Sections:
Indian Literature
Persian Literature
Turkish Literature
Other Eastern Literatures
Categories:
- Classical
- Modern
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Classical:
Authors & Works:
- Mir Amman (c.17th century-18th century)
- Babur (1483-1530)
- The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
- Kālidāsa (c.4th-6th century)
- Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
- The Mahābhārata (c.4th century BC)
- Narayana (c.12th century)
- The Pañcatantra (c.3rd century BC)
- The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā (c.12th century)
- Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
- Somadeva (c.11th century)
- Vālmīki (c. 4th century BC)
- Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)
Mir Amman (c.17th-18th century)
- Mir Amman. A Tale of Four Dervishes. Translated from the Urdu with an Introduction by Mohammed Zakir. Penguin Classics. New Delhi: Penguin, 1994.
Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530)
- Thackston, Wheeler M., trans & ed. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. The Modern Library. New York: Random House, Inc., 2002.
The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
- Rhys Davids, T. W. trans. Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jātaka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-Kathā, The Story of the Lineage. 1880. Broadway Translations. London & New York: Routledge & Dutton, 1925.
- Cowell, E. B., ed. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. Trans. R. Chambers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis & R. A. Neil, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, E. B. Cowell & W. H. D. Rouse. 6 vols in 3. 1895-1907. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990.
Kālidāsa [Devanāgarī] (c.4th-6th century)
- Kalidasa. Shakuntala and Other Works. Trans. Arthur W. Ryder. Everyman’s Library 629. 1912. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.
Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
- The Ananga Ranga of Kalyana Malla and The Symposium of Plato. Trans. Richard F. Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot, and Benjamin Jowett. 1885 & 1871. Kimber Pocket Editions. London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1963.
The Mahabharata [Mahābhārata] (c.4th century BC-c.4th century AD)
- Ganguli, Kisari Mohan, trans. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text. 1883-1896. 4 vols. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd., 2002.
- Vyasa. Mahabharata: The Epic of Ancient India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1898. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
- Mascaró, Juan, trans. The Bhagavad Gita: Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
- van Buitenen, J. trans. The Mahābhārata. Book 1: The Book of the Beginning. 1973. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Prabhupāda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is: Complete Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with the original Sanskrit text, Roman transliteration, English equivalents, translation and elaborate purports. 1983. Los Angeles, California: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1994.
- Smith, John D. trans. The Mahābhārata: An Abridged Translation. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2009.
Narayana (c.12th century)
- Chandiramani, G. L., trans. The Hitopadesha: An Ancient Fabled Classic. 1995. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 1999.
The Panchatantra [Pañcatantra] (c.3rd century BC)
- Ryder, Arthur W., trans. The Panchatantra. 1925. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964.
- Edgerton, Franklin, trans. The Panchatantra. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965.
- Visnu Sarma. The Pancatantra. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1993. London: Penguin, 1995.
- Olivelle, Patrick, trans. The Pañcatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā [Thirty-two Tales of the Throne] (c.12th century)
- Edgerton, Franklin, ed. & trans. Vikrama’s Adventures, or the Thirty-two Tales of the Throne. Harvard Oriental Series, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, 26 & 27. 1926. 2 vols. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993.
- Haksar, A. N. D., trans. Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā: Thirty-two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.
- Bhoothalingam, Mathuram. Stories of Vikramaditya. Illustrated by Jomraj. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.
Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
- [Burton, Richard F. Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry. 1870. Memorial Edition. Ed. Isabel Burton. London: Thylston & Edwards, 1893.]
- Śivadāsa. The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetālapañćavinśati. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1995. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
Somadeva (c.11th century)
- 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.
- 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. 1924-28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968.
- Somadeva. Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara. Trans. Arshia Sattar. Foreword by Wendy Doniger. 1994. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
- Somadeva. Océan des rivières de contes. Ed. Nalini Balbir, with Mildrède Besnard, Lucien Billoux, Sylvain Brocquet, Colette Caillat, Christine Chojnacki, Jean Fezas & Jean-Pierre Osier. Traduction des ‘Contes du Vampire’ par Louis & Marie-Simone Renou, 1963. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 438. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.
Valmiki [Vālmīki] (c. 4th century BC)
- Valmiki. Ramayana: The Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1899. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
- Shastri, Hari Prasad, trans. The Ramayana of Valmiki. 1953. 3 vols. London: Shanti Sadan, 1976.
Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)
- Burton, Richard F., and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. 1883. Ed. John Muirhead-Gould. 1963. London: Panther, 1968.
- Daniélou, Alain, trans. The Complete Kāma Sūtra. The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana: including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yasodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shāstrā. Prepared with the help of Kenneth Hurry. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1994.
- Vatsyayana Mallanaga. Kamasutra: A New, Complete Translation of the Sanskrit Text, with Excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary of Yasodhara Indrapada, the Hindu Jaya Commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and Explanatory Notes by the Translators. Trans. Wendy Doniger & Sudhir Kakar. 2002. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Ocean of Story
Modern:
Authors:
- Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950)
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Rohinton Mistry (1952- )
- Dom Moraes (1938-2004)
- R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
- Salman Rushdie (1947- )
- Vikram Seth (1952- )
- Idries Shah (1924-1996)
- Jaspreet Singh (1969- )
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1935. Penguin Modern Classics. Haryana: Penguin Books India, 2001.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Banerji] (1894-1950)
- Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )
- Lakhnavi, Ghalib, & Abdullah Bilgrami. The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction. 1855. Trans. Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Introduction by Hamid Dabashi. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.
Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. 1927 & 1929. Trans. Mahadev Desai. 1940. Beacon Paperback, 35. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
- Shirer, William L. Gandhi: A Memoir. 1979. Abacus. London: Sphere Books, 1981.
Rohinton Mistry (1952- )
- Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. 1995. London: Faber, 1997.
Dominic Francis [Dom] Moraes (1938-2004)
- Moraes, Dom. Collected Poems 1954-2004. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami [R. K. Narayan] (1906-2001)
- Narayan, R. K. The Man-Eater of Malgudi. 1961. A Four Square Book. London: New English Library, 1965.
- Narayan, R. K. The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana (1972); The Mahabharata (1978); Gods, Demons, and Others (1964). 1995. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2000.
- Narayan, R. K. A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches. 1989. Introduction by Syd Harrex. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1990.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947- )
- Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. 1975. Panther Books. Frogmore, St Albans: Granada Publishing Limited, 1977.
- Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. 1981. London: Picador, 1982.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shame. 1983. A Picador Original. London: Pan Books / Jonathan Cape, 1983.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey. 1987. London: Picador, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.
- Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 1990. London: Granta Books, 1991.
- Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. 1991. London: Granta Books, 1992.
- Rushdie, Salman. East, West. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. Fury: A Novel. 2001. London: Vintage Books, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002. 2002. London: Vintage, 2003.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel. 2005. London: Vintage Books, 2006.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2008.
- Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2010.
- Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2012.
- Rushdie, Salman. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2015.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Golden House. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage Publishing, 2017.
- Rushdie, Salman. Quichotte. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House, 2019.
- Rushdie, Salman. Victory City. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2023.
- Rushdie, Salman, & Elizabeth West, ed. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. London: Vintage Books, 1997.
Vikram Seth (1952- )
- Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. 1993. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1994.
Idries Shah [Sayed Idries el-Hashimi] (1924-1996)
- Shah, Idries. The Sufis. 1964. London: Star, 1977.
- Shah, Idries, ed. Caravan of Dreams. 1968. London: Quartet Books, 1973.
- Shah, Idries. Wisdom of the Idiots. 1969. A Dutton paperback. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971.
- Shah, Idries, ed. World Tales: the Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places. 1979. London: Octagon P, 1991.
Jaspreet Singh (1969- )
- Singh, Jaspreet. Helium. 2013. London: Bloomsbury India, 2013.
Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev (1861-1941)
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Hungry Stones and Other Stories. 1916. Macmillan Pocket Tagore Edition. Madras: Macmillan India, 1973.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Collected Poems and Plays. 1936. Adelaide: Macmillan, 1977.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Poems. Ed. Krishna Kripalani with Amiya Chakravarty, Nirmalchandra Chottopadhyaya, & Pulinbihari Sen. 1942. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati, 1946.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Poems. Trans. William Radice. 1985. Rev. ed. 1987. Rev. ed. 1993. Rev. ed. 1994. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.
- Dutta, Krishna, & Andrew Robinson. Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. 1995. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1997.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Alphonso-Karkala, John B., trans. An Anthology of Indian Literature. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Beck, Brenda E. F., Peter J. Claus, Praphulladata Goswami, & Jawaharlal Handoo, ed. Folktales of India. Foreword by A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales of the World, ed. Richard M. Dorson. 1987. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Brough, John, trans. Poems from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
- De Bary, Wm. Theodore, Stephen Hay, Royal Weiler & Andrew Yarrow, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1958. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
- de Souza, Eunice de. 101 Folktales from India. Illustrated by Sujata Singh. A Puffin Book. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
- Joshi, Jagdish, illus. Romantic Classics. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1983.
- Keith, A. Berriedale. A History of Sanskrit Literature. 1920. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].
- O’Flaherty, Wendy, trans. Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
- Ramanujan, A. K. ed. Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. 1991. The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993.
