Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors T to V
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- Tacitus,
Roman, ca. 55-ca. 117 CE .
- Tagore, Rabindranath,
Indian writing in Bengali, 1861-1941.
Nobel Laureate
- Takeda Izumo,
Japanese, ca. 1690-ca. 1749.
- Talmon, J. T.,
Israeli, 1916-1980.
- The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Various Authors,
Mesopotamian Jews writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, 2nd to 6th C.
- Talmud (Babylonian).
Recommended by:
Ward
- Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth).
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Various Authors,
Indians writing in Tamil.
- Various Authors,
Chinese, 618-907.
- Tanizaki Junichiro,
Japanese, 1886-1965.
- Tao Qian (T'ao Ch'ien; also known as Tao
Yuanming),
Chinese, 365-427.
- Tarbell, Ida,
American, 1857-1944.
- Tarkington, Booth,
American, 1869-1946.
- The Magnificent Ambersons.
Recommended by:
ML
Novels
- Tasso, Torquato,
Italian, 1544-1595.
- Gerusalemme Liberata.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Tate, Allen,
American, 1899-1979.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Tawney, R. H.,
English, 1880-1962.
- The Acquisitive Society.
Recommended by:
GBWW
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.
Recommended by:
ML
Nonfiction
- Taylor, A. J. P.,
English, 1906-1990.
- The Origins of the Second World War.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- The Struggle for Mastery in Europe.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Taylor, Angus,
American, 1911-1999.
- Advanced Calculus.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Taylor, Jeremy,
English, 1613-1697.
- Holy Dying.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Holy Living and Dying.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Traditional,
Various, Earliest times-19th C.
- Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa,
America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (Edited with commentaries by
Jerome Rothenberg).
(See also Shaking
the Pumpkin) Recommended by:
LAT
- Various Authors,
Indians writing in Tamil, 1st C BCE-3rd C CE.
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord,
English, 1809-1892.
- Idylls of the King.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Shorter Poems.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Terence,
Roman, ca. 195-159 BCE.
- Comedies.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Girl from Andros.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Eunuch.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Mother-in-Law.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Jesús),
Spanish, 1515-1582.
- Life of Saint Teresa.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Terkel, Studs,
American, 1912-2008.
- Various Authors,
Chinese, 6th C ff..
- Texts of Chinese Buddhism.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Various Authors,
Japanese, 6th C ff..
- Texts of Japanese Buddhism.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Various Authors,
Chinese, 6th-4th C BCE.
- Tey, Josephine,
Scottish, 1896-1952.
- Thackeray, William Makepeace,
English, 1811-1863.
- Thelwell, Michael,
Jamaican, 1939- .
- The Harder They Come.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Theocritus,
Greek, 3rd C BCE.
- Idylls.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Theophrastus,
Greek, ca. 372-ca. 287 BCE.
- Characters.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Theroux, Alexander,
American, 1939- .
- Darconville's Cat.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Theroux, Paul,
American, 1941- .
- Thomas à Kempis,
German writing in Latin, 1380-1471.
- Imitation of Christ.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Thomas Aquinas, St.,
Italian writing in Latin, ca. 1225-1274 .
- Summa Theologica.
Recommended by:
Adler
Aquinas
(Selections)
GBWW
Rexmo
Seymour-Smith
SJC
(Selections)
- Selected Writings.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
Colcc91
Ward
- Proem to the Posterior Analytics.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On the Teacher.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Canon of the Mass.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On the Principles of Nature.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On the Combination of the Elements.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On Kingship.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- The Division and Method of the Sciences.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On Being and Essence.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Thomas, Dylan,
Welsh, 1914-1953.
- The Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Thomas, Edward,
English, 1878-1917.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Thomas, Keith,
Welsh, 1933- .
- Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular
Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
TLS
- Thomas, Lewis,
American, 1913-1993.
- Thomas, R. S.,
Welsh, 1913-2000.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Thompson, D'Arcy,
Scottish, 1860-1948.
