Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon"

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Literary critic Harold Bloom’s controversial list of the books that shaped Western culture, from his The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.

I have tried to list inexpensive English-language editions whenever possible. Occasionally the edition or translator will not precisely match that specified by Bloom; this seems unavoidable.

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  1. 251.
    The Princess of Cleves (New Directions Classics)
    by Madame de Lafayette

  2. 252.
    ?
    Products of the perfected civilization;: Selected writings of Chamfort
    by SeÌbastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

  3. 253.
    Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

  4. 254.
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

  5. 255.
    Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
    by Desiderius Erasmus

  6. 256.
    Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  7. 257.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  8. 258.
    Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  9. 259.
    Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  10. 260.
    Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  11. 261.
    Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt.2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  12. 262.
    Italian Journey: 1786-1788 (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  13. 263.
    Dichtung Und Wahrheit
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  14. 264.
    Faust; Egmont; Hermann and Dorothea (Harvard Classics, Part 19)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  15. 266.
    Goethe: Roman Elegies/The Diary
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  16. 267.

  17. 268.
    West-eastern divan: in twelve books
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  18. 269.
    The Robbers and Wallenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

  19. 270.
    Mary Stuart (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

  20. 271.
    Don Carlos and Mary Stuart (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

  21. 272.
    ?
    Two Essays: Naive and Sentimental Poetry & On The Sublime
    by Friedrich Von Schiller

  22. 273.

  23. 276.
    The Marquise of O and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Heinrich von Kleist

  24. 277.
    ?
    Five Plays
    by Heinrich Von Kleist

  25. 278.
    Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (Hesperus Classics)
    by Ugo Foscolo

  26. 279.
    ?
    On Sepulchres, by Ugo Foscolo

  27. 280.
    ?

  28. 281.
    The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
    by Alessandro Manzoni

  29. 282.
    On the Historical Novel
    by Alessandro Manzoni

  30. 284.
    ?
    Selected poems of Giacomo Leopardi
    by Giacomo Leopardi

  31. 285.
    ?
    The Roman sonnets of G. G. Belli
    by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

  32. 286.
    ?
    A selection from the poems of Giosue Carducci,
    by GiosueÌ Carducci

  33. 287.
    Little Novels of Sicily
    by Giovanni Verga

  34. 289.
    The House by the Medlar Tree
    by Giovanni Verga

  35. 290.
    ?
    The she-wolf, and other stories
    by Giovanni Verga

  36. 291.
    ?
    The Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: A Metrical Linear Translation
    by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

  37. 292.
    Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Harriet S. Turner

  38. 293.
    La Regenta (Penguin Classics)
    by Leopoldo Alas

  39. 294.
    The Maias (Penguin Classics)
    by Eca de Queiros

  40. 295.
    Adolphe (Penguin Classics)
    by Benjamin Constant

  41. 296.
    The Red Notebook (Oneworld Classics)
    by Benjamin Constant

  42. 297.
    Atala / Rene
    by François-René de Chateaubriand

  43. 298.
    ?
    Genius of Christianity
    by Francois R. Chateaubriand

  44. 299.
    ?
    Meditations Poetiques (Classiques Larousse)
    by A. De Lamartine

  45. 300.
    ?
    Chatterton (Masterpieces of French literature series)
    by Alfred de Vigny

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