Bears (c.1500 BC)
[30 books]
Authors & Works:
- Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
- Behrouz Boochani (1983- )
- Ferdowsi (940-1020)
- Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
- Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
- Azar Nafisi (1947- )
- Rumi (1207-1273)
- Saʿdī (1210-1291)
- Tutinama (c. 14th century
- Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
- Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds. Trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
- Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds, Mantiq ut-Tair:
A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose - Rendered into English from
the Literal and Complete French Translation of Garcin de Tassy. Trans. C. S. Nott. 1954. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Behrouz Boochani (1983- )
- Boochani, Behrouz. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Trans. Omid Tofighian. 2018. Picador. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2019.
Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940-1021)
- Ferdowsi. The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia. Trans. Reuben Levy. 1967. Rev. Amin Banani. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
- Ferdowsi, Abolqasem. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Trans. Dick Davis. 2007. Rev. ed. Foreword by Azar Nafisi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.
Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
- Ganjavi, Nizami. Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance. 1197. Trans. Julie Scott Meisami. World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī (1048-1131)
- Avery, Peter, & John Heath-Stubbs, trans. The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam. 1979. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
- Dole, Nathan Haskell, ed. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Multi-Variorum Edition. English, French, German, Italian and Danish Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, with Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material. 2 vols. Boston: L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) / London: Macmillan & Co., Limited., 1898.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Ed. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. 1909. London: A. & C. Black., 1973.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Courage and Friendship Booklets, 2. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, n.d. [1941]
- Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933.
- Fitzgerald, Edward. Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.
Azar Nafisi (1947- )
- Nafizi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. 2003. Random House Trade Paperbacks. New York: Random House, Inc., 2004.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273)
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Tales from the Masnavi. Trans. A. J. Arberry. 1961. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968.
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Selected Poems.
Trans. Coleman Banks, with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry & Reynold
Nicholson. As 'The Essential Rumi', 1995. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.
Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi [(1210-1291)
- Burton, R. F., trans [Edward Retnisak]. Tales from the Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shirâz. 1888. London: Philip Allen, 1928.
- Sadi. Gulistan or Flower-Garden. Trans. James Ross. Ed. Charles Sayle. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [c.1890].
Tutinama (c. 14th century)
- Rosen, Georg, trans. Tutti-Nameh: Das Papageienbuch. Aus der türkischen Fassung übertragen von Georg Rosen. Stuttgart: Europäischer Buchklub, 1957.
Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century)
- Varâvini, Sa’d al-Dîn. Contes du Prince Marzbân. 1220. Trans. Marie-Hélène Ponroy. Connaissance de l’Orient. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Arberry, A. J., ed. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Other Persian Poems: An Anthology of Verse Translations. Everyman’s Library 1996. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1954.
- Dole, Nathan Haskell, & Belle M. Walker, eds. The Persian Poets. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901.
- Ernst, Paul, ed. Erzählungen aus tausendundein Tag; Vermehrt um andere Morgenländische Geschichten. Trans. Felix Paul Greve and Paul Hansmann. 2 vols. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1987.
- Fehse, Willi, ed. The Thousand and One Days. Trans. Anthea Bell. London: Abelard-Schumann, 1971.
- Levy, Reuben, trans. The Three Dervishes and other Persian Tales and Legends. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1923.
- McCarthy, J., trans. The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales. Vol. 1 of 2. London: Chatto, 1892.
- Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Tales of the Persian Genii. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1919.
- Pétis de la Croix, ed. The Persian and Turkish Tales, compleat. Trans. Dr. King. Vol. 2 of 2. London: Richard Ware, 1714.
- Safâ, Z., ed. Anthologie de la poésie persane: XIe-XXe siècle. Trans. G. Lazard, R. Lescot & H. Massé. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1964.
Authors & Works:
- Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963)
- Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (1902–1963)
- Hikmet, Nâzım. Poems of Nazim Hikmet: Revised and Expanded. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. 1994. Foreword by Carolyn Forché. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.
- Hikmet, Nâzım. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. Foreword by Edward Hirsch. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
- Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. 1979. Trans. Victoria Holbrook. 1990. London : Faber, 1991.
- Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories of a City. 2003. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2005. London: Faber, 2006.
- Pamuk, Orhan. The Museum of Innocence: A Novel. 2008. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2009. London: Faber, 2010.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- de Bellaigue, Christopher. The Lion House: The Coming of a King. The Bodley Head. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2022.
- Lewis, Geoffrey, trans. The Book of Dede Korkut. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974.
- Menemencioglu, Nermin, in collaboration with Fahir Iz, ed. The Penguin Book of Turkish Verse. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
- Penzer, N. M. The Harēm: An account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times. 1936. London: Bookplan, 1965.
