books and music from the library of invisible birds (in progress)

• suffice it to quote the answer which anatole france gave a philistine who admired his library and then finished
• with the standard question, "and you have read all these books, monsieur france?" "not one-tenth of them. i
• don't suppose you use your sèvres china every day?"
• walter benjamin - unpacking my library

• LITERATURE

• - kobo abé - the woman in the dunes - 1962
•   vintage books - 1972

• - alain fournier - the wanderer - 1913
•   éditions émile-paul frères - 1930
•   new directions books - 1928
•   penguin classics - 2007

• - hans christian andersen - the annotated hans christian andersen - w.w. norton & company - 2008

• - jane austen - persuasion - 1817
•   everyman's library - 1906/1992
• - jane austen - the complete novels of jane austen, volume 1 - modern library - 1992
•   sense and sesibility, pride and prejudice, mansfield park

• - nelson algren - the man with the golden arm - 1949
•   seven stories press - 1990

• - paul auster - the new york trilogy - penguin books - 1990

• - john banville - the book of evidence - vintage - 1989

• - samuel beckett - molloy - les éditions de minuit - 1951
• - samuel beckett - malone meurt - les éditions de minuit - 1951
• - samuel beckett - en attendant godot - 1952
•   the macmillan company - 1963
• - samuel beckett - l'innommable - les éditions de minuit - 1953
• - samuel beckett - watt - 1943/1953
•   grove press, inc. - 1979
• - samuel beckett - fin de partie suivi de acte sans paroles - les éditions de minuit - 1957
•   grove press, inc. - 1959
•   les éditions de minuit - 1968
• - samuel beckett - end-game - grove press, inc. - 1958
• - samuel beckett - oh les beaux jours suivi de pas moi - les éditions de minuit - 1963-74
• - samuel beckett - comédie et actes divers - les éditions de minuit - 1966
• - samuel beckett - mercier et camier - les éditions de minuit - 1970
•   grove press, inc. - 1975
• - samuel beckett - premier amour - les éditions de minuit - 1970
• - samuel beckett - collected shorter plays - grove press, inc. - 1984
• - samuel beckett - catastrophe et autres dramaticules - les éditions de minuit - 1986
• - samuel beckett - the theatrical notebooks of samuel beckett: krapp's last tape - grove press, inc. - 1992
• - samuel beckett - the theatrical notebooks of samuel beckett: waiting for godot - grove press, inc. - 1993
• - samuel beckett - the complete short prose 1929-1989 - grove press, inc. - 1995
• - samuel beckett - nohow on: company, ill seen ill said, worstward ho - grove press, inc. - 1996
• - samuel beckett - molloy, malone dies, the unnamable - everyman's library - 1997
• - samuel beckett - the grove centenary edition: volume 1, novels - grove press - 2006
• - samuel beckett - the letters of samuel beckett 1929-1940 - cambridge university press - 2009

• - gottfried büttner - samuel beckett's novel watt - university of pennsylvania press - 1984
• - s.e. gontarski - on beckett: essays and criticism - grove press, inc. - 1986
• - eoin o'brien - the beckett country - black cat press - 1986
• - james knowlson - damned to fame: the life of samuel beckett - simon & schuster - 1996

• - georges bernanos - diary of a country priest -1937
•   carol & graf - 2002
• - georges bernanos - mouchette -1937
•   new york review of books - 2006

• - thomas bernhard - gargoyles -1967
•   vintage books - 1991
• - thomas bernhard - the loser -1983
•   vintage books - 1991
• - thomas bernhard - old masters, a comedy -1985
•   university of chicago press - 1992

• - algernon blackwood - john silence, physician extraordinary - donald c. vaughan - 1915
• - algernon blackwood - tales of the uncanny and supernatural - spring books - 1962/1968
• - algernon blackwood - ancient sorceries and other weird stories - penguin books - 2002

• - maurice blanchot - aminadab - 1949
•   university of nebraska press - 2002
• - maurice blanchot - the space of literature - 1955
•   university of nebraska press - 1989
• - maurice blanchot - the step not beyond - 1973
•   suny - 1992
• - maurice blanchot - the station hill blanchot reader, fiction & literary essays - station hill - 1998

• - jorge luis borges - ficciones -1941
•   everyman's library - 1993
• - jorge luis borges - a personal anthology - 1961
•   grove press, inc - 1967
• - jorge luis borges - a universal history of infamy - e.p. dutton - 1972
• - jorge luis borges - borges on writing - 1973
•   the ecco press - 1994
• - jorge luis borges - the book of sand - e.p. dutton - 1977
• - jorge luis borges - collected victions - viking - 1998
• - jorge luis borges - selected poems - viking - 1999
• - jorge luis borges - selected non-fictions - viking - 1999
• - jorge luis borges - this craft of verse (book & 4 cd version) - harvard university press - 2000

• - richard burgin - conversations with jorge luis borges - holt, rinehart and winston - 1968/69
• - emir rodriguez monegal - jorge luis borges: a literary biography - e.p. dutton - 1978
• - cristina grau - borges et l'architecture - centre georges pompidou - 1992
• - willis barnstone - with borges on an ordinary evening in buenos aires: a memoir - university of illinois press - 1993/2000
• - richard burgin - jorge luis borges: conversations - university press of mississippi - 1998
• - gene h. bell-villada - borges and his fiction: a guide to his mind and art - university of texas press - 1999
• - nicolás helft and alan pauls - borges: the time machine - collection jorge luis borges fundation - 2001
• - norman thomas di giovanni - the lesson of the master: on borges and his work - continuum - 2003
• - charles vallely - jorge luis borges: a catalogue of unique books and manuscripts - lame duck books - 2003
• - edwin williamson - borges: a life - viking press - 2004
• - alberto manguel - with borges - telegram books - 2006

