Cain’s Book (26 page)

1.  James Hanley,
Boy

2.  D.H. Lawrence,
The First Women in Love

3.  Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre

4.  Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

5.  Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights

6.  Anton Chekhov,
Sakhalin Island

7.  Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli,
Sonnets

8.  Jack Kerouac,
Beat Generation

9.  Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations

10.  Jane Austen,
Emma

11.  Wilkie Collins,
The Moonstone

12.  D.H. Lawrence,
The Second Lady Chatterley’s Lover

13.  Jonathan Swift,
The Benefit of Farting Explained

14.  Anonymous,
Dirty Limericks

15.  Henry Miller,
The World of Sex

16.  Jeremias Gotthelf,
The Black Spider

17.  Oscar Wilde,
The Picture Of Dorian Gray

18.  Erasmus,
Praise of Folly

19.  Henry Miller,
Quiet Days in Clichy

20.  Cecco Angiolieri,
Sonnets

21.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Humiliated and Insulted

22.  Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility

23.  Theodor Storm,
Immensee

24.  Ugo Foscolo,
Sepulchres

25.  Boileau,
Art of Poetry

26.  Georg Kaiser,
Plays Vol. 1

27.  Émile Zola,
Ladies’ Delight

28.  D.H. Lawrence,
Selected Letters

29.  Alexander Pope,
The Art of Sinking in Poetry

30.  E.T.A. Hoffmann,
The King’s Bride

31.  Ann Radcliffe,
The Italian

32.  Prosper Mérimée,
A Slight Misunderstanding

33.  Giacomo Leopardi,
Canti

34.  Giovanni Boccaccio,
Decameron

35.  Annette von Droste-Hülshoff,
The Jew’s Beech

36.  Stendhal,
Life of Rossini

37.  Eduard Mörike,
Mozart’s Journey to Prague

38.  Jane Austen,
Love and Friendship

39.  Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina

40.  Ivan Bunin,
Dark Avenues

41.  Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Scarlet Letter

42.  Sadeq Hedayat,
Three Drops of Blood

43.  Alexander Trocchi,
Young Adam

44.  Oscar Wilde,
The Decay of Lying

45.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
The Master and Margarita

46.  Sadeq Hedayat,
The Blind Owl

47.  Alain Robbe-Grillet,
Jealousy

48.  Marguerite Duras,
Moderato Cantabile

49.  Raymond Roussel,
Locus Solus

50.  Alain Robbe-Grillet,
In the Labyrinth

51.  Daniel Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe

52.  Robert Louis Stevenson,
Treasure Island

53.  Ivan Bunin,
The Village

54.  Alain Robbe-Grillet,
The Voyeur

55.  Franz Kafka,
Dearest Father

56.  Geoffrey Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales

57.  Ambrose Bierce,
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter

58.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

59.  Bram Stoker,
Dracula

60.  Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein

61.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Elective Affinities

62.  Marguerite Duras,
The Sailor from Gibraltar

63.  Robert Graves,
Lars Porsena

64.  Napoleon Bonaparte,
Aphorisms and Thoughts

65.  Joseph von Eichendorff,
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

66.  Adelbert von Chamisso,
Peter Schlemihl

67.  Pedro Antonio de Alarcón,
The Three-Cornered Hat

68.  Jane Austen,
Persuasion

69.  Dante Alighieri,
Rime

70.  Anton Chekhov,
The Woman in the Case and Other Stories

71.  Mark Twain,
The Diaries of Adam and Eve

72.  Jonathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travels

73.  Joseph Conrad,
Heart of Darkness

74.  Gottfried Keller,
A Village Romeo and Juliet

75.  Raymond Queneau,
Exercises in Style

76.  Georg Büchner,
Lenz

77.  Giovanni Boccaccio,
Life of Dante

78.  Jane Austen,
Mansfield Park

79.  E.T.A. Hoffmann,
The Devil’s Elixirs

80.  Claude Simon,
The Flanders Road

81.  Raymond Queneau,
The Flight of Icarus

82.  Niccolò Machiavelli,
The Prince

83.  Mikhail Lermontov,
A Hero of our Time

84.  Henry Miller,
Black Spring

85.  Victor Hugo,
The Last Day of a Condemned Man

86.  D.H. Lawrence,
Paul Morel

87.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
The Life of Monsieur de Molière

88.  Leo Tolstoy,
Three Novellas

89.  Stendhal,
Travels in the South of France

90.  Wilkie Collins,
The Woman in White

91.  Alain Robbe-Grillet,
Erasers

92.  Iginio Ugo Tarchetti,
Fosca

93.  D.H. Lawrence,
The Fox

94.  Borys Conrad,
My Father Joseph Conrad

95.  James De Mille,
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

96.  Émile Zola,
Dead Men Tell No Tales

97.  Alexander Pushkin,
Ruslan and Lyudmila

98.  Lewis Carroll,
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

99.  James Hanley,
The Closed Harbour

100.  Thomas De Quincey,
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

101.  Jonathan Swift,
The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

102.  Petronius,
Satyricon

103.  Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
Death on Credit

104.  Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

105.  W.B. Yeats,
Selected Poems

106.  Antonin Artaud,
The Theatre and Its Double

107.  Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
Journey to the End of the Night

