Bookcase 25

Great English Novelists

Bookcase 25 (House):
China Cabinet
+ Bedside Table
[4 Shelves / 108 books]

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[…] = bound Xerox copy

Shelves:

[1] Bret Harte &c.
[2] English Literature
[3] Dickens & Machen
[4] Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table

William Faulkner: Complete Novels (Library of America: 1985-2006)


Shelf 1:
[Bret Harte &c.]


1. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman. Ed. John Hollander. The Library of America, 66. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1993.


2. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 2: Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spirituals. Ed. John Hollander. The Library of America, 67. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1993.


3. Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. 1966. Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Illustrated by Brian Grimwood. 2006. London: The Folio Society, 2007.

Derleth, August. The Solar Pons Omnibus. 2 vols. Ed. Basil Copper. Drawings by Frank Utpatel. Foreword by Robert Bloch. A Mycroft & Moran Book. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1982.
4. Vol. 1
5. Vol. 2

The Faulkner Library:


6. Faulkner, William. Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers’ Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust (Sartoris) / The Sound and the Fury. 1926, 1927, 1929 & 1929. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 164. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2006.


7. Faulkner, William. Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon. 1930, 1931, 1932 & 1935. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 25. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.


8. Faulkner, William. Novels 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms) / The Hamlet. 1936, 1938, 1939 & 1940. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 48. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1990.


9. Faulkner, William. Novels 1942-1954: Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable. 1942, 1948, 1951 & 1954. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 73. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994.


10. Faulkner, William. Novels 1957-1962: The Town / The Mansion / The Reivers. 1957, 1959 & 1962. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 112. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.


11. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition. 1937. Ed. Douglas A. Anderson. 1988. Rev. ed. 2002. London: HarperCollins, 2003.

Wain, John, ed. The Oxford Library of Short Novels. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1990.
12. I: Goethe to Stevenson
13. II: Conan Doyle to Conrad
14. III: Mann to McCullers




Thomas de Quincey


Shelf 2:
[English Literature]

Addison, Joseph. The Works. Ed. Richard Hurd. Rev. Henry Bohn. 6 vols. Bohn’s Standard Library. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
15. Volume I: Plays; Poems; Medals (1906)
16. Volume II: The Tatler; The Spectator (1901)
17. Volume III: The Spectator (cont.) (1906)
18. Volume IV: The Spectator (cont.); The Guardian; The Freeholder (1902)
19. Volume V: The Freeholder (cont.); On the Christian Religion; Letters (1902)
20. Volume VI: Letters (cont.); Addisoniana (1902)


21. Addison, Joseph, Sir Richard Steele, & Eustace Budgell. Sir Roger de Coverly. Ed. John Hampden. With Wood Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. London: The Folio Society, 1967.


22. Auden, W. H. The Collected Poetry. New York: Random House, 1945.


23. Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621. Ed. Holbrook Jackson. Everyman’s Library. 1932. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1977.


24. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1856. Illustrations Engraved on Wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


25. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Together with Selections from the Autobiography. Ed. Edward Sackville-West. London: The Cresset Press, 1950.


26. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in Both the Revised and the Original Texts, with its Sequels Suspiria de Profundis and The English Mail-Coach. Ed. Malcolm Elwin. Macdonald Illustrated Classics. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1956.


27. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1821. Ed. Alethea Hayter. 1971. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.


28. De Quincey, Thomas. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. 1834-40. Ed. David Wright. 1970. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

De Quincey, Thomas. The Collected Writings. Ed. David Masson. 14 vols. 1889-90. London: A & C. Black, 1896-97.
29. Volume I: Autobiography from 1785 to 1803 (1896)
30. Volume II: Autobiography and Literary Reminiscences (1896)
31. Volume III: London Reminiscences and Confessions of an Opium-Eater (1897)
32. Volume IV: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
33. Volume V: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
34. Volume VI: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
35. Volume VII: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
36. Volume VIII: Speculative and Theological Essays (1897)
37. Volume IX: Political Economy and Politics (1897)
38. Volume X: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
39. Volume XI: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
40. Volume XII: Tales and Romances (1897)
41. Volume XIII: Tales and Prose Phantasies (1897)
42. Volume XIV: Miscellanea and Index (1897)


43. Eaton, Horace A., ed. A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803: Here Reproduced in Replica as well as in Print from the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Reverend C. H. Steel. London: Noel Douglas, [1927].


44. Lindop, Grevel. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. 1981. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: Orion Publishing Group, 1993.


45. Morrison, Robert. The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Pegasus Books, 2010.


46. Wilson, Frances. Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.


47. Faulkner, William. Stories: Knight’s Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works. 1949, 1950, 1955. Ed. Theresa M. Towner. The Library of America, 375. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2023.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ed. Oliphant Smeaton. 6 vols. Everyman’s Library. 1910. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928.
48. Vol. 1
49. Vol. 2
50. Vol. 3
51. Vol. 4
52. Vol. 5
53. Vol. 6


54. MacDonald, Dwight, ed. Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm – and After. 1960. London: Faber, 1964.


55. Machen, Arthur. The London Adventure. 1924. New Adelphi Library. London: Martin Secker, 1928.


56. Machen, Arthur. Dog and Duck, A London Calendar et Caetera. 1924. The Traveller’s Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926.




Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)



57. Maude, Aylmer. The Life of Tolstóy. 1908-10. Centenary Edition I-II. 1928-37. The World’s Classics, 383. 1930. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1953.


58. Tolstóy, Leo. Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. 1852, 1854 & 1857. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1930. Centenary Edition III. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 352. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1930.


59. Tolstóy, Leo. Tales of Army Life. 1852-89. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1916. Centenary Edition IV. 1928-37. Editor's Note by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 208. 1935. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1946.


