Important Works
Important Works
Dates given are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from Scott's edition.[44]
Alexander Pope
1709: Pastorals
1711: An Essay on Criticism[41]
1712: Messiah (from the Book of Isaiah, and later translated into Latin by Samuel Johnson)
1712: The Rape of the Lock (enlarged in 1714)[41]
1713: Windsor Forest[6][41]
1715: The Temple of Fame: A Vision[42]
1717: Eloisa to Abelard[41]
1717: Three Hours After Marriage, with others
1717: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady[41]
1728: Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry
1728: The Dunciad[41]
1731–1735: Moral Essays
1733–1734: Essay on Man[41]
1735: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Samuel Johnson
Poetry
1728 Messiah, a translation into Latin of Alexander Pope's Messiah
1738 London
1747 Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
1749 The Vanity of Human Wishes
Irene, a Tragedy
Biographies, criticism
1735 A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Jerome Lobo, translated from the French
1744 Life of Mr Richard Savage
1745 Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth
1756 "Life of Browne" in Thomas Browne's Christian Morals
Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare
1765 Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
The Plays of William Shakespeare
1779–81 Lives of the Poets
Dictionary
Novellas
1759 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Wordsworth
Main article: List of poems by William Wordsworth
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
Major works[edit]
Hours of Idleness (1807)
Lachin y Gair (1807)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I & II (1812)
The Giaour (1813) (text on Wikisource)
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
The Corsair (1814) (text on Wikisource)
Lara, A Tale (1814) (text on Wikisource)
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
The Siege of Corinth (1816) (text on Wikisource)
Parisina (1816) (text on Wikisource)
The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) (text on Wikisource)
The Dream (1816) (text on Wikisource)
Prometheus (1816) (text on Wikisource)
Darkness (1816) (text on Wikisource)
Manfred (1817) (text on Wikisource)
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
Beppo (1818) (text on Wikisource)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818) (text on Wikisource)
Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete on Byron's death in 1824) (text on Wikisource)
Mazeppa (1819)
The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
Marino Faliero (1820)
Sardanapalus (1821)
The Two Foscari (1821)
Cain (1821)
The Vision of Judgment (1821)
Heaven and Earth (1821)
Werner (1822)
The Age of Bronze (1823)
The Island (1823) (text on Wikisource)
The Deformed Transformed (1824)
Letters and journals, vol. 1 (1830)
Letters and journals, vol. 2 (1830)
P.B Shelley
Keats
Tennyson
A list of works by Tennyson follows:[51][52]
Poems by Two Brothers (published 1826; dated 1827 on title page; written with Charles Tennyson)
"Timbuctoo" (for which he won chancellor's gold medal and was printed in Prolusiones Academicæ)
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830), in which the following poems were published:
"All Things Will Die"[53] "The Kraken"
"The Deserted House" "Mariana"
"The Dying Swan" "Nothing Will Die"[54]
"No More", '"Anacreontics" and "A Fragment" contributed to The Gem: A Literary Annual (1831)
"Sonnet" (Check every outflash, every ruder sally) in The Englishman's Magazine (August, 1831) and later
reprinted in Friendship's Offering (1833)
Poems (published 1832, but dated 1833 on title page),[55] in which the following poems were published:
"A Dream of Fair Women" "The Lotos-Eaters"
"The Lady of Shalott" – the poem's subject was depicted in "Oenone"
three paintings (1888, 1894, and 1916) by John William "The Palace of Art"
Waterhouse "St. Simeon Stylites" (1833)
The Lover's Tale (Two parts published in 1833;[56] Tennyson suppressed it immediately after publication as
he felt it was imperfect. A revised version comprising three parts was subsequently published in 1879
together with "The Golden Supper" as a fourth part.)[57]
"Rosalinde" (1833; suppressed until 1884)[58]
Poems (1842; with numerous subsequent editions including the 4th edition (1846) and 8th edition
(1853));[59] the collection included many of the poems published in the 1833 anthology (some in revised
form), and the following:
"'Break, Break, Break'" "Locksley Hall"
"The Day-Dream" "Sir Galahad" (written September 1834)
"A Dream of Fair Women" "The Two Voices" (written 1833–1834)
"Godiva" "Ulysses" (1833)
"Lady Clara Vere de Vere" (1832) "The Vision of Sin"
Mathew Arnold
Poetry[edit]
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann" (1849)
The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)
Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852)
Sohrab and Rustum (1853)
The Scholar-Gipsy (1853)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)
Memorial Verses to Wordsworth
Rugby Chapel (1867)
Thyrsis (1865)
Prose[edit]
Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888)
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Friendship's Garland (1871)
Literature and Dogma (1873)
God and the Bible (1875)
The Study Of Poetry(1880)
See also
Charles Dichens
Dickens's novels and novellas were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in
standard book formats.
The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; monthly serial, April 1836 to November
1837).[263] Novel.
Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist; monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April
1839). Novel.
Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; monthly serial, April 1838 to October
1839). Novel.
The Old Curiosity Shop (weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841). Novel.
Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty; weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock,
February to November 1841). Novel.
A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost-story of Christmas; 1843). Novella.
Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; monthly serial, January 1843 to July
1844). Novel.
The Chimes (The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In;
1844). Novella.
The Cricket on the Hearth (The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home; 1845). Novella.