108.  Ford Madox Ford,
The Good Soldier

109.  Leo Tolstoy,
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

110.  Guido Cavalcanti,
Complete Poems

111.  Charles Dickens,
Hard Times

112.  Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier,
Hashish, Wine, Opium

113.  Charles Dickens,
Haunted House

114.  Ivan Turgenev,
Fathers and Children

115.  Dante Alighieri,
Inferno

116.  Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary

117.  Alexander Trocchi,
Man at Leisure

118.  Alexander Pushkin,
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies

119.  Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote

120.  Mark Twain,
Huckleberry Finn

121.  Charles Baudelaire,
Paris Spleen

122.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The Idiot

123.  René de Chateaubriand,
Atala and René

124.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
Diaboliad

125.  Goerge Eliot,
Middlemarch

126.  Edmondo De Amicis,
Constantinople

127.  Petrarch,
Secretum

128.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
The Sorrows of Young Werther

129.  Alexander Pushkin,
Eugene Onegin

130.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Notes from Underground

131.  Luigi Pirandello,
Plays Vol. 1

132.  Jules Renard,
Histoires Naturelles

133.  Gustave Flaubert,
The Dictionary of Received Ideas

134.  Charles Dickens,
The Life of Our Lord

135.  D.H. Lawrence,
The Lost Girl

136.  Benjamin Constant,
The Red Notebook

137.  Raymond Queneau,
We Always Treat Women too Well

138.  Alexander Trocchi,
Cain’s Book

139.  Raymond Roussel,
Impressions of Africa

140.  Llewelyn Powys,
A Struggle for Life

141.  Nikolai Gogol,
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

142.  F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby

143.  Jonathan Swift,
Directions to Servants

144.  Dante Alighieri,
Purgatory

145.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
A Young Doctor’s Notebook

146.  Sergei Dovlatov,
The Suitcase

147.  Leo Tolstoy,
Hadji Murat

148.  Jonathan Swift,
The Battle of the Books

149.  F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Tender Is the Night

150.  Alexander Pushkin,
The Queen of Spades and Other Short Fiction

151.  Raymond Queneau,
The Sunday of Life

152.  Herman Melville,
Moby Dick

153.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
The Fatal Eggs

154.  Antonia Pozzi,
Poems

155.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Wilhelm Meister

156.  Anton Chekhov,
The Story of a Nobody

157.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Poor People

158.  Leo Tolstoy,
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

159.  Dante Alighieri,
Vita nuova

160.  Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Tragedy of Korosko

161.  Franz Kafka,
Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

162.  Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

163.  Erich Fried,
Love Poems

164.  Antonin Artaud,
Selected Works

165.  Charles Dickens,
Oliver Twist

166.  Sergei Dovlatov,
The Zone

167.  Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
Guignol’s Band

168.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
A Dog’s Heart

169.  Rayner Heppenstall,
The Blaze of Noon

170.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The Crocodile

171.  Anton Chekhov,
The Death of a Civil Servant

172.  Georg Kaiser,
Plays Vol. 2

173.  Tristan Tzara,
Seven Dada Manifestos
and
Lampisteries

174.  Frank Wedekind,
The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies

175.  Frank Wedekind,
Spring Awakening

176.  Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The Gambler

177.  Prosper Mérimée,
The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories

178.  Edgar Allan Poe,
Tales of the Supernatural

179.  Virginia Woolf,
To the Lighthouse

180.  F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Beautiful and Damned

181.  James Joyce,
Dubliners

182.  Alexander Pushkin,
The Captain’s Daughter

183.  Sherwood Anderson,
Winesburg Ohio

184.  James Joyce,
Ulysses

185.  Ivan Turgenev,
Faust

186.  Virginia Woolf,
Mrs Dalloway

187.  Paul Scarron,
The Comical Romance

188.  Sergei Dovlatov,
Pushkin Hills

189.  F. Scott Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise

190.  Alexander Pushkin,
Complete Lyrical Poems

191.  Luigi Pirandello,
Plays Vol. 2

192.  Ivan Turgenev,
Rudin

193.  Raymond Radiguet,
Cheeks on Fire

194.  Vladimir Odoevsky,
Two Days in the Life of the Terrestrial Globe

195.  Copi,
Four Plays

196.  Iginio Ugo Tarchetti,
Fantastic Tales

197.  Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
London Bridge

198.  Mikhail Bulgakov,
The White Guard

199.  George Bernard Shaw,
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide

200.  Charles Dickens,
Supernatural Short Stories

201.  Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy