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. 401.
    Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Carlyle

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  2. 402.
    Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Carlyle

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  3. 403.

  4. 405.
    Modern Painters : Volume 3. Of Many Things
    by John Ruskin

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  5. 406.
    Modern Painters: Volume 4. Of Mountain Beauty
    by John Ruskin

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  6. 408.
    The Stones of Venice
    by John Ruskin

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  7. 409.
    Unto This Last and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by John Ruskin

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  8. 413.
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    An Imaginary Portrait (Collected Works of Walter Pater)
    by Walter Pater

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  9. 415.
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Penguin Poetry Library)
    by Omar Khayyam

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  10. 416.
    On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

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  11. 417.
    Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics)
    by John Newman

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  12. 418.
    Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
    by John Henry Cardinal Newman

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  13. 420.
    The Small House at Allington (The World's classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  14. 421.
    Barchester Towers (The Barsetshire Novels)
    by Frederick Page

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  15. 422.
    The Last Chronicle of Barset (The Barsetshire Novels)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  16. 423.
    The Eustace Diamonds (Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  17. 424.
    The Prime Minister (Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  18. 425.
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    The Duke's Children (Anthony Trollopes Palliser Novels)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  19. 426.
    Orley Farm (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  20. 427.
    The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))
    by Anthony Trollope

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  21. 428.
    The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
    by Lewis Carroll

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  22. 430.
    New Grub Street (Penguin Classics)
    by George Gissing

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  23. 431.
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    Swinburne: Poems (The Penguin Poets)
    by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  24. 432.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  25. 433.
    Villette (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  26. 434.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  27. 435.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  28. 436.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  29. 437.
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    The History of Henry Esmond (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  30. 438.
    Selected Poems of George Meredith
    by George Meredith

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  31. 439.
    The Egoist (Penguin Classics)
    by George Meredith

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  32. 440.
    Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
    by Francis Thompson

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  33. 442.
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    Poems (Collected Works of Robert Bridges)
    by Robert Bridges

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  34. 443.
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    Poems (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)
    by G.K. Chesterton

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  35. 445.
    Erewhon (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

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  36. 446.
    The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

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  37. 447.
    The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
    by Arthur Seymour Sullivan

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  38. 448.
    The Bab Ballads
    by W. S. Gilbert

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  39. 449.
    The Moonstone (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  40. 450.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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