The Battle of Life (The Battle of Life: A Love Story; 1846). Novella.
Dombey and Son (Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation;
monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848). Novel.
The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-time; 1848). Novella.
David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the
Younger of Blunderstone Rookery [Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account]; monthly serial, May
1849 to November 1850). Novel.
Bleak House (monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853). Novel.
Hard Times (Hard Times: For These Times; weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August
1854). Novel.
Little Dorrit (monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857). Novel.
A Tale of Two Cities (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859). Novel.
Great Expectations (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861). Novel.
Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865). Novel.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870), novel left unfinished due to
Dickens's death
W.M Thackery
Thomas Hardy
Prose[edit]
In 1912, Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:[81]
The Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)
Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return of the Native (1878)
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Wessex Tales (1888, a collection of short stories)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)
Life's Little Ironies (1894, a collection of short stories)
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Romances and fantasies[edit]
Further information: Romance (literary fiction)
T.S Eliot
Prose
o "The Birds of Prey" (a short story; 1905)[129]
o "A Tale of a Whale" (a short story; 1905)
o "The Man Who Was King" (a short story; 1905)[130]
o "The Wine and the Puritans" (review, 1909)
o "The Point of View" (1909)
o "Gentlemen and Seamen" (1909)
o "Egoist" (review, 1909)
Poems
o "A Fable for Feasters" (1905)
o "[A Lyric:]'If Time and Space as Sages say'" (1905)
o "[At Graduation 1905]" (1905)
o "Song: 'If space and time, as sages say'" (1907)
o "Before Morning" (1908)
o "Circe's Palace" (1908)
o "Song: 'When we came home across the hill'" (1909)
o "On a Portrait" (1909)
o "Song: 'The moonflower opens to the moth'" (1909)[131]
o "Nocturne" (1909)
o "Humoresque" (1910)
o "Spleen" (1910)
o "[Class] Ode" (1910)
o "The Death of Saint Narcissus" (c. 1911-15)[131]
Poetry[edit]
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
o The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
o Portrait of a Lady
o Preludes
o Rhapsody on a Windy Night
o Morning at the Window
o The Boston Evening Transcript (about the Boston Evening Transcript)
o Aunt Helen
o Cousin Nancy
o Mr. Apollinax
o Hysteria
o Conversation Galante
o La Figlia Che Piange
Poems (1920)
o Gerontion
o Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
o Sweeney Erect
o A Cooking Egg
o Le Directeur
o Mélange Adultère de Tout
o Lune de Miel
o The Hippopotamus
o Dans le Restaurant
o Whispers of Immortality
o Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
o Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land (1922)
The Hollow Men (1925)
Ariel Poems (1927–1954)
o Journey of the Magi (1927)
o A Song for Simeon (1928)
o Animula (1929)
o Marina (1930)
o Triumphal March (1931)
o The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954)
o Macavity:The Mystery Cat
Ash Wednesday (1930)
Coriolan (1931)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs and Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot (1939) in The Queen's Book of the
Red Cross
Four Quartets (1945)
Plays[edit]
Sweeney Agonistes (published in 1926, first performed in 1934)
The Rock (1934)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
The Family Reunion (1939)
The Cocktail Party (1949)
The Confidential Clerk (1953)
The Elder Statesman (first performed in 1958, published in 1959)
Non-fiction[edit]
Christianity & Culture (1939, 1948)
The Second-Order Mind (1920)
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920)
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920)
o "Hamlet and His Problems"
Homage to John Dryden (1924)
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1928)
For Lancelot Andrewes (1928)
Dante (1929)
Selected Essays, 1917-1932 (1932)
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
After Strange Gods (1934)
Elizabethan Essays (1934)
Essays Ancient and Modern (1936)
The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)
A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941) made by Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948)
Poetry and Drama (1951)
The Three Voices of Poetry (1954)
The Frontiers of Criticism (1956)
On Poetry and Poets (1943)
Posthumous publications[edit]
To Criticize the Critic (1965)
Poems Written in Early Youth (1967)
The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition (1974)
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 (1996)
G.B Shaw
1890s
Full-length plays
Widowers' Houses
The Philanderer
Mrs Warren's Profession
Arms and the Man
Candida
You Never Can Tell
The Devil's Disciple
Caesar and Cleopatra
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Adaptation
The Gadfly
Short play
Full-length plays
Full-length plays
Full-length plays
Back to Methuselah
Saint Joan
The Apple Cart
Too True to Be Good
On the Rocks
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles
The Millionairess
Geneva
In Good King Charles's Golden Days
Buoyant Billions
Short plays
A Village Wooing
The Six of Calais
Cymbeline Refinished
Farfetched Fables
Shakes versus Shav
Why She Would Not
W.B Yeats
1880s[edit]
1885 – "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the Dublin University Review (March)
1886 – Mosada, verse play
1888 – Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
1889 – Crossways[1]
1889 – The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, includes "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the
Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child" and "Down by the Salley Gardens"
1890s[edit]
1890 – "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", poem first published in the National Observer, 13 December; poem
included in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892[2]
1890 – Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour[3]
1891 – Representative Irish Tales
1891 – John Sherman and Dhoya, two stories[4]
1892 – Irish Fairy Tales
1892 – The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see
1890, above)[2] (Lyrics from this book appear in Yeats' collected editions in a section titled "The Rose" [1893]
but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose")
1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[2]
1893 – The Rose, poems[2]
1893 – The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, co-written with Edwin Ellis
1894 – The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March[2]
1895 – Poems, verse and drama; the first edition of his collected poems. Containing: The Countess
Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, The Wanderings of Usheen and the poetry collections The Rose,
Crossways[2]
1895 – Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology[2]
1897 – The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi, privately printed; The Tables of the Law first
published in The Savoy, November 1896; a regular edition of this book appeared in 1904[2]
1897 – The Secret Rose, fiction[2]
1899 – The Wind Among the Reeds, including "Song of the Old Mother"
1900s[edit]
1910s[edit]
1910 – The Green Helmet and Other Poems, verse and plays[2]
1910 – Poems: Second Series[2]
1911 – Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction[2]
1912 – The Cutting of an Agate
1912 – Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
1912 – A Coat
1913 – Poems Written in Discouragement
1916 – Responsibilities, and Other Poems[2]
1916 – Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction[2]
1916 – Easter 1916[2]
1917 – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, a significantly revised edition appeared
in 1919[2]
1918 – Per Amica Silentia Lunae
1918 – In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
1918 – The Leaders of the Crowd
1919 – Two Plays for Dancers, plays; became part of Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921[2]
1919 – The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917
edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains:
"The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem"[2]
1920s[edit]
1930s[edit]
Notes
W.H Auden
Books
Poems (London, 1930; second edn., seven poems substituted, London, 1933; includes poems and Paid on
Both Sides: A Charade[61]) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood).
