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Книга
Автор
Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997.
Издательство
New York : Harper [1952-69]

Дополнительная Информация

Издание
[First]-4th series. Edited by Frank N. Magill, with the assistance of Dayton Kohler and staff.
Описание
4 volumes ; 24 cm
Примечание
First appeared in the author's Masterplots, 1949-68.
Series is updated by the Masterplots annual.
"Cumulative author index: series one, two, three, and four": v. 4, p. i-xxii at end.
Содержание
[Vol. I.] -- The Abbé Constantin / Ludovic Halévy -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- Adam Bede / George Eliot -- The Admirable Crichton / James M. Barrie -- The aeneid / Publius Vergilius Maro -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Alcestis / Euripides -- Aleck Maury, sportsman / Caroline Gordon -- Alice Adams / Booth Tarkington -- Alice in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Amelia / Henry Fielding -- The American / Henry James -- An American tragedy / Theodore Dreiser -- And quiet flows the Don / Mikhail Sholokhov -- Anna Karénina / Count Leo Tolstoy -- Anthony Adverse / Hervey Allen -- Antigone / Sophocles -- The apostle / Sholem Asch -- The apple of the eye / Glenway Wescott -- Arne / Björnstjerne Björnson -- Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis -- As you like it / William Shakespeare -- Aucassin and Nicolette / Unknown --
[Vol.I.] (cont.) -- Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis -- Bambi / Felix Salten -- Barchester towers / Anthony Trollope -- Barren ground / Ellen Glasgow -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Bel-Ami / Guy de Maupassant -- A bell for Adano / John Hersey -- Ben Hur; A tale of the Christ / Lewis (Lew) Wallace -- Beowulf / Folk tradition -- The big sky / A. B. Guthrie, Jr. -- The black arrow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Black lamb and grey falcon / Rebecca West -- Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Bread and wine / Ignazio Silone -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder -- The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski -- Buddenbrooks / Thomas Mann -- The cabala / Thornton Wilder -- Cadmus / Folk tradition -- Caesar or nothing / Píe Baroja -- Cakes and ale / W. Somerset Maugham -- Caleb Williams / William Godwin -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Camille / Alexandre Dumas (son) --
[Vol.I.] (cont.) -- Candide / Voltaire -- Captain Horatio Hornblower / C. S. Forester -- Captains courageous / Rudyard Kipling -- The captain's daughter / Alexander Pushkin -- Carmen / Prosper Mérimée -- The case of Sergeant Grischa / Arnold Zweig -- Cass Timberlane / Sinclair Lewis -- The castle / Franz Kafka -- The castle of Otranto / Horace Walpole -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- Casuals of the Sea / William McFee -- Cawdor / Robinson Jeffers -- The Cenci / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Charles O'Malley / Charles Lever -- The charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal -- Children of God / Vardis Fisher -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- The Cid / Pierre Corneille -- Clarissa Harlowe / Samuel Richardson -- Claudius the God / Robert Graves -- The clayhanger trilogy / Arnold Bennett -- The cloister and the hearth / Charles Reade -- The clouds / Aristophanes -- A Connecticut yankee at King Arthur's court / Mark Twain -- Consuelo / George Sand -- The Count of Monte-Cristo / Alexandre Dumas (father) -- The counterfeiters / André Gide --
[Vol.I.] (cont.) -- The country of the pointed firs / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The courtship of Miles Standish / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac -- The cream of the jest / James Branch Cabell -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski -- The crisis / Winston Churchill -- The crock of gold / James Stephens -- Crome Yellow / Aldous Huxley -- The cruise of the cachalot / Frank T. Bullen -- Cupid and Psyche / Folk tradition -- Daisy Miller / Henry James -- Daphnis and Chloë / Attributed to Longus -- Dark laughter / Sherwood Anderson -- Darkness at noon / Arthur Koestler -- David Copperfield / Charles Dickens -- David Harum / Edward Noyes Westcott -- Dead souls / Nikolai V. Gogol -- Dear Brutus / James M. Barns -- Death comes for the archbishop / Willa Cather -- The death of the gods / Dmitri Merejkowski -- The deerslayer / James Fenimore Cooper -- Diana of the crossways / George Meredith -- The disciple / Paul Bourget -- The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- The downfall / Émile Zola -- Dragon seed / Pearl S. Buck -- Drums / James Boyd -- Drums along the Mohawk / Walter D. Edmonds -- The duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- The Dynasts / Thomas Hardy --
