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< 1826-1850 | 1876-1900 >

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Later Mid-19th Century

Rainer Maria RILKE Rainer Karl Wilhelm Josef Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Etext: Poem Hunter | Four poems Reference: LiukkonenCriticism: James | Ward And Rilke whom *die Dinge* bless The Santa Claus of loneliness. --W. H. Auden
New Poems: First Part and Other Part (Neue Gedichte 1907)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge 1910)
Duino Elegies (1922)
One star: Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
Selected Poetry (anthology 1989)

Antonio MACHADO (1875-1939) Criticism: Ward
Juan de Mairena (1936) Full title: Juan de Mairena: epigrams, maxims, memoranda, and memoirs of an apocryphal professor, with an appendix of poems from 'The Apocryphal Songbooks'
Selected Poems

G. N. LEWIS (Gilbert Norton Lewis, 1875-1946) Reference: WWNFF
Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules (1923)

Thomas MANN (1875-1955) Reference: Nobel Prize | Authors' Calendar Criticism: Fadiman | Van Doren | Ward | Schneider | Wood The 20th-century Goethe (pocket edition) ... --Dwight Macdonald, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals,' Politics, April 1945
Buddenbrooks (1901)
Death in Venice (1912)
Two stars: The Magic Mountain (1924) A very long time ago, when I was a teenager, I liked to think of myself as a future historian of culture. I read 'The Magic Mountain' and said to myself, 'Now THAT is for you.' --Saul Bellow, National Review, January 24, 2000, p. 36
Tonio Kroger (1929)
Stories of Three Decades (1936)
Mario and the Magician (1938)
One star: Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943) It rejoices because there is nothing new under the sun; because fathers and sons have forever been what they are today; and because, when a father has a favorite son, and says so, he is committing an error so ancient that nobody can remember when the consequences were not thus and so. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 304
Doctor Faustus (Doktor Faustus 1947) This deals with the life of a fictional composer, Adrian Leverkuhn, who makes a Faustian compact with the Devil and rises to unholy prominence. --John Simon, Play on, review of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross, The New Criterion, January 2008, p. 73
The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull 1954)

Carl Gustav JUNG (1875-1961) For a reader accustomed to the elegance and coherence of Freud's style, or indeed to the clean lines of good English prose, a few pages of Jung can be a discouraging experience. --Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966) p. 44 To cure, in the Jungian theory, is to give the patient peace in adhering to the eternal order, replicated within him symbolically. --Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966) p. 88-89
Psychological Types (1921)

Albert SCHWEITZER (1875-1965) Reference: Association Criticism: Ward
Out of My Mind and Thought (1924; 1932)
Out of the Primeval Forest
More from the Primeval Forest (1970)

Trumbell STICKNEY (1874-1904)
Poems

Hugo von HOFMANNSTHAL (1874-1929) Criticism: Ward | see Hermann BROCH
Gesammelte Werke (1964 ff.)
Poems and Verse Plays
Selected Prose
Selected Plays and Libretti

G. K. CHESTERTON (1874-1936) Etext: Reference: Criticism: Weblog
The Father Brown Stories (1949) Chesterton intended to ridicule the analytical and scientific methods of the Sherlock Holmes school of detection by showing that crime is related to sin, and a priest's intuition is more necessary in discovering a sinner than is a policeman's experience in discovering a criminal. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 36
Collected Poems
The Man Who Was Thursday

Karl KRAUS (1874-1936)
The Last Days of Mankind

Gertrude STEIN (1874-1946) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Weblog
Three Lives (1909)
Tender Buttons (1914)
The Making of Americans (1925)
The Geographical History of America or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936)

Robert FROST (1874-1963) Etext: Criticism: Weblog Criticism: Fadiman | Van Doren
Two stars: Collected Poems (1931)

W. Somerset MAUGHAM (1874-1965) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Wilson | Rubin | Daniels
Collected Short Stories
The Moon and Sixpence

Alfred JARRY (1873-1907)
Selected Works

Charles PEGUY (1873-1914) Criticism: Kimball
The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc (1909) Criticism: Pope Benedict XVI

Chaim Nachman BIALIK (1873-1934) Criticism: Ward
Kithve [Selected Works] (1926-1938)
Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poem

Ford Madox FORD (1873-1939) Etext: Reference: Criticism: Weblog
One star: The Good Soldier (1915)
One star: Parade's End (1925) ...perhaps the best treatment of the Great War's destruction of old European culture. --Bruce S. Thornton, The University Bookman, Spring/Summer 2001