The Orators: An English Study (London, 1932, verse and prose; slightly revised edn., London, 1934; revised
edn. with new preface, London, 1966; New York 1967) (dedicated to Stephen Spender).
The Dance of Death (London, 1933, play)[61] (dedicated to Robert Medley and Rupert Doone).
Poems (New York, 1934; contains Poems [1933 edition], The Orators [1932 edition], and The Dance of
Death).
The Dog Beneath the Skin (London, New York, 1935; play, with Christopher Isherwood)[61] (dedicated to
Robert Moody).
The Ascent of F6 (London, 1936; 2nd edn., 1937; New York, 1937; play, with Christopher
Isherwood)[61] (dedicated to John Bicknell Auden).
Look, Stranger! (London, 1936, poems; US edn., On This Island, New York, 1937) (dedicated to Erika
Mann)
Letters from Iceland (London, New York, 1937; verse and prose, with Louis MacNeice)[62] (dedicated
to George Augustus Auden).
On the Frontier (London, 1938; New York 1939; play, with Christopher Isherwood)[61] (dedicated to Benjamin
Britten).
Journey to a War (London, New York, 1939; verse and prose, with Christopher Isherwood)[62] (dedicated
to E. M. Forster).
Another Time (London, New York 1940; poetry) (dedicated to Chester Kallman).
The Double Man (New York, 1941, poems; UK edn., New Year Letter, London, 1941) (Dedicated
to Elizabeth Mayer).
For the Time Being (New York, 1944; London, 1945; two long poems: "The Sea and the Mirror: A
Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest", dedicated to James and Tania Stern, and "For the Time
Being: A Christmas Oratorio", in memoriam Constance Rosalie Auden [Auden's mother]).
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden (New York, 1945; includes new poems) (dedicated to Christopher
Isherwood and Chester Kallman). Full text.[106]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (New York, 1947; London, 1948; verse; won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry) (dedicated to John Betjeman).
Collected Shorter Poems, 1930–1944 (London, 1950; similar to 1945 Collected Poetry) (dedicated to
Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman).
The Enchafèd Flood (New York, 1950; London, 1951; prose) (dedicated to Alan Ansen).[107]
Nones (New York, 1951; London, 1952; poems) (dedicated to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr)
The Shield of Achilles (New York, London, 1955; poems) (won the 1956 National Book Award for
Poetry)[108] (dedicated to Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein).
Homage to Clio (New York, London, 1960; poems) (dedicated to E. R. and A. E. Dodds).
The Dyer's Hand (New York, 1962; London, 1963; essays) (dedicated to Nevill Coghill).[109]
About the House (New York, London, 1965; poems) (dedicated to Edmund and Elena Wilson).
Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957 (London, 1966; New York, 1967) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood
and Chester Kallman).
Collected Longer Poems (London, 1968; New York, 1969).
Secondary Worlds (London, New York, 1969; prose) (dedicated to Valerie Eliot).[110]
City Without Walls and Other Poems (London, New York, 1969) (dedicated to Peter Heyworth).
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (New York, London, 1970; quotations with commentary) (dedicated
to Geoffrey Grigson).[111]
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (London, New York, 1972) (dedicated to Orlan Fox).
Forewords and Afterwords (New York, London, 1973; essays) (dedicated to Hannah Arendt).
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (London, New York, 1974) (dedicated to Michael and Marny Yates).
