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Classic Books for Your Home Library Search for your favourite books here ... just enter the book and/or author and click Go: Here are some of the books recommended by Joseph Devlin in How to Write and Speak Correctly: Indispensable
Books
Homer,
Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe. (The
best translation of Homer for the ordinary reader is by Chapman.
Norton’s translation of Dante and Taylor’s translation of
Goethe’s Faust are recommended.) A
Good Library
Besides
the works mentioned everyone should endeavor to have the following: Plutarch’s
Lives, Meditations
of Marcus Aurelius, Chaucer, Imitation of Christ (Thomas
a Kempis), Holy Living and Holy Dying (Jeremy Taylor), Pilgrim’s
Progress, Macaulay’s Essays, Bacon’s Essays, Addis on s Essays, Essays of
Elia (Charles Lamb), Les Miserables (Hugo), Heroes and Hero
Worship (Carlyle), Pal-grave’s Golden Treasury, Wordsworth,
Vicar of Wake field, Adam Bede (George Eliot), Vanity Fair
(Thackeray), Ivanhoe (Scott), On the Heights (Auerbach), Eugenie
Grandet (Balzac), Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), Emerson’s
Essays, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, History of the English
People (Green), Outlines of Universal History, Origin of Species,
Montaigne’s Essays, Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, Whittier, Ruskin, Herbert
Spencer. A
good encyclopaedia is very desirable and a reliable dictionary indispensable.
Masterpieces
of American Literature
Scarlet
Letter, Parkman’s Histories, Motley’s Dutch Republic, Grant’s Memoirs,
Franklin’s Autobiography, Webster’s Speeches, Lowell’s Bigelow Papers,
also his Critical Essays, Thoreau’s Walden, Leaves of
Grass(Whitman), Leather-stocking Tales (Cooper), Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table, Ben Hur and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ten
Greatest American Poets
Bryant,
Poe, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Lanier, Aldrich and
Stoddard. Ten
Greatest English Poets
Chaucer,
Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson,
Browning. Ten
Greatest English Essayists
Bacon,
Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, Thackeray and
Matthew Arnold. Best
Plays of Shakespeare
In
order of merit are: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony
and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV,
As You Like It, Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer
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