#sheep faun henry

[rosies-batim-blog]

It’s been ages since I’ve drawn faun Henry, and had the urge to draw something AU related, so here is the sheepy boi.

I also realized that all the faces I’ve draw for him before have been either annoyed, frustrated, scared, or worried. Therefore, it was high time I drew him relaxed/happy.

Who is he talking to? And what is he saying? I don’t know, but it seems like a nice conversation.

[mook-pooltable]

Sheep Faun Henry! Lookit him! He’s so fluffy!

[mook-pooltable]

Mod Rosie: I AM SUCH A GOOBER.

How did I not notice this sooner?!?! I'm sorry @queenofcats17 !! But I love it!!

I love that you wrote about my sheep boi!!

@lepetiteinkmango @liliflower137 Look guys! Queen wrote about my sheep!

Little Sheep (Literally)

Inspired by this post by @mook-pooltable

Henry was a faun. A sheep faun to be specific. Nobody in the studio was aware of this, although they all knew that he wasn’t exactly human. Joey was constantly trying to figure out just what his old friend was, although Henry was careful to never let anything slip. Joey was his friend, and Henry loved him dearly, but he absolutely did not want to become one of Joey’s guinea pigs. Joey’s insatiable curiosity for everything supernatural was common knowledge, so it wasn’t surprising that Henry would want to keep his true nature hidden. Wally’s attempts to discover what supernatural creature Henry was was less irritating. It was hard to hate Wally, honestly. 

“So, Mister Stein, how much do you know about the supernatural?” Wally asked. He was ‘sweeping’ near Henry’s desk. He’d been doing this for the past ten to twenty minutes, and Henry knew that the janitor was just looking for a reason to talk to Henry. 

“Not too much.” Henry didn’t turn away from his drawings, trying to hide his growing smile. 

“So, uh, you don’t know anything about satyrs or anything?”

Henry tensed up. People always got satyrs and fauns confused, and while he knew Wally didn’t mean anything by this, the idea of being associated with satyrs still offended him. 

“No. I’m afraid I don’t,” Henry said through gritted teeth.

“You don’t?” Wally smiled slyly. “Then…What’s this?!” He produced a clump of wool from his pocket, waving it in front of Henry’s face. Henry stared at it in bemusement.

“It’s wool.” He replied calmly.

“I found it caught on a doorframe after you went through it!” Wally proclaimed. He looked very proud of himself, as though he thought he’d caught Henry. 

“Well, I have a sheep,” Henry said. “I feel like I’ve mentioned that.”

“The wool’s…from your sheep?” Wally’s bravado faded. 

“Mm-hm.” Henry nodded. “I like carrying some with me so I can do yarn work when I get bored.” 

“Oh…” Wally’s whole body drooped. 

“Sorry.” Henry patted Wally’s back. “I can give you some yarn if you want, though.”

“You make yarn outta the wool?” Wally asked, perking up a bit.

“I mean, I don’t produce all that much wool,” Henry said. “My sheep’s pretty small, but I always spin some of the wool to sell to Mrs. Rios next door. She likes to knit.”

“That’s cool.” Wally managed a small smile. “I’ve been meanin’ to get into knittin’.” 

“It’s a good hobby.” Henry smiled back at him. “Anyway, I have to get back to work, okay?” 

“Oh, okay! I’ll, uh, I’ll leave.” Wally grabbed his broom and left to go find some other place to sweep. Henry laughed softly to himself before returning to his work. 

Henry stuck around for nearly a year before Joey’s constant attempts to figure out what Henry was finally got to him. Not to mention he was doing all the work while Joey took all the credit. It was just too much. So Henry left. He had to admit, he was much happier outside of the studio. He was able to take credit for his work, most people didn’t try to figure out whether he was human or not. It was much easier. But in the end, he was drawn back to the studio once more. He knew from the moment he got the letter from Joey that he was in for some shit. But he told himself that everything would be fine. 

It was not fine. Within an hour of arriving at the studio, he’d awakened a demon, fallen down a hole, and had his glamour charm destroyed. His glamour charm had consisted of carved wooden beads in a leather pouch. The charm tricked people into not noticing Henry’s more inhuman qualities, such as his horns and sheep ears. Upon entering the Music Department, a Searcher had ripped the pouch, causing the beads to fly everywhere. That part was more frustrating than anything else. Henry had made the charm himself and it would take forever to make a new one. 

“Just my luck.” He grumbled once he’d dispatched the Searchers. Well, at least a faun wouldn’t be as much of a shock now that Joey had literally turned everyone into inky monstrosities. 