Film scripts and opera libretti
Coal Face (1935, closing chorus for GPO Film Unit documentary).[61]
Night Mail (1936, narrative for GPO Film Unit documentary, not published separately except as a
programme note).[61]
Paul Bunyan (1941, libretto for operetta by Benjamin Britten; not published until 1976).[65]
The Rake's Progress (1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky).[65]
Elegy for Young Lovers (1956, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze).[65]
The Bassarids (1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on The
Bacchae of Euripides).[65]
Runner (1962, documentary film narrative for National Film Board of Canada)[65]
Love's Labour's Lost (1973, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, based
on Shakespeare's play).[65]
Musical collaborations
Our Hunting Fathers (1936, song cycle written for Benjamin Britten)
Hymn to St Cecilia (1942, choral piece composed by Benjamin Britten)
An Evening of Elizabethan Verse and its Music (1954 recording with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua,
director Noah Greenberg; Auden spoke the verse texts)
The Play of Daniel (1958, verse narration for a production by the New York Pro Musica Antiqua, director
Noah Greenberg)[65]
D.H Lawrence
Novels[edit]
The White Peacock (1911)
The Trespasser (1912)
Sons and Lovers (1913)
The Rainbow (1915)
Women in Love (1920)
The Lost Girl (1920)
Aaron's Rod (1922)
Kangaroo (1923)
The Boy in the Bush (1924), coauthored with M.L. (Mollie or Molly) Skinner
The Plumed Serpent (1926)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
The Escaped Cock (1929), republished as The Man Who Died
Short-story collections[edit]
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914)
England, My England and Other Stories (1922)
The Complete Short Stories (1922) Three volumes, reissued in 1961 by The Viking Press, Inc.
The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird (1923)
St Mawr and Other Stories (1925)
The Woman who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928)
The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (1930)
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Pieces (1930)
The Lovely Lady and Other Tales (1932)
The Tales of D.H. Lawrence (1934) – Heinemann
Collected Stories (1994) – Everyman's Library
James Joyce
Notable Dubliners (1914)
works A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Ulysses (1922)
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Joseph Conrad
Novels[edit]
Almayer's Folly (1895)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897)
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Lord Jim (1900)
The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford) (1901)
Typhoon (1902, begun 1899)
The End of the Tether (written in 1902; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
Romance (with Ford Madox Ford, 1903)
Nostromo (1904)
The Secret Agent (1907)
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Chance (1913)
Victory (1915)
The Shadow Line (1917)
The Arrow of Gold (1919)
The Rescue (1920)
The Nature of a Crime (1923, with Ford Madox Ford)
The Rover (1923)
Suspense (1925; unfinished, published posthumously)
H.G Wells
George well
Novels[edit]
1934 – Burmese Days
1935 – A Clergyman's Daughter
1936 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1939 – Coming Up for Air
1945 – Animal Farm
1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nonfiction[edit]
1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London
1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
1938 – Homage to Catalonia
John Bunyan
Further allegorical works were to follow:
Pilgrims Progress (1678)
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680),
The Holy War (1682), and
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party (1957),
The Homecoming (1964)
and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen.
His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963),
The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial
(1993) and Sleuth (2007).
John Donne
Works[edit]
Milton
Poetry and drama[edit]
1629: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
1630: On Shakespeare
1631: On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three
1632: L'Allegro
1632: Il Penseroso
1634: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, commonly known as Comus (a masque)
1637: Lycidas
1645: Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin
1652: When I Consider How My Light is Spent (Commonly referred to as "On his blindness", though Milton
did not use this title)[a]
1655: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
1667: Paradise Lost
1671: Paradise Regained
1671: Samson Agonistes
1673: Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions
Arcades: a masque. (date is unknown).
On his Deceased wife, To The Nightingale, On reaching the Age of twenty four.
Prose[edit]
Of Reformation (1641)
Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641)
Animadversions (1641)
The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty (1642)
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce (1644)
Of Education (1644)
Areopagitica (1644)
Tetrachordon (1645)
Colasterion (1645)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Eikonoklastes (1649)
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano [First Defence] (1651)
Defensio Secunda [Second Defence] (1654)
A Treatise of Civil Power (1659)
The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church (1659)
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660)
Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon (1660)
Accedence Commenced Grammar (1669)
The History of Britain (1670)
Artis logicae plenior institutio [Art of Logic] (1672)
Of True Religion (1673)
Epistolae Familiaries (1674)
Prolusiones (1674)
A brief History of Moscovia, and other less known Countries lying Eastward of Russia as far as Cathay,
gathered from the writings of several Eye-witnesses (1682)
De Doctrina Christiana (1823)
Jonathan Swift
Essays, tracts, pamphlets, periodicals[edit]
"A Meditation upon a Broom-stick" (1703–10)
"A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind" (1707–11)[50]
The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (1708–09)
"An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" (1708–11): Full text
The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan (1719–1788)): Text: Project Gutenberg
The Examiner (1710): Texts: Project Gutenberg
"A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue" (1712): Full texts: Jack
Lynch, U of Virginia[permanent dead link]
"On the Conduct of the Allies" (1711)
"Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (1713): Full text: [http://www.bartleby.com/27/8.html Bartleby.com
"The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous encouragement of the author of the crisis" (1714)
"A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders" (1720)
"A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet" (1721): Full text: Bartleby.com
Drapier's Letters (1724, 1725): Full text: Project Gutenberg
"Bon Mots de Stella" (1726): a curiously irrelevant appendix to "Gulliver's Travels"
"A Modest Proposal", perhaps the most notable satire in English, suggesting that the Irish should engage in
cannibalism. (Written in 1729)
"An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"
"A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding": Full text: Bartleby.com
"A modest address to the wicked authors of the present age. Particularly the authors of Christianity not
founded on argument; and of The resurrection of Jesus considered" (1743–45?)