Ellen GLASGOW (1873-1945) Etext: The Online Books Page
Barren Ground
Vein of Iron

Willa CATHER (1873-1947) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Castle
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Two stars: My Antonia (1918)
A Lost Lady (1923)
The Professor's House (1925) Criticism: Lyons
One star: Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) ...the most surprising subject matter of a great American novel--a French bishop's single-minded passion for re-creating the architecture of a French cathedral in the American desert. --A. S. Byatt, 'Justice for Willa Cather', New York Review of Books, November 30, 2000 p. 51
Shadows on the Rock (1931)

Mariano AZUELA (1873-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
The Underdogs (1916) Etext: Gutenberg

Sidonie Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1954) Criticism: Castle
La naissance du jour
Collected Stories
Retreat from Love

Walter DE LA MARE (1873-1956) Etext: The Online Books Page
Collected Poems
Memoirs of a Midget

Mikhail KUZMIN (1872-1936)
Alexandrian Songs

SHIMAZAKI Toson (Shimazaki Haruki, 1872-1943) Criticism: Ward
The Broken Commandment (1906)

Pio BAROJA (1872-1956) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
The Restlessness of Shanti Andia (1911)

Max BEERBOHM (1872-1956) Etext: The Online Books Page
Zuleika Dobson
Seven Men and Two Others

John Cowper POWYS (1872-1963)
Wolf Solent
A Glastonbury Romance

Bertrand RUSSELL (1872-1970, 3rd Earl Russell) Etext: The Online Books Page | Digital Text International Criticism: Trainer | Peterson | Kimball | Ward
see Alfred North WHITEHEAD and
History of Western Philosophy (1946)
One star: An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
The Problems of Philosophy (1911)
The Aims of Education
The Analysis of Mind
The Conquest of Happiness
Selected Papers
Human Knowledge
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
Marriage and Morals
Mathematics and the Metaphysician
My Philosophical Development
Mysticism and Logic
On the Notion of Cause
The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
The Problem of Infinity
Religion and Science
Sceptical Essays
Science and Tradition
A Study of Mathematics
The Theory of Continuity
Unpopular Essays
What I Believe
The World of Physics and the World of Sense

Stephen CRANE (1871-1900) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Etext: American Classics | Online Literature Library | Litrix | Stockton
Stories and Poems

John Millington SYNGE (1871-1909) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Van Doren
The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

Leonid ANDREYEV (1871-1919) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kayden
Selected Tales

Marcel PROUST (1871-1922) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Fadiman | Ward
Two stars: Remembrance of Things Past (1913-27) Criticism: Blaisdell | Douglas-Fairhurst | Epstein | Roy The interest of the book lies in each fragment. We can open it wherever we choose. --Paul Valery, funerary tribute in 'La Nouvelle Revue Francais' Proust's masterpiece, 'Remembrance of Things Past,' ... seems the product of total recall, and yet how selective it had to be. --Ralph McInerney, 'Crisis' October 1999, p. 60 This novel is 4,000 pages long, yet nothing ever happens. Is Proust making some kind of veiled comment about French society? --Joe Queenan, There Will Be a Quiz, New York Times, April 6, 2008 --

Ernest RUTHERFORD (1871-1937) Criticism: Holton and Sopka Reference: Campbell
Radioactivity (1905)
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations (1913)
Radiations from Radioactive Substances (1930)

W. B. COOPER (1871-1945)
The Wisdom of the Body

Theodore DREISER (1871-1945) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Sister Carrie (1900)
One star: An American Tragedy (1925)

Paul VALERY (1871-1945) Criticism: Epstein
The Art of Poetry
Selected Writings

Frank NORRIS (1870-1902) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Octopus

SAKI (H. H. Munro, 1870-1916) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Short Stories

Alexander BERKMAN (1870-1936) Criticism: Rexroth
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)

Alexander Ivanovich KUPRIN (1870-1938) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
The Garnet Bracelet (1911)

Jean PERRIN (1870-1942) Criticism: Holton and Sopka Reference: Nobel
Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality (Mouvement brownien et realite moleculaire 1909)
Les Atomes (1913)

Michael ROSTOVTZEFF (1870-1952)
The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926)

