Lists of Bests: Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/3458 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. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:52 GMT en-us 0 50 1424 50 0 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51x8WsqNDWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132477 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132477"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516CTC2GEZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Faulkner</div> Text Bible-KJV-1611 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/221245 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/221245"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xj5ppG5tL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Apocrypha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904603 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904603"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J4M9BCFJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers (Text, Complete Translation, and Commentaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839565 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839565"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410iutRoSlL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. Travers Herford</div> The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D5R5G-BcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EYJ4y98KL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Fagles</div> Hesiod : Theogony, Works and Days, Shield http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843161 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843161"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801829992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hesiod</div> Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/502298 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Davenport</div> The Odes (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FQ9AMD6VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pindar</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3274 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3274"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bHbapXNOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904652 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904652"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195070070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67768 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67768"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195061659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247754 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247754"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jNnZZCclL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Suppliant women <Supplices> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904677 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128760 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128760"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ahgm6hg2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284117 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284117"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J0fGgpQLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Taylor</div> Euripides. Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea (Loeb Classical Library No. 12) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43442 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43442"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ciuHKzvGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides: Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba (Loeb Classical Library No. 484) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254373 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254373"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YXrj3nsDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, Volume IV. Trojan Women. Iphigenia among the Taurians. Ion (Loeb Classical Library No. 10) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442411 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442411"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wkmC3BgGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Vol 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224525 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224525"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71PFHZVDXML._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804439 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804439"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411DQV3KTZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Frederick Nims</div> Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71020 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71020"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UgHUTucLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> The Knights of Aristophanes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576395 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1421203766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55798599_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Aristophanes: Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Loeb Classical Library No. 488) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/289060 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/289060"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414y5-dfvvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/349136 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/349136"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41os00tE7IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Herodotus The Histories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> The History of the Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51azHkTugwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20081 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20081"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EMsalGmkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512v1ydY4IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164106 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164106"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440550.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904829 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904829"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vur4VaGVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Menander</div> Aristotle:Poetics.; Longinus: On the Sublime; Demetrius: On Style (Loeb Classical Library No. 199) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/261629 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/261629"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YrvmPjL7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams, Lycophron and Aratus (Loeb Classical Library No. 129) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904852 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904852"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zzyGzLb3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Callimachus</div> Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus (Loeb Classical Library No. 28) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904858 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904858"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41iMExgiLpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theocritus</div> Plutarch Lives, IX, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/408032 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/408032"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sXWthexSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> Plutarch: Moralia, Volume I (The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from ... in Virtue) (Loeb Classical Library No. 197) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237912 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237912"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eTOWAMroL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DPvhMZErL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148103 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148103"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RFYGFMN8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucian of Samosata</div> Plautus: The Little Carthaginian.Pseudolus. The Rope. (Loeb Classical Library No. 260) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904890 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904890"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674992865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464490_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plautus</div> Amphitryon & Two Other Plays (Norton Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904904 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904904"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Y6TW-kmFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Maccius Plautus</div> The Comedies (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904914 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904914"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41puIQhJA0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terence</div> The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5161 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5161"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uEbJjsheL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucretius</div> The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/593757 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/593757"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yRYCI37BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Tullius Cicero</div> Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Latin Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904932 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904932"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CHQKYHRWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Loeb Classical Library No. 194) (English and Latin Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18404 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18404"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518xRAG9QpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library #91) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904948 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904948"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674991028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library No. 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904949 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904949"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kZYB9ciLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gaius Valerius Catullus</div> The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3241 <div id="position">53</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3241"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514rtLhkQXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Eclogues: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904955 <div id="position">54</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904955"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044419X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672758_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div>