Poems[edit]
"Ode to the Athenian Society", Swift's first publication, printed in The Athenian Mercury in the supplement of
Feb 14, 1691.
Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Texts at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
"Baucis and Philemon" (1706–09): Full text: Munseys
"A Description of the Morning" (1709): Full annotated text: U of Toronto; Another text: U of Virginia[permanent dead
link]
"A Description of a City Shower" (1710): Full text: U of Virginia[permanent dead link]
"Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713): Full text: Munseys
"Phillis, or, the Progress of Love" (1719): Full text: theotherpages.org
Stella's birthday poems:
o 1719. Full annotated text: U of Toronto
o 1720. Full text: U of Virginia[permanent dead link]
o 1727. Full text: U of Toronto
"The Progress of Beauty" (1719–20): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
"The Progress of Poetry" (1720): Full text: theotherpages.org
"A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" (1722): Full text: U of Toronto
"To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair" (1725): Full text: U of Toronto
"Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers" (1726): Full text: U of Toronto
"The Furniture of a Woman's Mind" (1727)
"On a Very Old Glass" (1728): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
"A Pastoral Dialogue" (1729): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
"The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House"
(1729): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
"On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet" (1730): Full text: U of Toronto
"Death and Daphne" (1730): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
"The Place of the Damn'd" (1731): Full text at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009)
"A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of
Virginia[permanent dead link]
"Strephon and Chloe" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of Virginia Archived 30 May
2014 at the Wayback Machine
"Helter Skelter" (1731): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
"Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
"The Day of Judgment" (1731): Full text
"Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D." (1731–32): Full annotated texts: Jack Lynch, U of Toronto; Non-
annotated text:: U of Virginia[permanent dead link]
"An Epistle to a Lady" (1732): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
"The Beasts' Confession to the Priest" (1732): Full annotated text: U of Toronto
"The Lady's Dressing Room" (1732): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
"On Poetry: A Rhapsody" (1733)[51]
"The Puppet Show"
"The Logicians Refuted"
Correspondence, personal writings[edit]
"When I Come to Be Old" – Swift's resolutions. (1699)
A Journal to Stella (1710–13): Full text (presented as daily entries): The Journal to Stella;
Extracts: OurCivilisation.com;
Letters:
o Selected Letters
o To Oxford and Pope: OurCivilisation.com
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Edited by David Woolley. In four volumes, plus index volume.
Frankfurt am Main; New York : P. Lang, c. 1999 – c. 2007.
Sermons, prayers[edit]
Three Sermons and Three Prayers. Full text: U of Adelaide, Project Gutenberg
Three Sermons: I. on mutual subjection. II. on conscience. III. on the trinity. Text: Project Gutenberg
Writings on Religion and the Church. Text at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
"The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727." Full text: Worldwideschool.org
"The Second Prayer Was Written Nov. 6, 1727." Full text: Worldwideschool.org
Miscellany[edit]
Directions to Servants (1731): Full text: Jonathon Swift Archive[permanent dead link]
A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738)
"Thoughts on Various Subjects." Full text: U of Adelaide Archived 14 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Historical Writings: Project Gutenberg
Swift quotes at Bartleby: Bartleby.com – 59 quotations, with notes
The Benefit of Farting Explained, published under the pseudonym Don Fartinando Puff-Indorst, Professor of
Bumbast in the University of Crackow.[52]
V.S Naipaul
Fiction[edit]
The Mystic Masseur (1957)
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958)[137]
Miguel Street (1959)
A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (1963)
The Mimic Men (1967)
A Flag on the Island (1967)
In a Free State (1971) – Booker Prize Winner
Guerrillas (1975)
A Bend in the River (1979)
The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
A Way in the World (1994)
Half a Life (2001)
Magic Seeds (2004)
Non-fiction[edit]
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and
South America (1962)
An Area of Darkness (1964)[138]
The Loss of El Dorado (1969)
The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
A Congo Diary (1980), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)[139]
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
Finding the Centre: Two Narratives (1984)[140]
A Turn in the South (1989)
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken)
The Writer and the World: Essays (2002)
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010)
"Grief: A Writer Reckons with Loss". Personal History. The New Yorker. 95 (43): 18–24. 6 January 2020
Margaret Atwood
Novels
Dancing Girls (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical
Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
Wilderness Tips (1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
Good Bones (1992)
Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
Stone Mattress (2014)
Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
Poetry collections
Essays
o 1st edition with 10 essays (1597)
o 2nd edition with 38 essays (1612)