Ivan BUNIN (1870-1953) Etext: The Online Books Page
Selected Stories

George Douglas BROWN (1869-1902) Reference: Slainte
The House with the Green Shutters

Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1869-1935) Etext: The Online Books Page
Selected Poems

Hjalmar SODERBERG (1869-1941) Criticism: Ward
Doctor Glas (1905)
Selected Short Stories (1935)

Mohandas Karamchand GANDHI (1869-1948) Etext: Criticism: Weblog Criticism: Ward The communal massacres showed that Gandhi's teaching of nonviolence had not penetrated the Indian masses. His life work had been in vain--or at least it now appeared that he taught a 'non-violence of the weak' which had been effective against the British but that the more difficult 'non-violence of the strong' he had been unable to teach. --Dwight Macdonald, 'Gandhi,' Politics, Winter 1948
One star: An Autobiography (1927-1929) full title 'An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with Truth' But this partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman. --George Orwell, 'Reflections on Gandhi' (1949) Episodic in style and lacking in narrative content, this is, nevertheless, one of the world's great autobiographies, providing insights into the motivations and actions of one of the most extraordinary men of our time. --A Guide to Oriental Classics (3rd Ed. 1989) p. 155

Andre GIDE (1869-1951)
One star: The Counterfeiters (1927)
The Immortalist
Corydon
Lafcadio's Adventures (The Caves of the Vatican)
The Journals

Martin Andersen NEXO (1869-1954) Etext: The Online Books Page
Pelle the Conqueror

TOKUTOMI Kenjiro (Tokutomi Roka, 1868-1927) Criticism: Ward
Footsteps in the Snow (1901)

Stefan GEORGE (1868-1933)
Selected Poems

Maxim GORKI (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Vyas
The Lower Depths (1902) The play was greeted as another political statement, and in 1905 he was imprisoned as a revolutionary, a sentence commuted to exile after protests by Western writers. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 10
Autobiographical trilogy: Childhood (Detstvo 1913), My Apprenticeship (Vlyudyakh 1916), My Universities (Moi universitey 1923)
Reminiscences of Tolstoy (1919), Reminiscences of Chekhov (1905-1921), Reminiscences of Andreev (1922)

Edgar Lee MASTERS (1868-1950) Etext: The Online Books Page
Spoon River Anthology

Arnold SOMMERFELD (1868-1951) Criticism: Holton and Sopka Reference: HMA
Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines (Atombau und Spektrallinien 1919)

Norman DOUGLAS (1868-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page
South Wind

Robert A. MILLIKAN (1868-1953) Criticism: Holton and Sopka Reference: Nobel
The Electron: Its Isolation and Measurement and the Determination of Some of Its Properties (1917)

Ernest DOWSON (1867-1900) Etext: The Online Books Page
Complete Poems

Lionel JOHNSON (1867-1902) Etext: The Online Books Page
Poems

Ruben DARIO (1867-1916)
Selected Poetry

SOSEKI Natsume (1867-1916) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
One star: Kokoro (1914)

Arnold BENNETT (1867-1931) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Old Wives' Tale

John GALSWORTHY (1867-1933) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Forsyte Saga

Marie CURIE (Maria Sklodowska-Curie, 1867-1934) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Zwolinski Criticism: Maddox | Holton and Sopka
Investigations of Radioactive Substances (Recherches sur les substances radioactive 1903, 1904)

Luigi PIRANDELLO (1867-1936) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904)
One star: Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)
Liola
It is so! (If you think so)
Henry IV
Each in his own way

Beatrix POTTER (1866-1943) Etext: Reference: Weblog
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1900) Some of the books are even a bit macabre. But the stories usually end up well, which is what children like best: hard times and travails, with a happy ending. --Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading (1985) p. 357 In her stories the human and animal world are strangely intertwined. No sentimentality about either is allowed to escape into her flawless prose. --Merrie Cave, Conservative Classic 17: Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit Books, The Salisbury Review, Spring 2005, p. 40

T. H. MORGAN, A. H. STURTEVANT, H. J. MULLER, and C. B. BRIDGES
The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (1915)
T. H. MORGAN (1866-1945) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Alroy
The Theory of the Gene (1926)

