This is by far the best anthology of English poetry, its only rival
being the first series of Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Those interested
in the work of more recent poets and in the latest poetic "movements"
in England and America would be wise to turn to Putnam's "Georgian
Poetry"--two series--and "The New Poetry" by Harriet Monroe, published
by Macmillan. The compiler of this selection of books feels himself
that the most poetical among the younger poets of our age is Walter de
la Mare and of the poems which Mr. de la Mare has so far written, he
finds the best to be those extraordinary and magical verses entitled
"The Listeners" which seem to come nearer to giving a voice to the
unutterable margin of our days than any others written within the last
ten years.
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Hundred Best Books, also the titles of other books recommended in the
text by Mr. Powys. The numerals following the titles of the books
refer to the number given the books in this list, while the prices
attached thereto are the Publisher's list prices. If sent by mail or
express it is necessary to add the cost, which is usually about 10 per
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INDEX WITH PRICES OF RECOMMENDED EDITIONS OF
JOHN COWPER POWYS' LIST
OF
ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS
And Other Books Mentioned In the Text
Binding and
price
Author Title Leather Cloth
Artzibasheff ........ Sanine (52) ....................... $1.35
Artzibasheff ........ Breaking Point .................... 1.40
Austen, Jane ........ *Pride and Prejudice (61) ......... $1.25 .75
Balzac, Honore de ... *Lost Illusions (29) Centenary ed.. 1.35
Balzac, Honore de ... *Cousin Bette (30) Centenary ed.... 1.35
Balzac, Honore de ... *Old Goriot (31) Centenary ed...... 1.35
Bennett, Arnold ..... Clayhanger (99).................... 1.50
Bennett, Arnold ..... Hilda Lessways .................... 1.50
Bennett, Arnold ..... These Twain ....................... 1.50
Bennett, Arnold ..... Old Wives' Tale ................... 1.50
Bennett, Arnold ..... Anna of the Five Towns ............ 1.20
Brontë, Emily ....... Wüthering Heights (62) ............ 1.75
Bourget, Paul ....... Le Disciple (38)................... .75
Browne, Sir Thos..... *Religio Medici and Urn Burial
(11) in Scott Library ........... .40
Browne, Sir Thos..... *Religio (Golden Treasury Series) . 1.00
Cannan, Gilbert...... Round the Corner (96) ............. 1.35
Cannan, Gilbert...... Young Earnest ..................... 1.35
Cannan, Gilbert...... Old Mole .......................... 1.35
Catullus............. Loeb Library Edition (5) .......... 2.00 1.50
Cervantes............ *Don Quixote (27) trans. W.J.
Jarvis ........................... 2.00
Carroll, Lewis....... Alice in Wonderland (91) ......... 1.00
Carroll, Lewis....... Thro the Looking Glass ........... 1.00
Chesterton, G.K...... Orthodoxy (86) ................... 1.50
Conrad, Joseph....... Chance (75) ...................... 1.50
Conrad, Joseph....... Lord Jim (76) .................... 1.50
Conrad, Joseph....... Victory (77) ..................... 1.50
Conrad, Joseph ...... Youth (78) ....................... 1.50
Conrad, Joseph ...... Almayer's Folly (79) ............. 1.35
Dante ............... Divine Comedy (6) ................
Temple Classics, 3 vols. ......... 1.35
D'Annunzio, G. ...... The Flame of Life (40) ........... 1.50
D'Annunzio, G. ...... The Triumph of Death (41) ........ 1.50
de la Mare, Walter... The Listeners .................... 1.20
Dickens, Charles..... *Great Expectations (60),
Oxford Edition ................. .75
Dickens, Charles..... *Great Expectations, Oxford
Red Venetian ................... 1.25
Dickens, Charles..... *Great Expectations, India paper,
Lambskin ....................... 1.75
Dostoievsky, F....... *Crime and Punishment, trans. C.
Garnett (42) ................... 1.50
Dostoievsky, F....... *The Idiot (43), C. Garnett ...... 1.50
Dostoievsky, F....... The Brothers Karamazov (44) C.
Garnett ........................ 1.50
Dostoievsky, F....... The Insulted and Injured (45) C.