Categories:
- Korean
- Singaporean
- Tibetan
- Vietnamese
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Korean:
- Kim Man-Choong. The Cloud Dream of the Nine: A Korean Novel – A Story of the Times of the Tangs of China about 840 A.D. Trans. James S. Gale. London: Daniel O’Connor, 1922.
- Yi Mun-Yol. The Poet. 1992. Trans. Chung-wha Chung & Brother Anthony of Taizé. London: The Harvill Press, 1995.
Singaporean:
- Jee Leong Koh. Seven Studies for a Self Portrait: Poems. Charleston, SC: Bench Press, 2012.
- Yap, Arthur. The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems. Introduction by Anne Brewster. Skoob Pacifica. London: Skoob Books Ltd., 2000.
Tibetan:
- Evans-Wentz, W. Y. ed. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or The After-Death Experiences of the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. 1927. 2nd edition. 1949. 3rd edition. 1957. Oxford University Press Paperback. 1960. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
- Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. trans. The Life of Milarepa. 1977. London: Paladin, 1979.
- Tshe ring dbang rgyal. The Tale of the Incomparable Prince. 1727. Trans. Beth Newman. The Library of Tibet. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.
Vietnamese:
- Bosley, Keith, ed. The War Wife: Vietnamese Poetry. London: Allison & Busby, 1972.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Haleby, Omar. El Ktab des Lois Secrètes de l’Amour. Trans. Paul de Régla. 1893. Collection Le Nadir. Paris: Balland, 1992.
- Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Anthology of Eastern Love. Engravings by Hester Sainsbury. 12 vols in 4. London: John Rodker, 1927-30.
- Vol. I - The Lessons of a Bawd: English Version of the Kuttanimatam of Dāmodaragupta (1927)
- The Harlot’s Breviary: English Version of the Samayamātrikā of Kshemendra (1927)
- The Book of Women & Education of Wives: English Versions of the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey & Ta’dīb ul-Nisvān (1927)
- Vol. II - The Young Wives’ Tale & Tales of Fez: English Versions of the Kissat al-‘Arā’is Al-Sabīya of Amor ben Amar & Tales of Fez from the Arabic (1927)
- The Loves of Rādhā and Krishna & Amores: English Versions from the Bengali of Chandīdāsa & from the Sanskrit of Amaru and Mayūra (1928)
- Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- Vol. III - Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saīkaku Ihara & Songs of the Geishas: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- The Loves of Dāsīn and Musag-ag-Amāstān from the Tamashek & Camel-boy Rhythms from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Vol. IV - Love Tales of Cambodia & Songs of the Love Nights of Lao: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Anthology of Eastern Love I: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Anthology of Eastern Love II: English Versions & Terminal Essays by E. Powys Mathers (1930)
- Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. Love Songs of Asia. ['Black Marigolds' (1919); from 'Coloured Stars' (1918) & 'The Garden of Bright Waters' (1920)]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
- Yohanna, John D., ed. A Treasury of Asian Literature. Readers Union. 1958. London: Phoenix House, 1960.
Bronwyn Lloyd: Glass-fronted bookcase (2/2/17)
Bookcase 10 (House):
India
+ Corridor
[4 Shelves / 155 books]
1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[…] = bound Xerox copy
Shelves:
[1] The Nonesuch Library / Corridor
[2] Folktales & Travel
[3] Ancient Indian Literature
[4] Modern Indian Literature
- Poetry and Prose of William Blake: Complete in One Volume. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. The Compendious Series. 1927. London: The Nonesuch Press / New York: Random House, 1961.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Select Poetry & Prose. Ed. Stephen Potter. 1933. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1950.
- Donne, John, Dean of St. Paul’s. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Ed. John Hayward. 1929. The Compendious Series. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1962.
- Gilbert, W. S. Plays & Poems: Including the Complete Text of the Fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, Three Other Gilbert Plays, and All the Bab Ballads. With Illustrations by the Author. [Thespis (1871); Trial by Jury (1875); The Sorcerer (1877); H.M.S. Pinafore (1878); The Pirates of Penzance (1879); Patience (1881); Iolanthe (1882); Princess Ida (1884); The Mikado (1885); Ruddigore (1887); The Yeomen of the Guard (1888); The Gondoliers (1889); Utopia Limited (1893); The Grand Duke (1896); with The Palace of Truth (1870); The Mountebanks (1892); His Excellency (1894)]. Preface by Deems Taylor. New York: Random House, 1932.
- Milton, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose: With English Metrical Translations of the Latin, Greek and Italian Poems. Ed. E. H. Visiak. Foreword by Sir Arnold Wilson. 1938. The Compendious Series. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1952.