- Thompson, E. P.,
English, 1924-1993.
- Thompson, Francis,
English, 1859-1907.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Thompson, Hunter S.,
American, 1937-2005.
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Thomson, David,
English, 1941- .
- Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis),
Scottish, 1834-1882.
- City of the Dreadful Night.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Thoreau, Henry David,
American, 1817-1862.
- Anonymous,
Arab, ca. 1500.
- Various Authors,
Vietnamese, 11th-20th C.
- A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Thucydides,
Greek, 470/460-ca.400 BCE.
- Thurber, James,
American, 1894-1961.
- Tillich, Paul,
German-American writing in English, 1886-1965.
- The Courage to Be.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Tinbergen, Niko,
Dutch, 1907-1988.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de,
French, 1805-1859.
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta,
Indonesian, 1925-2006.
- The Buru Quartet.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Toffler, Alvin,
American, 1928-2016.
- Future Shock.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Tokarczuk, Olga, Polish, 1962 - Nobel Laureate
- Tokutomi Kenjiro,
Japanese, 1868-1927.
- Footsteps in the Snow.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Tolkien, J. R. R.,
English, 1892-1973.
- Tolson, M. B.,
American, 1900-1966.
- Harlem Gallery.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich,
Russian, 1828-1910.
- Toole, John Kennedy,
American, 1937-1969.
- Confederacy of Dunces.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Toomer, Jean,
American, 1894-1967.
- Tourneur, Cyril,
English, ca. 1575-1626.
- The Revenger's Tragedy.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Tournier, Michel,
French, 1924-2016.
- The Ogre.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Friday.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Toynbee, Arnold,
English, 1889-1975.
- Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- A Study of History.
Recommended by:
Adler
ML
Nonfiction
TLS
- Civilization on Trial.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Traherne, Thomas,
English, 1637-1674.
- Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Trakl, Georg,
Austrian, 1887-1914.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Tranströmer, Tomas,
Swedish, 1931-2015. Nobel Laureate
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Trench, Richard,
English, 1949- .
- Trevor, William,
Irish, 1928-2016.
- The Love Department.
Recommended by:
Ward
- The Children of Dynmouth.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Trilling, Lionel,
American, 1905-1975.
- Various Authors,
Indians writing in Pali, 5th C BCE.
- Tripitaka (Tipitaka).
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Troeltsch, Ernst,
German, 1865-1923.
- Trollope, Anthony,
English, 1815-1882.
- Truffaut, Francois,
French, 1932-1984.
- Truss, Lynne,
English, 1955- .
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in,
See Cao Xueqin
- Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanova,
Russian, 1892-1941.
- Tu Fu,
See Du Fu
- Tuchman, Barbara,
American, 1912-1989.
- Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard,
American, 1821-1873.
- The Cricket and Other Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich,
Russian, 1818-1883.
- Turner, Frederick Jackson,
American, 1861-1932.
- Tutuola, Amos,
Nigerian writing in English, 1920-1997.
- Palm-Wine Drinkard.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Twain, Mark,
American, 1835-1910.
- Tyler, Anne,
American, 1941- .
- The Accidental Tourist.
Recommended by:
BOMC
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Recommended by:
Smiley
- Tyng, Sewell,
American, 1895-1946.
- Tzara, Tristan,
French, 1896-1963.
- Seven Dada Manifestoes.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Ueda Akinari,
Japanese, 1734-1809.
- Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain).
Recommended by:
Ward
- Ueland, Brenda,
American, 1891-1985.
- If You Want to Write.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Unamuno, Miguel de,
Spanish, 1864-1936.
- Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Three Exemplary Novels.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Our Lord Don Quixote.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Undset, Sigrid,
Norwegian, 1882-1949.
Nobel Laureate
- Kristin Lavransdatter.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Smiley
(Selections)
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe,
Italian, 1888-1970.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Buried Harbour: Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- United Nations,
Various, Pub. 1945.
- United Nations Charter.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- United States documents,
See American
State Papers
- United States Supreme Court,
American, 1789- .