Sammy, to his credit, was at least slightly surprised by Henry’s appearance. When Henry woke up after being knocked out, he found Sammy staring intently at him. At least, Henry was pretty sure Sammy was staring at him. 

“How curious, little sheep.” Sammy murmured. “Your appearance is strange to me. I’ve never seen anything quite like you.”

“Heeey, Sammy.” Henry leaned back a bit. “Bit close there.” 

“What are you, my dear sheep?” Sammy asked, pressing his face closer to Henry’s. 

“I’m a faun.” Henry leaned back even more. “Do you, uh, know what a faun is?”

“I’m afraid I don’t.” Sammy finally pulled away. “But that does not matter now. I must appease my Lord. I am sure you will make an excellent sacrifice. I doubt he’s ever feasted upon a faun before.” Henry’s heart sunk as Sammy made his way into the recording booth. Well, this was going to be fun…

One chase sequence later, where Henry surprised the Ink Demon by bleating in fear, he was with Boris and a perfect Bendy. Bendy was asking Henry question after question, utterly fascinated by Henry’s nonhuman nature. Henry answered every question he could. He was honestly still a little stunned by the fact that he was talking to Bendy and Boris. The cartoons he’d created. They were alive. They were alive and they had feelings and opinions. 

“Hey, um, do you have a brush or something?” Henry asked when they reached the safehouse where Boris and Bendy had apparently been staying. “All this ink has been Hell on my wool.” It was autumn, so he hadn’t sheared himself yet. Which meant his wool was pretty thick. And the ink had been soaking into it ever since he’d fallen in the entrance hall. 

“Oh, sure!” Boris nodded, opening the door. “I think I’ve got a brush around here somewhere. I like to brush out my fur sometimes.”

“Thanks.” Henry breathed a sigh of relief. 

“Can I brush your wool?” Bendy asked with shining eyes. “Pleeeeeaaaaassse?” Henry hesitated. 

“Well…Alright.” He said slowly. “But you’ll need to be careful.”

“Yes! Thank you thank you thank you!” Bendy threw himself onto Henry, rubbing his face against Henry’s sweater vest. Henry laughed softly, patting Bendy’s head. It was honestly nice to have Bendy so excited. Henry was always nervous when it came to people discovering what he actually was. He knew he wasn’t anything particularly interesting to others, but it was still nerve-wracking. It felt good to be accepted. 

“Okay okay.” Henry hoisted Bendy into his arms. “Let’s get inside, okay?”

“Okay!” Bendy nodded, a big smile on his face. So they went inside. Henry could only imagine what would happen from here. 

[papermoonloveslucy]

“The Lucy Show” ~ Season 4

A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers!

“Lucy at Marineland” (S4;E1) ~ September 13, 1965

“Lucy and the Golden Greek” (S4;E2) ~ September 20, 1965

“Lucy in the Music World” (S4;E3) ~ September 27, 1965

“Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4) ~ October 11, 1965

“Lucy the Stunt Man” (S4;E5) ~ October 18, 1965

“Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest” (S4;E6) ~ October 25, 1965

“Lucy Helps Danny Thomas” (S4;E7) ~ November 1, 1965

“Lucy Helps the Countess” (S4;E8) ~ November 8, 1965

“Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty” (S4;E9) ~ November 15, 1965

“Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (S4;E10) ~ November 22, 1965

“Lucy and the Return of  Iron Man” (S4;E11) ~ November 29, 1965

“Lucy Saves Milton Berle” (S4;E12) ~ December 6, 1965

“Lucy the Choirmaster” (S4;E13) ~ December 13, 1965

“Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton” (S4;E14) ~ December 27, 1965

“Lucy, the Rain Goddess” (S4;E15) ~ January 3, 1966

“Lucy and Art Linkletter” (S4;E16) ~ January 10, 1966

“Lucy Bags a Bargain” (S4;E17) ~ January 17, 1966

“Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney” (S4;E18) ~ January 24, 1966

“Lucy and the Soap Opera” (S4;E19) ~ January 31, 1966

“Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (S4;E20) ~ February 7, 1966

"Lucy Dates Dean Martin” (S4;E21) ~ February 14, 1966

“Lucy and Bob Crane” (S4;E22) ~ February 21, 1966

“Lucy, the Robot” (S4;E23) ~ February 28, 1966

“Lucy and Clint Walker” (S4;E23) ~ March 7, 1966

“Lucy, the Gun Moll” (S4;E24) ~ March 14, 1966

“Lucy, the Superwoman” (S4;E26) ~ March 21, 1966

SEASON SUMMARY

Regular Cast: Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis)