- Morris, William. Stories in Prose / Stories in Verse / Shorter Poems / Lectures and Essays. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1934. Centenary Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946.
- The Works of Alexander Pushkin: Lyrics; Narrative Poems, Folk Tales, Plays; Prose. Ed. Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1936. London: The Nonesuch Press / New York: Random House, n.d.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poetry, Prose & Letters. Ed. A. S. B. Glover. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1951.
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose & Verse. Ed. John Hayward. The Compendious Series. London: The Nonesuch Press / New York: Random House, 1934.
- Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry & Selected Prose and Letters. Ed. Emory Holloway. 1938. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1964.
[Corridor]:
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. I: The Darling and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. Introduction by Edward Garnett. 1916. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. II: The Duel and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1916. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. III: The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1917. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. IV: The Party and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1917. London: Chatto & Windus, 1919.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. V: The Wife and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1918. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. VI: The Witch and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1918.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. VII: The Bishop and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1919. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. VIII: The Chorus Girl and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. IX: The Schoolmistress and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. X: The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. XI: The Schoolmaster and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. XII: The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Tales of Tchehov, Vol. XIII: Love and Other Stories. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Plays of Tchehov, Vol. I: The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays. Trans. Constance Garnett. London: Chatto & Windus, 1923.
- Tchehov, Anton. The Plays of Tchehov, Vol. II: Three Sisters and Other Plays. Trans. Constance Garnett. 1923. London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.
Lane, Edward William, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Ed. Stanley Lane-Poole. 4 vols. 1906. Bohn’s Popular Library. London: G. Bell, 1925.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
- Alphonso-Karkala, John B., trans. An Anthology of Indian Literature. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Mir Amman. A Tale of Four Dervishes. Translated from the Urdu with an Introduction by Mohammed Zakir. Penguin Classics. New Delhi: Penguin, 1994.
- Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1935. Penguin Modern Classics. Haryana: Penguin Books India, 2001.
- Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road.. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.
- Beck, Brenda E. F., Peter J. Claus, Praphulladata Goswami, & Jawaharlal Handoo, ed. Folktales of India. Foreword by A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales of the World, ed. Richard M. Dorson. 1987. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Berchet, Jean-Claude, ed. Le Voyage en Orient: Anthologie des voyageurs français dans le Levant aux XIXe siècle. 1985. Bouquins. Ed. Guy Schoeller. Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A., 1989.
- Corbett, Jim. My India. 1952. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1954.
- Corbett, Jim. Maneaters of Kumaon and The Temple Tiger. 1944 & 1954. Introduction by Geoffrey Cumberlege. The World’s Classics, 577. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.
- Dalrymple, William. In Xanadu: A Quest. 1989. Flamingo. London: HarperCollins, 1990.
- Dalrymple, William. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. Illustrations by Olivia Fraser. 1993. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
- Dalrymple, William. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. 1997. Flamingo. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
- Dalrymple, William. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters. 1998. Melbourne: Lonely Planet Publications, 2000.
- Dalrymple, William. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India. 2002. Flamingo. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
- Dalrymple, William. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty. 2006. London: Penguin, 2007.
- Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009.
- Dalrymple, William. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. 2012. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.
- Dalrymple, William, & Anita Anand. Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond. 2016. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Dalrymple, William. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. 1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Hopkirk, Peter. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa. 1982. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. 1990. John Murray (Publishers). London: Hodder Headline, 2006.
- Hopkirk, Peter. On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 1994. John Murray (Publishers). London: Hodder Headline, 2006.
- Hopkirk, Peter. Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game. Illustrations by Janina Slater. London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., 1996.
Cowell, E. B., ed. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. Trans. R. Chambers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis & R. A. Neil, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, E. B. Cowell & W. H. D. Rouse. 6 vols in 3. 1895-1907. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Rhys Davids, T. W. trans. Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jātaka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-Kathā, The Story of the Lineage. 1880. Broadway Translations. London & New York: Routledge & Dutton, 1925.
- Kalidasa. Shakuntala and Other Works. Trans. Arthur W. Ryder. Everyman’s Library 629. 1912. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.
- Leask, Nigel. British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
- Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].
- Meadows Taylor, Philip. Confessions of a Thug. 1839. Ed. C. W. Stewart. The World's Classics, 207. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1916.
- Ramanujan, A. K. ed. Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. 1991. The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993.
- Ranelagh, E. J. The Past We Share: The Near Eastern Ancestry of Western Folk Literature. London: Quartet, 1979.
- Rushdie, Salman, & Elizabeth West, ed. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. London: Vintage Books, 1997.