H. G. WELLS (Herbert George Wells 1866-1946) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Keats | Rexroth
One star: The Time Machine (1895) Etext: Litrix
One star: The War of the Worlds Etext: Litrix
One star: The Island of Doctor Moreau
One star: The Invisible Man Criticism: Appleyard
When the Sleeper Awakes
One star: In the Days of the Comet
One star: The War in the Air
The World Set Free
One star: The First Men on the Moon
Kipps
The History of Mr. Polly
Tono-Bungay
The New Machiavelli
Anne Veronica
The Research Magnificent

George Ivanovitch GURDJIEFF (1866-1949)
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Benedetto CROCE (1866-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Roberts | Ward
Philosophy, poetry, history: an anthology (1966)
History as the Story of Liberty

Sir Arthur KEITH (1866-1955)
The Antiquity of Man (1925)

Rudyard KIPLING (1865-1936) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference:Autobiography | Wikipedia Criticism: Van Doren | Weblog Kipling believed civilization to be something laboriously achieved which was only precariously defended. He wanted to see the defenses fully manned and he hated the liberals because he thought them gullible and feeble, believing in the easy perfectibility of man and ready to abandon the work of centuries for sentimental qualms. --Evelyn Waugh
One star: The Man Who Would Be King from 'The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales' (1888) The Indian stories, now cruel, now tender, reveal a mastery of detail such as only Kipling could achieve. Not that detail is everything in art; understanding is essential too; but Kipling had that, as he had humor and sympathy. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 293
One star: The Jungle Books (1894-95)
Kim (1901)
Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
Complete Verse (1940) Reference: Zwick

William Butler YEATS (1865-1939) Etext: Criticism: Weblog Criticism: Fadiman | Rexroth | Van Doren | Ward
The Autobiographies (1955)
Two stars: Collected Poems (1956)
One star: Collected Plays (1963)
A Vision
Mythologies

Frank WEDEKIND (1864-1918)
Lulu Plays
Spring Awakening

Max WEBER (1864-1920) Reference: Moriyuki The very existence of transgressions implies the existence of interdicts against which they are directed, but Weber did not understand that grace only comes through renunciation and that true charisma must therefore by interdictory. --James Hitchcock, Transgressive Liturgy: How the therapeutic mentality affects the culture and Catholic worship, Adoremus Bulletin, September 2007, p. 6
Essays in Sociology (1947)

Miguel de UNAMUNO (1864-1936) Etext: Project Gutenberg Criticism: Ward
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations (1913)
Three Exemplary Novels
Our Lord Don Quixote

Joseph BEDIER (1864-1938) Criticism: Van Doren
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult [from Les Legendes Epiques (1908-21)]

S. ANSKY (Shloyme-Zanvel Rappaport/Semyon Akimovich Ansky, 1863-1930) Criticism: Stanford
The Dybbuk

C. P. CAVAFY (1863-1933) Criticism: Dalrymple
Collected Poems Cavafy wanted 154 of his poems preserved, all of them quite short by the standards of 20th-century poetry, each an attempt to clarify and dramatise, in the style of Browning's dramatic monologues, a moment or incident from the past, either a personal past or that of the wider Hellenic world. --Edward Said, Thoughts on Late Style, London Review of Books, August 5, 2004, pp. 6-7

Gabriele D'ANNUNZIO (1863-1938) Etext: The Online Books Page
Maia: In Praise of Life

George SANTAYANA (1863-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kimball | McClay | Fadiman
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900)
Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923)
Realms of Being: Realm of Essence (1927); Realm of Matter (1930); Realm of Truth (1938)
The Last Puritan (1935)
Persons and Places (3 vol.): The Background of My Life (1944); The Middle Span (1945); My Host the World (1953)
Dialogues in Limbo
"The Unknowable"
Character and Opinion in the United States
The Idea of Christ in the Gospels
The Life of Reason
A Long Way Round to Nirvana
Music
The Sense of Beauty
Three Philosophical Poets
Winds of Doctrine

Felix DUBOIS (1862-[?])
Timbuctoo the Mysterious (1897)

David HILBERT (1862-1914) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Foundations of Geometry (1899)

Arthur SCHNITZLER (1862-1931) Etext: The Online Books Page
Plays
Stories

Edith WHARTON (1862-1937) Etext: Reference: Criticism: Weblog
Two stars: The Age of Innocence (1920) The absolute imprisonment in which her characters stagnate, their artificial and false standards, the desperate monotony of trivial routine, the slow petrification of generous ardours, the paralysis of emotion, the accumulation of ice around the heart, the total loss of life in upholstered existence--are depicted with a high excellence that never falters. --William Lyon Phelps, The New York Times Book Review, October 17, 1920
Two stars: The House of Mirth (1905)
One star: The Custom of the Country
Collected Short Stories
Ethan Frome

