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The New

LIFETIME

Reading Plan

 

The classic guide to world literature,

revised and expanded

Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

FOURTH EDITION

Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major

HarperCoWmsPublishers

the new lifetime reading plan. Copyright © 1997 by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. Ali rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in criticai articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022.

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fourth edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-

The new lifetime reading plan / Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major.— 4th ed.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-06-270208-4

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c0CONTENTS

Preface xiii

A Preliminary Talk with the Reader xix PART ONE

н. Anonymous, ca. 2000 B.c.E. (Scribe Sin-Leqi-Unninni, ca. 700 B.c.E.), The Epic of Gilgamesh 3

Homer, ca. 800 B.c.E., The Iliad 5

Homer, ca. 800 B.c.E., The Odyssey 7

Confucius, 551-479 B.c.E., The Analects 8

Aeschylus, 525-456/5 B.c.E., The Oresteia 10

Sophocles, 496-406 B.c.E., Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone 12

Euripides, 484-406 B.c.E., Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, 77ie Bacchae 15

Herodotus, ca. 484-425 B.c.E., The Histories 16

Thucydides, ca. 470/460-ca. 400 B.c.E., The History of the Peloponnesian War 18

Sun-tzu, ca. 450-380 B.c.E., The Art ofWar 20

Aristophanes, 448-388 B.c.E., Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds 22

Plato, 428-348 B.c.E., Selected Works 24

Aristotle, 384-322 B.c.E., Ethics, Politics, Poetics 26

Mencius, ca. 400-320 B.c.E., The Book of Mencius 28

Attributed to Valmiki, ca. 300 B.c.E., The Ramayana 31

Attributed to Vyasa, ca. 200 b.c.e., The Mahabharata 34

Anonymous, ca. 200 B.c.E., The Bhagavad Gita 36

Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 b.c.e., Records of the Grand Historian 37

Lucretius, ca. 100-ca. 50 b.c.e., Of the Nature of Things 40

Virgil, 70-19 b.c.e., The Aeneid 42

Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations 44

PARTTWO

Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions 49

Kгlidгsa, ca. 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala 50

Revealed to Muhummad, completed 650, The Koran 52

Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 55

Firdausi, ca. 940-1020, Shah Nameh 59

Sei Shхnagon, ca. 965-1035, The Pillow-Book 61

Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015, The Tale of Genji 64

Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat 66

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy 69

Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 71

Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales 74

Anonymous, ca. 1500, The Thousand and One Nights 76

Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince 78

Franзois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel 80

Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West 82

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays 85

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote 87

PARTTHREE

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works 93

John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works 94

Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin PHng Mei) 97

Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Ttvo Chief World Systems 100

Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Leviathan 103

Renй Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method 105

John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Chrisfs Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica 107

Moliиre, 1622-1673, Selected Plays 109

Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensйes) 111

John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrims Progress 114

John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government 115

Matsuo Bashх, 1644-1694, The Narrotv Road to the Deep North 117

Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe 120

Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gullivers Traveis 122

Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works 124

David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 126

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones 127

Ts'ao Hsьeh-ctTin, 1715-1763, The Dream of the

Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone) 129

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions 131

Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy 134

James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson 136

Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris 138

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787, edited by Clinton Rossiter 139

PART FOUR

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust 143

William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works 144

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800) 147

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare 150

Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice, Emma 152

Stendhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black 154

Honorй de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pиre Goriot, Eugйnie Grandet, Cousin Bette 156

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works 158

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales 160

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America 162

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty, The Subjection ofWomen 164

Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species 166

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls 170

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works 171

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair 173

Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers, David Coppetfield, Great