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THE NEWOXFORD BOOK OF
ENGLISHPROSE
Edited by
JOHN GROSS
Oxford New York
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1998
Contents
Introduction • xxxv
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE
SIR THOMAS MALORY 3
Morte Darthur
WILLIAM CAXTON 6The Game and Play of the Chess • Proem to The Canterbury Tales
JOHN BOURCHIER, LORD BERNERS 7Froissart's Chronicles
JOHN FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 9The Ways to Perfect Religion
SIR THOMAS MORE 10Utopia • The History of King Richard III
THOMAS CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 13An Homily of Good Works
SIR THOMAS ELYOT 14The Book named the Governor
HUGH LATIMER l6'The Sermon of the Plough'
WILLIAM TYNDALE VJTranslation of the Pentateuch: Prologue to Leviticus
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: I l8Genesis 3:1-19
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: II 19i Corinthians 13: 4-13
WILLIAM ROPER 21The Life of Sir Thomas More
GEORGE CAVENDISH 21Thomas Wolsey, late Cardinal, his Life and Death
SIMON FISH 22A Supplication for the Beggars
VI CONTENTS
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 23
The First Prayer Book of Edward VI
ROGER ASCHAM 24
Toxophilus • The Schoolmaster
RAPHAEL HOLINSHED TJ
Chronicles
SIR THOMAS CHALONER 28
Erasmus' The Praise of Folly
JOHN STOW 28
A Survey of London
QUEEN ELIZABETH I 30
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
SIR THOMAS NORTH 31
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
ROBERT PARSONS 34
The Christian Directory
RICHARD KNOLLES 34
The General History of the Turks
EDMUND SPENSER 35
A View of the Present State of Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 36
The Fight about the Isles of Azores • The Discovery of Guiana •The History of the World
RICHARD HAKLUYT 39
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries
JOHN FLORIO 39
The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne
JOHN LYLY 40
Euphues and His England
STEPHEN GOSSON 41
The School of Abuse
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 42
Arcadia • The Defence of Poesy
RICHARD HOOKER , 45
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE 47
The Life of Sir Philip Sidney
CONTENTS Vll
NICHOLAS BRETON 48Fantasticks
ROBERT GREENE 49A Quip for an Upstart Courtier • Greene's Groats-worth of Wit
THOMAS LODGE 50Rosalynde
SIR RANULPH CREWE 51Oxford peerage case
THOMAS HARIOT 51The New-found Land of Virginia
FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 52'The Student's Prayer' • The Advancement of Learning •'Of Truth' • 'Of Parents and Children' • New Atlantis
SAMUEL DANIEL 55A Defence of Rhyme
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 56A Midsummer Night's Dream • 1 Henry IV • Henry V •As You Like It • Hamlet • All's Well That Ends Well •King Lear • Coriolanus
THOMAS CAMPION 60Observations in the Art of English Poesy
THOMAS NASHE 6lPierce Penniless • The Terrors of the Night • Christ's Tears overJerusalem • The Unfortunate Traveller • Nashe's Lenten Stuff
THOMAS DEKKER 64The Seven Deadly Sins of London • The Gull's Hornbook
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: III 65Genesis 32: 22-30 • 2 Samuel 1: 23-7 • Job 39:19-25 •Proverbs 7: 6-18 • Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10,12:1-7 •Song of Solomon 8: 6-7 • Isaiah 40:1-8 • Isaiah 52: 7-8 •Matthew 6: 25-9 • Luke 2: 25-32 • Acts 17: 22-34
JOHN DONNE 70Sermons • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
BEN JONSON 74
Timber, or Discoveries
SAMUEL PURCHAS 76Purchas His Pilgrimage
ROBERT BURTON 76The Anatomy of Melancholy
Vlll CONTENTS
THOMAS CORYATE 80Coryats Crudities
JOHN SMITH 8lThe General History of Virginia
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 82Characters
JOHN SELDEN 83Table-Talk
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 84The Cypress Grove
THOMAS HOBBES 84Human Nature • Leviathan
JOHN WINTHROP 87'A Model of Christian Charity'
WILLIAM BRADFORD 88Of Plymouth Plantation
IZAAK WALTON 90The Life of Dr John Donne • The Compleat Angler •The Life of Mr George Herbert
JOHN EARLE 93Microcosmography
OWEN FELLTHAM 94Resolves • A Brief Character of the Low Countries