- Shaffer, E. S. ‘Kubla Khan’ and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, 1770-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
- Shah, Amina, trans. The Assemblies of Al-Hariri: Fifty Encounters with the Shaykh Abu Zayd of Seruj. London: The Octagon Press, 1980.
- Shah, Tahir. In Arabian Nights: In Search of Morocco through its Stories and Storytellers. London: Doubleday, 2008.
- Shah, Idries, ed. World Tales: the Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places. 1979. London: Octagon P, 1991.
- Shah, Idries. The Sufis. 1964. London: Star, 1977.
- Shah, Idries, ed. Caravan of Dreams. 1968. London: Quartet Books, 1973.
- Shah, Idries. Wisdom of the Idiots. 1969. A Dutton paperback. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971.
- Somadeva. Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara. Trans. Arshia Sattar. Foreword by Wendy Doniger. 1994. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
- Somadeva. Océan des rivières de contes. Ed. Nalini Balbir, with Mildrède Besnard, Lucien Billoux, Sylvain Brocquet, Colette Caillat, Christine Chojnacki, Jean Fezas & Jean-Pierre Osier. Traduction des ‘Contes du Vampire’ par Louis & Marie-Simone Renou, 1963. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 438. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.
Shelf 3:
[Ancient Indian Literature]
- Mascaró, Juan, trans. The Bhagavad Gita: Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
- Prabhupāda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is: Complete Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with the original Sanskrit text, Roman transliteration, English equivalents, translation and elaborate purports. 1983. Los Angeles, California: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1994.
Ganguli, Kisari Mohan, trans. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text. 1883-1896. 4 vols. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd., 2002.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
- van Buitenen, J. trans. The Mahābhārata. Book 1: The Book of the Beginning. 1973. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- O’Connor, Garry. The Mahabharata: Peter Brook’s Epic in the Making. Photography by Giles Abegg. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
- Carrière, Jean-Claude. The Mahabharata: A Play, Based upon the Indian Classical Epic. 1985. Trans. Peter Brook. London: Methuen, 1988.
- Smith, John D. trans. The Mahābhārata: An Abridged Translation. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2009.
- Vyasa. Mahabharata: The Epic of Ancient India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1898. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
- Valmiki. Ramayana: The Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1899. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
Shastri, Hari Prasad, trans. The Ramayana of Valmiki. 1953. 3 vols. London: Shanti Sadan, 1976.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Narayan, R. K. The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana (1972); The Mahabharata (1978); Gods, Demons, and Others (1964). 1995. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2000.
- Thackston, Wheeler M., trans & ed. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. The Modern Library. New York: Random House, Inc., 2002.
- Brough, John, trans. Poems from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
- De Bary, Wm. Theodore, Stephen Hay, Royal Weiler & Andrew Yarrow, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1958. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
- Chandiramani, G. L., trans. The Hitopadesha: An Ancient Fabled Classic. 1995. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 1999.
- de Souza, Eunice. 101 Folktales from India. Illustrated by Sujata Singh. A Puffin Book. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
- Daniélou, Alain, trans. The Complete Kāma Sūtra. The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana: including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yasodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shāstrā. Prepared with the help of Kenneth Hurry. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1994.
- Vatsyayana Mallanaga. Kamasutra: A New, Complete Translation of the Sanskrit Text, with Excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary of Yasodhara Indrapada, the Hindu Jaya Commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and Explanatory Notes by the Translators. Trans. Wendy Doniger & Sudhir Kakar. 2002. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Kaye, M. M. ed. The Golden Calm: An English Lady’s Life in Moghul Delhi. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by Her Father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Exeter, England: Webb & Bower, 1980.
- Keith, A. Berriedale. A History of Sanskrit Literature. 1920. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Lakhnavi, Ghalib, & Abdullah Bilgrami. The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction. 1855. Trans. Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Introduction by Hamid Dabashi. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.
- Merwin, W. S., & J. Moussaieff Masson, trans. The Peacock’s Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India. 1977. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.
- O’Flaherty, Wendy, trans. Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
- Edgerton, Franklin, trans. The Panchatantra. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965.
- Ryder, Arthur W., trans. The Panchatantra. 1925. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964.
- Olivelle, Patrick, trans. The Pañcatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Visnu Sarma. The Pancatantra. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1993. London: Penguin, 1995.
- Joshi, Jagdish, illus. Romantic Classics. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1983.
- Bhoothalingam, Mathuram. Stories of Vikramaditya. Illustrated by Jomraj. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.
Edgerton, Franklin, ed. & trans. Vikrama’s Adventures, or the Thirty-two Tales of the Throne. Harvard Oriental Series, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, 26 & 27. 1926. 2 vols. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Haksar, A. N. D., trans. Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā: Thirty-two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.