Edmund Campion / Evelyn Waugh -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- The egoist / George Meredith -- Electra / Euripides -- The emigrants / Johan Bojer -- Emma / Jane Austen -- Enoch Arden / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The enormous room / E. E. Cummings -- Erewhon / Samuel Butler -- Esther Waters / George Moore -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Eugénie Grandet / Honordé de Balzac -- Evangeline / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The eve of St. Agnes / John Keats -- The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser -- Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Father Goriot / Honoré de Balzac -- Fathers and Sons / Ivan Turgenev -- Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- File no. 113 / Émile Gaboriau -- The financier / Theodore Dreiser -- For whom the bell tolls / Ernest Hemingway -- The forsyte saga / John Galsworthy -- Fortitude / Hugh Walpole -- The fortress / Hugh Walpole -- The forty days of Musa Dagh / Franz Werfel -- Framley Parsonage / Anthony Trollope --
[Vol.II.] (cont.) -- Frankenstein / Mary Godwin Shelley -- The frogs / Aristophanes -- Gargantua and pantagruel / François Rabelais -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- Giants in the earth / O. B. Rölvaag -- Gil Blas of Santillane / Alain René Le Sage -- The glass key / Dashiell Hammett -- The golden ass of Lucius Apuleius / Lucius Apuleius -- The good companions / J. B. Priestley -- The good earth / Pearl S. Buck -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips / James Hilton -- Grand hotel / Vicki Baum -- The grandissimes / George W. Cable -- The grandmothers / Glenway Wescott The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- Great expectations / Charles Dickens -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The green bay tree / Louis Bromfield -- Green mansions / W. H. Hudson -- Grettir the strong / Unknown -- Growth of the soil / Knut Hamsun -- Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift -- Hajji Baba of Ispahan / James Morier -- Hakluyt's voyages / Richard Hakluyt -- Hamlet, prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare -- A handful of dust / Evelyn Waugh -- Handley Cross / Robert Smith Surtees -- The heart of Midlothian / Sir Walter Scott --
[Vol.II.] (cont.) -- Heaven's my destination / Thornton Wilder -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Henry Esmond / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Henry the fifth / William Shakespeare -- Hercules and his twelve labors / Folk tradition -- Hereward the wake / Charles Kingsley -- H. M. S. Pinafore / W. S. Gilbert -- Honey in the horn / H. L. Davis -- The hoosier schoolmaster / Edward Eggleston -- Horseshoe Robinson / John P. Kennedy -- The house of atreus / Aeschylus -- The house of mirth / Edith Wharton -- The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- How green was my valley / Richard Llewellyn -- Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- Hugh Wynne, free quaker / Silas Weir Mitchell -- The human comedy / William Saroyan -- Humphry Clinker / Tobias Smollett -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Hunger / Knut Hamsun -- Hypatia / Charles Kingsley -- I, Claudius / Robert Graves -- I speak for Thaddeus Stevens / Elsie Singmaster -- An Iceland fisherman / Pierre Loti -- The ides of March / Thornton Wilder --
[Vol.II.] (cont.) -- The idiot / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski -- The idylls of the king / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- If winter comes / A. S. M. Hutchinson -- The Iliad / Homer -- Independent people / Halldór Laxness -- The invisible man / H. G. Wells -- Ivanhoe / Sir Walter Scott -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- Jason and the golden fleece / Folk tradition -- Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer -- Jean-Christophe / Romain Rolland -- Jerusalem delivered / Torquato Tasso -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding -- Joseph Vance / William De Morgan -- Journey to the end of the night / Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy -- Judith Paris / Hugh Walpole -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The jungle books / Rudyard Kipling -- Jurgen / James Branch Cabell -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- Kate Fennigate / Booth Tarkington -- Kenilworth / Sir Walter Scott -- Kidnapped / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- King's row / Henry Bellamann --
[Vol.II.] (cont.) -- The knights / Aristo phases -- The Kreutzer Sonata / Count Leo Tolstoy -- Kristin Lavransdatter / Sigrid Undset -- Lady into fox / David Garnett -- Lady Windermere's fan / Oscar Wilde -- The last days of Pompeii / Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton -- The last of the barons / Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton -- The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- The last puritan / George Santayana The late George Apley / John P. Marquand -- Lavengro / George Henry Borrow -- Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- Life with father / Clarence Day, Jr. -- Light in August / William Faulkner -- Liliom / Ferenc Molnar -- The little minister / James M. Barrie -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- Looking backward / Edward Bellamy -- Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad -- Lorna Doone / R. D. Blackmore --
[Vol.III.] -- Lost Horizon / James Hilton -- A lost lady / Willa Cather -- The lost weekend / Charles Jackson -- Loyalties / John Galsworthy -- Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- McTeague / Frank Norris -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Mademoiselle de Maupin / Théophile Gautier -- Maggie: a girl of the streets / Stephen Crane -- The magic mountain / Thomas Mann -- The magnificent obsession / Lloyd C. Douglas -- Main street / Sinclair Lewis -- The maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale --
[Vol.III.] (cont.) -- Manhattan transfer / John Dos Passos -- Manon Lescaut / Abbé Prévost -- Man's fate / André Malraux -- Mansfield park / Jane Austen -- The marble faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Marching on / James Boyd -- The master of ballantrae / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy -- Medea / Euripides -- Memoirs of a fox-hunting man / Siegfried Sassoon -- Memoirs of a midget / Walter de la Mare -- Memoirs of an infantry officer / Siegfried Sassoon -- The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Messer Marco Polo / Donn Byrne -- Micah Clarke / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Middlemarch / George Eliot -- The Mikado / W. S. Gilbert -- The mill on the floss / George Eliot -- The misanthrope / Moliére -- Misérables, Les / Victor Hugo -- Mr. Britling sees it through / H. G. Wells -- Mr. midshipman easy / Frederick Marryat --- Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- A modem comedy / John Galsworthy -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Monsieur Beaucaire / Booth Tarkington -- Mont-Oriol / Guy de Maupassant -- The moon and sixpence / W. Somerset Maugham --
[Vol.III.] (cont.) -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- Morte d'Arthur, Le / Sir Thomas Malory -- Mutiny on the bounty / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- The mysteries of pads / Eugéne Sue -- The mysteries of Udolpho / Mrs. Ann Radcliffe -- Nana / Émile Zola -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Edgar Allan Poe -- Native son / Richard Wright -- The Nazarene / Sholem Asch -- The new grub street / George Gissing -- The newcomes / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The nibelungenlied / Unknown -- A night in the Luxembourg / Remy tie Gourmont -- Nightmare abbey / Thomas Love Peacock -- No name / Wilkie Collins -- Nocturne / Frank Swinnerton -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather -- The odyssey / Homer -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Sophocles -- Of human bondage / W. Somerset Maugham -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe -- The old and the young / Luigi Pirandello -- The old maid / Edith Wharton -- Old mortality / Sir Walter Scott -- The old wives' tale / Arnold Bennett -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Omoo / Herman Melville -- The ordeal of Richard Feverel / George Meredith -- The Oregon trail / Francis Parkman -- Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- Orpheus and Eurydice / Folk tradition -- Othello / William Shakespeare -- Our town / Thornton Wilder -- The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Pamela / Samuel Richardson --
[Vol.III.] (cont.) -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- The pathfinder / James Fenimore Cooper -- Paul Bunyan / James Stevens -- The peasants / Ladislas Reymont -- Peer Gynt / Henrik Ibsen -- Peg Woffington / Charles Reade -- Pendennis / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Penguin island / Anatale France -- Peregrine pickle / Tobias Smollett -- Persuasion / Jane Austen -- Peter Ibbetson / George du Maurier -- Peter Whiffle / Carl Van Vechten -- Phaèdra / Jean Baptiste Racine -- Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan -- The pilot / James Fenimore Cooper -- The pioneers / James Fenimore Cooper -- The pit / Frank Norris -- The playboy of the western world / John Millington Synge -- Point counter point / Aldous Huxley -- Poor white / Sherwood Anderson -- Porgy / DuBose Heyward -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- The possessed / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski -- Power / Lion Feuchtwanger -- The prairie / James Fenimore Cooper -- Precious bane / Mary Webb -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- The prisoner of Zenda / Anthony Hope -- Prometheus bound- Aeschylus -- Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Proserpine and Ceres / Folk tradition -- The purple land / W. H. Hudson -- Quality street / James M. Barrie -- Quentin Durward / Sir Walter Scott -- Quo Vadis / Henryk Sienkiewicz --
[Vol.IV.] -- The rainbow / D. H. Lawrence -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- Rasselas / Samuel Johnson -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The red and the black / Stendhal -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- The red rover / James Fenimore Cooper -- Remembrance of things past / Marcel Proust -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- The revolt of the angels / Anatole France -- Riceyman steps / Arnold Bennett -- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The ring and the book / Robert Browning -- The rise of Silas Lapham / William Dean Howells -- The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- River of earth / James Still -- Roan Stallion / Robinson Jeffers -- Rob Roy / Sir Walter Scott -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Roderick Random / Tobias Smollett -- Rogue Herries / Hugh Walpole --The romantic comedians / Ellen Glasgow -- The romany rye / George Henry Borrow -- Rome Haul / Walter D. Edmonds --