o 3rd/final edition with 58 essays (1625)
The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human (1605)
Instauratio magna (The Great Instauration) (1620) – a multi-part work including Distributio operis (Plan of the
Work); Novum Organum (The New Organon); Parasceve ad historiam naturalem (Preparatory for Natural
History) and Catalogus historiarum particularium (Catalogue of Particular Histories)[128]
De augmentis scientiarum (1623) – an enlargement of The Advancement of Learning translated into Latin
New Atlantis (1626)
Edmund Spenser
1579:
The Shepheardes Calender, published under the pseudonym "Immerito"[37] (entered into the Stationers'
Register in December[36])
Iambicum Trimetrum
1590:
Complaints, Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie (entered into the Stationer's Register in
1590[36]), includes:
o "The Ruines of Time"
o "The Teares of the Muses"
o "Virgil's Gnat"
o "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"
o "Ruines of Rome: by Bellay"
o "Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"
o "Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"
o "The Visions of Bellay"
o "The Visions of Petrarch"
1592:
Axiochus, a translation of a pseudo-Platonic dialogue from the original Ancient Greek; published by Cuthbert
Burbie; attributed to "Edw: Spenser"[36] but the attribution is uncertain[38]
Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of
Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (published in London in January,
according to one source;[36] another source gives 1591 as the year[37]) It was dedicated to Helena,
Marchioness of Northampton.[39]
1595:
1609: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie published together with a reprint of The Faerie Queene[40]
1611: First folio edition of Spenser's collected works[40]
1633: A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, a prose treatise on the reformation of Ireland,[41] first
published by Sir James Ware (historian) entitled The Historie of Ireland (Spenser's work was entered into
the Stationer's Register in 1598 and circulated in manuscript but not published until it was edited by Ware)[40]
Editions
Christopher Marlowe
Dido, Queen of Carthage, directed by Kimberly Sykes, with Chipo Chung as Dido. Swan Theatre, 2017.[123]
Tamburlaine the Great, directed by Terry Hands, with Anthony Sher as Tamburlaine. Swan Theatre,
1992; Barbican Theatre, 1993.[124][125]
Tamburlaine the Great directed by Michael Boyd, with Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine. Swan Theatre, 2018.[126]
The Jew of Malta, directed by Barry Kyle, with Jasper Britton as Barabas. Swan Theatre, 1987; People's
Theatre, and Barbican Theatre, 1988.[127][128]
The Jew of Malta, directed by Justin Audibert, with Jasper Britton as Barabas. Swan Theatre, 2015.[129]
Edward II, directed by Gerard Murphy, with Simon Russell Beale as Edward. Swan Theatre, 1990.[130]
Doctor Faustus, directed by John Barton, with Ian McKellen as Faustus. Nottingham
Playhouse and Aldwych Theatre, 1974, and Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1975.[131][132]
Doctor Faustus directed by Barry Kyle with Gerard Murphy as Faustus, Swan Theatre and Pit Theatre,
1989.[130][132]
Doctor Faustus directed by Maria Aberg, with Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan sharing the roles of Faustus
and Mephistophilis. Swan Theatre and Barbican Theatre,
E.M Forster
Novels[edit] Plays and pageants[edit]
Salman Rusdhi
Novels[edit]
Grimus (1975)
Midnight's Children (1981)
Shame (1983)
The Satanic Verses (1988)
The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
Fury (2001)
Shalimar the Clown (2005)
The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)
The Golden House (2017)[181]
Quichotte (2019)[182]
Victory City (2023)[183][184]
Collections[edit]
East, West (1994)
Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947–1997 (1997, Editor, with Elizabeth West)
The Best American Short Stories (2008, Guest Editor)
Children's books[edit]
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)[185]
Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
Essays and nonfiction[edit]
In Good Faith, Granta Books (1990)
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991 (1992)
The Wizard of Oz: BFI Film Classics, British Film Institute (1992)
Mohandas Gandhi, Time (13 April 1998)[186]
Imagine There Is No Heaven (Extract from Letters to the Six Billionth World Citizen, published in English by
Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam)[187]
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (2002)[188]
The East Is Blue (2004)[189]
"A fine pickle", The Guardian (28 February 2009)[190]
In the South, Booktrack (7 February 2012)
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020 (2021)[191]
Memoirs[edit]
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)
Joseph Anton: A Memoir (2012)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (2024)[192]
R.K Narayan
Novels
Awards[edit]
Mulkraj Anand
Novels[edit]
Untouchable (1935,London: Wishart)
Coolie (1936, London: Lawrence & Wishart)
Two Leaves and a Bud (1937, London: Lawrence & Wishart)
The Village (1939, London: Jonathan Cape)
Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts (1939, Lucknow: Naya Sansar)
Across the Black Waters (1939, London: Jonathan Cape)
The Sword and the Sickle (1942, London: Jonathan Cape)
The Big Heart (1945, London: Hutchinson)
Seven Summers: the Story of an Indian Childhood (1951, London: Hutchinson)
The Private Life of an Indian Prince (1953, London: Hutchinson)
The Old Woman and the Cow (1960, Bombay: Kutub)
The Road (1961, Bombay: Kutub)
Death of a Hero: Epitaph for Maqbool Sherwani (1964, Bombay: Kutub)
Morning Face (1968, Bombay: Kutub)
Confession of a Lover (1976, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann)
