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. 252.
    Goethe: Roman Elegies/The Diary
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  2. 253.
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    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  3. 254.
    The Robbers and Wallenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

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  4. 255.
    Mary Stuart (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

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  5. 256.
    Don Carlos and Mary Stuart (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

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  6. 257.
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    Naive and Sentimental Poetry, and on the Sublime; Two Essays
    by Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller

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  7. 258.

  8. 260.
    Holderlin: Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Holderlin

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  9. 261.
    The Marquise of O and Other Stories (The Penguin Classics)
    by Heinrich von Kleist

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  10. 262.
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    Five Plays
    by Heinrich Von Kleist

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  11. 263.
    The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (Hesperus Classics)
    by Ugo Foscolo

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  12. 264.
    The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
    by Alessandro Manzoni

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  13. 265.
    On the Historical Novel
    by Alessandro Manzoni

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  14. 267.
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    Selected poems of Giacomo Leopardi
    by Giacomo Leopardi

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  15. 268.
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    The Roman sonnets of G. G. Belli
    by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

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  16. 269.
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    A selection from the poems of Giosue Carducci,
    by GiosueÌ Carducci

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  17. 270.
    Little Novels of Sicily
    by Giovanni Verga

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  18. 272.
    The House by the Medlar Tree
    by Giovanni Verga

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  19. 273.
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    The she-wolf, and other stories
    by Giovanni Verga

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  20. 274.
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    The Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: A Metrical Linear Translation
    by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

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  21. 275.
    Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Harriet S. Turner

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  22. 276.
    Regenta, La (Penguin Classics)
    by Leopoldo Alas

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  23. 277.
    The Maias (Penguin Classics)
    by Eca de Queiros

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  24. 278.
    Adolphe (Penguin Classics)
    by Benjamin Constant

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  25. 279.
    Adolphe and the Red Notebook
    by Benjamin Constant

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  26. 280.
    Atala / Rene
    by F. De Chateaubriand

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  27. 281.
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    Genius of Christianity
    by Francois R. Chateaubriand

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  28. 282.
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    Meditations Poetiques (Classiques Larousse)
    by A. De Lamartine

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  29. 283.
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    Chatterton (Masterpieces of French literature series)
    by Alfred de Vigny

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  30. 284.
    Poèmes antiques et modernes
    by Alfred de Vigny

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  31. 285.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  32. 286.
    Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  33. 287.
    The Distance, The Shadows (Poetica)
    by Victor Hugo

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  34. 288.
    Notre-Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
    by Victor Hugo

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  35. 289.
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    William Shakespeare (The works of Victor Hugo)
    by Victor Hugo

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  36. 290.
    The Toilers of the Sea (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  37. 291.

  38. 292.
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    The complete writings of Alfred de Musset
    by Alfred de Musset

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  39. 293.
    De Nerval: Selected Prose (Penguin Classics)
    by Gerard de Nerval

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  40. 294.
    Aurelia and Other Writings
    by Gerard De Nerval

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  41. 295.
    Mademoiselle de Maupin (Penguin Classics)
    by Theophile Gautier

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  42. 296.
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    Enamels and Cameos
    by Théophile Gautier

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  43. 297.
    The Girl With the Golden Eyes
    by Honore De Balzac

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  44. 298.
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    Louis Lambert (The Honore De Balzac Series)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  45. 299.
    The Wild Ass's Skin (Penguin Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  46. 300.
    Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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