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

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  2. 2.
    The Faber Book of Greek Legends

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    The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm

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

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    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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

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

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

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

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

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  11. 12.
    Quo Vadis
    by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

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    The Complete Works of O'Henry
    by O'Henry

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

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

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

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

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

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    Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
    by Romain Rolland

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

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

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  22. 23.
    Trilby
    by George Du Maurier

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    The Greek Dramatists
    by Richard Hawley

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

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  25. 26.
    Idylls of the King
    by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

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    The Diary of a Lost One
    by Margarete Böhme

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  27. 29.
    Esoteric Buddhism
    by A. P. Sinnett

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  28. 30.
    Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
    by Walt Whitman

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notanymore
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not complete yet — 2 years ago

This isn’t complete yet, but the server is being sllllooowwww, so I’ll come back to it later.