Lists of Bests: A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books (Year 41-45) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65313 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 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:20:32 GMT en-us 0 50 64 50 0 The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1976863 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1976863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Comnena</div> Selected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427223 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Moses Ben Jacob Ben Ezra</div> New Science (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435697.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65732449_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giambattista Vico</div> Molloy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2723956 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Malone Dies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424743 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Unnameable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1935049 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539242 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Selected works [of] V. I. Lenin;: One-volume edition (New World paperbacks, NW-133) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811874 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Il§ich Lenin</div> What is to be Done by VIU Lenin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2776851 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Man in the Panther's Skin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427224 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shota Rustaveli</div> The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332806 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332806"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0691018200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056466973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Unamuno</div> The Complete Poems (Graves, Robert, Selections.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1085965 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1085965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857541715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Effi Briest (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41118 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447660.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64067534_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor Fontane</div> Modern Hungarian Poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427225 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427225"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dtsdye6NL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miklos Vajda</div> I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree (Dedalus European Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5536246 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5536246"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xr4Q52hML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Verga</div> Little Novels of Sicily http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906766 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906766"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/188364254X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Verga</div> Mastro- Don Gesualdo. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1561789 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1561789"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/3803123275.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Verga</div> The Golden Legend http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427227 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacobus de Varagine</div> The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5447610 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5447610"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511C5sqh%2BsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guillaume de Lorris</div> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439777.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> Hungarian Short Stories (World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427228 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Folktales of Hungary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427229 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Degh</div> Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings By Wang Yang-Ming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427230 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wang Yang-Ming</div> Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2793029 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryunosuke Akutagawa</div> Selected Poems of Jehudah Halevi (The Jewish People: History, Religion, Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427231 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judah</div> Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766333 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766333"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118311X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39856620_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3720428 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludovico Ariosto</div> Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6401580 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6401580"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/313oe-zJnUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> The Odes of Pindar including The Principle Fragments http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427232 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Sandys</div> Descartes: Discourse on Method (Focus Philosophical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3072326 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3072326"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ZunkEKJLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4684219 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alessandro Manzoni</div> Bhartrihari: poems (UNESCO collection of representative works) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427233 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bhartrhari</div> Juno And the Paycock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2954960 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean O'Casey</div> The Shadow of a Gunman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427234 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean O'Casey</div> The Plough and the Stars (Faber Plays) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803249 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803249"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571212328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192023_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean O'Casey</div> Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/935444 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/935444"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1556590563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T'Ao Ch'Ien</div> A God and His Gifts (King Penguin S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/719921 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivy Compton-Burnett</div> Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the 'Tristan of Thomas' (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83312 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83312"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672755_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gottfried von Strassburg</div> The Maya, Seventh Edition (Ancient Peoples and Places) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113702 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113702"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0500285055.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael D. Coe</div> A Study of Maya Art (Dover Books on Astronomy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427236 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FX84RYNTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert J. Spinden</div> The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137597 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137597"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811213269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494836_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ezra Pound</div> The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3417488 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mariano Azuela</div> Labyrinth of Solitude, the (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3930516 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3930516"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418Y77TDVKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavio Paz</div> Configurations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980154 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811201503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494807_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavio Paz</div> Reflections on Things at Hand; the Neo-Confucian Anthology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6427237 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hsi Chu</div> Chief Plays of Corneille http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1059294 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Corneille</div> The Lost Steps http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816638071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056496509_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2915400 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2915400"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11C56JSA1YL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by César Vallejo</div> The Book of Government or Rules for Kings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2486173 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2486173"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0700712283.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38706751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hubert Darke</div>