Friday, May 23, 2008

This is the last one - 1001 books you must read before you die 1700s and previous

This is the list that sorts the English Grads out from the boys.

There are 59 books on this list. Queenie has read 19 of them. Mostly because she had to.

OKAY, we're done ruining my blog with lists of books.... onto more useful activities.

Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sade Q
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett Q
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne Q
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne Q
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith Q
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Amelia – Henry Fielding Q
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding Q
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett Q
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson Q
Pamela – Samuel Richardson Q
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift Q
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift Q
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe Q
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe Q
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Q
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous Q
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Metamorphoses – Ovid Q
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus Q

6 comments:

Trish Byrne said...

Ha ha, 6. I did nothing in college at all, did I?

Queenie said...

Well, I would say not a lot that year. But there were other years when you appeared to be relatively industrious....

Having said that, I spent a lot of time in college reading books. Which I like to do anyways. I spent very little time doing any work.

.... I wonder how we'd fare nowadays!! I think we made it by the skin of our teeth into the slacker generation.

A very successful business man asked me recently why I live in Halifax and I said 'because I'm a slacker and this is the slacker capital of the world, so don't you go changing it.' I thought he was really insulted, but he just invited me to the Freemason auction of old things tomorrow, so maybe he's secretly a slacker too.

Queenie said...

I would just like to point out that I mean slacker in the early nineties definition of the word, i.e. what we call today work - life balance. Except that today's rephrasal has dropped the bit where your work and life should complement each other, and that your work should be expressive and tolerant of your personality.

Bad mistake, dropping that bit, IMHO.

Someday they'll get it. Meanwhile, we'll be noted in history as the generation that tried.

Ray said...

Andrew posted that list on his LJ the other day. I've read 185 of the full list, only 3 or 4 from this section...

Queenie said...

Ooops, I didn't know that, or I would have given him a mention - sorry Andrew.

I am shocked!! Then I was thinking, you read a lot of sci-fi, don't you. And I don't read any.

I have read 338 on the list. That's one third. So I need to live to 114 and keep my mental and visual faculties if I am to finish!!

Ray said...

I don't read a lot of anything these days.
But I'm reading something from the list now - A Disaffection.