Gerhart HAUPTMANN (1862-1946) Criticism: Ward
Five Plays (1961)

Sir Walter Alexander RALEIGH (1861-1922) Etext: Weblog
The Discovery Of Guiana

William BATESON (1861-1926) Etext: The Online Books Page
Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1902)

Italo SVEVO (Aron Ettore Schmitz, 1861-1928) Criticism: Tushnet | Wood | Ward
One star: Confessions of Zeno or Zeno's Conscience (1923)
As a Man Grows Older

Frederick Jackson TURNER (1861-1932) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Downs
The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) [H]is idea, that Americans were distinctive because their interaction with the North American environment since the seventeenth century made them democrats and individualist, swept the emerging historical profession in the United States and many opinion-makers outside it... --Walter Nugent, The Review of Politics, Spring 1999, pp. 356-357

TAGORE (Sir Rabindranath Thakur, 1861-1941) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ward
One star: Collected Poems and Plays (1966) The greatest literary figure of the Indian national revival in the twentieth century. --A Guide to Oriental Classics (3rd Ed. 1989) p. 152

Sir Halford John MACKINDER (1861-1947) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Downs
The Geographical Pivot of History (1904)

Alfred North WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Stanford Criticism: Fadiman | Van Doren
A Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898)
One star: An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
One star: Science and the Modern World (1925)
Process and Reality (1929)
Adventures of Ideas (1933)
The Aims of Education
The Place of Classics in Education
Religion in the Making
Alfred North WHITEHEAD and Bertrand RUSSELL
Pricipia Mathematica [Principles of Mathematics] (1910-1913) Etext: Volume I | Volume II | Volume III attempted to show that all of pure mathematics is derivable from logical principles. --Byron E. Wall, 'John Venn, James Wood and the Chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic at the University of Cambridge, Journal of the History of Ideas, January 2007, p. 149

Jules LAFORGUE (1860-1887)
Selected Writings

Anton Pavlovich CHEKHOV (1860-1904) Etext: Criticism: Weblog Criticism: Fadiman | Ward The question which Chekhov brings out in all his stories is: 'What is to be done? What is life for?' Chekhov's conclusion is that we are here to work, to serve our brothers. --Dorothy Day, A Revolution Near Our Shores, December 1961, in Selected Writings: By Little and By Little, edited by Robert Ellsberg 1995
Two stars: Uncle Vanya (c. 1890-1896) Sonia and her Uncle Vanya (1897), left at the end in the same predicament that they were in before the pompous Professor Serebryakoff came to muddle their existence, see only monotony ahead of them, only a dreary round of days. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 284
Four stars: Three Sisters (1900-1901) [W]hose heroines are stifled in the atmosphere they must breathe; they dream of Moscow, where they fancy life would be perfect, but they will never get there. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 285
Three stars: The Cherry Orchard (1904) The irresponsible Liuboff Andreievna and her still more irresponsible brother Gaieff, who imagines he is playing billiards when he is supposed to be thinking seriously about the future of the estate--his mind is never where HE is--are so vivid before us that we can have the illusion of being onlookers at a certain moment when the history of Russia opens itself for our inspection. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 285
The Tales

D'Arcy THOMPSON (1860-1948) Reference: Dundee | HMA
On Growth and Form (1917) Criticism: Scaruffi | Wilding

Abraham CAHAN (1860-1951) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Rise of David Levinsky

Francis THOMPSON (1859-1907) Etext: The Online Books Page
Poems

Sholem ALEICHEM (1859-1916) Reference: Network
Tevye the Dairyman
The Railroad Stories
The Nightingale

Jacques LOEB (1859-1924)
The Mechanistic Conception of Life (1912)

Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859-1930) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Rexroth | Van Doren | Carey | Hickling | Posner | Miller Oct. '04 | Miller Jan. '04 | McGourty | Harwood
One star: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Oh Sherlock, Sherlock, he's in town again, That prince of perspicuity, that monument of brain, It seems he wasn't hurt at all By tumbling down that waterfall. --P. G. Wodehouse, Punch

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kermode | Leithauser
Collected Poems

Henry Havelock ELLIS (1859-1939) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Downs
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1928)