Gauri (1976, New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks)
The Bubble (1984, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann)
Nine Moods of Bharata: Novel of a Pilgrimage (1998, New Delhi: Arnold Associates)
Reflections on a White Elephant (2002, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications)
Short story collections[edit]
The Lost Child and Other Stories (1934, London: J. A. Allen)
The Barber's Trade Union and Other Stories (1944, London: Jonathan Cape)
The Tractor and the Corn Goddess and Other Stories (1947, Bombay: Thacker)
Reflections on the Golden Bed and Other Stories (1953, Bombay: Current Book House)
The Power of Darkness and Other Stories (1959, Bombay: Jaico)
Lajwanti and Other Stories (1966, Bombay: Jaico)
Between Tears and Laughter (1973, New Delhi: Sterling)
Selected Stories of Mulk Raj Anand (1977, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, ed. M. K. Naik)
Things Have a Way of Working Out and Other Stories (1998, New Delhi: Orient)
The Gold Watch
Children's literature[edit]
Indian Fairy Tales (1946, Bombay: Kutub)
The Story of India (1948, Bombay: Kutub)
The Story of Man (1952, New Delhi: Sikh Publishing House)
More Indian Fairy Tales (1961, Bombay: Kutub)[25]
The Story of Chacha Nehru (1965, New Delhi: Rajpal & Sons)
Mora (1972, New Delhi: National Book Trust)
Folk Tales of Punjab (1974, New Delhi: Sterling)
A Day in the Life of Maya of Mohenjo-daro (1978, New Delhi: Children Book Trust)
The King Emperor's English or the Role of the English Language in the Free India (1948, Bombay: Hind
Kitabs)
Some Street Games of India (1983, New Delhi: National Book Trust)
Chitralakshana: Story of Indian Paintings (1989, New Delhi: National Book Trust)
Books on Arts[edit]
Persian Painting (1930, London: Faber & Faber)
The Hindu View of Art (1933, Bombay: Asia Publishing House, London: Allen & Unwin)
How to Test a Picture: Lectures on Seeing Versus Looking (1935)
Introduction to Indian Art (1956, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, author: Ananda
Coomaraswamy) (editor)[26]
The Dancing Foot (1957, New Delhi: Publications Division)
Kama Kala: Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture (1958, London: Skilton)[27]
India in Colour (1959, Bombay: Taraporewala)
Homage to Khajuraaho (1960, Bombay: Marg Publications) (co-authored with Stella Kramrisch)[28]
The Third Eye: A Lecture on the Appreciation of Art (1963, Chandigarh: University of Punjab)
The Volcano: Some Comments on the Development of Rabindranath Tagore's Aesthetic Theories (1968,
Baroda: Maharaja Sayajirao University)
Indian Paintings (1973, National Book Trust)
Seven Little Known Birds of the Inner Eye (1978, Vermont: Wittles)
Poet-Painter: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore (1985, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications)
Splendours of Himachal Heritage (editor, 1997, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications)
Letters[edit]
Letters on India (1942, London: Routledge)
Author to Critic: The Letters of Mulk Raj Anand (1973, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, ed. Saros Cowasjee)
The Letters of Mulk Raj Anand (1974, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, ed. Saros Cowasjee)
Caliban and Gandhi: Letters to "Bapu" from Bombay (1991, New Delhi: Arnold Publishers)
Old Myth and New Myth: Letters from Mulk Raj Anand to K. V. S. Murti (1991, Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
Anand to Alma: Letters of Mulk Raj Anand (1994, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, ed. Atma Ram)
Other works[edit]
Curries and Other Indian Dishes (1932, London: Desmond Harmsworth)
The Golden Breath: Studies in five poets of the new India (1933, London: Murray)[29]
Marx and Engels on India (1937, Allahabad: Socialist Book Club) (editor)
Apology for Heroism: An Essay in Search of Faith (1946, London: Lindsay Drummond)
Homage to Tagore (1946, Lahore: Sangam)
On Education (1947, Bombay: Hind Kitabs)
Lines Written to an Indian Air: Essays (1949, Bombay: Nalanda Publications)
The Indian Theatre (1950, London: Dobson)
The Humanism of M. K. Gandhi: Three Lectures (1967, Chandigarh: University of Punjab)
Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English (1972, Bombay: Macmillan)
Roots and Flowers: Two Lectures on the Metamorphosis of Technique and Content in the Indian English
Novel (1972, Dharwad: Karnatak University)
The Humanism of Jawaharlal Nehru (1978, Calcutta: Visva-Bharati)
The Humanism of Rabindranath Tagore: Three Lectures (1978, Aurangabad: Marathwada University)
Is There a Contemporary Indian Civilisation? (1963, Bombay: Asia Publishing House)
Conversations in Bloomsbury (1981, London: Wildwood House & New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann)
Pilpali Sahab: Story of a Childhood under the Raj (1985, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann); Pilpali Sahab: The
Story of a Big Ego in a Small Boy (1990, London: Aspect)
Voices of the Crossing - The impact of Britain on writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. Ferdinand
Dennis, Naseem Khan (eds), London: Serpent's Tail, 1998. Mulk Raj Anand: p. 77 "A Writer in Exile."
Notable awards[edit]
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out (26 March 1915, Duckworth; U.S. pub. by Doran, May 1920)
Woolf's first novel, begun in 1908 and heavily revised after about 1912. Manuscript editions
of the earlier version (1909-12) have been compiled and published by Louise DeSalvo
as Melymbrosia (1982), Woolf's working title for the book.
"The Mark on the Wall" by VW and "a story" by Leonard Woolf. The book was
published by subscription only, mainly to friends and acquaintances, and was the Hogarth
Press’s first publication.
Ten pages of text by VW, with illustrations by her sister, Vanessa Bell.
