Favorite Authors/Books
chronological by date of birth Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1867) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Rachilde (1860-1953) Willa Cather (1873-1947) William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Jean Arp (1887-1966) Katharine Burdekin (1896-1963) George Orwell (1903-1950) Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994) Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
alphabetical by last name Jean Arp (1887-1966) Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Katharine Burdekin (1896-1963) Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) Willa Cather (1873-1947) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1867) Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994) William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) George Orwell (1903-1950) Rachilde (1860-1953) Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Mary Shelley 1797-1851 (English)
Frankenstein also see Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Honoré De Balzac 1799-1850 (French)
A Passion in the Desert (short story)
Victor Hugo 1802-1885 (French)
Les Miserables Volume I - HTML from Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Volume II
Volume III
Volume IV
Volume V
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ninety three (about 1793, fiction that brings alive France's history of the Reign of Terror!)
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 (English)
Great Expectations
Emily Bronte 1818-1848 (English)
Wuthering Heights
Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 (French)
Les Fleurs du Mal [In French.]
Reversibility
The Gladly Dead
The following select poems in English are from Paris Spleen:
The Stranger
One O'clock in the Morning
The Eyes of the Poor
Get Drunk
Sea-ports
Anywhere Out of the World
Biographical
Charles Baudelaire - Biography
Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821-1881 (Russian)
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
House of the Dead
Notes from Underground
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910 (Russian)
Anna Karenina
Reminiscences of Tolstoy - from Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
Tolstoy's Works - bibliography of his works with dates published. Originally published in The Life of Tolstoy by Paul Biryukoff, Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1911, pp. 158-164.
Biographical
Joris-Karl Huysmans 1848-1907 (French)
The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy - written by Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoy's long-time personal secretary, disciple and executor of his literary estate.
Against the Grain A Rebours
La-Bas (Down There)
En Route
En Rade (depressing, not a favorite)
Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 (Irish)
The Happy Prince
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rachilde 1860-1953 (French) - real name Marguerite Eymery Vallette
Monsieur Vénus
Biographical
Willa Cather 1873-1947 (American)
Madame La Mort and Other Plays - site provides brief biographical info.
Paul's Case (short story)
William Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 (English)
A Christmas Holiday
Jean Arp 1887-1966 (German poet & artist) - also known as Hans Arp
Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories
Biographical
Jean Arp- brief bio. from Mark Harden's Artchive.
Katharine Burdekin 1896-1963 (English) - pseudonym Murray Constantine
Proud Man
Swastika Night
George Orwell 1903-1950 (English)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1984
Down and Out in Paris and London
Such Such Were the Joys
Politics and the English Language (an essay)
Eugene Ionesco 1912-1994 (Romanian)
Rhinoceros (a play)
Anthony Burgess 1917-1993 (English)
A Clockwork Orange - Glossary of Nadsat Language - A Critical Look at A Clockwork Orange -A Clockwork Orange: Versions
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