Lists of Bests: Literary Canon and Classics for Assiduous Readers and Completist Book Collectors http://www.listsofbests.com/list/42388 Combining these collections or lists, in their varied editions: Harold Bloom's Western Literary Canon, Penguin Classics, Puffin Classics, Modern Library, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Easton Press, Folio Society. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:36:57 GMT en-us 0 50 52 50 0 Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70159 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70159"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374523835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Egyptian Book of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164493 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164493"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425357334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. A. Wallis Budge</div> Holy Bible (Authorized King James Version) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951295 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Holy Bible: King James Version http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1734382 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1734382"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0142005029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Moser</div> The Apocrypha - The Folio Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2950719 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2950719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01h%2B-9Kz9JL.jpg" /></a></div> Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839565 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. Travers Herford</div> Mahabharata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114035973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Buck</div> The Mahabharata: A Play http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40007 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Claude Carriere</div> The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15605 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15605"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553213652.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1086205990_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Miller</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Ramayana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215176 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215176"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Buck</div> The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1124162 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1124162"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. K. Narayan</div> The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226469409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Iliad (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1441580 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1441580"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679410759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141067329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Fitzgerald</div> The Iliad (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140275363.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532534_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Iliad and Odyssey boxed set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Homer, The Iliad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2229252 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert-translated by; Knox, Bernard-introduction and notes by Fagles</div> The Odyssey (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/599414 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/599414"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857150945.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey (Puffin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3126 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3126"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140383093.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Homer, The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2041314 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert-translated by; Knox, Bernard-intrduction and botes by Fagles</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140268863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Hesiod: The Works and Days, Theogony, the Shield of Herakles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/506075 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/506075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0472439030.01-A1FHV3WBFRTHQ1._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2242589 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2242589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442839.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672771_.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">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Davenport</div> The Odes of Pindar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/289437 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pindar</div> The Odes (Penguin Classics L209) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044209X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pindar</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3274 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3274"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443339.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Oresteia Aeschylus Translated Robert Fagles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2958958 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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">33</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 and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227187 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227187"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Vellacott</div> Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284128 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284128"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195054938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/519815 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/519815"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679431322.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3284 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3284"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4035 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4035"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015602764X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Electra and Other Plays (Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3233 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3233"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440283.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69746 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69746"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Heracles and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904761 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904761"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672759_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Alcestis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254356 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195061667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962978 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides III (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69747 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984291 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984291"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides IV (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69748 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69748"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Orestes and Other Plays (The Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1093714 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1093714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Medea (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14672 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14672"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486275485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056448753_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion: Adaptations from Euripides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/787523 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/787523"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0811215539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)</div>