Night and Day (20 Oct 1919, Duckworth; U.S. pub. Doran, 1920)
VW considered this her "traditional" novel, in the manner of the nineteenth-century novelists
she admired.
Monday or Tuesday (7 April 1921; U.S. pub. Harcourt Brace, Nov. 1921) - stories
Includes "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the Wall," "An Unwritten Novel" and five
previously unpublished sketches.
Jacob’s Room (27 Oct 1922; U.S. pub. Harcourt Brace, 1922)
Her first truly experimental novel and the Hogarth Press’s first large-scale work, Jacob's
Room begins Woolf's reputation as "difficult" or "highbrow." Critics compare her to James
Joyce and Dorothy Richardson. Jacob is based on Woolf's older brother Thoby Stephen, who
died of a fever in 1906, when he was in his mid-twenties.
A response to Arnold Bennett’s criticism that she "can’t create or didn’t in Jacob’s Room,
characters that survive" (Woolf paraphrasing Bennett, Writer’s Diary). First version was
published in the U.S. and then in England. A later, better-known, version was written as a
lecture to the Cambridge Heretics on 18 May 1924, then published in the Criterion under the
title "Character in Fiction," and then published by Hogarth Press as Mr. Bennett and Mrs.
Brown. Critically, "the essay became a key document, not only in the assessment of Virginia
Woolf’s work, but in relation to twentieth-century fiction generally" (Critical Heritage 17).
The Common Reader was Woolf's title for two series of critical essays she published (the
second series was published in 1932), mostly focused on her responses to reading and
literature. It includes biographical sketches of many writers and such now-famous essays as
"On Not Knowing Greek" and "How it Strikes a Contemporary."
Mrs. Dalloway (14 May 1925; simultaneously in England and U.S.; first time for simultaneous
publication in U.S. and England)
A novel that takes place entirely in the space of one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, with
a parallel plot about a shell-shocked World War I veteran, Septimus Smith. The setting is
London.
Woolf's most famous and most autobiographical novel. The novel takes place chiefly at a
family summer house based on Woolf's own family's house in Cornwall (though the novel is set
in the Hebrides), during two visits, seven years apart, with events in between described
abstractly in a middle section called "Time Passes." The "Time Passes" section had been
published in French in Dec. 1926.
See also the original holograph draft / transcribed and edited by Susan Dick
(Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1982).
Her most successful novel up to then, in terms of sales (even though publishing it as a
"biography" confused booksellers), Orlando traces the life of an English nobleman, Orlando,
from the Renaissance to the very moment of publication. Orlando, based on Woolf's friend Vita
Sackville-West, lives 400 years and changes into a woman in the 18th century.
Woolf's first major feminist criticism, originating in two lectures given in October 1928 to
students at the two women's colleges of Cambridge University (Newnham and Girton, here
fictionalized as "Fernham"). First published as a short essay on "Women and
Fiction" in Forum (March 1929), it was thereafter heavily revised to the present six chapters.
See also a study of extant manuscripts edited by S.P. Rosenbaum, Virginia Woolf/Women &
Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of One's Own (Oxford : Blackwell, 1992).
This novel is generally considered Woolf's masterpiece, though it is also her most
experimental (some say most difficult) work.
NOTE: The first book-length criticism of VW appeared in 1932, Winifrid Holtby’s biography
and Floris Delattre’s Le Roman psychologique de Virginia Woolf. Delattre writes on VW’s use
of time (quality vs. quantity).
This collection includes both new and revised critical essays, including biographical sketches
of Mary Wollstonecraft and Dorothy Wordsworth, and the now-famous essay "How Should One
Read a Book?"
A comic novel written from the point of view of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel
Flush.
A bestseller, popular with critics and readers, this novel traces the life of a Victorian family,
the Pargiters, from 1880 to the "Present Day." Begun as a sequel to A Room of One's Own,
Woolf originally intended to alternate nonfiction essays with the Pargiter's story (which
illustrates the essays). Woolf ultimately extracted the nonfiction and changed the working title
from "The Pargiters" to The Years. Mitchell A. Leaska has edited the extracted portions and
published them as The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of The Years (1977), which also
includes the earlier version of the 1880 section of the novel.
These feminist essays function as a sequel to A Room of One's Own, including a critique of
patriarchy (illustrated with photographs of public figures) and an argument for pacifism in the
face of the growing threat of another world war. The illustrations are not printed in modern
editions.
Woolf's last novel, published after her death. She had changed her mind about publishing it
just days before her death (see letter to John Lehmann). Like Mrs. Dalloway, the action takes
place in a short span of time in June and is focused on a social event, here a community pageant
rather than a party. The setting is June 1939 in the English countryside at a house called Pointz
Hall (the working title of the book), home of the Olivers, and in the nearby village, where Miss
LaTrobe is in charge of the pageant. The pageant concerns English history, and parts of it are
part of the narrative.
The public's first access to Woolf's diaries came in this heavily edited selection of diary
entries concerning writing or particular works Woolf was writing. The selections were prepared
by her husband, Leonard Woolf. The more complete 5-volume edition of Woolf's diaries was
published 1977-1984, edited by her nephew Quentin Bell's wife, Anne Olivier Bell. Six
volumes of Woolf's letters have also been published (ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann,
1975-1980).