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Henry Miller's "Ideal Library"

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.
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 Stories From the Arabian Nights
by Laurence Housman
  
2. The Faber Book of Greek Legends  
3. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
  
4.
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 Andersen's Fairy Tales (The Children's Classics)
by Hans Christian Anderson
  
5. Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
  
6. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
7. Peck's Bad Boy And His Pa
by George W. Peck
  
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
10. The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
11. The Leather Stocking Tales-The Deerslayer;The Last of the Mohicans;The Pathfinder;The Pioneers;The Prairie
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
12. Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
  
13. Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
14.
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 The Complete Works of O'Henry
by O'Henry
  
15. Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
by Walter Scott
  
16. The Last Days of Pompeii International Collectors Library
by Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton
  
17. She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
by H. Rider Haggard
  
18. Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
by Edward Bellamy
  
19. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
  
20.
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 Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
by Romain Rolland
  
21. History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, Vol. I
by William H. Prescott
  
22. History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, Vol. 2
by William H. Prescott
  
23. Trilby
by George Du Maurier
  
24.
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 The Greek Dramatists
by Richard Hawley
  
25. Representative Men: Seven Lectures (Modern Library Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
26. Idylls of the King
by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
  
27.
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 The Diary of a Lost One
by Margarete Böhme
  
28. Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books))
by Henry David Thoreau
  
29. Esoteric Buddhism
by A. P. Sinnett
  
30. Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
by Walt Whitman
  
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Created by notanymore on Feb 24, 2007.