• - sebastien brant - the ship of fools - 1494
•   dover - 1962

• - bertolt brecht - the threepenny opera - 1928
•   grove press - 1964

• - hermann broch - the sleepwalkers -1932
•   north point press - 1985

• - fredric brown - here comes a candle - 1950
•   millipede press - 2006

• - georg büchner - lenz - 1839/1850 (posthumously)
•   archipelago books - 2004
• - georg büchner - complete plays, lenz and other writings - penguin classics - 1993

• - mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita -1966
•   vintage books - 1995

• - robert burton - the anatomy of melancholy - 1621
•   tudor publishing company - 1951
•   new york review of books - 2001

• - william s. burroughs - naked lunch - grove press - 1959/2001

• - samuel butler - erewhon and erewhon revisited - the modern library - 1927/1955

• - italo calvino - castle of crossed destinies -1973
•   harcourt brace & company - 1976
• - italo calvino - fantastic tales: visionary and everyday - random house - 1983/1997
• - italo calvino - hermit in paris - pantheon books - 2003

• - albert camus - l'étranger - 1942
•   appleton-century-crofts, inc. - 1955
•   everyman's library - 1993
• - albert camus - the myth of sisyphus and other essays -1942
•   alfred a. knopf, inc. - 1983
• - albert camus - la chute - 1956
•   gallimard - 1965
• - albert camus - the plague, the fall, exile and the kingdom, and selected essays - everyman's library - 2004

• - truman capote - in cold blood - 1965
•   modern library - 1993

• - lewis carroll - alice in wonderland - 1869/1897
•   aventures d'alice au pays des merveilles - dover publications - 1972
•   norton critical edition - 1992
• - lewis carroll - the complete works of lewis carroll - the modern library
• - lewis carroll - the selected letters of lewis carroll - pantheon books - 1978

• - stephanie lovett stoffel - lewis carroll in wonderland: the life and times of alice and her creator - harry h. abrams - 1997

• - raymond carver - collected stories - the library of america - 2009

• - adolfo bioy cesares - the invention of morel - 1940
•   new york review books - 2003

• - miguel de cervantes - don quixote de la mancha - 1605/1615
•   modern library (trans. samuel putnam) - 1949
•   modern library (trans. samuel putnam) - 1998
•   norton critical editions (trans. burton raffel) - 1999
•   modern library (trans. 1755 tobias smollett) - 2001

• - richard l. predmore - cervantes - dodd, mead & company - 1973

• - raymond chandler - stories and early novels: pulp stories, the big sleep, farewell my lovely, the high window
•   the library of america - 1995
• - raymond chandler - later novels & other stories: the lady in the lake, the little sister, the long goodbye, playback,
•   double indemnity, selected essays and letters - the library of america - 1995

• - g.k. chesterton - the man who was thursday - dodd, mead & company - 1908/1935

• - walter van tilburg clark - the ox-bow incident - 1940
•   modern library - 2001

• - wilkie collins - the women in white - 1860
•   everyman's library - 1910/1991
• - wilkie collins - the moonstone - 1868
•   everyman's library - 1944/1992

• - joseph conrad - the mirror of the sea - 1906
• - joseph conrad - the shadow-line - 1917
•   vintage classics - 2007
• - joseph conrad - heart of darkness and the secret angent - doubleday - 1997
• - joseph conrad - youth/heart of darkness/the end of the tether - penguin books - 1995

• - julio cortázar - the winners - 1960
•   the new york review of books - 1999

• - richard henry dana, jr. - two years before the mast: a personal narrative of life at sea - 1840
•   the modern library - 2001

• - rené daumal - a night of serious drinking - 1938
•   tusk ivory - 2003
• - rené daumal - mount analogue - 1952 (posthumously)
•   tusk ivory - 2004

• - daniel defoe - robinson crusoe - 1719
•   penguin books - 1965

• - thomas de quincey - confessions of an english opium-eater - 1821 (posthumously)
•   london: the folio society - 1948/1966
•   oxford university press - 1998
• - thomas de quincey - klosterheim - 1832
•   woodbridge press - 1982

• - philip k. dick - ubik - 1969
•   vintage books - 1991

• - charles dickens - nicholas nickleby - 1839
•   the nonesuch press - 1938/2005
• - charles dickens - bleak house - 1852-1853
•   the riverside press - 1956
•   norton critical edition - 1977
• - charles dickens - little dorrit - 1857
•   everyman's library - 1908/1992
• - charles dickens - great expectations - 1860-1861
•   everyman's library - 1907/1992
•   signet classics - 1963
• - charles dickens - the mystery of edwin drood - 1870
•   everyman's library - 1915/2004

• - isak dinesen - seven gothic tales - 1934
•   modern library - 1961

• - alfred döblin - berlin, alexanderplatz: the story story of franz biberkopf - 1929
•   frederick ungar publishing co. - 1958