Recurring Characters: Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Mel Torme (Mel Tinker), Joan Blondell (Joan Brenner), Ann Sothern (Rosie Harrigan, the Countess Frambois), Clint Walker (Frank Winslow), Mary Wickes (Aunt Gussie)

Guest Cast playing Characters: Lucie Arnaz, Desi Arnaz Jr., Harvey Korman, Sid Gould, Lou Krugman, Keith Andes, Herb Vigran, William Frawley, Dick Patterson, Jack Cassidy, Parley Baer, Eleanor Audley, Gary Morton, Jamie Farr, Doris Singleton, Elvia Allman, Jane Kean, Jan Murray, Reta Shaw, John Banner, Jay North, Vitto Scotti, Robert Stack, Bruce Gordon 

Guest Cast playing Themselves: Jimmy Piersall, Reb Foster, Danny Thomas, Milton Berle, Wayne Newton, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Durante, Kirk Douglas, Art Linkletter, Vince Edwards, Edward G. Robinson, Dean Martin, Bob Crane 

Live Animal Cast: Dolphin (Splash), Seal, Horse (Oil Well), Foals (Lucy and Rosie), Sheep Dog (Nelson), Cow (Bessie), donkey, faun, calf, goats, geese, turkey, chickens, rabbit, lamb, pigeons (all in “Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton”), Mutt (”Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney”), Basset Hound (Lightning) 

There were 26 new episodes

The location of the show was changed from Danfield, New York, to Los Angeles, California.

Changes: Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) was transferred to a bank in Los Angeles. Lucy Carmichael got a job at this bank.  Although her son Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) made two appearances, her daughter Chris (Candy Moore) was said to be away in college. Vivian (Vivian Vance) remained in Danfield with her son Sherman (Ralph Hart). Viv married and her character was now known as Vivian Bunson.  

Episodes Written by: Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson, Milt Josefsberg, Bob O’Brien, Iz Ellinson, Fred S. Fox,  Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson, Brad Radnitz, Bruce Howard, Henry Taylor, Howard Ostroff, Henry Taylor,  Elroy Schwartz, Hugh Wedlock, Jr., Allan Manings

All episodes Directed by Maury Thompson

All episodes filmed and aired in color

Filmed at Stage 21, Desilu Studios, Hollywood

Location Shoots: Marineland, Palos Verdes, California

Total Binge Hours: 13 hours (with commercials)

Papermoon’s Full Moon Pick: “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (E20)

Papermoon’s Half Moon Pick: “Lucy, the Superwoman” (E26)

Season 4 was #3 in the ratings (up from #8) with a 27.7 share (up from 26.6)

Lucille Ball was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Comedy Series, but lost to Mary Tyler Moore of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Season 4 was released on DVD on April 26, 2011

[mamamidnight]

My OCs

So, this is a list of all of my current OCs and their fandoms/universes. Still more OCs to come for Midnight’s story. There’s apparently 34 thus far.

Mama Midnight:

The Midnight Trio

Midnight Skellington (My fursona, created an orphanage, took her husband’s last name)

Joseph Jackson Skellington III (Runs the orphanage with Mid and Terra [Imma let you guess where my ten year old mind got name inspo and how I modified it])

Terra Widow (Their wife; all three are married to each other, kept her last name out of familial sentiment)

Their Daughters

Alena Skellington (Mercenary codenamed as “Doom” [original name I gave her when I was ten], Midnight’s middle triplet by birth)

Akita Skellington (First mutant enlisted in the air force, eldest triplet)

Angelica Skellington (Pastel decora loving sweet lolita, nickname is “Angel” [original name I gave her when I was ten], Midnight’s youngest triplet)

Hope Skellington (Adopted, helps her mom at home at the orphange with Angelica)

Mutants (Outside of the “Midnight Trio”)

Emily “Thorn” Brooks (Married to Picassa)

Picassa Brooks (Named after the artist with a feminine twist, took her wife’s last name)

Seti Ghanem (Lives in Cairo, devout Muslim. The initial experiments performed on her were the basis of the mutation experiments spreading.)

Solana Ramirez-Kasika (Half Mexican, half Thai. Thai last name means “bird”. Drifter. Was stopping in town for a small break before being kidnapped by the townspeople with the others.)

Humans

Henry McGregor (Town sheriff, had a crush on Sarah.)

Sarah (Midnight’s mother, widow)

The Neighbors (Live next door to Sarah’s orphanage. Elderly couple, but devout Christians)

“Old Fire And Brimstone” (Elder and Pastor at the Dover Chase Church)

Akan (One of the town’s deacons, the “doctor” overseeing the experiement. Name means “Twisted” in Hebrew, unbeknownst to his parents who wanted to name him something biblical.)

