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. 201.
    The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (English Library)
    by Tobias Smollett

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  2. 202.
    The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Tobias Smollett

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  3. 204.
    A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)
    by Laurence Sterne

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  4. 207.
    Froissart's Chronicles (Penguin Classic History S.)
    by Jean Froissart

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  5. 208.
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    Jacques Villon
    by Jacques Villon

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  6. 209.
    The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  7. 210.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel
    by Francois Rabelais

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  8. 211.
    The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Marguerite de Navarre

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  9. 213.

  10. 214.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics S.)
    by Pierre Ronsard

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  11. 215.
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    Memoirs of Philippe De Commynes
    by Philippe De Commynes

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  12. 216.
    Selected Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean De La Fontaine

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  13. 217.
    The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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  14. 218.
    The Miser and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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  15. 219.
    Les tragiques (Textes de la Renaissance)
    by Agrippa d' Aubigné

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  16. 221.
    The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre Corneille

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  17. 222.
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    Polyeuctus, the Liar, Nicomedes (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre Corneille

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  18. 223.
    Maxims (Penguin Classics)
    by La Rochefoucauld

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  19. 224.
    Pensees (Penguin Classics)
    by Blaise Pascal

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  20. 225.
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    Funerary Orations
    by Jacques-Bénigne Bosuet

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  21. 227.
    Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean Baptiste Racine

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  22. 228.
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    Andromache: Britannicus. Bérénice (Penguin classics)
    by Jean Racine

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  23. 229.
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    Seven comedies by Marivaux,
    by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

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  24. 230.
    The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  25. 231.
    Emile (Everyman's Library (Paper))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  26. 233.
    Zadig; L'Ingenu (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  27. 234.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  28. 235.
    Letters on England (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

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  29. 236.
    Manon Lescaut (Penguin Classics)
    by Abbe Prevost

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  30. 237.
    The Princess of Cleves (New Directions Classics)
    by Madame De Lafayette

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  31. 238.
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    Products of the perfected civilization;: Selected writings of Chamfort
    by SeÌbastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

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  32. 239.
    Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  33. 240.
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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  34. 241.
    Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
    by Desiderius Erasmus

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  35. 242.
    Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  36. 243.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  37. 244.
    Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  38. 245.
    Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  39. 246.
    Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  40. 247.
    Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  41. 248.
    Italian Journey: 1786-1788 (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  42. 249.
    Dichtung Und Wahrheit
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  43. 250.
    Faust; Egmont; Hermann and Dorothea (Harvard Classics, Part 19)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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