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 96Religio Medici • Pseudodoxia Epidemica • Urn-Burial •The Garden of Cyrus • Christian Morals
BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE 100Journal of the Swedish Embassy
JOHN MILTON 102Of Reformation in England • Animadversions upon the Remonstrant'sDefence • The Reason of Church Government • Areopagitica •The History of Britain • The Ready and Easy Way to Establisha Free Commonwealth
THOMAS FULLER ~ ,, 107The Church History of Britain • The Worthies of England
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON 110The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon • History of the Rebellion
C O N T E N T S IX
GERRARD WINSTANLEY 113
The True Levellers' Standard Advanced
ANNE BRADSTREET 114Meditations Divine and Moral
JEREMY TAYLOR 115Holy Living • Holy Dying • sermons • letter • Ductor Dubitantium •Righteousness Evangelical'-
SIR CHRISTOPHER GUISE Il8Memoirs of the Family of Guise
ABRAHAM COWLEY 119'The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company'
JOHN EVELYN 119Sylva • Diary
LUCY HUTCHINSON 121Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
JOHN TILLOTSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 122Sermons
GEORGE FOX 124Journal
MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE 124A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life
JOHN AUBREY 126Brief Lives
ROBERT BOYLE 130The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy •manuscript notes • A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly ReceivedNotions of Nature
DOROTHY OSBORNE 131Letters
JOHN BUNYAN 133Grace Abounding • The Pilgrim's Progress • The Holy War •The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 137'Of Poetry'
JOHN DRYDEN 138An Essay of Dramatic Poesy • The Original and Progress of Satire •Preface to the Fables
JOHN LOCKE 140An Essay Concerning Human Understanding • Some ThoughtsConcerning Education • Of the Conduct of the Understanding
X CONTENTS
SAMUEL PEPYS 143Diary
GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX 147The Character of a Trimmer • A Character of Charles the Second •A Rough Draft of a New Model at Sea • Some Cautions Offered
ROBERT SOUTH , 150Sermons
THOMAS BURNET 151A Sacred Theory of the Earth
THOMAS SPRAT, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 152The History of the Royal Society
THOMAS TRAHERNE 153Centuries of Meditation
APHRA BEHN 155Preface to The Dutch Lover • The Fair Jilt • Oroonoko
WILLIAM PENN 157No Cross, No Crown
ROGER NORTH 157Autobiography
DANIEL DEFOE I58Robinson Crusoe • Serious Reflections During the Lifeof Robinson Crusoe • A Journal of the Plague Year •Moll Flanders • A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
COTTON MATHER 163Magnalia Christi Americana • Manuductio ad Ministerium
MARY ASTELL 164Some Reflections upon Marriage
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT 165A Journey from Boston to New York
JONATHAN SWIFT 166A Tale of a Tub • An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity •A Short Character of His Excellency, Thomas Earl ofWharton •Journal to Stella • from The Examiner • Gulliver's Travels •A Modest Proposal • Polite Conversation
WILLIAM CONGREVE - 173Incognita
BERNARD MANDEVILLE 174The Fable of the Bees
CONTENTS XI
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY 175
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times
COLLEY CIBBER 175An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
SIR RICHARD STEELE 177from The Tatler and The Guardian
JOSEPH ADDISON 178from The Tatler and The Spectator
WILLIAM BYRD l8lThe Secret Diary of William Byrd ofWestover
HENRY ST JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE l82The Idea of a Patriot King
GEORGE BERKELEY, BISHOP OF CLOYNE 183The Principles of Human Knowledge • Siris
WILLIAM LAW 185A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
ALEXANDER POPE 187Letter • A Letter to a Noble Lord
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU l88Letters
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 191Clarissa
JOSEPH BUTLER, BISHOP OF DURHAM 195Fifteen Sermons
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 196Letters to his son
