The Western Canon: The works everything else answers to

The essential books of the Western tradition — the novels, plays, and poems a writer had to read before they could write. A starting library for a lifetime of reading.

In this collection

• The Gentleman Beggar an Attorney's Story
• Shakespeare on Scenery
• An Old Woman's Tale
• A London Suburb
• A Simplified Alphabet
• The Jackals and the Elephant
• The Frenzy in the Wake. Sherman's Advance through the Carolinas. (February, 1865.)
• The Blackmailing of the Emperor
• From the Conflict of Convictions. 1860-1 (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• A Cure for the Blues
• Edward Fane's Rosebud
• Johnny Greer
• Tales From Dickens: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
• The Ass and the Horse
• Tales From Dickens: BLEAK HOUSE
• Dirge (Poems from Mardi)
• The New Dress
• The Stag and the Vineyard
• Memory. Acton Bell
• Up the Thames
• Master Humphrey's Clock
• The Pickwick Papers
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• Heart of Darkness
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