• - e. talbot donaldson (trans.) - beowulf - norton critical editions - 1975

• - john dos passos - u.s.a. - the library of america - 1996

• - fyodor dostoevsky - the double and the gambler - 1846/1866
•   everyman's library - 2005
• - fyodor dostoevsky - notes from the underground - 1864
•   everyman's library - 1913/1993
• - fyodor dostoevsky - crime and punishment - 1866
•   everyman's library - 1911/1993
• - fyodor dostoevsky - the idiot - 1868
•   everyman's library - 1914/2002
• - fyodor dostoevsky - demons - 1871-72
•   everyman's library - 1911/1993
• - fyodor dostoevsky - the adolescent - 1875
•   everyman's library - 2003
• - fyodor dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov - 1881
•   everyman's library - 1927/1992
• - fyodor dostoevsky - the eternal husband and other stories - bantam classic - 1997
• - konstantin mochulsky - dostoevsky: his life and work - 1947
•   princeton university press - 1967
• - joseph frank - dostoevsky: the stir of liberation, 1860-1865 - princeton university press - 1986
• - joseph frank - dostoevsky: the miraculous years, 1865-1871 - princeton university press - 1995
• - joseph frank - dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881 - princeton university press - 2002

• - sir arthur conan doyle - the adventures and memoirs of sherlock holmes - the modern library - 2002
• - sir arthur conan doyle - the new annotated sherlock holmes i-iii - w.w. norton - 2005-2006

• - alexandre dumas - the three musketeers - 1844
•   bantam classics - 2004

• - daphne du maurier - don't look now, stories - new york review of books - 2008

• - lord dunsany - in the land of time and other fantasy tales - penguin books - 2004

• - umberto eco - the name of the rose - 1980
•   harcourt brace & company - 1984

• - james ellroy - my dark places - knopf - 1996

• - william faulkner - the sound and the fury - 1929
•   vintage books - 1954
• - william faulkner - sanctuary - 1931
•   vintage books - 1993
• - william faulkner - three famouns short novels: spotted horses, old man, the bear - vintage books - 1961
• - william faulkner - selected short stories of william faulkner - the modern library - 1990
• - william faulkner - snopes: the hamlet, the town, the mansion - the modern library - 1994

• - henry fielding - joseph andrews - 1742
•   penguin classics - 1985

• - f. scott fitzgerald - the short stories of f. scott fitzgerald - scribner - 1989

• - fontaine - effi briest - 1894
•   penguin classics - 1967

• - e.m. forster - the longest journey - 1922
•   new directions

• - théophile gautier - my fantoms - new york review of books - 2008

• - j.w. von goethe - wilhelm meister's apprenticeship - 1795-1796
•   princeton universtity press - 1995
• - j.w. von goethe - selected works including the sorrows of young werther, elective affinities, italian journeys,
•   faust - everyman's library - 1999

• - nikolai gogol - dead souls - 1842
•   everyman's library - 2004
• - nikolai gogol - the collected tales of nikolai gogol - vintage classics - 1999

• - julien gracq - château d'argol - 1938
•   pushkin press - 1999
• - julien gracq - balcony in the forest - 1958
•   george braziller - 1959
• - julien gracq - the narrow waters - 1976
•   turtle point press

• - kenneth grahame - the wind in the willows - 1908
•   norton annotated edition - 2009

• - graham greene - this gun for hire - 1936
•   viking press - 1971
• - graham greene - journey without maps - 1936
•   penguin books - 1980
• - graham greene - the ministry of fear - 1943
•   penguin books - 1973

• - brothers grimm - the annotated brothers grimm - w.w. norton - 2004

• - dashiell hammett - the maltese falcon - 1929/1930
•   north point press (arion press reprint) - 1984

• - knut hamsun - hunger - 1890
•   the noonday press | farrar, straus and giraux - 1998
• - knut hamsun - mysteries - 1892
•   farrar, straus and giraux - 2006

• - thomas hardy - far from the maddening crowd - 1874
•   everyman's library - 1991
• - thomas hardy - the return of the native - 1878
•   everyman's library - 1992
• - thomas hardy - two on a tower - 1882
•   penguin - 1999
• - thomas hardy - the mayor of casterbridge - 1886
•   everyman's library - 1993
• - thomas hardy - the woodlanders - 1887
•   everyman's library - 1997
• - thomas hardy - tess of the d'urbervilles - 1891
•   everyman's library - 1991
• - thomas hardy - jude the obscure - 1895
•   norton critical editions - 1978

• - w.f. harvey - the beast with five fingers - 1928
•   wordsworth editions - 2009

• - nathaniel hawthorne - the house of the seven gables - 1851
•   norton critical edition - 1967
• - nathaniel hawthorne - collected novels: fanshawe, the scarlet letter, the house of the seven gables,
•   the blithedale romance, the marble faun - the library of america - 1983

• - lefcadio hearn - hearn: american writings - the library of america - 2009

• - ernest hemingway - to have and have not - 1937
•   charles scribner's sons - 1970

• - hermann hesse - siddhartha - 1922
•   shambala classics - 2000
• - hermann hesse - steppenwolf - 1927
•   the modern library - 1963
•   owl books - 1990
• - hermann hesse - the glass bead game - 1943
•   picador - 2002
• - hermann hesse - the fairy tales of hermann hesse - bantam books - 1995

• - patricia highsmith - folie à deux: strangers on a train, the talented mr ripley, this sweet sickness
•   book-of-the-month club - 1988
• - patricia highsmith - the selected stories of patricia highsmith - norton - 2001
• - patricia highsmith - the complete ripley novels - norton - 2008

• - joan schenkar - the talented miss highsmith: the secret life and serious art of patricia highsmith - st. martin's press - 2009

• - e.t.a. hoffmann - the life and opinions of the tomcat murr - 1820-22
•   penguin classics - 1999
• - e.t.a. hoffmann - tales of hoffmann - penguin classics - 1982/2004