JOHN, LORD HERVEY I98Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second
JOHN WESLEY 199Journal
JONATHAN EDWARDS 202A Divine and Supernatural Light • Personal Narrative •Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
WILLIAM MURRAY, EARL OF MANSFIELD 203Speech in the House of Lords
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 204Autobiography • letters • 'Proposed New Version of the Bible' •Speech at the Constitutional Convention
Xll CONTENTS
HENRY FIELDING 208Joseph Andrews • Jonathan Wild • Tom Jones • The Journal ofa Voyage to Lisbon
SAMUEL JOHNSON 213The Life of Richard Savage • from The'Rambler • letters •A Dictionary of the English Language • review of A Free Enquiryinto the Nature and. Origins of Evil. • from The Idler • Proceedingsof the Committee for Clothing French Prisoners of War • Rasselas •Preface to Shakespeare • A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland •Lives of the Poets • Diary
DAVID HUME 225'On the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature' •'The Epicurean' • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding •The History of Great Britain • 'On the Immortality of the Soul' •'The Natural History of Religion' • 'Of the Standard of Taste' •'My Own Life'
LAURENCE STERNE 23ITristram Shandy • A Sentimental Journey
THOMAS GRAY 235Letters
HORACE WALPOLE 236Letters
GILBERT WHITE 239The Natural History ofSelborne
JOHN WOOLMAN 242Journal
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 243Roderick Random • Humphry Clinker
WILLIAM ROBERTSON 247The History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 248Discourses on Art
ADAM SMITH 25OThe Wealth of Nations
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 252Commentaries on the Laws of England
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 253'On the Use of Language' • The Citizen of the World •The Life of Richard Nash • The Vicar of Wakefield •An History of the Earth
CONTENTS Xlll
EDMUND BURKE 257Speech on American Taxation • Speech on Conciliation withAmerica • Speech on the East India Bill • Reflections on theRevolution in France • A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe • Letterson a Regicide Peace • A Letter to a Noble Lord
JAMES BRUCE 264Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
WILLIAM COWPER 264Letters
HECTOR ST JEAN DE CREVECCEUR 267Letters from an American Farmer
EDWARD GIBBON 268The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire • letter • Autobiography
THOMAS PAINE 275Common Sense • The American Crisis • The Rights of Man •The Age of Reason
WILLIAM BARTRAM 278Travels Through North and South Carolina
JAMES BOSWELL 279Journals • Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides • The Life ofSamuel Johnson
' JUNIUS' 285
'To the Duke of Grafton'
HENRY FUSELI 286'Some Thoughts on Art and Artists'
ARTHUR YOUNG 287Travels in France
SIR JOSEPH BANKS 287Journal during Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour
THOMAS JEFFERSON 288The Declaration of Independence • letters
OLAUDAH EQUIANO 290The Life of Olaudah Equiano
WILLIAM HICKEY 29IMemoirs
THOMAS ERSKINE, FIRST BARON ERSKINE 293Speech
JAMES MADISON 293from The Federalist
XIV CONTENTS
FANNY BURNEY 294
Evelina • Diary and Letters
THOMAS BEWICK 297A Memoir
WILLIAM GODWIN 298An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
WILLIAM BLAKE 299Letter • A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 3OOA Vindication of the Rights of Woman
WILLIAM BECKFORD 301Excursion to the Monasteries ofAlcobaca and Batalha
WILLIAM COBBETT 302Rural Rides
JOHN NYREN 304The Young Cricketer's Tutor
ISAAC D'lSRAELI 304Curiosities of Literature • Literary Miscellanies
MARIA EDGEWORTH 305Castle Rackrent • The Absentee
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 307Letter • The Convention of Cintra • Description of the Countryof the Lakes
JAMES HOGG 309The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
SIR WALTER SCOTT 310Rob Roy • Redgauntlet • lournal
SYDNEY SMITH 314'The Island of Ceylon' • Sketches of Moral Philosophy •review of Granby • 'Waterton's Wanderings in South America' •Memoir, by Lady Holland
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 317Grasmere lournal
