Russian Library. New York: Vintage, 1960.


35. Simmons, Ernest J. Leo Tolstoy. Vol. 2: The Years of Maturity, 1880-1910. 1945. Vintage Russian Library. New York: Vintage, 1960.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)


36. Turgenev, Ivan. Rudin. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 1. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1894. London: William Heinemann, 1911.


37. Turgenev, Ivan. A House of Gentlefolk. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 2. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1894. London: William Heinemann, 1922.


38. Turgenev, Ivan. On the Eve: a Novel. 1859. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 3. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1906.


39. Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Children: A Novel. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 4. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1895. London: William Heinemann, 1926.


40. Turgenev, Ivan. Smoke. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 5. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1896. London: William Heinemann, 1920.


41. Turgenev, Ivan. Virgin Soil. 2 vols. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 6-7. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1906.


42. Turgenev, Ivan. A Sportsman’s Sketches. 2 vols. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 8-9. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1906.


43. Turgenev, Ivan. Dream Tales and Prose Poems. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 10. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1897. London: William Heinemann, 1922.


44. Turgenev, Ivan. The Torrents of Spring, etc. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 11. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1897. London: William Heinemann, 1919.


45. Turgenev, Ivan. A Lear of the Steppes, etc. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 12. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1898. London: William Heinemann, 1926.


46. Turgenev, Ivan. The Diary of a Superfluous Man, etc. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 13. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1899. London: William Heinemann, 1926.


47. Turgenev, Ivan. A Desperate Character, etc. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 14. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1899. London: William Heinemann, 1920.


48. Turgenev, Ivan. The Jew, etc. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 15. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1899. London: William Heinemann, 1920.


49. Turgenev, Ivan. The Two Friends and Other Stories. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 16. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1921.


50. Turgenev, Ivan. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, 17. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1922.


51. Turgenev, Ivan. Sketches from a Hunter’s Album: A Selection. Trans. Richard Freeborn. 1967. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.


52. Turgenev, Ivan. A Hunter’s Sketches. 1852. Ed. O. Gorchakov. Classics of Russian Literature. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.


53. Turgenev, Ivan. Three Famous Plays: A Month in the Country; A Provincial Lady; A Poor Gentleman. 1850, 1851, 1841. Trans. Constance Garnett. Introduction by David Garnett. 1934. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. / New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.

[Live in Russia]

Anthologies & Secondary Literature

1. Brown, Clarence, ed. The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader. Viking Portable Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.


2. Carlisle, Olga. Poets on Street Corners: Portraits of Fifteen Russian Poets. New York: Random House, 1968.


3. Gibian, George, ed. The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Viking Portable Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.


4. Космонавтика.


5. Mirsky, D. S. A History of Russian Literature From Its Beginnings to 1900. Ed. Francis J. Whitfield. 1949. Vintage Russian Library. New York: Vintage, 1958.


6. Shentalinsky, Vitaly. The KGB’s Literary Archive. 1993. Trans. John Crowfoot. Introduction by Robert Conquest. 1995. London: The Harvill Press, 1997.

North American Literature

[North America Relief Map]

A Bibliography of my Collection:

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[b] = back row of a double row
i, ii = partition / section number (left to right)
• = on top of other books (left to right)
[…] = bound Xerox copy

[Walt Whitman]

American Poetry

• Primary Texts



Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001)


1. Ammons, A. R. Glare. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1997.

John Berryman (#)


2. Berryman, John. The Dream Songs. 1969. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.


3. Berryman, John. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems. 1959. London: Faber, 1967.


4. Berryman, John. Berryman’s Sonnets. London: Faber, 1968.

E. E. Cummings (#)


5. Cummings, E. E. The Enormous Room. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.

James Dickey (#)


6. Dickey, James. The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1945-1992. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1992.

Stephen Dobyns (#)


7. Dobyns, Stephen. Velocities: New & Selected Poems. 1994. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1996.


8. Dobyns, Stephen. Cemetery Nights: Poems. New York: Penguin, 1987.


9. Dobyns, Stephen. The Two Deaths of Señora Puccini. 1988. London: Penguin, 1989.

Jim Harrison (#)


10. Harrison, Jim. Selected & New Poems 1961-1981. Drawings by Russell Chatham. New York: Delta / Seymour Lawrence, 1982.

Lyn Hejinian (#)


11. [Hejinian, Lyn. Selected Bibliography. N.p: N. p., n.d.]

W. S. Merwin (#)


12. Merwin, W. S. The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target; The Lice,; The Carrier of Ladders; Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment. 1963, 1967, 1970 & 1973. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1993.

Ogden Nash (#)


13. Nash, Ogden. Collected Verse from 1929 on. 1961. London: J. M. Dent, 1972.

Charles Olson (#)


14. Olson, Charles. The Maximus Poems. 1960, 1968, 1975. Ed. George F. Butterick. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.




• Anthologies & Secondary Texts




1. Hall, Donald, ed. The Penguin Poets: Contemporary American Poetry. 1962. Second Edition (Revised and Expanded). 1972. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.

[James Fenimore Cooper]

American Fiction

• Primary Texts



John Barth (#)


1. Barth, John. The Floating Opera and The End of the Road. 1956 & 1958. Rev. ed. 1967. An Anchor Book. New York: Doubleday, 1988.