• - friedrich hölderlin - hyperion - 1797-1799
•   continuum (trans. willard r. trask, david schwarz) - 2002
•   archipelago books (trans. ross benjamin) - 2008
• - friedrich hölderlin - friedrich hölderlin: essays and letters - penguin classics - 2009

• - homer - the complete works of homer, the iliad and the odyssey - the modern library - 1950

• - bohumil hrabel - closely watched trains - 1965
•   northwestern university press - 1990

• - victor hugo - notre-dame de paris - 1831
•   oxford university press - 1999
• - victor hugo - les misérables - 1862
•   modern library - 2008

• - j.k. huysmans - parisian sketches - 1880
•   dedalus press - 2004

• - washington irving - the legend of sleepy hollow - 1820
•   signet classic - 1961

• - j.p. jacobsen - niels lyhne - 1880
•   twayne publishers/ the american-scandinavian foundation - 1967

• - henry james - complete stories 1864-1874 - the library of america - 1999
• - henry james - complete stories 1874-1884 - the library of america - 1999
• - henry james - complete stories 1884-1891 - the library of america - 1999
• - henry james - complete stories 1892-1898 - the library of america - 1996
• - henry james - complete stories 1898-1910 - the library of america - 1996

• - james jones - the thin red line - 1962
•   delta - 1998

• - james joyce - finnegans wake - 1939
•   viking press - 1958

• - franz kafka - the trial - 1925
•   schocken books - 1992
• - franz kafka - the castle - 1926
•   schocken books - 1998
• - franz kafka - amerika - 1927
•   schocken books - 1996
• - franz kafka - the complete stories - schocken books - 1946/1971
• - franz kafka - diaries 1910-1923 - schocken books - 1948/1976
• - franz kafka - diaries 1914-1923 - schocken books - 1949
• - franz kafka - dearest father - schocken books - 1954
• - franz kafka - letters to friends, family, & editors - schocken books - 1977
• - franz kafka - the blue octovo notebooks - exact change - 1991
• - franz kafka - collected stories - everyman's library - 1993

• - max brod - franz kafka: a biography - 1937
•   schocken books - 1963
• - charles neider - the frozen sea: a study of franz kafka - oxford university press - 1948
• - ronald hayman - kafka: a biography - oxford university press - 1982
• - ernst pawel - the nightmare of reason: a life of franz kafka - farrar straus giroux - 1984
• - klaus wagenbach - kafka's prague: a travel reader - the overlook press - 1996
• - reiner stach - kafka: the decisive years - 2002
•   harcourt, inc. - 2005

• - frigyes karinthy - a journey round my skull - 1939
•   new york review of books - 2008

• - ross king - ex-libris - penguin books - 1998

• - danilo kis - hourglass - 1972
•   northwestern university press - 1997

• - heinrich von kleist - the marquise of o- and other stories - penguin books - 1978
• - heinrich von kleist - plays - continuum - 1995
• - heinrich von kleist - selected prose of heinrich von kleist - archipelago books - 2009

• - izumi kyōka - japanese gothic tales - university of hawaii press - 1996

• - paul lafarge - haussmann or the distingtion - farrar, straus and giroux - 2001

• - lautréamont - maldoror and poems - penguin classics - 1978
• - lautréamont - maldoror & the complete works of the comte de lautréamont - exact change - 1994

• - d.h. lawrence - sons and lovers - 1913
•   the modern library - 1922
• - d.h. lawrence - the rainbow - 1915
•   the modern library - 1943
• - d.h. lawrence - women in love - 1920
•   the modern library - 1950
• - d.h. lawrence - the man who died - 1928
•   new directions - 1950

• - matthew lewis - the monk - 1796
•   penguin classics - 1998

• - h.p. lovecraft - tales - the library of america - 2005

• - george macdonald - the complete fairy tales - penguin classics - 1999

• - maurice maeterlinck - the life of the bee - 1901
•   dodd, mead & company - 1970
• - maurice maeterlinck - the children's life of the bee - dodd, mead & company - 1936

• - thomas mann - buddenbrooks - 1924
•   alfred a. knopf (trans. john e. woods) - 1993
• - thomas mann - the magic mountain - 1924
•   everyman's library (trans. john e. woods) - 2005
• - thomas mann - doctor faustus - 1947
•   everyman's library - 1992
• - thomas mann - the holy sinner - alfred a. knopf - 1951
• - thomas mann - death in venice and seven other stories by thomas mann - vintage books

• - gabriel garcía márquez - one hundred years of solitude - 1967
•   everyman's library - 1995

• - peter matthiessen - shadow country - library of america - 2008

• - cormac mccarthy - sutree -1979
•   vintage books - 1992
• - cormac mccarthy - blood meridian -1985
•   vintage books - 1992
• - cormac mccarthy - the border trilogy: all the pretty horses, the crossing, cities on the plain - everyman's library - 1999
• - cormac mccarthy - no country for old men - alfred a. knopf - 2005
• - cormac mccarthy - the road - alfred a. knopf - 2006

• - larry mcmurtry - horseman, pass by - simon & schuster - 1961/1989
• - larry mcmurtry - the last picture show - simon & schuster - 1966/1994
• - larry mcmurtry - lonesome dove - simon & shuster - 1985

