Cyril's Gleans

Most recent desert island book list (March 28, 2011)

Those listed in a down level version (http://www.cyrilsgleans.com/a_high_country_canon.html) plus the below (some overlap):

The complete works of
A. C. Doyle
Bill Bryson
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
Mark Twain
P. G. Wodehouse
Rudyard Kipling
Thorne Smith
Tom Stoppard
W. H. Hudson
Will Cuppy
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth

The complete short stories of
A. E. van Vogt
Ambrose Bierce
Arthur C. Clark
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Collier
Saki (H. H. Munro)
Somerset Maugham
William Faulkner

Novels
Don Quixote
Pickwick Papers
Faulkner’s Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear

Other Books
Mencken’s three “Days” books
Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, With Related Essays (Bollingen series), Miguel de Unamuno
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, Robert Alter
Proust, Samuel Beckett
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling’s Great Game, Peter Hopkirk
The 1916 edition of “Hymns Ancient and Modern”
The Everyman edition of George Orwell’s essays

Memoirs and bios (some more veridical than others)
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
Binding Time: Memoirs of a Programming Man, Samizdat
Boy Life On The Prairie by Hamlin Garland
Chickenhawk and Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam by Robert Mason
Finally It's Friday: School and Work in Mid-America, 1921-1933 by Loren Dudley Reid
Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi
History of My Life (Everyman's Library) by Giacomo Casanova and Willard R. Trask Abridged edition
Hurry Home Wednesday: Growing Up in a Small Missouri Town, 1905-1921 by Loren Dudley Reid
I Was Looking for a Street: A Memoir by Charles Willeford
I'll Let You Know When We Get There by Doris C. Baker
Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics) by Flora Thompson, H.J. Massingham
Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger and James Lovell
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man: Albert Jay Nock
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages
Rickenbacker an Autobiography by Edward V. Rickenbacker
Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
Something About a Soldier by Charles Willeford
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley and Jesse May
The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society)
The Enormous Room by Edward Estlin Cummings

Larry McMurtry essays and memoirs in chronological order
In a Narrow Grave
Film Flam
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Roads: Driving America’s Great Highways
Paradise
Books
Literary Life
Hollywood: A Third Memoir

More P. G. Wodehouse Net sites

http://home.lagrange.edu/arobinson/wodehousemcilvaineerrata.htm

http://home.lagrange.edu/arobinson/wodehousegilbert.htm

http://home.lagrange.edu/arobinson/wodehousegooglebooks.htm

http://home.lagrange.edu/arobinson/pgwaddendum.htm

Bob's favorite P. G. Wodehouse sites

http://www.terry-mordue.co.uk/Wodehouse/

http://www.terry-mordue.co.uk/Wodehouse/Biblia%20Wodehousiana/index.html

http://wodehouse.ru/

http://www.madameulalie.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse_bibliography

http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/P._G._Wodehouse/

http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/

http://wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com/

http://www.wodehouse.org/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/p_g_wodehouse.html

http://www.drones.com/wodehouse/

Most recent desert island book list (March 27, 2011)

Those listed in a down level version (http://www.cyrilsgleans.com/a_high_country_canon.html) plus the below (some overlap):

The complete works of
A. C. Doyle
Bill Bryson
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
Mark Twain
P. G. Wodehouse
Rudyard Kipling
W. H. Hudson
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth

The complete short stories of
A. E. van Vogt
Ambrose Bierce
Arthur C. Clark
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Collier
Saki (H. H. Munro)
Somerset Maugham
William Faulkner

Novels
Don Quixote
Pickwick Papers
Faulkner’s Spotted Horses, Old Man, The bear

Other Books
Mencken’s three “Days” books
Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, With Related Essays (Bollingen series), Miguel de Unamuno
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, Robert Alter
Proust, Samuel Beckett
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling’s Great Game, Peter Hopkirk
The 1916 edition of “Hymns Ancient and Modern”
The Everyman edition of George Orwell’s essays

Memoirs and bios (some more veridical than others)
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
Boy Life On The Prairie by Hamlin Garland
Chickenhawk and Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam by Robert Mason
Finally It's Friday: School and Work in Mid-America, 1921-1933 by Loren Dudley Reid
Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi
History of My Life (Everyman's Library) by Giacomo Casanova and Willard R. Trask Abridged edition
Hurry Home Wednesday: Growing Up in a Small Missouri Town, 1905-1921 by Loren Dudley Reid
I Was Looking for a Street: A Memoir by Charles Willeford
I'll Let You Know When We Get There by Doris C. Baker
Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics) by Flora Thompson, H.J. Massingham
Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger and James Lovell
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man: Albert Jay Nock
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages
Rickenbacker an Autobiography by Edward V. Rickenbacker
Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
Something About a Soldier by Charles Willeford
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley and Jesse May
The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society)
The Enormous Room by Edward Estlin Cummings

Larry McMurtry essays and memoirs in chronological order
In a Narrow Grave
Film Flam
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Roads: Driving America’s Great Highways
Paradise
Books
Literary Life
Hollywood: A Third Memoir