- Śivadāsa. The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetālapañćavinśati. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1995. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
Shelf 4:
[Modern Indian Literature]
- Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. 1927 & 1929. Trans. Mahadev Desai. 1940. Beacon Paperback, 35. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
- Shirer, William L. Gandhi: A Memoir. 1979. Abacus. London: Sphere Books, 1981.
- Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. 1995. London: Faber, 1997.
- Moraes, Dom. Collected Poems 1954-2004. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
- Narayan, R. K. The Man-Eater of Malgudi. 1961. A Four Square Book. London: New English Library, 1965.
- Narayan, R. K. A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches. 1989. Introduction by Syd Harrex. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1990.
- Ondaatje, Michael. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. 1970. Vintage International. New York: Random House, Inc., 1996.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Rat Jelly. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973.
- Ondaatje, Michael. There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems 1963-1978. 1979. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Secular Love. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1984.
- Ondaatje, Michael. The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1989.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Coming Through Slaughter. 1976. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family. 1982. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.
- Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion. 1987. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1988.
- Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient. London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Anil’s Ghost. 2000. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 2001.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Divisadero. 2007. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008.
- Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat's Table. A Borzoi Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
- Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2018.
- Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. 1975. Panther Books. Frogmore, St Albans: Granada Publishing Limited, 1977.
- Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. 1981. London: Picador, 1982.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shame. 1983. A Picador Original. London: Pan Books / Jonathan Cape, 1983.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. Fury: A Novel. 2001. London: Vintage Books, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel. 2005. London: Vintage Books, 2006.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2008.
- Rushdie, Salman. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2015.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Golden House. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage Publishing, 2017.
- Rushdie, Salman. Quichotte. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House, 2019.
- Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 1990. London: Granta Books, 1991.
- Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2010.
- Rushdie, Salman. East, West. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey. 1987. London: Picador, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. 1991. London: Granta Books, 1992.
- Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2012.
- Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. 1993. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1994.
- Singh, Jaspreet. Helium. 2013. London: Bloomsbury India, 2013.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Collected Poems and Plays. 1936. Adelaide: Macmillan, 1977.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Poems. Ed. Krishna Kripalani with Amiya Chakravarty, Nirmalchandra Chottopadhyaya, & Pulinbihari Sen. 1942. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati, 1946.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Poems. Trans. William Radice. 1985. Rev. ed. 1987. Rev. ed. 1993. Rev. ed. 1994. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Hungry Stones and Other Stories. 1916. Macmillan Pocket Tagore Edition. Madras: Macmillan India, 1973.
- Dutta, Krishna, & Andrew Robinson. Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. 1995. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1997.
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[…] = bound Xerox copy
Shelves:
[1] Bret Harte &c.
[2] English Literature
[3] Dickens & Machen
[4] Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table
- Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621. Ed. Holbrook Jackson. Everyman’s Library. 1932. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1977.
- De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1856. Illustrations Engraved on Wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton. London: The Folio Society, 1948.
- De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1821. Ed. Alethea Hayter. 1971. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
- De Quincey, Thomas. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. 1834-40. Ed. David Wright. 1970. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- Harte, Bret. Tales, Poems and Sketches. The People’s Library. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1908.
The Complete Works of Bret Harte: Collected and Revised by the Author. 10 vols. London: Chatto & Windus:
- Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works (1901)
- Earlier Papers - Luck of Roaring Camp, &c. - Bohemian Papers - Spanish and American Legends - Tales of the Argonauts (1903)
- Tales of the Argonauts (cont.) - Eastern Sketches (1902)
- Gabriel Conroy (1909)
- Stories - Condensed Novels, &c. (1900)
- Tales of the Pacific Slope (1890)
- Tales of the Pacific Slope - II (1892)
- Tales of the Pine and the Cypress (1894)
- Buckeye and Chapparel (1896)
- Tales of Trail and Town (1900)
Addison, Joseph. The Works. Ed. Richard Hurd. Rev. Henry Bohn. 6 vols. Bohn’s Standard Library. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- Volume I: Plays; Poems; Medals (1906)
- Volume II: The Tatler; The Spectator (1901)
- Volume III: The Spectator (cont.) (1906)
- Volume IV: The Spectator (cont.); The Guardian; The Freeholder (1902)
- Volume V: The Freeholder (cont.); On the Christian Religion; Letters (1902)
- Volume VI: Letters (cont.); Addisoniana (1902)
- 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.
- De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Together with Selections from the Autobiography. Ed. Edward Sackville-West. London: The Cresset Press, 1950.
- 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.
De Quincey, Thomas. The Collected Writings. Ed. David Masson. 14 vols. 1889-90. London: A & C. Black, 1896-97.
