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. 352.
    The Fight and Other Writings (Penguin Classics S.)
    by Willaim Hazlitt

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  2. 353.
    Don Juan (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

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  3. 354.
    Byron: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

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  4. 355.
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  5. 356.
    Landor's Tower: Or Imaginary Conversations
    by Iain Sinclair

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  6. 357.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin English Library)
    by Thomas De Quincey

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  7. 358.
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    Selected Prose (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Lamb

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  8. 359.
    Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics)
    by Maria Edgeworth

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  9. 361.
    Cranford / Cousin Phillis (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  10. 362.
    Mary Barton (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  11. 363.
    North and South (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  12. 365.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin

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  13. 366.
    Shelley: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin)
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  14. 367.
    Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  15. 368.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics S.)
    by Mary Shelley

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  16. 369.
    John Clare: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Clare

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  17. 370.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Keats

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  18. 371.
    Death's Jest Book (Fyfield Books)
    by THOMAS BEDDOES

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  19. 372.
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    The poetical works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes; (The Temple library)
    by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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  20. 375.

  21. 376.
    The Poems: Volume 1 (Penguin English Poets)
    by Robert Browning

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  22. 377.
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  23. 378.
    The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  24. 379.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  25. 380.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  26. 381.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  27. 382.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  28. 383.
    Hard Times (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  29. 384.

  30. 385.
    Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  31. 386.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  32. 387.
    Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  33. 388.

  34. 389.
    Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  35. 390.
    Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  36. 391.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  37. 392.
    Tennyson: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Alfred Tennyson

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  38. 393.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Christina Rossetti

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  39. 394.
    Clough: Selected Poems (Longman Annotated Texts)
    by Arthur Hugh Clough

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  40. 395.
    Selected Poems and Translations: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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  41. 396.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Arnold

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  42. 397.
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    Selected Prose (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Arnold

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  43. 398.
    Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

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  44. 399.
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    Gryll Grange (Pocket Classics)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

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  45. 400.
    Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)
    by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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