60. Tolstóy, Leo. Nine Stories: 1855-63. Trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude. 1934. Centenary Edition V. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 420. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1950.


61. Tolstóy, Leo. A Confession, The Gospel in Brief and What I Believe. 1882, 1883, 1884. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1921. Centenary Edition XI. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 229. 1940. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.


62. Tolstóy, Leo. Twenty-Three Tales. 1872-1906. Trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude. Preface by Aylmer Maude. 1906. Centenary Edition XIII. 1928-37. The World’s Classics, 72. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1947.


63. Tolstóy, Leo. What Then Must We Do? 1886. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1925. Centenary Edition XIV. 1928-37. Editor's Note by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 281. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1950.


64. Tolstóy, Leo. Iván Ilých and Hadji Murád and Other Stories. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. Centenary Edition XV. 1928-37. Preface by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 432. 1937. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.


65. Tolstóy, Leo. The Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil and Other Tales. 1859-1898. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1924. Centenary Edition XVI. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 266. Rev. ed., with 'Family Happiness,' trans. J. D. Duff. 1940. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1950.


66. Tolstóy, Leo. Plays: Complete Edition Including the Posthumous Plays. 1886, 1889, 1910. Trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude. 1923. Centenary Edition XVII. 1928-37. Preface by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 243. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1950.


67. Tolstóy, Leo. What is Art? and Essays on Art. 1898. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1930. Centenary Edition XVIII. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 331. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1955.


68. Tolstóy, Leo. Resurrection: A Novel. 1899. Trans. Louise Maude. 1916. Centenary Edition XIX. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 209. London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1926.


69. Tolstóy, Leo. The Kingdom of God and Peace Essays. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1936. Centenary Edition XX. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 445. London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1951.


70. Tolstóy, Leo. Recollections & Essays. 1890-1910. Trans. Aylmer Maude. 1937. Centenary Edition XXI. 1928-37. Introduction by Aylmer Maude. The World’s Classics, 459. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.




John Coulthart: Arthur Machen (1988)


Shelf 3:
[Dickens & Machen]

Charles Dickens: The 'Daily News' Memorial Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, Ld, n.d. [c.1900]:
71. Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. Illustrated by George Cruickshank (1836-39)
72. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Phiz et al (1836-37)
73. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘80. Illustrated (1841)
74. American Notes / Pictures from Italy / A Child’s History of England (1842, 1846 & 1851-53)
75. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated (1843-44)
76. Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth / The Battle of Life / The Haunted Man & Hard Times. Illustrated (1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1848 & 1853)
77. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Illustrated (1848)
78. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated (1850)
79. Little Dorrit. Illustrated by Phiz (1857)
80. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Marcus Stone (1864-65)
81. The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated (1870 & 1858)
82. Christmas Stories: From “Household Words” and “All The Year Round” & Other Stories: Master Humphrey’s Clock / Hunted Down / Holiday Romance / George Silverman's Explanation. Illustrated (1874, 1840, 1867)


83. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1837-39. Ed. Kathleen Tillotson. 1966. The Clarendon Dickens. Ed. John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.


84. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1860-61. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXIX. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1907.

Machen, Arthur. The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen. 9 vols. London: Martin Secker, 1923:
85. Volume I: The Great God Pan / The Inmost Light / The Red Hand (1894)
86. Volume II: The Three Impostors (1895)
87. Volume III: The Hill of Dreams (1907)
88. Volume IV: The Secret Glory (1922)
89. Volume V: Hieroglyphics (1902)
90. Volume VI: A Fragment of Life / The White People (1906)
91. Volume VII: The Terror / The Bowmen / The Great Return (1915 & 1917)
92. Volume VIII: Far Off Things (1922)
93. Volume IX: Things Near and Far (1923)




Vincent Van Gogh: Letters


Shelf 4:
[Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table]


94. Balzac, Honore de. Droll Stories. 1832-1837. Trans. 1874. Ed. Ernest Boyd. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Two Volumes in One. New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928.

Margaret, Queen of Navarre. The Heptameron of the Tales. Ed. M. Le Roux de Lincy. Trans. Ernest A. Vizetelly. Introduction by George Saintsbury. 1894. Illustrations by S. Freudenberg. Head & Tail Pieces by Dunker. 5 vols. London: The Navarre Society, 1922.
95. Vol. 1
96. Vol. 2
97. Vol. 3
98. Vol. 4
99. Vol. 5

Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., Grafton House, W.1., 1924-1928.
100. Vol. 1
101. Vol. 2
102. Vol. 3
103. Vol. 4
104. Vol. 5
105. Vol. 6
106. Vol. 7
107. Vol. 8
108. Vol. 9
109. Vol. 10

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Complete Letters, with Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence. 1914-15. Trans. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger & C. de Dood. Ed. Vincent w. van Gogh. 3 Vols. 1958. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978.
110. Vol. 1
111. Vol. 2
112. Vol. 3


113. Baring-Gould, William S., ed. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1967. First Single Volume Edition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1986.


114. Briggs, Susan & Asa, ed. Cap and Bells: Punch's Chronicle of English History in the Making, 1841-1861. History Book Club. London: Macdonald & Company (Publishers) Ltd., 1972.




Vintage Book-ends

Bedside Table:


115. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches / The Psalms of David in Metre / Church Hymnary. Oxford & London: University Press & Henry Froude, 1910.


116. King, Michael. The Penguin History of New Zealand. 2003. Auckland: Viking, 2004.


117. Robinson, Roger, & Nelson Wattie, ed. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.


118. Stafford, Jane, & Mark Williams, ed. The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012.


119. Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991.


120. Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. 1991. Second Edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal (1957)

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