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 319The Friend • Biographia Liieraria • Notebooks
ROBERT SOUTHEY 322Life of Nelson
C O N T E N T S XV
JANE AUSTEN 323
Sense and Sensibility • Northanger Abbey • Pride and Prejudice •Mansfield Park • Emma • Persuasion
CHARLES LAMB 333Letters •- 'Witches and other Night Fears' • 'On Some of theOld Actors' • 'Imperfect Sympathies'
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 335Imaginary Conversations
WILLIAM HAZLITT 336'On the Ignorance of the Learned' • death notice ofJohn Cavanagh • 'Why Distant Objects Please' • 'On Goinga Journey' • 'My First Acquaintance with the Poets' •Characteristics • The Spirit of the Age • 'On the Want of Money' •'On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth'
LORD COCKBURN 342Memorials of His Own Time
WASHINGTON IRVING 344A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
LEIGH HUNT 346Autobiography
THOMAS DE QUINCEY 347Confessions of an English Opium-Eater • 'On Murder Consideredas One of the Fine Arts' • 'Recollections of the Lake Poets' •'The English Mail Coach: Dream Fugue'
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 350Crotchet Castle • Gryll Grange
BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON 352Autobiography and Journals
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 353Journal • letters
SAMUEL BAMFORD 356Passages in the Life of a Radical
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 357The Prairie • The Deerslayer
FREDERICK MARRYAT .. 358The Author's First Day at Sea • Joseph Rushbrook, or The Poacher
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 36OA Defence of Poetry • "Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence'
XVI CONTENTS
JOHN CLARE 361
Letters on Natural History
CHARLES GREVILLE 362The Greville Memoirs
WILLIAM CARLETON 364The Lough Dearg Pilgrim • 'The Poor Scholar' •'The Midnight Mass'
JOHN KEATS 366Preface to Endymion • letters
THOMAS CARLYLE 368Sartor Resartus • letters • The French Revolution •Past and Present • Life of John Sterling • Reminiscences
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT 376The Conquest of Mexico
MARY SHELLEY 377Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
EMILY EDEN 379Up the Country
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY 380Speech • 'Horace Walpole' • History of England •'William Pitt' • Journal
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 386Discourses on University Education • Apologia pro Vita Sua • letter
WILLIAM BARNES 388The Zong o'Solomon
JANE' WELSH CARLYLE 388letters • Journal
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 391Journal • Self-Reliance • English Traits • Thoreau
BENJAMIN DISRAELI . 395Coningsby • speech • Life of Lord George Bentinck •Lothair • Endymion
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 397'Young Goodman Brown", • The Scarlet Letter • The BlithedaleRomance • Our Old Home '-
R. S. SURTEES 403Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
CONTENTS XV11
SAMUEL P A L M E R 4O4
Sketchbook • letters
JOHN STUART MILL 406
'Coleridge' • On Liberty • Autobiography
EDWARD FITZGERALD 4O9
Letters
CHARLES DARWIN 411
The Voyage of the Beagle • The Origin of Species • The Descentof Man
EDGAR ALLAN POE 415
'The Cask of Amontillado' • 'The Tell-Tale Heart' •'William Cullen Bryant'
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 419
Letter • The Gettysburg Address
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. 420
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
ELIZABETH GASKELL 421
Cranford • North and South • Life of Charlotte Bronte •Wives and Daughters
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 427
'Going to see a Man Hanged' • The Book of Snobs • Vanity Fair •A Little Dinner at Timmins's
HENRY JAMES SR. 433
'Some Personal Recollections of Carlyle'
CHARLES DICKENS 434
The Pickwick Papers • The Old Curiosity Shop • Martin Chuzzlewit •Dombey and Son • David Copperfield • Bleak House • Little Dorrit •letter • Great Expectations • Our Mutual Friend • Edwin Drood
HENRY MAYHEW 447
London Labour and the London Poor
DAVID LIVINGSTONE 449
Missionary Travels • Last Journals
SHERIDAN LE FANU 451
'Green Tea'
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY - 453
The Rise of the Dutch Republic • letter
RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. 454
Two Years Before the Mast
XV111 CONTENTS
ANTHONY TROLLOPE 455
Barchester Towers • Doctor Thome • The Small House at Allington •Miss Mackenzie • The Last Chronicle ofBarset • The Way We LiveNow • The Duke's Children
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 46O
Jane Eyre • Villette
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 464
Journal • Walden
EMILY BRONTE 467
Wuthering Heights
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE 470History of England • The Oxford Counter-Reformation' •'On Progress'
FREDERICK DOUGLASS 472
The Life of Frederick Douglass
JOHN RUSKIN 474Diary • The Stones of Venice • Modern Painters • letter •The Cestus of Aglaia • The Crown of Wild Olive • Fors Clavigera •The Eagle's Nest • Praeterita
HERMAN MELVILLE 481
Moby-Dick • Bartleby • Billy Budd, Foretopman
CHARLES KINGSLEY 485
The Water-Babies • Prose Idylls
WALT WHITMAN 488'Street Yarn' • Specimen Days
GEORGE ELIOT 491
Adam Bede • The Mill on the Floss • Middlemarch •Daniel Deronda
WILKIE COLLINS 498
The Woman in White • Armadale • The Moonstone
JOHN TYNDALL 500
Faraday as a Discoverer
MATTHEW ARNOLD 501
On Translating Homer: Last Words • A French Eton • Preface toEssays in Criticism • Culture and Anarchy • 'Wordsworth'
ULYSSES S. GRANT 505Personal Memoirs
CONTENTS XIX
FRANCIS PARKMAN 507
The Oregon Trail • La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West •A Half-Century of Conflict
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM _ 509
Diary -
GEORGE MACDONALD . 511
The Princess and the Goblin
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 513
'Science and Morals' • 'Evolution and Ethics'
HENRY WALTER BATES 515
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
WALTER BAGEHOT 517
'The Character of Sir Robert Peel' • 'Percy Bysshe Shelley' •'The Ignorance of Man' • 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' •Lombard Street • 'The Death of Lord Brougham'
GEORGE MEREDITH 521
Beauchamp's Career • The Egoist • Diana of the Crossways
SIR JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN 523
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
EMILY DICKINSON 523
Letters
MARK RUTHERFORD 525
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • The Revolution inTanner's Lane • Miriam's Schooling • Catharine Furze
LEWIS CARROLL 527
Through the Looking-Glass
SIR LESLIE STEPHEN 529
English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
WILLIAM MORRIS 530
Art and Socialism
LORD ACTON 531
Letter
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 532
Ten O'Clock Lecture • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
MARK TWAIN 533
Life on the Mississippi • Huckleberry Finn • Pudd'nhead Wilson •'Old Age' • Little Bessie • The Mysterious Stranger
XX C O N T E N T S
SAMUEL BUTLER 540
The Way of All Flesh • Note Books
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 543Love's Cross-Currents
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 544A Hazard of New Fortunes • My Mark Twain
JOHN BURROUGHS 546Locusts and Wild Honey
HENRY ADAMS 547Democracy • The Education of Henry Adams
WALTER PATER 550Studies in the History of the Renaissance • The Child in the House'
THOMAS HARDY 551Far from the Madding Crowd • The Mayor of Casterbridge •Tess of the d'Urbervilles • The Dynasts
FRANCIS KILVERT 556Diaries
W. H. HUDSON 559The Naturalist in La Plata • Birds in Town and Village • Birds andMan • Adventures among Birds • A Hind in Richmond Park
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. 562The Common Law • 'Natural Law'
H. M. STANLEY 563How I Found Livingstone
WILLIAM JAMES 565'The Sentiment of Rationality' • letter • Psychology: Briefer Course •The Varieties of Religious Experience
AMBROSE BIERCE 569An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'
HENRY JAMES 571The American • Washington Square • The Portrait of a Lady •Anthony Trollope' • The Bostonians • The Figure in the Carpet •'London Notes' • The Awkward Age • 'The Future of the Novel' •The Wings of the Dove • The Ambassadors • The Golden Bowl •The American Scene
JOSEPH FURPHY ^ 580Such is Life
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 580Early diaries • lournal • letters • Notes on Spiritual Exercises
