Lists of Bests: A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books (Year 36-40) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65282 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. http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtward.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:33:47 GMT en-us 0 50 57 50 0 The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Japanese Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5646383 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5646383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413F4VVK09L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas De Quincey</div> Twenty Plays of the No Theatre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424227 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Keene</div> The Family Moskat: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775106 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775106"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44952380_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Bashevis Singer</div> Hekigan-Roku http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424228 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424228"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51r97aFWozL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Evening land =: Aftonland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1258336 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pär Lagerkvist</div> Snow Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679761047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> Thousand Cranes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94985 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679762655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424230 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424230"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xC58DuORL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2026832 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2026832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sei Shonagon</div> Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zOJ-R58iL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius</div> The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/784702 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/784702"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195020588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5229498 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5229498"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nBba9yOLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abbe Prevost</div> Praeterita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578378 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578378"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400043174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1108552956_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ruskin</div> Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets (Facing Pages) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904933 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904933"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691119813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45418098_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007144350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> Ulysses By James Joyce http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3902227 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Nikolai Leskov: Selected Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908282 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Leskov</div> Shahnameh (The Epic of Kings) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424232 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424232"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DW90EE4yL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Nazarin (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267167 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267167"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/017KW9T6EYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benito Perez Galdos</div> Halma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424233 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benito Perez Galdos</div> Misericordia (Dedalus European Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3135851 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benito Perez Galdos</div> The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18694 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18694"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679726691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stevens</div> Fortunata and Jacinta http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5573292 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Song of the Dark Lord http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2223716 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara S. Miller</div> The Diary of Samuel Pepys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5214950 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5214950"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Xv2iSyUVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Pepys</div> The Satyricon (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1425346 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1425346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Petronius</div> Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5515 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5515"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300093055.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene O'Neill</div> History of the Conquest of Peru (Dodo Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424234 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424234"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WMwrqAIbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Prescott</div> The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru Through Indian Eyes, 1530-1570 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424235 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424235"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41U3Fh6D5KL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathan Wachtel</div> The Conquest of the Incas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4048 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4048"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156028263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081321411_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hemming</div> The Cowards (Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699007 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josef Skvorecky</div> The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/201471 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/201471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0880013702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504069_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josef Skvorecky</div> Demosthenes: I Olynthiacs, Philippics Minor Publicorations I-XVII and XX (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1059443 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1059443"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674992636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Demosthenes</div> Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424303 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marina; Feinstein, Elaine (translated and introduced by) Tsvetayeva</div> Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217818 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217818"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516lPWSPUQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3987804 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E Caracciolo-Trejo</div> Selected Poems by Lu You (Pocket-sized Chinese-English Classic Poems) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424310 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lu You</div> Modern Czech poetry;: An anthology, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424311 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ewald Osers</div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19260 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19260"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684807319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Butler Yeats</div> The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3469 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jaroslav Hasek</div> Portuguese Voyages, 1498-1663 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424313 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles David, Editor Ley</div> Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day (Unesco collection of representative works: European series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424314 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vera Rich</div> The Idiot (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60683 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60683"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044792X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424315 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Johnson</div> Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Polish Post-War Poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2370534 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw, Editor and Translator Milosz</div> Kokoro http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27656 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27656"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0895267152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natsume Soseki</div> Poems of Black Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6424318 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>