Henri BERGSON (1859-1941) Etext: The Online Books Page | Mead Project
Time and Free Will (1889)
Matter and Memory (1896)
Creative Evolution (1907)
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
The Creative Mind
Laughter

John DEWEY (1859-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page | The Mead Project | Institute for Learning Technologies Reference: Center for Dewey Studies-Carbondale | Perspectives Of Pragmatism Criticism: Bonagura | Rorty | Downs | Fadiman
School and Society (1899)
The Practical Character of Reality ("Does Reality Possess Practical Character?" 1908)
How We Think (1910)
Philosophies of Freedom (Lectures by John Dewey: Moral and Political Philosophy, 1915-1916, edited by Warren J. Samuels and Donald F. Koch)
Democracy and Education (1916)
Essays in Experimental Logic (1916)
Reconstruction in Philosophy (1919)
One star: Human Nature and Conduct (1922)
Experience and Nature (1925)
The Quest for Certainty (1929)
Affective Thought (collected in Philosophy and Civilization 1931)
Development of American Education (American Education Past and Future 1931)
Ethics (second edition,with James Hayden Tufts, 1932)
Art as Experience (1934)
Logic (1938)
Experience and Education (1938)
Freedom and Culture (1939)
Science and Society (The Philosophy of John Dewey, Volume I: The Structure of Experience, V. The Culture of Inquiry, 23. Science and Society, 1973)

Knut HAMSUN (1859-1952) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Wood | Ward
One star: Hunger (1891)
Mysteries (1892)
Pan

Charles W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Short Fiction

Franz BOAS (1858-1942) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: MNSU
The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)
Anthropology and Modern Life (1928)

Max PLANCK (1858-1947) Reference: Society Criticism: Holton and Sopka At the time, Planck saw his quanta as a mere mathematical trick, of the sort beloved by physicists needing to untangle knotty equations. Not even he believed that the idea corresponded to any physical reality. --The Economist, December 9th 2000, p. 88 In 1900, Max Planck found that a certain theoretical conundrum could be resolved only by assuming that the energy in light waves comes in discrete, indivisible chunks, which he called quanta. --Stephen M. Barr, Faith and Quantum Theory, First Things, March 2007, p. 21
Lectures on Thermodynamics (Varlesungen uber Thermodynamik 1897)
Lectures on the Theory of Heat Radiation (Varlesungen uber die Theorie der Warmestrahlung 1906)
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
The Philosophy of Physics (1936)
Scientific Autobiography (1949)
The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics

George GISSING (1857-1903) Etext: The Online Books Page
New Grub Street Criticism: Schwarz

John DAVIDSON (1857-1909) Etext: The Online Books Page
Ballads and Songs

Joseph CONRAD (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Weblog | Fadiman | Ward The most critical and important event in Joseph Conrad's literary life--one made sometime in the 1890s, relatively early in his writing career--was the discovery of his first-person speaker, an Englishman named Marlow who narrated the story to others. --David Thorburn, Heart of Darkness--Europe's Kurtz, Lecture 6, Masterworks of 20th-Century Literature, The Teaching Company
One star: Lord Jim (1900) Criticism: Panichas
One star: Heart of Darkness (1902) Today it is scarcely possible to read Marlow's celebration of England without irony; to many, especially among the English themselves, it is bound to seem patently absurd. ... Having the choice to make, Conrad himself elected to become English exactly because he believed England to be a good nation. --Lionel Trilling Take all kinds of social conventions away, and man becomes a brute, willing to adopt any methods to achieve his ends. --Anthony Daniels, Conservative Classic - 24: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, The Salisbury Review, Winter 2006, p. 32 We come to recognize the Kurtz represents what is best about European civilization, and that someone representing Europe's highest achievements should descend into savagery, should have become such a murderer, and such an instance of 'the horror' (Kurtz's last words), is a deep commentary on the imperial adventure. --David Thorburn, Heart of Darkness--Europe's Kurtz, Lecture 6, Masterworks of 20th-Century Literature, The Teaching Company
One star: Nostromo (1904)
One star: The Secret Agent (1907) one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the two unquestionable classics of the first order that he added to the English novel. F. R. Leavis, 'The Great Tradition' (1948) portrays nihilists and anarchists in London... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 27 Terrorism is the little man's revenge --Robert D. Kaplan, The National Interest, Thanksgiving 2001, p. 33
One star: Under Western Eyes (1911) is concerned with Russian politics and psychology in the year 1911, and particularly with the revolutionary mind. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 27
The Secret Sharer (1912) [H]as two chief characters, a young merchant captain and a refugee officer whom he hides in his cabin... --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 295
Victory (1915)

