A High Country Canon

Edition specifications are generally for convenience, though sometimes not.

• -The KJV
• -The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Burton 16-volume translation
• -Bulfinch’s Mythology (4-volumes)
• -Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Folio edition)
• -Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Folio edition)
• -The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Opies
• -Chapman’s Homer (2-vols PUP 1967 and/or Pope, Bryant, Fagels (2-vols Folio))
• -The Long March, Robin Lane Fox
• -Fagels’ Aeneid (and/or Dryden)
• -Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch (Everyman’s Library)
• -Five Greek Romances (Reardon, Collected Ancient Greek Novels)
• -Beowulf (Heaney translation)
• -Lark in the Morning, Kehew
• -The Divine Comedy (Hollanders translation and/or Longfellow)
• -The Riverside Chaucer
• -Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Armitage translation)
• -Gargantua and Pantagruel (Putnam translation – abridged Portable edition)
• -Orlando Furioso (Harington translation and/or Reynolds)
• -Jerusalem Delivered (Fairfax translation)
• -The Faerie Queene (Folio edition)
• -Shakespeare’s poems and plays (mainly the Sonnets, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Antony & Cleopatra, the Comedies, and the Romances – I like the Oxford School Shakespeare though not complete)
• -The Complete Poems and Translations, Marlowe (Penguin Classics)
• -Milton’s poems (mainly Paradise Lost – Folio edition)
• -The Anatomy of Melancholy (Folio edition)
• -Pilgrim’s Progress (Folio edition)
• -Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World’s Classics)
• -Don Quixote (Putnam translation and/or Smollett)
• -Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford World’s Classics)
• -History of My Life, Casanova (Trask translation, six double volumes, Johns Hopkins U.P.)
• -Candide (Oxford World’s Classics)
• -Wordsworth’s poems (mainly The Prelude – all versions, Norton – and Selected Poems (Everyman’s Library Classics) – or the Folio edition)
• -Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics edition)
• -The Education of Henry Adams (OUP edition)
• -Days (Happy, Newspaper, Heathen), Mencken (Dorset Press)
• -Collected Short Stories, Maugham (Folio edition)
• -The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918
• -The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (1989)
• -The Selected Essays, Orwell (Everyman’s Library Classics)
• -Selected Essays, Eliot (Harcourt Revised Edition)
• -Collected Shorter Poems 1957, Auden (Folio Edition)
• -Collected Poems, Larkin (2004 American Edition)

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