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. 301.
    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore De Balzac

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  2. 302.
    A Harlot High and Low (Penguin Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  3. 303.
    Eugenie Grandet (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  4. 304.
    Ursule Mirouet (The Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  5. 306.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  6. 307.
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    The Charterhouse of Parma (The Penguin classics)
    by Stendhal

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  7. 308.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  8. 309.
    Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  9. 310.
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    Salammbo (Penguin classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  10. 311.
    A Simple Soul
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  11. 312.
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    The haunted pool =: (La mare au diable)
    by George Sand

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  12. 313.
    Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  13. 314.
    Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  14. 315.
    Selected Poetry and Prose
    by Stephane Mallarme

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  15. 316.
    Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Paul Verlaine

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  16. 317.
    Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
    by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud

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  17. 318.
    Wry-Blue Loves : Les Amours jaunes
    by Tristan Corbiere

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  18. 319.
    Jules Laforgue: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Jules LaForgue

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  19. 320.
    Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Guy de Maupassant

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  20. 321.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

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  21. 322.
    L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

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  22. 323.
    Nana (Penguin Classics)
    by Emile Zola

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  23. 325.
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    Peer Gynt: A dramatic poem; (The Penguin classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  24. 327.
    Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  25. 328.
    A Doll's House, The Lady from the Sea, and The Wild Duck (Everyman
    by Henrik Johan Ibsen

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  26. 329.
    The Master Builder and Other Plays (Classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  27. 330.
    When We Dead Awaken (Plays for Performance)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  28. 331.
    Three Plays: The Father, Easter & Miss Julia
    by August Strindberg

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  29. 333.
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    Dance of Death
    by August Strindberg

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  30. 334.
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  31. 335.
    A Dream Play
    by August Strindberg

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  32. 336.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Burns

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  33. 337.
    Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition)
    by William Blake

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  34. 338.
    The Poems : Volume 1 (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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  35. 339.
    The Poems: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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  36. 340.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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  37. 341.
    Waverley (Penguin English Library)
    by Walter Scott

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  38. 342.
    The Heart of Midlothian (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  39. 344.
    The Tale of Old Mortality (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  40. 345.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  41. 346.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  42. 347.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  43. 348.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  44. 349.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  45. 350.
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    Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose (Penguin Poetry Library)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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