Sophia (Akan’s daughter, one of his “nurses”)

Dinah (Akan’s wife, one of his “nurses”)

9:

88 (Dog stitchpunk, adopted sister to 33, a friend on dA’s OC)

Anita (Siamese cat stitchpunk)

Steven Universe:

Jade (Homeworld gem turned rebel. Her fusion partner is @thebadwolfdemon‘s Blue Goldstone. They’re incredibly gay for each other and when fused become Amazonite. Friends with @wandering-scarecrow‘s Coober Peety, @pitchblende-viridia‘s Pitch, @nursephantump‘s gemsona, and @wellheyproductions‘ Sulfur.)

Percy Jackson:

Lillith Marie Knight (Demi goddess, daughter of Hades.)

Pamela (Faun girl, Lillith’s guardian.)

Cinnabunny:

Candi Floss (Cotton candy sheep girl)

Gummi Bear (She and Candi are friends with @pennwrenn‘s Ginger) 

Others (Originals that don’t fit in a universe above):

Demons

Solomon/Betzalel (Name translation is ”In God’s Shadow” in Hebrew. A frankendemon, dating @demongirl20‘s Runihara.)

Pascal (”The Devil’s Housecat”. Personification of my depression and anxiety.)

Vampires

Anastasia Tepes (Seemingly young woman in traditional Romanian clothing, vampire form based on a shovel nosed bat. Not only sucking the blood of, but more so MAULING her prey. Shares the last name of “Vlad The Impaler” [irl inspo for Dracula], although not directly related, gaining her the occasional nickname of “Princess”.)

Sirena Bellecour (Energy/Essence vampire. Drains the souls of those who watch her carnival perform, essentially making them mindless zombies, collecting their souls as a fine golden powder that she rubs into her skin to maintain her youthful appearance. Is 6′2″ sans heels. Super gay for @ivyxchaplin‘s Ivy.)

RPG

Morna (Spiritualist Changeling, name means “Beloved” in Gaelic. Irony there being she was abandoned by both her birth and adopted parents. Birth parents were a blood hag and a goblin, so although mostly outwardly beautiful, her sharklike teeth and claws require wariness. Chaotic good.)

Shamil Ellywick Caramip Folkor (Gnomish bard. Dislikes dwarves, obnoxiously short, and loves being a trickster. In her culture, it’s common to have a clusterfuck of names, so she tacks on nicknames onto her name as people get to meet her, resulting in a longggggg introduction. Chaotic good.)

Clown

Lolita Valdez aka Lolipop the Clown (Lolipop is intentionally spelled that way as a name pun. Hardcore decora lover. Works a local haunt during Halloween. Hangs out with @honkinjester‘s clown ocs. Practices clownism.)

Superhero

Guadalupe Montero aka Amaia: Queen of the Beasts (Father was Basque and mother was black. She’s homeless, living in Rio, staying in a local mission. Animalian shape shifter, she’s essentially a Brazillian Robin Hood. Amaia, her hero monicker, was given to her by the townspeople, meaning “The End”. For the poor, the end of suffering. For those more wealthy, the  end of peace of mind.) 

[rllibrary]