Thorstein Bunde VEBLEN (1857-1929) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Price | Downs
One star: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
The Higher Learning in America (1918)
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization (1919)
Vested Interests and the State of Industrial Arts (1919)
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times (1923)

C. S. SHERRINGTON (1857-1952) Reference: UIC
The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906)
Man on His Nature (1940)

Harold FREDRIC (1856-1898)
The Damnation of Theron Ware

Frederick Winslow TAYLOR (1856-1915) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Downs
Principles of Scientific Management (1911)

Woodrow WILSON (1856-1924) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Center Criticism: Kagan | Pestritto | Freund | Gamble | Downs
The New Freedom (1913)

Sigmund FREUD (1856-1939) Etext: The Online Books Page | Classics in the History of Psychology Study: Leadership U. Criticism: Weblog | Downs | Fadiman | Van Doren | Ward Freud thought that he shared with Copernicus the distinction of having shaken man's confidence in himself. --Peter Wolff, Foundations of Science and Mathematics (1960), p. 92 Freud's discovery of the unconscious as an integral part of mental life irreversibly changed the conception of the human psyche. --Robert L. Heilbroner, 'Marxism: For and Against' (1980) p. 16 compared himself to Darwin and suggested that science is being carried over from the notion of the biological to the notion of the social or psychological. --Jeffrey L. Kasser, Philosophy of Science, Lecture 2: Popper and the Problem of Demarcation, The Teaching Company taught authority to see in itself only the vestiges of taboo, causing many of the cultural elite unwittingly to go over to what he called the 'mass'--those who have no love for instinctual renunciation--in the most elaborate act of cultural suicide Western intellectuals have yet staged. --James Hitchcock, Transgressive Liturgy: How the therapeutic mentality affects the culture and Catholic worship, Adoremus Bulletin, September 2007, p. 6
Selected Papers on Hysteria (1893-1908) ...Pavlov's conditioning experiments were well into the future. Freud talked instead in terms of the association of ideas, which, as we know, was discovered at least as far back as Aristotle. --V. J. McGill, Biology, Psychology, and Medicine (1963), p. 326 Many of Freud's early patients were categorized as having hysteria--which we now call conversion disorder--where you have a part of the body that does not work quite properly and it has a psychological root cause to it. --David W. Martin, Psychology of Human Behavior, Lecture 7: Classification of Mental Illness, The Teaching Company
Three stars: The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung 1900) Freud's claim, which is now generally conceded, is that this content of the dream is derived from the experiences of the dreamer in the twenty-four hour period just preceding. --V. J. McGill, Biology, Psychology, and Medicine (1963), p. 338
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis (1910)
The History of the Psycho-Analytical Movement (1914) the best place at which to start reading, within the vast canon of Freud's work, his own defense of the analytic attitude against the doctrinaire therapeutics. --Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966) p. 79
One star: A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (Vorlesungen zur Einfuhring in die Psychoanalyse 1915-1917) His reasons for extending the meaning of this term ['sexual'] came from a study of three sets of facts: (1) perversions, (2) neuroses, and (3) infant sexuality. People balk at calling these things sexual, but Freud argues vigorously and voluminously that they are. --V. J. McGill, Biology, Psychology, and Medicine (1963), p. 354
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1917)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1920)
Psycho-analysis (1922)
The Ego and the Id (1923)
Two stars: Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) ...admits that tracing religious beliefs back to psychic needs does not disprove their objective truth. He relies on the findings of the natural sciences for that. --Seymour Cain, Religion and Theology (1961), p.254
One star: New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1932) The ego, then, does not simply inhibit its pleasure seeking; it is humiliated and tortured by an apparently independent agency, split off from the ego. This is the *superego*. --V. J. McGill, Biology, Psychology, and Medicine (1963), p. 367
An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938)
Dynamics of the Transference
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Moses and Monotheism ...he calls the church the old enemy, as compared to the new enemy, Nazism. --Seymour Cain, Religion and Theology (1961), p. 256
On Narcissism
Repression
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
The Unconscious
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

