Rediscovering Literature

Art, beauty, truth, the love of language, to hear unforgettable voices and visions, to feel passion, experience purpose, to be inspired and awakened to new realities, to be delighted or surprised, to embark on incredible odysseys, to accompany the hero on his epic quest, to imagine: these are only a few of the many reasons we read and celebrate literature. Literature represents the very best of human expression, and it's not by any accident that, long after bestsellers and sensationalized books have faded from memory, literature continues to thrive and remain relevant to our contemporary human condition. Literature has many purposes and opens doors to unique worlds, which are never wholly removed from our own, and characters, who almost always have much in common with us and the challenges we face in the modern world. Through literature we rediscover ourselves and our world time and again.

The next time you visit the library and you cannot find your favorite author's latest book, why go home empty-handed? Visit the 800 section in the library. There you will find scores of shelves stocked with intriguing works both great and small, incredibly profound or profoundly simple. The 800 section is subdivided as follows:

In addition to this, many literary fiction titles can be located in the Fiction sections of the library as well as the Large Print section. Ask a librarian for assistance or a recommendation based on your reading preferences. There's always something here for you, and you needn't go very far to find it.

FICTION

Author			Title

Austen, Jane            Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte        Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte            Wuthering Heights
Pearl S. Buck           The Good Earth
John Bunyan             The Pilgrim's Progress
Albert Camus            The Stranger
Lewis Carroll           Alice in Wonderland
Cervantes               The Adventures of Don Quixote
Kate Chopin             The Awakening
Joseph Conrad           The Heart of Darkness
James F. Cooper         Last of the Mohicans
Stephen Crane           The Red Badge of Courage;
                  	Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
Dante                   The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens         David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoyevsky      Crime and Punishment;
                        Notes from the Underground
Theodore Dreiser        Sister Carrie
George Eliot            Silas Marner
Ralph Ellison           Invisible Man
F. Scott Fitzgerald     The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert        Madame Bovary
Alex Haley              Roots
Nathaniel Hawthorne     The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway        The Old Man and the Sea
William Golding         Lord of the Flies
Homer                   The Odyssey; The Illiad
Victor Hugo             Les Miserables
Aldus Huxley            Brave New World
James Joyce             A Portrait of the Artist as a
                        Young Man; Ulysses; Dubliners;
                        Finnegans Wake
Franz Kafka             The Metamorphosis
Sinclair Lewis          Arrowsmith; Babbit
Herman Melville         Moby Dick
Arthur Miller           Death of a Salesman; The Crucible
Margaret Mitchell       Gone With the Wind
George Orwell           Animal Farm; 1984
Edgar Allen Poe         Tales and Poems
Ayn Rand                The Fountainhead
J. D. Salinger          Catcher in the Rye
Mary Shelley            Frankenstein
John Steinbeck          Of Mice and Men; The Pearl
Robert Lewis Stevenson  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Johnathan Swift         Gulliver's Travels
Henry David Thoreau     Civil Disobedience; Walden
J. R. R. Tolkien        The Lord of the Rings
Mark Twain              A Connecticut Yankee in King
                        Arthur's Court; Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire                Candide
Kurt Vonnegut           Slaughterhouse Five
Alice Walker            The Color Purple
H. G. Wells             The Invisible Man; The Time Machine
Edith Wharton           Ethan Frome; The Age of Innocence
Thornton Wilder         Our Town
Richard Wright          Native Son








DRAMA

Dramatist               Title

Aeschylus               The Orestia
Aristophanes            Collected Plays
Samuel Beckett          Waiting for Godot; selected plays
Bertolt Brecht          Collected Plays
Anton Chekhov           The Cherry Orchard and other plays
Euripides               Assorted Plays
Ben Jonson              The Alchemist
Henrick Ibsen           A Doll's House, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler
Sir Thomas Kyd          The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe     Complete Plays
Arthur Miller           The Crucible, Death of a Salesman,
Moliere                 The Misanthrope and other plays
Sean O'Casey            Collected Plays
Eugene O'Neill          Complete Plays
Luigi Pirandello        Four Characters in Search of an Author
William Shakespeare     Complete Plays
Bernard Shaw            Man and Superman; Saint Joan
Sophocles               Oedipus Rex
Tom Stoppard            Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Leo Tolstoy             Anna Karenina
Tennessee Williams      Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire;
                        Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Oscar Wilde             The Importance of Being Ernest








POETRY

Poet                    Title

(Anonymous)             Beowulf (verse translation by Seamus Heaney)
William Blake           Poems
Elizabeth B. Browning   Sonnets from the Portuguese;
                        Collected poems
Robert Browning         Dramatic poems
George Byron            Don Juan and other poems
Chaucer                 The Canterbury Tales
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner; poems
Hart Crane              The Bridge
E. E. cummings          Complete poems
Emily Dickinson         Collected Poems
John Donne              Collected Poems
T. S. Eliot             The Wasteland; Four Quartets
Robert Frost            Complete poems
Allen Ginsberg          Howl
John Keats              Selected Poems
Christopher Marlowe     Hero and Leander
Andrew Marvell          Assorted Poems
John Milton             Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained
Ovid                    The Metamorphoses
Ezra Pound              The Cantos
William Shakespeare     Complete Sonnets; Long Poems
Vergil                  The Aeneid
Walt Whitman            Song of Myself; Leaves of Grass,
                        and his collected poems








NONFICTION

The following works represent notable books on a variety
of subjects, including Philosophy, Mythology, and
Literary Criticism.

Author                  Title

Aristotle               Poetics; Ethics; On Rhetoric
Sir Francis Bacon       Complete Essays; New Atlantis
Harold Bloom            The Western Canon
Thomas Bulfinch         Mythology; The Age of Chivalry;
                        The Age of Fable
Robert Burns            Poems
Joseph Campbell         The Masks of God (4 Vol.);
                        Hero with a Thousand Faces;
                        The Power of Myth
Charles Darwin          The Origin of Species;
                        The Voyage of the Beagle
T. S. Eliot             Collected Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson     Complete Essays
Sigmund Freud           On the Interpretation of Dreams
Herodotus               The Histories
David Hume              A Treatise on Human Nature
Carl Jung               Man and His Symbols; asst. works
John Locke              An Essay Concerning Human
                        Understanding
Lucretius               De Rerum Natura (On the Nature
                        of Things)
Niccolo Machiavelli     The Prince
                        The Norton Anthology of Theory
                        and Criticism
Plato                   The Republic
Northrop Frye           The Anatomy of Criticism
Lao Tzu                 Tao Te Ching (The Way of Life)
Sun Tzu                 The Art of War
Xenophon                The Memoirs of Socrates