Listappendix
The four columns represent the Good
Reading editions in four different decades.
An “x” after an author’s name indicates that he was included in that
edition.
1935 1947 1969 1980
Aeschylus x x x
Aesop x x
Aristophanes x x x x
Aristotle x x x
Confucius x x x
Euripides x x x
Herodutus x x
Homer x x x x
Lao-Tzu x x x
Lucretius x x x
Marcus Aurelius x x x
Plato x x x x
Plutarch x x x x
Sophocles x x x x
The Bible x x x x
Thucydides x x x
Vergil x x x x
The Middle Ages
The Arabian Nights x x x x
Chaucer x x x x
Dante x x x x
Khayyam x x x x
Malory x x x x
Mohammad x
Villon x
The Renaissance
Bacon x x x x
Boccacio x x x x
Cellini x x x
Cervantes x x x x
Erasmus x
Machiavelli x x x
Montaigne x x x x
More x x x x
Rabelais x x x x
Shakespeare x x x x
The 17th
Century
Bunyan x x x x
Descartes x x x
Donne x x
Moliere x x x
Pepys x x x
Spinoza x x
The 18th
Century
Boswell x x x x
Addison & Steele x
Burns x x x x
Defoe x x x x
Fielding x x x x
Gibbon x x x x
Goldsmith x
Kant x
Locke x
Malthus x x x
Paine x
Rousseau x x x
Smith x x x
Smollett x
Sterne x x x x
Swift x x x
Voltaire x x x x
19th
Century—
Cooper x
Emerson x x x x
Melville x x x
Poe x x x x
Thoreau x x x x
Twain x x x x
Whitman x x x x
19th
Century-- England
Austen x x x x
Bronte, C. x x
Bronte, E. x x
Browning* x x x x
Byron x x x x
Dickens x x x x
Eliot x
Gilbert x
Hardy x x x x
Keats x x x
Lamb x x
Meredith x
Palgrave x
Reade x x
Scott x
Shelley x x x
Tennyson x
Thackery x x x x
Wordsworth x x x
19th
Century—The Continent
Balzac x x x x
Chekov x x
Dostoyevsky x x x x
Flaubert x x x x
Goethe x x x x
Hugo x x x x
Ibsen x x x x
Marx x x x
Maupassant x x x
Stendhal x x x
Tolstoy x x x x
20th
Century—
Cabell x
Cather x
Dreiser x x
Eliot, T.S. x x
Ellison x
Faulkner x x
Frost x x
Hemingway x x
Lewis x x x
O’Neill x x x x
Sandburg x x
Sinclair x
Steinbeck x x x
Steffens x
Veblen x x x
Wharton x
20th
Century-- England
Bennett x x
Conrad x
Frazer x x
Galsworthy x x
Housman x x
Huxley x
Joyce x x
Masefield x
Maugham x x
Shaw x x x
Strachey x
Wells x
Yeats x x
20th Century—The Continent
Einstein x
Freud x x
Hamsun x
Ludwig x
Mann x x x x
Merejkowski x x
Proust x
Remarque x
Rostand x
Undset x x