George Bernard SHAW (1856-1950) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Allen | Palmer | Fadiman | Van Doren | Ward
One star: Arms and the Man (1898)
One star: Candida (1898)
One star: The Devil's Disciple (1901)
One star: Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) [C]onveys among other things the conviction of Shaw that Julius Caesar was one of the great men of all time, and therefore superior, Shaw thought, to the figure Shakespeare gave him to cut in the great play that bears his name. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 283
Two stars: Man and Superman (1903) ...John Tanner is Shaw's own man: opinionated, headstrong, eloquent, yet wittily aware of his own absurdity if someone like Ann, whom he loves in spite of his resolution never to yield his freedom to any woman, has the audacity to point it out. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 283
Two stars: Major Barbara (1907) Undershaft, a munitions-maker, justifies his trade on the ground that it may help men to shoot and kill such abominations as poverty, which he thinks the Salvation Army, in the person of Barbara, sentimentally encourages rather than cures. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 283
Two stars: Pygmalion (1913)
One star: Androcles and the Lion (1916)
Two stars: Heartbreak House (1919)
One star: Back to Methuselah (1921)
Three stars: Saint Joan (1924) Once more we have a conflict of wills, and once more the balance is even; for the death of Joan does not absolve those who burned her, even though they had the best of reasons. --Mark Van Doren, The Great Ideas Today 1969, p. 284
Capital and Wages
Doctor's Dilemma
Dramatic Opinion and Essays
Freedom and the State
Getting Married
John Bull's Other Island
The Man of Destiny
Our Lost Honesty
Redistribution of Income
Socialism and Culture
Major Critical Essays

Jean-Nicolas-Arthur RIMBAUD (1854-1891) Etext: Athena Reference: Authors' Calendar Criticism: Weblog | Ward Still the question lurks. What do people talk about when they talk about Arthur Rimbaud? Is it his oblique and strangely impersonal verse that has outlived him, or is it his high-pitched but ultimately impenetrable life that casts such a long shadow? --Daphne Merkin, 'Rimbaud Rules', The American Scholar, Winter 2003, p. 52
One star: Complete Works (Oeuvres 1898) And when he has finished jibing at and anatematizing all social institutions from the bourgeois family to the schools, the church, the military, and the state and, indeed, France itself, he rebels against rebellion and, in what is perhaps the most outrageous and puzzling of his postures, slinks abjectly to the foot of the Cross. --Eric Ormsbey, The New Criterion, June 2001, p. 17

Oscar WILDE (1854-1900) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Weblog Even in his lifetime, he was famous for being famous, before he had written anything of enduring value. --Adam Kirsch, 'Paradox on the Grand Scale', The American Scholar, Winter 2001, p. 143
De Profundis (1891) ...the prose letter to 'Bosie', his homosexual friend Lord Alfred Douglas, is the cardinal document in that scandal which broke upon the public in 1895 with Wilde's defeat in the case brought against the Maquess of Queensberry for criminal libel, and his imprisonment, with hard labour, for two years. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) pp. 242-243
One star: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) ...an autobiographical novel of tragic intensity... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 241
One star: Lady Windermere's Fan (1893)
An Ideal Husband (1899)
One star: The Importance of Being Earnest (1899) verbal opera -- W. H. Auden Wilde's wicked expose of the artificiality of conventional morality and his one unequivocally great work. --Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, October 10, 2002, p. 18
Letters (1962)
One star: The Artist as Critic full title: The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (1969)

Jules-Henri POINCARE (1854-1912)
The New Methods of Celestial Mechanics (Les Methodes nouvelles de la mecanique celeste 3 vols., 1892, 1893, 1899)
One star: Science and Hypothesis (1905)
The Foundations of Science
Science and Method
The Value of Science

Sir James George FRAZER (1854-1941) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Downs
The Golden Bough (1890; 1911-15)
The New Golden Bough (1959)

Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Etext: The Online Books Page
Complete Letters (1958) His letters, like the autobiography of Cellini, reveal an extraordinary originality and individuality. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 9

H. A. LORENTZ (Hendrik A. Lorentz, 1853-1928) Reference: Nobel Criticism: Holton and Sopka
The Theory of Electrons and Its Application to the Phenomena of Light and Radiant Heat (1909)

CLARIN (Leopoldo Alas, 1852-1901) Reference: CE
La Regenta

Kate CHOPIN (1851-1904) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: PBS
One star: The Awakening (1899)

I. L. PERETZ (1851-1915) Etext: Golem
Selected Stories

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