CONTENTS XXI
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE 584
The Grandissimes
GEORGE SAINTSBURY 586Robert Southey
F. H. BRADLEY 586The Principles of Logic • Appearance and Reality
RICHARD JEFFERIES 587The Gamekeeper at Home • Hodge and His Masters
ALICE JAMES 591Diary
SIR EDMUND GOSSE 592Portraits and Sketches
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 593The Country of the Pointed Firs
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 594Treasure Island • The Beach at Falesd • Weir ofHermiston
F. W. MAITLAND 597'The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation'
KATE CHOPIN 599The Awakening
GEORGE MOORE 600Esther Waters • Hail and Farewell
OSCAR WILDE 605Letters • 'The Decay of Lying' • 'The Critic as Artist'
SIR JAMES FRAZER 608The Golden Bough
OLIVE SCHREINER 609The Story of an African Farm
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 6llMusic in London • 'Blaming the Bard' • 'Epistle Dedicatory'to Man and Superman • Preface to Major Barbara • letter •The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism •Preface to Geneva • Sixteen Self Sketches
GEORGE GISSING 6l6New Grub Street • In the Year of Jubilee
JOSEPH CONRAD 619Lord Jim • Typhoon • Nostromo • The Secret Agent •Under Western Eyes • Chance • Victory
XX11 CONTENTS
SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON 626
Man on his Nature
E. CE. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS 627
The Real Charlotte
JOHN MEADE FALKNER 628
The Nebuly Coat
A. E. HOUSMAN 63O
Lectures • 'The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism'
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 632
'The Illustrious Client'
FREDERICK ROLFE ('BARON CORVO') 634
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
WALTER SICKERT 636
Painters and Critics • La Peinture • Frith's Derby Day
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 637
The Yellow Wall-Paper
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER 638
New Cosmopolis
MARY KINGSLEY 64O
Travels in West Africa
EDITH WHARTON 642
The House of Mirth • The Custom of the Country •The Age of Innocence
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 646
Greek Genius and Other Essays
ARTHUR MORRISON 647
A Child of the Jago
GEORGE SANTAYANA 647
The Life of Reason • Three Philosophical Poets • Character andOpinion in the United States • A note on T. S. Eliot
SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH 65O
'Jargon'
W. W. JACOBS -. 651
Dialstone Lane
RUDYARD KIPLING 652
The Jungle Book • Kim • 'The House Surgeon' • 'The Gardener'
CONTENTS XX111
W. B. YEATS 657
Estrangement • Reveries over Childhood and Youth • The Tremblingof the Veil
H. G. WELLS , 659
The Time Machine • The First Men in the Moon • Tono-Bungay •The History of Mr Polly • The Work, Wealth and Happinessof Mankind
JOHN GALSWORTHY 663In Chancery
ARNOLD BENNETT 664The Old Wives' Tale • Clayhanger
HENRY LAWSON 667'Water Them Geraniums'
NORMAN DOUGLAS 669Siren Land • South Wind
STEPHEN LEACOCK 67OArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
GEORGE DOUGLAS BROWN 671The House with the Green Shutters
SAKI 672
'The Stalled Ox'
HILAIRE BELLOC 673The Cruise of the 'Nona'
FRANK NORRIS 674McTeague
HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON 675Maurice Guest
STEPHEN CRANE 677The Red Badge of Courage • The Open Boat
THEODORE DREISER 680Sister Carrie • The Financier • An American Tragedy
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 684Along This Way
BERTRAND RUSSELL 686'Mathematics and the Metaphysicians' • Fact and Fiction
AUBREY BEARDSLEY 687Venus and Tannhduser
XXIV CONTENTS
SIR MAX BEERBOHM 689
'The Crime'
FORD MADOX FORD 69ISome Do Not • Return to Yesterday
WALTER DE LA MARE 693'Seaton's Aunt' • 'Crewe'
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 695Great Contemporaries • The Second World War
G. K. CHESTERTON 696Robert Browning • Heretics • Charles Dickens • The ManWho Was Thursday • Orthodoxy • 'The Blue Cross'
ELLEN GLASGOW 7OOThey Stooped to Folly
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 701Of Human Bondage • Cakes and Ale
GERTRUDE STEIN 702The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
