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A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books (Year 36-40)

Ward, Philip. A Lifetime’s Reading: The World’s 500 Greatest Books. New York: Stein and Day, 1983. © 1982 by Philip Ward and The Oleander Press.

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1. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Japanese Series)  
2. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas De Quincey
  
3.
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 Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
by Donald Keene
  
4. The Family Moskat: A Novel
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
5. Hekigan-Roku  
6.
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 Evening land =: Aftonland
by Pär Lagerkvist
  
7. Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
8. Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
9. The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics)  
10. The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics)
by Sei Shonagon
  
11. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics)
by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
  
12. The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)  
13. Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
by Abbe Prevost
  
14. Praeterita
by John Ruskin
  
15. Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets (Facing Pages)
by Horace
  
16. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
17.
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 Ulysses By James Joyce
by James Joyce
  
18.
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 Nikolai Leskov: Selected Tales
by Nikolai Leskov
  
19. Shahnameh (The Epic of Kings)  
20. Nazarin (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr))
by Benito Perez Galdos
  
21.
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 Halma
by Benito Perez Galdos
  
22.
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 Misericordia (Dedalus European Classics)
by Benito Perez Galdos
  
23. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens
  
24.
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 Fortunata and Jacinta  
25.
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 Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Song of the Dark Lord
by Barbara S. Miller
  
26. The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
  
27. The Satyricon (Oxford World's Classics)
by Petronius
  
28. Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition
by Eugene O'Neill
  
29. History of the Conquest of Peru (Dodo Press)
by William H. Prescott
  
30. The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru Through Indian Eyes, 1530-1570
by Nathan Wachtel
  
31. The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming
  
32.
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 The Cowards (Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century)
by Josef Skvorecky
  
33. The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas
by Josef Skvorecky
  
34. Demosthenes: I Olynthiacs, Philippics Minor Publicorations I-XVII and XX (Loeb Classical Library)
by Demosthenes
  
35.
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 Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva
by Marina; Feinstein, Elaine (translated and introduced by) Tsvetayeva
  
36. Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Eliot
  
37.
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 The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets)
by E Caracciolo-Trejo
  
38.
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 Selected Poems by Lu You (Pocket-sized Chinese-English Classic Poems)
by Lu You
  
39.
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 Modern Czech poetry;: An anthology,
by Ewald Osers
  
40. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
41. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
  
42. The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jaroslav Hasek
  
43.
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 Portuguese Voyages, 1498-1663
by Charles David, Editor Ley
  
44.
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 Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day (Unesco collection of representative works: European series)
by Vera Rich
  
45. The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
46.
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 New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today)
by Bernard Johnson
  
47. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
48.
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 Polish Post-War Poetry
by Czeslaw, Editor and Translator Milosz
  
49. Kokoro
by Natsume Soseki
  
50.
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 Poems of Black Africa  
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