Some Favourite Books

1984, George Orwell

The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare

The Odyssey, Homer

The Politcs, Aristotle

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James

Ulysses, James Joyce

The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Origins Of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

Being And Time, Martin Heidegger

A Death In The Family, James Agee

The Collected Poems, W. B. Yeats

The Collected Poems, T. S. Eliot

The Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens

Personae, Ezra Pound

The Portable Nietzsche

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser

The Collected Poems, Robert Lowell

The Complete Plays, Samuel Beckett

The Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas

The King James Bible

The Pound Era, Hugh Kenner

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Madme Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

The Complete Poetry, John Milton

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson

Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

The Great Code, Northrop Frye

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer

On The Road, Jack Kerouac

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontё

The Complete Raymond Chandler

The Varieties Of Religious Experience, William James

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

The Drowned And The Saved, Primo Levi

The Complete Plays, Eugene O’Neill

The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carré

The Bhagavad Gita

Citizens, Simon Schama

The Silent Clowns, Walter Kerr

The Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis

Groucho, Harpo, Chico, And Sometimes Zeppo, Joe Adamson

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Mystery Train, Greil Marcus

Possession, A. S. Byatt

The Collected Poems, William Carlos Williams

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki

James Joyce, Richard Ellmann

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

Before I Get Old, Dave Marsh

Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs

American Caesar, William Manchester

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

The Aeneid, Virgil

Lennon Remembers

Voltaire’s Bastards, John Ralston Saul

The Scramble For Africa, Thomas Pakenham

Dreadnought, Robert K. Massie

Harvest Of Sorrow, Robert Conquest

The Guns Of August, Barbara Tuchman

Pax Britannica, Jan Morris

Feel Like Going Home, Peter Guralnick

I Lost It At The Movies, Pauline Kael

Any Old Way You Choose It, Robert Christgau

The Oresteia, Aeschylus

The Collected Poems, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Oxford Book Of English Verse

The Oxford Book Of American Verse

The Oxford Book Of Canadian Verse

Against The American Grain, Dwight Macdonald

Labouring Men, Eric Hobsbawm

After Babel, George Steiner

A History Of God, Karen Armstrong

What Was Literature?, Leslie Fiedler

Leaves Of Grass, Walt Whitman

Art Into Pop, Simon Frith

Hellfire, Nick Tosches

Dominion Of The North, Donald Creighton

The Protestant Era, Paul Tillich

The Making Of Jazz, James Lincoln Collier

On Tyranny, Leo Strauss

Short Stories, Edgar Allen Poe

Short Stories, Franz Kafka

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