Garnett ........................ 1.50
Dostoievsky, F....... The Possessed (46) C. Garnett .... 1.50
Dreiser, Theodore.... The Titan (26) ................... 1.40
Emerson, R.W......... Essays (23), first and second
series in one volume. Cambridge
Classics Edition ............... .90
Euripides ........... The Bacchae (3), trans, by Gilbert
Murray ......................... .65
France, Anatole ..... The Elm Tree on the Mall (34) .... 1.75
France, Anatole ..... The Opinions of Jerome
Coignard (35) .................. 1.75
France, Anatole ..... My Friend's Book (36) ............ 1.75
Galsworthy, John..... The Country House (92) ........... 1.35
Galsworthy, John..... The Man of Property (93) ......... 1.35
Galsworthy, John..... Fraternity (94) .................. 1.35
Georgian Poetry...... 1911/1912 ........................ 1.50
Georgian Poetry...... 1913/1914 ........................ 1.50
Goethe............... *Faust (12) trans. by Bayard Taylor 1.25
Goethe............... *Wilhelm Meister (13) trans. by
Carlyle ........................ 1.25
Goethe............... Goethe's Conversations with
Eckerman (14) .................. 1.25
Gourmont, Remy de.... A Night in the Luxembourg (37) ... 1.50
Gorki, Maxim......... Foma Gordyeeff (50) ... 1.00
Hardy, Thomas ....... Tess of the D'Urbevilles (70) .... 1.50
Hardy, Thomas........ The Return of the Native (71) .... 1.50
Hardy, Thomas........ The Mayor of Casterbridge (72).... 1.50
Hardy, Thomas........ Far from the Madding Crowd (73) .. 1.50
Hardy, Thomas........ Wessex Poems (74) ................ 1.85
Hardy, Thomas........ Poems of Past and Present ........ 1.60
Hardy, Thomas........ Satires of Circumstances ......... 1.50
Hauptmann............ The Fool in Christ, (20) ......... 1.50
Heine ............... Prose works and "Confessions"
(18), Scott Library ............ .40
Heine ............... Life of--Great Writers Series .... .40
Horace............... *Odes (4) prose translation ...... 1.25
Hugo, Victor ........ *The Toilers of the Sea (28) ..... 1.00
Homer ............... *The Odyssey, (2) Butcher and
Lang ............................ .80
Ibsen................ *The Wild Duck (21) .............. 1.00
James, Henry ........ The Ambassadors (64) ............. 2.00
James, Henry ........ The Tragic Muse (65) 2 vols. each. 1.25
James, Henry ........ The Soft Side (66) ............... 1.50
James, Henry ........ The Better Sort (67) ............. 1.35
James, Henry ........ The Wings of a Dove (68) 2 vols. . 2.25
James, Henry ........ The Golden Bowl (69) 2 vols. ..... 2.25
Kipling, Rudyard..... The Jungle Book (90) ............. 1.50
Lamb, Charles ....... *Essays of Elia (55) Eversley Ed. 1.50
Masters, Edgar Lee... Spoon River Anthology (25) ....... 1.50 1.25
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage (95) ............ 1.50
Maupassant, Guy de .. Madame Tellier's Establishment
(32) paper ..................... .40
Meredith, George .... Harry Richmond (65) Pocket ed. ... 1.00
Milton ......(10) Eversley Edition (or*), 3 vols. set 4.50
Monroe, Harriet ..... The New Poetry ................... 1.50
Nietzsche, F......... Zarathustra (15) ................. 2.00
Nietzsche, F......... The Joyful Wisdom (16) ........... 1.60
Nietzsche, F......... Ecce Homo (17) ................... 2.00
Nietzsche, F......... Commentary by Lichtenberger ...... 1.50
Nietzsche, F......... Life of by Daniel Halevy, trans. . 1.25
Onions, Oliver ...... The Story of Louie (98) .......... 1.25
Onions, Oliver ...... In Accordance with the Evidence .. 1.25
Onions, Oliver ...... The Debit Account ................ 1.25
O'Sullivan, Vincent.. The Good Girl (97) ............... 1.35
Oxford Book of English Verse (100), crown 8 vo. ....... 2.00
Oxford Book of English Verse, India Paper Edition ..... 2.75
Palgrave ............ Golden Treasury, First Series* ... 1.00
Pater, Walter ....... Marius the Epicurean (80), 2 vols. 4.00
Pater, Walter ....... Studies in the Renaissance (81) .. 2.00
Pater, Walter ....... Imaginary Portraits (82) ......... 2.00
Pater, Walter ....... Plato and Platonism (83) ......... 2.00
Pater, Walter ....... Gaston de Latour (84) ............ 2.00
Rabelais ............ (7) Edition with Doré Illustrations
Rare Selection in French Classics
for English Readers' Series .... 1.25
Rolland, Romain ..... Jean Christophe (39)
(trans. G. Cannan), 3 vols. .... 4.50
Scott, Sir Walter ... *Guy Mannering (56), Dryburgh
Edition ........................ 1.25
Scott, Sir Walter ... *Bride of Lammermoor (57) ........ 1.25
Scott, Sir Walter ... *Heart of Midlothian (58) ........ 1.25
Shakespeare ......... Troilus and Cressida (9), Temple . .55 .35
Shakespeare ......... Measure for Measure, Temple ...... .55 .35
Shakespeare ......... Timon of Athens, Temple Edition .. .55 .35
Shaw, George Bernard Man and Superman (85) ............ 1.25
Stendhal ............ The Red and the Black (33) ....... 1.75
Sterne, Laurence .... *Tristram Shandy (53)
Lib. of Eng. Classics,
2 vols. each ................... 1.50
Strindberg, August .. The Confessions of a Fool (22) ... 1.35
Sudermann ........... Song of Songs (19) ............... 1.40
Swift, Jonathan ..... *Tale of a Tub (54), Bohn Lib. ... 1.25
Thackeray, W.M. ..... *Henry Esmond (59), Cranford
Series ......................... 2.00
Thackeray, W.M. ..... *Henry Esmond, Oxford Edition .... .75
Thackeray, W.M. ..... *Henry Esmond, India Paper ed. ... 1.75
Turgeniev ........... *Virgin Soil, trans. Constance
Garnett, 2 vols. each (47) ..... 1.00
Turgeniev ........... Sportsman's Sketches, trans.
Constance Garnett,
2 vols. each (48) .............. 1.00
Turgeniev ........... *Lisa, trans. Constance
Garnett, (49) .................. 1.00
Tschekoff ........... The Sea Gull (51) ................ 1.50
Voltaire ............ Candide (8) in Morley's Universal
Library ........................ .35
Whitman, Walt ....... *Leaves of Grass (24) ............ 1.25
Wilde, Oscar ........ Intentions (87) Ravenna Edition .. 1.25
Wilde, Oscar ........ The Importance of Being
Earnest (88) ................... 1.25
Wilde, Oscar ........ De Profundis (89) ................ 1.25
An asterisk (*) before the title of a book indicates that it may be
obtained in Everyman's Library, as well as the edition named, price 40
cts, in cloth, and 80 cts. in leather.