CLARENCE DAY 704God and My Father
FORREST REID 7O5Peter Waring
JACK LONDON 7O6The Call of the Wild
G. M. TREVELYAN 707'Clio, A Muse'
SHERWOOD ANDERSON 708Winesburg, Ohio
WILLA CATHER 7O9My Antonia • A Lost Lady
JAMES AGATE 711Immoment Toys
EDWARD THOMAS 712Beautiful Wales • The South Country
E. M. FORSTER - . 713Howards End • A Passage to India • 'The Consolations of History'
JAMES BRANCH CABELL JYJBeyond Life
C O N T E N T S XXV
LYTTON STRACHEY 7l8
Queen Victoria
H. L. MENCKEN 719'The Metaphysician' • In Defense of Women • The AmericanLanguage • 'Coolidge'
ROSE MACAULAY .. 722The World My Wilderness
P. G. WODEHOUSE 723'The Voice of the Past' • Thank You, Jeeves
VIRGINIA WOOLF 724Diary • To the Lighthouse • A Room of One's Own • The Years •Between the Acts
JAMES STEPHENS 728The Crock of Gold • Irish Fairy Tales
JAMES JOYCE 730'The Sisters' • 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' • A Portraitof the Artist as a Young Man • Ulysses • Finnegans Wake
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES 737The Economic Consequences of the Peace • Essays in Biography
G. M. YOUNG 739
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
DAMON RUNYON 741'Romance in the Roaring Forties'
WYNDHAM LEWIS 742Tarr • The Apes of God • Blasting and Bombardiering •'The Sea-Mists of the Winter' • Self Condemned
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT 745More Women than Men • A Father and His Fate • Manservant andMaidservant
D. H. LAWRENCE 746Sons and Lovers • The Rainbow • Women in Love • Sea andSardinia • Kangaroo • St Mawr • Lady Chatterley's Lover •Apocalypse
SINCLAIR LEWIS 753Main Street • Babbitt
RING LARDNER 754'The Golden Honeymoon'
RONALD FIRBANK 756Prancing Nigger
XXVI C O N T E N T S
HAROLD NICOLSON 758
Some People
SIEGFRIED SASSOON 759Sherston's Progress
EDWIN MUIR 76OThe Story and the Fable
T. E. LAWRENCE 761Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. S. ELIOT 763The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism • 'In Memoriam'
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 764'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'
RAYMOND CHANDLER 766Farewell, My Lovely • The Little Sister
JOYCE CARY 768Mister Johnson
NEVILLE CARDUS 770The Summer Game
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 77OThe Leaning Tower
JEAN RHYS 772After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
ZORA NEALE HURSTON 773Their Eyes Were Watching God
J. BT S. HALDANE 775'God-Makers'
REBECCA WEST 776The Meaning of Treason
HERBERT READ 778The Innocent Eye
E. E. CUMMINGS 779The Enormous Room
ALDOUS HUXLEY ' 779Crome Yellow
ROBERT GRAVES 781Goodbye to All That
CONTENTS XXV11
DAVID JONES 783
In Parenthesis
EDMUND WILSON 784
The American Earthquake • Axel's Castle -
EDMUND BLUNDEN 786
Undertones of War
JOHN DOS PASSOS 787
U.S.A.
WILLIAM FAULKNER 789
The Sound and the Fury
LIAM O'FLAHERTY 792
Famine
DAWN POWELL 793
The Golden Spur
SACHEVERELL SITWELL 794
Morning, Noon and Night in London
NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI 796
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
c. s. LEWIS 797
Out of the Silent Planet • 'A Reply to Professor Haldane'
ELIZABETH BOWEN 799
The House in Paris • The Heat of the Day
VLADIMIR NABOKOV 801
Pnin • Lolita • Speak, Memory
RICHARD HUGHES 804
A High Wind in Jamaica
V. S. PRITCHETT 806
In My Good Books • A Cab at the Door
SEAN O'FAOLAIN 807
'Persecution Mania'
RHYS DAVIES 809
'The Nature of Man'
C. L. R. JAMES 810
Beyond a Boundary
JOHN STEINBECK 8ll
Cannery Row
XXVUl CONTENTS
CHRISTINA STEAD 813
For Love Alone
GEORGE ORWELL 814'A Hanging' • Homage to Catalonia • 'The Art of Donald McGill' •Nineteen Eighty-Four
EVELYN WAUGH - 8l8Vile Bodies • The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
ERSKINE CALDWELL 823Tobacco Road
KENNETH CLARK 824The Nude
WILLIAM PLOMER 825Turbott Wolfe
CYRIL CONNOLLY 826'Where Engels Fears to Tread'
FRANK O'CONNOR 827'The Holy Door'
FRANK SARGESON 829'Miss Briggs'
NATHANAEL WEST 83OThe Day of the Locust
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD 83IMr Norris Changes Trains
GRAHAM GREENE 833Brighton Rock • The Ministry of Fear
A. J. LIEBLING 835The Road Back to Paris
HENRY GREEN 836Party Going
