The Western Canon

These are the works I read, after reading The Western Canon by Harold Bloom.

Author	Works
William Shakespeare	Complete works
Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy, translated by Laurence Binyon
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra	Don Quixote, translated by Samuel Putnam
Michel de Montaigne	Essays, translated by Donald Frame
Molière	(translated by Richard Wilbur) The Misanthrope Tartuffe The School for Wives The Learned Ladies (translated by Donald Frame) Don Juan School for Husbands Ridiculous Precieuses The Would-Be Gentleman The Miser The Imaginary Invalid
John Milton	Paradise Lost
Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (Oxford University Press)
	Life of Johnson, by James Boswell
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust, Parts One and Two, translated by Stuart Atkins
	Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (just for comparison - and I found it easier reading than Goethe; it was in a collection of Elizabethan plays by various playwrights)
William Wordsworth	Poems (The Major Works, Oxford World's Classics, and parts of the Complete Poetical Works, also from Oxford University Press) The Prelude
Jane Austen	Persuasion
Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass, first edition Leaves of Grass, ninth and final edition
Emily Dickinson	Complete Poems
Charles Dickens	Bleak House
George Eliot	Middlemarch
Leo Tolstoy	Collected Shorter Fiction, Volumes 1 and 2, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and Nigel J. Cooper
Henrik Ibsen	Peer Gynt, translated by Rolf Fjelde
Sigmund Freud	The Interpretation of Dreams, translated by Joyce Crick
Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past), translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D.J. Enright
James Joyce	Ulysses
	Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, by Don Gifford, with Robert J. Seidman
Virginia Woolf	Orlando: A Biography Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse The Waves
Franz Kafka	The Complete Stories, various translators The Blue Octavo Notebook, translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Amerika, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir The Trial, translated by Breon Mitchell The Castle, translated by Mark Harman
Jorge Luis Borges	The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley Dreamtigers (The Maker), translated by Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland Ficciones, various translators Labyrinths, various translators A Personal Anthology, various translators
Pablo Neruda	Canto General, translated by Jack Schmitt
Fernando Pessoa	The Keeper of Sheep, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown Poems, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown
Samuel Beckett	Murphy Waiting for Godot Endgame Krapp's Last Tape

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