• - herman melville - moby dick, or, the whale - 1851
•   university of california press (arion press reprint) - 1983
•   norton critical edition - 2002
• - herman melville - the complete stories of herman melville - random house - 1949
• - herman melville - typee, omoo, mardi - library of america - 1982
• - herman melville - redburn, white-jacket, moby-dick - library of america - 1983
• - herman melville - pierre, israel potter, the confidence-man, uncollected prose, billybudd - library of america - 1984
• - herman melville - tales, poems, and other writings - the modern library - 2001

• - charles olson - call me ishmael: a study of melville - grove press books/evergreen books - 1947
• - andrew delbanco - melville: hos world and work - vintage books - 2005

• - henri michaux - the selected writings - new directions - 1952
• - henri michaux - miserable miracle - 1982
•   new york review of books - 2002
• - henri michaux - untitled passages by henri michaux - merrell/the drawing center - 2000
• - henri michaux - ideograms in china - new directions paperback - 2002
• - henri michaux - darkness moves - 1994
•   university of california - 1997

• - robert musil - the confesions of young törless - 1906
•   penguin books - 2001
• - robert musil - the man without qualities - 1952/1978
•   alfred a. knopf - 1996
• - robert musil - posthumous papers of a living author - 1957
•   archipelago books - 2006
• - robert musil - five women - 1966
•   verba mundi - 1999
• - robert musil - selected writings - continuum - 1986
• - robert musil - precision and soul: essays and addresses - the university of chicago press - 1990
• - robert musil - diares 1899-1941 - basic books - 1999

• - gérard de nerval - the salt smugglers - 1850
•   archipelago books - 2009
• - gérard de nerval - aurélia & other writings - exact change - 1996
• - gérard de nerval - selected writings - penguin classics - 1999

• - novalis - henry von ofterdingen - 1802
•   waveland press, inc. - 1992
• - novalis - the novices of sais - archipelago books - 2005

• - flann o'brien - the complete novels - everyman's library - 2007

• - eugene o'neill - the long voyage home, seven plays of the sea - the modern library - 1919/1946

• - oliver onions - ghost stories - tartarus press - 2003

• - charles palliser - the quincunx - ballantine books - 1990

• - georges perec - a void - 1969
•   gallimard - 1999
•   harvill - 1995
• - georges perec - life, a user's manual - 1978
•   david r. godine - 1987
• - georges perec - the winter journey - 1993
•   penguin books - 1995
• - georges perec - species of spaces and other pieces - penguin books - 1997/1999

• - harry mathews - the orchard: a rememberance of georges perec - 1986/1988
•   bamberger books - 1988
• - david bellos - georges perec: a life in words - david r. godine - 1993

• - arturo pérez-reverte - the club dumas - 1993
•   vintage books - 1998

• - fernando pessoa - the book of disquiet - 1993
•   penguin classics - 2003

• - edgar allen poe - selected writings - 1967
•   penguin english library - 1981
• - edgar allen poe - poetry and tales - the library of america - 1984
• - edgar allen poe - dead brides, vampire tales - creation books - 1999

• - marcel proust - à la recherche du temps perdu - 1913-1927
•   gallimard - 1987-1992/1999
•   the modern library (in search of lost times) - 1992-1993

• - germaine brée - marcel proust and deliverance from time - grove press - 1955/1958
• - andré maurois - the world of marcel proust - 1960
•   harper & row - 1974
• - henri peyre - marcel proust - columbia university press - 1970
• - jean-yves tadié - marcel proust: a life - 1996
•   viking press - 2000
• - william c. carter - marcel proust: a life - yale university press - 2000

• - raymond queneau - exercises in style - 1947
•   gallimard - 1964
•   new directions - 1981

• - françois rabelais - gargantua and pantagruel - 1532-1564
•   everyman's library (trans. sir thomas urquhart & pierre le motteux) - 1929/1994
•   the modern library (trans. jacques le clercq) - 1936

• - samuel richardson - clarissa, or, the history of a young lady - 1747-1748
• penguin classics - 1985

• - georges rodenbach - bruges-la-morte - 1892
•   dedalus - 2005

• - marquis de sade - justine, philosophy in the bedroom, & other writings - grove press - 1965/1990
• - marquis de sade - the 120 days of sodom & other writings - grove press - 1966/1987
• - marquis de sade - juliette - grove press - 1968

• - josé saramago - the stone raft - 1986
•   harcourt - 1995
• - josé saramago - blindness - 1995
•   harcourt - 1997
• - josé saramago - the cave - 2000
•   harcourt - 2002

• - bruno schulz - the street of crocodiles and other stories - 1963
•   penguin classics - 2008

• - jerzy ficowski - regions of the great heresy: bruno schulz, a biographical portrait - w.w. norton - 2003

• - w.g. sebald - the rings of saturn - 1995
•   new directions - 1998
• - w.g. sebald - austerlitz - the modern library - 2001

• - william shakespeare - the tragedies of william shakespear - the modern library - 1994

• - georges simenon - the strangers in the house - 1940
•   new york review of books - 2006

• - john steinbeck - novels & stories 1932-1937 - the library of america - 1994
• - john steinbeck - the grapes of wrath and other writings 1936-1941 - the library of america - 1996
• - john steinbeck - novels 1942-1952 - the library of america - 2001

• - laurence sterne - tristram shandy - 1759/1767
•   everyman's library - 1912/1991

• - robert louis stevenson - dr jekyll and mr hyde and other stories - everyman's library - 1925/1992

• - adalbert stifter - rock crystal - 1945
•   new york review of books - 2008

• - eugene sue - the wandering jew - 1845
•   the modern library

• - jonathan swift - gulliver's travels - 1726
•   norton critical edition - 2002