ROBERT PENN WARREN 837All the King's Men
JOHN O'HARA 838
'The Doctor's Son'
LIONEL TRILLING 84OThe Middle of the Journey • 'Manners, Morals and the Novel'
MULK RAJ ANAND 842Untouchable
CONTENTS XXIX
ANTHONY POWELL 844
Afternoon Men • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
SAMUEL BECKETT 847'Dante and the Lobster' • Murphy • Malone Dies
WILLIAM EMPSON 85OSeven Types of Ambiguity
A. J. P. TAYLOR 851
The Trouble Makers • English History 1914-1945
DWIGHT MACDONALD 853Against the American Grain
JOHN BETJEMAN 854Little Posts for Lawyers
R. K. NARAYAN 854The Bachelor of Arts
W. H. AUDEN 856The Sea and the Mirror
LOREN EISELEY 857The Unexpected Universe
RICHARD WRIGHT 858Black Boy
JOCELYN BROOKE 860The Military Orchid
J. K. GALBRAITH 862The Great Crash
JOSEPH MITCHELL 863'Obituary of a Gin Mill'
MALCOLM LOWRY 865Under the Volcano
ISAIAH BERLIN 867'A Marvellous Decade'
EUDORA WELTY 869The Optimist's Daughter
G. V. DESANI 87IAll about H. Hatterr
PAUL BOWLES 872The Sheltering Sky
XXX C O N T E N T S
MERVYN PEAKE 873
Gormenghast
FLANN O'BRIEN 874At Swim-Two-Birds
J. L. AUSTIN 875'Other Minds'
WILLIAM GOLDING 876The Inheritors
WILLIAM SANSOM 878'Among the Dahlias'
JOHN CHEEVER 879'The Ocean'
PATRICK WHITE 880Voss
ANGUS WILSON 883Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
BARBARA PYM 884Less than Angels • Quartet in Autumn
ROBERTSON DAVIES 886The Rebel Angels
DYLAN THOMAS 887A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER 889'The Myth of Charles I'
RANDALL JARRELL 89O'The Age of Criticism'
BERNARD MALAMUD 89I'The Jewbird'
RALPH ELLISON 892Invisible Man
PETER MEDAWAR 894The Future of Man
SAUL BELLOW _ 895The Adventures ofAugie March • Henderson the Rain King •Herzog • Mr Sammler's Planet
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR 899A Time of Gifts
CONTENTS XXXI
CARSON MCCULLERS 900
The Member of the Wedding
ANTHONY BURGESS 9O2Inside Mr Enderby
RICHARD COBB 903Something to Hold Onto
MURIEL SPARK 9O5The Girls of Slender Means
CHRISTOPHER BURNEY 908The Dungeon Democracy
IRIS MURDOCH 909Under the Net
DORIS LESSING 911The Golden Notebook
BENEDICT KIELY 912A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly'
AMOS TUTUOLA 914The Palm-Wine Drinkard
D. J. ENRIGHT 915Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor
BRIAN MOORE 916Catholics
KINGSLEY AMIS 9l8Lucky Jim • Take a Girl Like You
RONALD BLYTHE 920Akenfield
NORMAN MAILER 921The Naked and the Dead
BRENDAN BEHAN 923Borstal Boy
KAMALA MARKANDAYA 925The Nowhere Man
SAM SELVON 926The Lonely Londoners
NADINE GORDIMER 928The Conservationist
XXXll CONTENTS
JAMES PURDY 930
Cabot Wright Begins
JAMES BALDWIN 931Go Tell It on the Mountain
TRUMAN CAPOTE 932In Cold Blood
FLANNERY O'CONNOR 934Wise Blood
GORE VIDAL 9351876
ALISON LURIE 937Love and Friendship
KENNETH TYNAN 938Curtains
ALAN SILLITOE 939The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
DAN JACOBSON 940The Price of Diamonds
J. G. BALLARD 941'The Waiting Grounds'
WAGUIH GHALI 943Beer in the Snooker Club
CHINUA ACHEBE 945A Man of the People
IAN NAIRN 947Nairn's London
MORDECAI RICHLER 948St Urbain's Horseman
TOM WOLFE 949The Bonfire of the Vanities
ANITA BROOKNER 950A Family Romance
JOHN UPDIKE 952Rabbit, Run • 'Popular Music'
v. s. NAIPAUL 955
An Area of Darkness • The Mimic Men
CONTENTS XXX111
EDWARD HOAGLAND 957'The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain'
MALCOLM BRADBURY 958The History Man
PHILIP ROTH 959
Portnoy's Complaint
OLIVER SACKS 961A Leg to Stand On
MICHAEL FRAYN 962Towards the End of the Morning
WOLE SOYINKA 964Ake
ALASDAIR GRAY 966Lanark
DAVID MALOUF 967'The Only Speaker of His Tongue'
DAVID LODGE 969Small World
JOYCE CAROL OATES 971Childwold
MARGARET ATWOOD 972Good Bones
CLIVE JAMES 973Unreliable Memoirs
MARGARET DRABBLE 974The Needle's Eye
BRUCE CHATWIN 975In Patagonia
ANNE TYLER 976Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
SALMAN RUSHDIE 978Midnight's Children
MARTIN AMIS 980Money
PETER ACKROYD 981Hawksmoor
XXXIV CONTENTS
MATTHEW PARRIS 983
J Couldn't Possibly Comment...
TIMOTHY MO 984Sour Sweet
A. N. WILSON 986A Bottle in the Smoke
VIKRAM SETH 988A Suitable Boy
HILARY MANTEL 99OAn Experiment in Love
KAZUO ISHIGURO 992
The Unconsoled.
Acknowledgements 995
Index of Authors 1007