- Volume I: Autobiography from 1785 to 1803 (1896)
- Volume II: Autobiography and Literary Reminiscences (1896)
- Volume III: London Reminiscences and Confessions of an Opium-Eater (1897)
- Volume IV: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
- Volume V: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
- Volume VI: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
- Volume VII: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
- Volume VIII: Speculative and Theological Essays (1897)
- Volume IX: Political Economy and Politics (1897)
- Volume X: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
- Volume XI: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
- Volume XII: Tales and Romances (1897)
- Volume XIII: Tales and Prose Phantasies (1897)
- Volume XIV: Miscellanea and Index (1897)
- 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].
- Lindop, Grevel. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. 1981. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: Orion Publishing Group, 1993.
- Morrison, Robert. The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Pegasus Books, 2010.
- Wilson, Frances. Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Charles Dickens: The 'Daily News' Memorial Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, Ld, n.d. [c.1900]:
- Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. Illustrated by George Cruickshank (1836-39)
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Phiz et al (1836-37)
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘80. Illustrated (1841)
- American Notes / Pictures from Italy / A Child’s History of England (1842, 1846 & 1851-53)
- The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated (1843-44)
- 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)
- Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Illustrated (1848)
- The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated (1850)
- Little Dorrit. Illustrated by Phiz (1857)
- Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Marcus Stone (1864-65)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated (1870 & 1858)
- 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)
- Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1837-39. Ed. Kathleen Tillotson. 1966. The Clarendon Dickens. Ed. John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
- 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:
- Volume I: The Great God Pan / The Inmost Light / The Red Hand (1894)
- Volume II: The Three Impostors (1895)
- Volume III: The Hill of Dreams (1907)
- Volume IV: The Secret Glory (1922)
- Volume V: Hieroglyphics (1902)
- Volume VI: A Fragment of Life / The White People (1906)
- Volume VII: The Terror / The Bowmen / The Great Return (1915 & 1917)
- Volume VIII: Far Off Things (1922)
- Volume IX: Things Near and Far (1923)
- Machen, Arthur. The London Adventure. 1924. New Adelphi Library. London: Martin Secker, 1928.
- Machen, Arthur. Dog and Duck, A London Calendar et Caetera. 1924. The Traveller’s Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Shelf 4:
[Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table]
- 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.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
- 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.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
- Vol. 5
- Vol. 6
- Vol. 7
- Vol. 8
- Vol. 9
- 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.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- 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.
- 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.
Bedside Table:
- Auden, W. H. The Collected Poetry. New York: Random House, 1945.
- Bashō, Matsuo. The Complete Haiku. Trans. Jane Reichhold. Illustrated by Shiro Tsujimura. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008.
- Belloc, Hilaire. Cautionary Verses: Illustrated Album Edition. ['Cautionary Tales for Children' (1907), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'New Cautionary Tales' (1930), pictures by Nicolas Bentley; 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'More Beasts for Worse Children' (1897), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'A Moral Alphabet' (1899), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'More Peers' (1911), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That' (1932), pictures by Nicolas Bentley.] 1940. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1969.
- 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.
- Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. 1791. Ed. David Womersley. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2008.
- Blake, William. A Grain of Sand. Ed. Rosemary Manning. Engravings by the Author. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1967.
- Clare, John. The Wood is Sweet. Ed. David Powell. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Illustrated by John O'Connor. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1966.
- Frost, Robert. You Come Too: Favourite Poems for Young Readers Selected from His Own Work. Ed. Robert Frost. 1959. Foreword by Eleanor Farjeon. 1964. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head, 1972.
- Thomas, Edward. The Green Roads. Ed. Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Bernard Brett. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1965.
- Cavafy, C. P. Complete Poems. Trans. Daniel Mendelsohn. 2009 & 2012. Harper Press. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
- de la Mare, Walter, ed. Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages. 1923. New edition. 1928. Wood-engravings by Diana Bloomfield. 1957. New edition. 1960. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1962.
- de la Mare, Walter. Early One Morning in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood as it is revealed in particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings. London: Faber, 1935.
- de la Mare, Walter. Behold, this Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects. London: Readers’ Union, 1942.
- James, M. R. The Ghost Stories of M. R. James. 1931. London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., n.d.
- King, Michael. The Penguin History of New Zealand. 2003. Auckland: Viking, 2004.
- Morrell, David & Hank Wagner, ed. Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads. Longboat Key, Florida: Oceanview Publishing, 2010.
- Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji. A Novel in Six Parts: The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, A Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat, The Bridge of Dreams. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. New York: The Modern Library, 1960.
- Robinson, Roger, & Nelson Wattie, ed. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Stafford, Jane, & Mark Williams, ed. The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012.
- Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. 1991. Second Edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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