2. Barth, John. The Sot-Weed Factor. 1960. London: Panther Books, 1972.


3. Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.


4. Barth, John. Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


5. Barth, John. Chimera. 1972. London: Granada, 1982.


6. Barth, John. LETTERS. 1979. London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.


7. Barth, John. Sabbatical: A Romance. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982.


8. Barth, John. The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction. 1984. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.


9. Barth, John. The Tidewater Tales. 1987. London: Methuen, 1988.


10. Barth, John. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor. 1991. London: Sceptre, 1992.


11. Barth, John. Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.


12. Barth, John. Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.


13. Barth, John. On with the Story: Stories. 1996. Back Bay Books. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997.


14. Barth, John. Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.


15. Barth, John. The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories. 2004. London: Atlantic Books, 2005.


16. Barth, John. Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.


17. Barth, John. The Development: Nine Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

Raymond Carver (#)


18. Carver, Raymond. The Stories of Raymond Carver: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; Cathedral. 1976, 1981 & 1983. London: Picador, 1985.


19. Carver, Raymond. Elephant & Other Stories. 1988. London: The Harvill Press, 1995.


20. Carver, Raymond. Where I’m Calling From: The Selected Stories. 1988. London: The Harvill Press, 1993.


21. Carver, Raymond. All of Us: The Collected Poems. 1996. London: The Harvill Press, 1997.


22. Carver, Raymond. Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Prose. Ed. William L. Stull. Foreword by Tess Gallagher. 1996. London: The Harvill Press, 1997.


23. Halpert, Sam. Raymond Carver: an Oral Biography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

James Fenimore Cooper (#)


24. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Saga: Being those parts of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, the Pioneers, and The Prairie which specially pertain to Natty Bumppo, otherwise known as Pathfinder, Deerslayer, or Hawkeye; the whole arranged in chronological order from Hawkeye’s youth on the New York frontier in King George’s War until his death on the Western prairies in Jefferson’s Administration. Ed. Alan Nevins. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. New York: Pantheon Books, 1954.

Mark Z. Danielewski (#)


25. Danielewksi, Mark Z. House of Leaves. 2000. London: Doubleday, 2001.


26. Danielewksi, Mark Z. Only Revolutions: A Novel. London: Doubleday, 2006.

Don Delillo (#)


27. Delillo, Don. White Noise. 1984. London: Picador, 1999.


28. Delillo, Don. Libra. 1988. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.


29. Delillo, Don. Underworld. 1997. London: Picador, 1998.

Ernest Hemingway (#)


30. Hemingway, Ernest. The Collected Stories. Ed. James Fenton. Everyman’s Library, 187. London: David Campbell, 1995.

Patricia Highsmith (#)


31. Highsmith, Patricia. Ripley: The Talented Mr Ripley; Ripley Under Ground; Ripley’s Game; The Boy Who Followed Ripley. 1955, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992.


32. Highsmith, Patricia. Ripley Under Water. 1991. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.


33. Highsmith, Patricia. Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.


34. Highsmith, Patricia. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. Foreword by Graham Greene. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.


35. Wilson, Andrew. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. 2003. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Nicole Krauss (#)


36. Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.

Bernard Schopen (#)


37. Schopen, Bernard. The Big Silence: A Mystery Novel. New York: the Mysterious Press, 1989.


38. Schopen, Bernard. The Desert Look. 1990. Reno: University Of Nevada Press, 1995.


39. Schopen, Bernard. The Iris Deception. A Jack Ross Mystery. Western Literature Series. Reno: University Of Nevada Press, 1996.




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American Prose

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Hunter S. Thompson (#)


1. Thompson, Hunter S. Hell’s Angels. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


2. Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. 1971. London: Paladin, 1972.


3. Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72. 1973. New York: Warner Books, 1983.


4. Thompson, Hunter S. The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. 1979. London: Picador, 1980.


5. Thompson, Hunter S. Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80s. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2. London: Picador, 1988.


6. Thompson, Hunter S. Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3. 1990. London: Picador, 1991.


7. Thompson, Hunter S. Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 4. 1994. London: Black Swan, 1995.


8. Thompson, Hunter S. The Rum Diary. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.


9. Thompson, Hunter S. Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final days of the American Century. Harmondsworth: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2003.




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[Reverend McKendree Robbins Long: Apocalypse]

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[W. H. New: A History of Canadian Literature (2003)]

Canadian Literature

• Primary Texts



William Robertson Davies (1913-1995)


1. Davies, Robertson. The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks: Comprising The Diary, The Table Talk and a Garland of Miscellanea by Samuel Marchbanks. 1947, 1949, 1967, 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.


2. Davies, Robertson. The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost; Leaven of Malice: A Mixture of Frailties. 1952, 1954, 1958, 1986. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.


3. Davies, Robertson. A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading. 1960. Revised Edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.


4. Davies, Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore: World of Wonders. 1970, 1972, 1975, 1983. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.


5. Davies, Robertson. High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.


6. Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angels. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.


7. Davies, Robertson. What’s Bred in the Bone. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


8. Davies, Robertson. The Lyre of Orpheus. 1988. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.


9. Davies, Robertson. The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. 1990. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.


10. Davies, Robertson. Murther and Walking Spirits. 1991. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992.


11. Davies, Robertson. The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.




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