• - wladyslaw szpilman - the pianist - picador - 1999

• - j.r.r. tolkien - the hobbit, or, there and back again - 1937
•   ballantine books - 1969
•   the annotated hobbit - houghton mifflin company - 1997
• - j.r.r. tolkien - the lord of the rings - 1937-1949
•   houghton mifflin company - 1993
• - j.r.r. tolkien - the silmarillion - 1977
•   houghton mifflin company - 1999

• - karen wynn fonstad - the atlas of middle-earth - houghton mifflin company - 1991
• - wayne g. hammond and christina scull - j.r.r. tolkien: artist & illustrator - houghton mifflin company - 1995

• - leo tolstoy - war and peace - 1869
•   alfred a. knopf - 2007
• - leo tolstoy - anna karenina - 1877
•   random house - 1939

• - roland topor - the tenant - 1964
•   millipede press - 2006

• - b. traven - the treasure of the sierra madre - 1935
•   hill and wang - 1999

• - magdalena tulli - dreams and stones - 1995
•   archipelago books (trans. bill johnston) - 2004
• - magdalena tulli - moving parts - 2003
•   archipelago books (trans. bill johnston) - 2005

• - leonard tsypkin - summer in baden-baden - 1981
•   new directions - 2001

• - mark twain - mississippi writings - the library of america - 1982
• - mark twain - the gilded age and later novels - the library of america - 2002

• - hermann ungar - the maimed - twisted spoon press - 2002

• - paul valéry - monsieur teste - 1896
•   princeton university press - 1973

• - tarjei vesaas - the birds - 1957
•   peter owen modern classics - 2002
• - tarjei vesaas - the ice palace - 1963
•   peter owen modern classics - 2005
• - tarjei vesaas - the boat in the evening - 1968
•   peter owen modern classics - 2003

• - virgil - the aeneid - everyman's library - 1907/1992

• - voltaire - candide and philosophical letters - the moderne library - 1992

• - robert walser - the tanners - 1907
•   new directions - 2009
• - robert walser - jakob von gunten - 1909
•   new york review of books - 1999
• - robert walser - selected stories - 1960
•   new york review of books - 2002
• - robert walser - speaking to the rose - new york review of books - 2005

• - h.g. wells - the island of dr. moreau - 1896
•   dover publications - 1996
• - h.g. wells - the invisible man: a grotesque romance - 1897
•   the modern library - 2002
• - h.g. wells - the war of the worlds - 1898
•   the modern library - 2002
• - h.g. wells - the first men in the moon - 1901
•   the modern library - 2003
• - h.g. wells - the country of the blind and other stories - 1911
•   penguin classics - 2007

• - oscar wilde - the portable oscar wilde - penguin books - 1946/1981

• - tennessee williams - plays 1937-1955 - the library of america - 2000
• - tennessee williams - plays 1957-1980 - the library of america - 2000

• - matthew c. roudané - the cambridge companion to tennessee williams - cambridge university press - 1999

• - cornell woolrich - the black angel - 1943
•   pegasus books - 2008
• - cornell woolrich - night has a thousand eyes - 1945
•   pegasus books - 2007

• - rudolph wurlitzer - the drop edge of yonder - two dollar radio - 2008

• VARIOUS LITERATURE

• - anonymous - the sagas of icelanders (middle ages) - viking - 2000
• - anonymous - the quest for the holy grail - penguin books - 1969/2005
• - anonymous - the death of king arthur - penguin books - 1971
• - sir thomas malory - le morte darthur - norton - 2004
• - chrétien de troyes - arthurian tales - penguin books - 1991/2004

• - abelard andd heloise - the letters of abelard and heloise - penguin books - 1974

• - crime novels, american noir of the 1930s & 40s - library of america - 1997

• - the dedalus book of french horror: the 19th century - dedalus - 1998

• - german romantic stories: eichendorff, brentano, chamisso and others - continuum - 1993

• - russian fairy tales - everyman's library - 1995

• - spells of enchantment: the woundrous fairy tales of western culture (jack zipes) - viking - 1991

• POETRY

• - charles baudelaire - flowers of evil - 1857
•   new directions - 1946
•   new directions - 1989
•   gallimard - 2006
• - charles baudelaire - paris spleen - new directions - 1947
• - charles baudelaire - twenty prose poems - city lights - 1988
• - charles baudelaire - baudelaire in english - penguin classics - 1997
• - charles baudelaire - selected poems - penguin books - 2004

• - claude pichois, jean-paul evaice and yves bonnefoy - baudelair paris - éditions paris-musées - 1993

• - jean-paul sartre - baudelaire - new directions - 1950

• - yves bonnefoy - in the shadow's light - 1987
•   the university of chicago - 1991
• - yves bonnefoy - early poems 1947-1959 - ohio state press - 1991

• - andré du bouchet - where heat looms - 1961
•   sun & moon press - 1996

• - paul celan - la rose de personne (die niemandsrose) - 1963
•   librarie josé corti (french trans. by martine broda) - 2002
• - paul celan - breathturn - 1967
•   sun & moon press - 1995
• - paul celan - threadsuns - 1968
•   sun & moon press - 2000
• - paul celan - snow part - 1971
•   the sheep meadow press - 2007
• - paul celan - collected prose - the sheep meadow press - 1986
• - paul celan - poems of paul celan - persea books - 1995
• - paul celan - glottal stop: 101 poems - wesleyan university press - 2000
• - paul celan - selected poems and prose of paul celan - w.w. norton - 2001
• - paul celan, gisèle celan-letrange - correspondance - seuil - 2001
• - paul celan - poèmes
•   librarie josé corti (french trans. by john e. jackson) - 2004