- Opinions.
Recommended by:
Colcc91
(Selections)
SJC
(Selections)
- Various Authors,
Indians writing in Sanskrit, ca. 1000-500 BCE.
- Updike, John,
American, 1932-2009.
- Valentine, Douglas,
American, 1949- .
- Valéry, Paul,
French, 1871-1945.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
SJC
- Manifestoes of Surrealism.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Vallejo, César,
Peruvian, 1892-1938.
- Poetry.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Spain, Take This Cup From Me.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Valmiki,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 300 BCE.
- Van Doren, Charles,
See Adler,
Mortimer
- Van Gogh, Vincent,
See Gogh,
Vincent van
- Vargas Llosa, Mario,
Peruvian, 1936- . Nobel Laureate
- The War of the End of the World.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Vasari, Giorgio,
Italian, 1511-1574.
- Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and
Architects.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Telegraph
Ward
- Various clerics convened by Popes John XXIII
and Paul VI,
Latin, Pub. 1962-1965.
(See also John XXIII)
- Vatican II. "Lumen Gentium".
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Vatsyayana,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 4th C.
- Vaughan, Henry,
Welsh, 1621-1695.
- Poetry.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Veblen, Thorstein,
American, 1857-1929.
- Theory of the Leisure Class.
Recommended by:
GBWW
NYPL
- Anonymous (Badarayana?),
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 4th C BCE-2nd C CE.
- Vedanta Sutra (with the commentary of Shankara
788-820).
Recommended by:
Oriental
StJE
- Various Authors,
Indians writing in Sanskrit, 12th-8th C BCE.
- Vega, Lope de,
Spanish, 1562-1635.
- Peribáñez.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Fuente Ovejuna.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Dog in the Manger.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Knight from Olmedo.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Justice Without Vengeance.
Recommended by:
Ward
- La Dorotea.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Lost in a Mirror.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Vélez de Guevara, Luis,
Spanish, 1579-1644.
- El Diablo Cojuelo.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Velikovsky, Immanuel,
Russian-American writing in English, 1895-1979.
- Verga, Giovanni,
Italian, 1840-1922.
- The House by the Medlar Tree.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Little Novels of Sicily.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Mastro Don Gesualdo.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- The She-Wolf and Other Stories.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Verlaine, Paul,
French, 1844-1896.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Verne, Jules,
French, 1828-1905.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- Very, Jones,
American, 1813-1880.
- Essays and Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Vesaas, Tarjei,
Norwegian, 1897-1970.
- Ice Palace.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Boat in the Evening.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Veyne, Paul,
French, 1930- .
- Vicente, Gil,
Portuguese writing in Spanish and Portuguese, ca. 1465-ca. 1536.
- Four Plays.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Vico, Giovanni Battista,
Italian, 1668-1744.
- Vidal, Gore,
American, 1925-2012.
- Myra Breckenridge.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Lincoln.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Creation.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- United States: Essays 1952-1992.
Recommended by:
Hungry Mind
Utne
- Burr.
Recommended by:
BOMC
LAT
- Vidyapati Thakur,
Indian writing in Sanskrit and Bihari, 1352-ca. 1448.
- Love Songs.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Viete, Francois,
French writing in Latin, 1540-1603.
- Introduction to the Analytical Art.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
SJC
- Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Vigny, Alfred de,
French, 1797-1863.
- Chatterton.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Villas Boas, Orlando and Claudio,
Brazilian, 1914-2002 and 1916-1998.
- Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Villon,
French, 1431-ca. 1462.
- Anonymous,
Indian Buddhist writing in Sanskrit, 2nd C CE.
- Virgil,
Roman, 70-19 BCE.
- Vittorini, Elio,
Italian, 1908-1966.
- Women of Messina.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Vo Nguyen Giap,
Vietnamese, 1911-2013.
- Voltaire,
French, 1694-1778.
- Von Neumann, John,
American, 1903-1957.
- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.,
American, 1922-2007.
- Vyasa,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 200 BCE.
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