Henry Miller's "Ideal Library"

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The American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) is best known for his experimental novels based on expatriate life in Paris in the 30’s and 40’s, such as <i>Tropic of Cancer</i> and <i>Tropic of Capricorn</i>. Many of his works were first published in France and banned by U.S. courts for decades, on charges of obscenity.

Miller compiled this list of greatest literary works for the book <i>Pour une Bibliotheque Ideale</i>, edited by Raymond Queneau.

http://www.literarycritic.com/miller.htm

  1. 1.
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    Stories From the Arabian Nights
    by Laurence Housman

  2. 2.
    The Faber Book of Greek Legends

  3. 3.
    The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm

  4. 4.
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    Andersen's Fairy Tales (The Children's Classics)
    by Hans Christian Anderson

  5. 5.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

  6. 6.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  7. 7.
    Peck's Bad Boy And His Pa
    by George W. Peck

  8. 8.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  9. 9.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  10. 10.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

  11. 12.
    Quo Vadis
    by Henryk Sienkiewicz

  12. 13.
    Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  13. 14.
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    The Complete Works of O'Henry
    by O'Henry

  14. 15.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  15. 16.
    The Last Days of Pompeii International Collectors Library
    by Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton

  16. 17.
    She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard

  17. 18.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy

  18. 19.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini

  19. 20.
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    Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
    by Romain Rolland

  20. 21.
    History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, Vol. I
    by William H. Prescott

  21. 22.
    History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, Vol. 2
    by William H. Prescott

  22. 23.
    Trilby
    by George Du Maurier

  23. 24.
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    The Greek Dramatists
    by Richard Hawley

  24. 25.
    Representative Men: Seven Lectures (Modern Library Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  25. 26.
    Idylls of the King
    by Alfred Tennyson

  26. 27.
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    The Diary of a Lost One
    by Margarete Böhme

  27. 28.
    Civil Disobedience Solitude and Life (Literary Classics)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  28. 29.
    Esoteric Buddhism
    by A. P. Sinnett

  29. 30.
    Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
    by Walt Whitman

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