• - john felstiner - paul celan: poet, survivor, jew - yale university - 1995

• - chaucer - the canterbury tales - 1386
•   penguin classics - 1952/1964

• - samuel taylor coleridge - selected poetry - penguin classics - 1996

• - dante alighieri - vita nuova - ca. 1293
•   new york review of books (trans. dante gabriel rossetti) - 2002
• - dante alighieri - the devine comedy: inferno - 1321
•   the modern library (trans. john ciardi) - 1996
• - dante alighieri - the devine comedy: purgatorio - 1321
•   the modern library (trans. john ciardi) - 1996

• - t.s. eliot - four quartets - harcourt, brace & world, inc. - 1943

• - la fontaine - fables - 1671
•   le livre de poche - 1985
• - la fontaine - forbidden fruit - the harville press - 1998

• - robert frost - collected poems, prose, and plays - the library of america - 1995

• - federico garcía lorca - suites - green integer - 2001

• - friedrich hölderlin - hymns and fragments - princeton university press - 1984
• - friedrich hölderlin - selected poems and fragments - penguin classics - 1998

• - emmanuel hocquard - late editions - spectacular diseases - 1988

• - victor hugo - poëmes choisis - éditions de cluny - 1948

• - edmond jabès - le seuil, le sable: poésies comlpètes 1948-1988 - gallimard - 1990/1999
• - edmond jabès - the book of questions volumes i-ii - 1963-1973
•   wesleyan university press- 1983/1991
• - edmond jabès - the book of margins - 1975-1984
•   the university of chicago press- 1993
• - edmond jabès - the book of resemblances 1-3 - 1976-1980
•   wesleyan university press- 1990-1992
•   gallimard - 1991
• - edmond jabès - from the desert to the book - 1980
•   station hill press - 1990
• - edmond jabès - the little book of unsuspected subversion- 1882
•   stanford university press- 1996
• - edmond jabès - the book of dialogue - 1984
•   wesleyan university press- 1987
• - edmond jabès - the book of shares - 1987
•   the university of chicago press- 1989
• - edmond jabès - if there were anywhere but desert: the selected poems of edmond jabès - station hill press - 1988
• - edmond jabès - a foreinger carrying in the crook of his arm a tiny book - 1989
•   wesleyan university press- 1993
• - edmond jabès - from the book to the book: an edmond jabès reader - wesleyan - 1991
• - edmond jabès - desire for a beginning, dread of one single end - 1991
•   granary books - 2001

• - rosemarie waldrop - lavish absence: recalling and rereading edmond jabès - wesleyan university press - 2002

• - philippe jaccottet - landscapes with absent figures - 1970
•   the delos press/the menard press - 1997
•   gallimard - 1998
• - philippe jaccottet - poésie 1946-1967 - gallimard - 1971/1996
• - philippe jaccottet - seedtime: extracts from the notebooks 1954-1967 - 1971
•   new directions - 1977
• - philippe jaccottet - à la lumière d'hiver - gallimard - 1977/1997
• - philippe jaccottet - selected poems - wake university press - 1988
• - philippe jaccottet - under clouded skies & beauregard - 1988
•   bloodaxe books - 1994

• - john keats - the complete poems of john keats - modern library - 1994

• - stéphane mallarmé - mallarmé: poems - new directions - 1951
• - stéphane mallarmé - collected poems - university of california press - 1994

• - osip mandelstam - the noise of time: selected prose - northwestern university press - 1965/2002
• - osip mandelstam - the selected poems of osip mandelstam - 1973
•   new york review books - 2004
• - osip mandelstam - selected poems - penguin books - 1991

• - novalis - hymns to the night - mcpherson & company - 1988
• - novalis - hymns to the night | spiritual songs - temple lodge publishing - 1992

• - octavio paz - alternating current - the viking press - 1973
• - octavio paz - the collected poems of octavio paz (1957-1987) - new directions paperback - 1991

• - edgar allen poe - the raven illustrated by gustave doré - 1884
•   dover - 1996
• - edgar allen poe - selected writings - 1967
•   penguin english library - 1981

• - francis ponge - the nature of things - 1942
•   red dust - 1995/2000
• - francis ponge - le grand recueil: pièces - gallimard - 1961
• - francis ponge - tome premier - gallimard - 1965
• - francis ponge - le savon - gallimard - 1967
•   stanford university press (as soap) - 1998
• - francis ponge - the making of the preé by francis ponge - university of missouri press - 1979
• - francis ponge, serge gavronsky - francis ponge: the power of language - university of california press - 1979
• - francis ponge - vegetation - red dust - 1988/1995
• - francis ponge - selected poems - wake forest university press/faber and faber - 1994/1998
• - francis ponge - mute objects of expression - archipelago books - 2008