[Vol.IV.] (cont.) -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- Romola / George Eliot -- Roughing it / Mark Twain -- Salammbô / Gustave Flaubert -- Sanctuary / William Faulkner -- Sappho / Alphonse Daudet -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The sea of grass / Conrad Richter The sea wolf / Jack London -- A sentimental education / Gustave Flaubert -- A sentimental journey / Laurence Sterne -- Seventeen / Booth Tarkington -- Shadows on the rock / Willa Cather -- She / H. Rider Haggard -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith -- The sheltered life / Ellen Glasgow -- Silas Marner / George Eliot -- Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Smoke / Ivan Turgenev -- Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- So red the rose / Stark Young -- The song of Bernadette / Franz Werfel -- The song of Hiawatha -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The song of Roland / Unknown -- The song of songs / Hermann Sudermann -- Sons and lovers / D. H. Lawrence -- The sorrows of young werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The sound and the fury / William Faulkner -- The spoilers / Rex Beach -- The spy / James Fenimore Cooper -- State Fair / Phil Stong -- The story of a bad boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
[Vol.IV.] (cont.) -- The story of a country town / Edgar Watson Howe -- The story of an African farm / Olive Schreiner -- The story of Gösta Berling / Selma Lagerlöf -- Strife / John Galsworthy -- A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway -- The swiss family robinson / Johann Rudolf Wyss -- A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens -- Tamar / Robinson Jeffers -- Tamburlaine the Great / Christopher Marlowe -- Taps for private tussie / Jesse Stuart -- Taras Bulba / Nikolai V. Gogol -- Tartarin of Tarascon / Alphonse Daudet -- Tartuffe / Molié -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- The tenant of wildfell hail / Anne Brontë -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- Thaddeus of Warsaw / Jane Porter -- The thin man / Dashiell Hammett -- The thirty-nine steps / John Buchan -- This above all / Eric Knight -- The three black pennys / Joseph Hergesheimer -- The three-cornered hat / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón -- The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas (father) -- Three soldiers / John Dos Passos -- The time machine / H. O. Wells -- The time of man / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- The titan / Theodore Dreiser -- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf -- Tobacco road / Erskine Caldwell -- Tom Cringle's log / Michael Scott -- Tom Jones / Henry Fielding -- Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- Tono-Bungay / H. G. Wells -- The tower of London / William Harrison Ainsworth -- The travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo -- Travels with a donkey / Robert Louis Stevenson --
[Vol.IV.] (cont.) -- Treasure island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith -- The trial / Franz Kafka -- Trilby / George du Maurier -- Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne -- Troilus and Criseyde / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne -- Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- Typee / Herman Melville -- The ugly duchess / Lion Feuchtwanger -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- The unbearable bassington / Saki -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Under fire / Henri Barbusse -- Under two flags / Ouida -- U. S. A. / John Dos Passos -- Vanessa / Hugh Walpole -- Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Venus and Adonis / William Shakespeare -- The vicar of Wakefield / Oliver Goldsmith -- The vicomte de bragelonne / Alexandre Dumas (father) -- Victory / Joseph Conrad -- Virgin Soil / Ivan Turgenev -- The Virginian / Owen Wister -- The Virginians / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Volpone / Ben Jonson --
[Vol.IV.] (cont.) -- The voyage of the beagle / Charles Darwin -- The wanderer / Alain-Fournier -- The wandering Jew / Eugène Sue -- War and peace / Count Leo Tolstoy -- The war of the worlds / H. C. Wells -- The warden / Anthony Trollope -- Waverley / Sir Walter Scott -- The way of all flesh / Samuel Butler -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The web and the rock / Thomas Wolfe -- Westward Ho! / Charles Kingsley -- What every woman knows / James M. Barrie -- The white company / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Wickford point / John P. Marquand -- The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen -- William Tell / Johann Christoph Friedrick von Schiller -- Windsor castle / William Harrison Ainsworth -- Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- The woman in white / Wilkie Collins -- A woman's life / Guy de Maupassant -- The world of the Thibaults / Roger Martin du Gard -- The world's illusion / Jacob Wassermann -- The wreck of the grosvenor / W. Clark Russell -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- The yearling / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- You can't go home again / Thomas Wolfe.
Тема
Literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
Дополнительный автор
Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997, Masterplots.
Дополнительное заглавие
Masterplots annual.
ISBN
0060037512
9780060037512