• - alexander pushkin - eugene onegin - 1977
•   everyman's library - 1993

• - rainer maria rilke - auguste rodin - 1903
•   the grey walls press ltd - 1948
• - rainer maria rilke - letters to a young poet - 1903-1908
•   w.w. norton - 1934/1993
•   modern library - 2001
• - rainer maria rilke - the lay of the love and death of cornet christopher rilke - 1904
•   w.w. norton - 1932/1963
• - rainer maria rilke - the notebooks of malte laurids brigge - 1910
•   w.w. norton - 1949/1992
• - rainer maria rilke - sonnets to orpheus - 1923
•   w.w. norton - 1942/1992
• - rainer maria rilke - diaries of a young poet - 1942
•   w.w. norton - 1997
• - rainer maria rilke - letters to merline 1919-1922 - 1950
•   robson books - 1990
• - rainer maria rilke - rilke on love and other difficulties - w.w. norton - 1975/1993
• - rainer maria rilke - requiem for a women and selected lyric poems by rainer maria rilke - threshold books - 1981
• - rainer maria rilke - the astonishment of origins: french sequences by rainer maria rilke - greywolf press - 1982
• - rainer maria rilke - the best of rilke - university press of new england - 1989
• - rainer maria rilke - the book of images - north point press - 1991
• - rainer maria rilke - two stories of prague - university press of new england - 1994
• - rainer maria rilke - ahead of all parting: the selected poetry and prose of rainer maria rilke - the modern library - 1995
• - rainer maria rilke, william h. gass - reading rilke: reflections on the problems of translation - alfred a. knopf - 1999

• - j.r. von salis - rainer maria rilke: the years in switzerland, a contribution to the biography of rilke's later life - 1936
•   university of california press - 1964

• - arthur rimbaud - a season in hell - 1873
•   new directions - 1946
• - arthur rimbaud - complete works - harper & row - 1967/1976
• - arthur rimbaud - rimbaud complete - modern library - 2002

• - percy bysshe shelley - shelley's poetry and prose - norton critical edition - 1977

• - henry david thoreau - collected essays and poems - the library of america - 2001

• - georg trakl - poems and prose - northwestern university press - 2005
•   (trans. alexander stillmark)

• - fyodor tyutchev - versions from fyodor tyutchev (1803-1873) - oxford university press - 1960

• - paul valéry - mélange - gallimard - 1941
• - paul valéry - charmes - gallimard - 1952

• - tarjei vesaas - through naked branches - 1972
•   princeton university press - 2000

• - william butler yeats - the collected poems of w.b. yeats - the macmillan company - 1933/1967

• VARIOUS POETRY

• - paul auster - the random house book of 20th century french poetry - vintage books - 1984

• - dreaming the miracle: three french prose poets, jacob, ponge, follain - white pine press - 2003

• - poems of the sea - everyman's library - 2001

• - relentir travaux - breton, char, eluard - exact change - 1990

• - what i own: versions of hölderlin & mandelshtam - carcanet - 1998

• - dick higgins - pattern poetry: guide to an unknown literature - stare university of new york press - 1987

• OTHER

• - paul auster - the art of hunger: essays, prefaces, interviews - sun & moon press - 1991

• - gaston bachelard - the psychoanalysis of fire - 1938
•   beacon press - 1964

• - walter benjamin - illuminations: essays and reflections - 1955/1968
•   schocken books - 1985
• - walter benjamin - reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings - 1978
•   schocken books - 1986
• - walter benjamin - moscow diary - 1980
•   harvard university press - 1986
• - walter benjamin - the arcades project - 1982
•   the belknap press of harvard university press - 1999
• - walter benjamin - the correspondence of walter benjamin: 1910-1940 - the university of chicago press - 1994
• - walter benjamin - selected writings volume 1: 1913-1926 - the belknap press of harvard university press - 1996
• - walter benjamin - selected writings volume 2: 1927-1934 - the belknap press of harvard university press - 1999

• - gershom scholem - walter benjamin: the story of a friendship - 1975
•   schocken books - 1981/1988
• - momme brodersen - walter benjamin: a biography - 1990
•   verso - 1996

• - george berkeley - a treatise conderning the principles of human knowledge - 1734
•   oxford university press - 1998

• - helen blavatsky - isis unveiled - 1877
•   theosophy co. - 1982
• - helen blavatsky - dreams - 1931
•   theosophy co. - 1991

• - ralph waldo emerson - essays & lectures - the library of america - 1983

• - peter france - the new oxford companion to literature in french - clarendon press - 1995

• - michael hamburger - the thuth of poetry: tensions in modernist poetry since baudelaire - anvil press - 1968/1982
• - michael hamburger - a proliferation of prophets: essays in modern german literature - st. martins press - 1984

• - arthur f. kinney - rogues, vagabonds & sturdy beggars: a new gallery of tudor and early stuart rogue literature - the university
•   of massachusetts press - 1990

• - agnes martin - writings - cantz - 1992

• - kristofor minta, herbert pföstl - to die no more - blind pony books - 2008

• - warren f. motte jr. - oulipo: a primer of potential literature - 1986
•   dalkey archive - 1998

• - john muir - nature writings - the library of america - 1997

• - justin o'brien - contemporary french literature - rutgers university - 1971

• - jed rasula and steve mccaffery - imaging language: an anthology - mit press - 1998

• - carl e. schorske - fin-de-siècle vienna: politics and culture - 1961
•   vintage books - 19811

• - richard stamelman - lost beyond telling: representatins of death and absence in modern french poetry - cornell university press - 1990

• - jun'ichirō tanizaki - in praise of shadows - 1933
•   leet's island books - 1977

• - henry david thoreau - walden - 1854
•   everyman's library - 1992

• - elizabeth underhill - mysticism - oneworld publications - 2004

• - lawrence weschler - mr. wilson's cabinet of wonder - vintage books - 1995

• - colin wilson - the outsider - 1956
•   tarcher/penguin - 1982

• - frank worsley - endurance: an epic of polar adventure - 1931
•   w. w. norton & company - 2000

• - frances a. yates - the art of memory - 1966
•   the university of chicago press - 1974