Reading/Rereading List

Reading/Rereading List The following is an incomplete, ongoing list of the books that I wish to read or read again. The list is separated by author, in chronological order of the year of the author’s birth. Note: Rather than list all of the works by each author, I have selected only the titles that currently interest me. For complete lists, search authors on wikipedia.org. Of course in the early centuries you will find the obvious choices from both the “Western canon” and the Eastern classics listed, with the more varied, fun stuff from the twentieth century farther down the page. To search this list, hold the command key and press the f key at the same time if you are on a mac, or hold the window key and press the + key and the f key if you are on some other brand of computer. Then type a title, or a year, or an author’s name to find them on this list. * - The Egyptian Book of the Dead (3150-1550 BCE) [Wallis Budge translation, 1895] * Homer (Greek, c. 750-650 BCE) - The Iliad (c. 760-10 BCE) - The Odyssey (c. 750-00 BCE) [Fagles translations] * Hesiod (Greek, c. 750-650 BCE) - Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)[Stallings translation] * Aesop (Greek, c. 620-564 BCE) - The Complete Fables [Temple and Temple translation] * Lao Tzu (Laozi) (Chinese, born 6th to 5th century BCE, died 531 BCE) - Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) (6th century BCE)[Lau translation][Mitchell translation] * Anonymous (Indian) - The Upanishads (800-400 BCE)[Mascaró translation] * Aeschylus (Greek, 523-426 BCE) - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: – Prometheus Bound (date and authorship disputed) – The Suppliants (463 BCE) – Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) – The Persians (472 BCE) [Vellacott translation] - The Oresteia (458 BCE): – Agamemnon – The Libation Bearers – The Eumenides [Fagles translation] * Anonymous (Indian) - Bhagavad Gita (part of the Mahabharata) (5th-2nd century BCE)[Mascaró translation][Mitchell translation] * Buddhist Scriptures (3rd century BCE) [Lopez edit] * Anonymous (Indian) The Dhammapada (3rd century BCE)[Mascaró translation] * Sophocles (Greek, c. 497-406 BCE) - The Three Theban Plays: – Antigone (c. 441 BCE) – Oedipus the King [aka Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus Rex] (c. 429 BCE) – Oedipus at Colonus (406 BCE) [Fagles translation] * Plato (Greek, c. 428-348 BCE) - The Symposium (385-370 BCE) [Gill translation] - The Republic (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] - The Last Days of Socrates (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] - Phaedrus (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] * Aristotle (Greek, 384-322 BCE) - Nicomachean Ethics (340 BCE)[Beresford Translation] - The Art of Rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred translation] - Poetics (335 BCE) [Heath translation] * Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi) (Chinese, 369-286 BCE) - The Book of Chuang Tzu (3rd century BCE) [Palmer and Breuilly translation] * Ovid (Greek, 43 BCE- 18 CE) - Metamorphoses (8 CE) [Raeburn translation] * - Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century CE)[Translated by Robin Hard as The Library of Greek Mythology for Oxford World's Classics] * The Talmud (200 CE) - The Talmud: A Selection [Solomon translation] * Padmasambhava, a.k.a. Guru Rinpoche (Indian, 8th century) - The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol: Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State) (written during the 8th century and buried, discovered in the 14th century) [Dorje translation] * One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic compilation of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales. Earliest known fragment dated to 9th century, first reference to title appears in 12th century) English Translations: - The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights [Burton translation] * Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki) (Japanese, c. 973 or 978-1014 or 1031) - The Tale of Genji (<1021) [Tyler translation] * Snorri Sturluson (Icelandic, 1179-1241) - The Prose Edda (1220) * Anonymous (French, 13th century) - The Quest of the Holy Grail[Matarasso translation]- The Death of King Arthur[Cables translation] * Japanese Tales (c. 1100-1300) [Tyler translation] * The Tale of the Heike (Japanese, <1330) [Tyler translation] * Dante (Italian, 1265-1321) - The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (1308-20) [Kirkpatrick translation] * Thomas Malory (English, c. 1415-1471) - Le Morte d'Arthur (completed 1469-70, published 1485) [Penguin Classics, Volumes 1 & 2] * Wu Cheng'en (Chinese, c. 1500-82) - Journey to the West (1592) [Yu translation, 1983- complete] - Monkey [Popular Waley translation of Journey to the West, 1942- abridged] * Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish, 1547-1616) - Don Quixote (1605- Part 1, 1615- Part 2) [Rutherford translation] * Christopher Marlowe (English, 1564-93) - Doctor Faustus (c. 1589, or c. 1593) * William Shakespeare (English, 1564-1616) Tragedy: - Romeo and Juliet (1594-5) - Julius Caesar (1599-1600) - Hamlet (1600-1) - Othello (1603) - King Lear (1605-6) - Macbeth (1605-6) - Antony and Cleopatra (1606-7) Comedy: - The Merchant of Venice (1596-7) - As You Like It (1599-1600) Romance: - The Tempest (1611-2) History: - Richard II (1595-6) - Henry IV, Part One (1597-8) - Henry IV, Part Two (1597-8) - Henry V (1598-9) See also: - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom * The Bible: Authorized King James Version (1611) [Oxford World's Classics] See also: - The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, by Harold Bloom * John Milton (English, 1608-74) - Paradise Lost (1667) * Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) - Ethics (written 1664-5, published 1677) * Pu Songling (Chinese, 1640-1715) - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (1740) [Minford translation] * Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Japanese, 1653-1725) - The Major Plays of Chikamatsu [Keene translation] * Tenzin Chögyel (Bhutanese, 1701-67) - The Life of the Buddha (1740)[Schaeffer translation] * Laurence Sterne (Irish, 1713-68) - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) * Cao Xueqin (Chinese, 1715 or 1724-1763 or 1764) - Dream of the Red Chamber, a.k.a. The Story of the Stone (1791) [Vol. 1-3 translated by David Hawkes, Vol. 4 & 5 translated by John Minford] * Horace Walpole (English, 1717-97) - The Castle of Otranto (1764) * Ueda Akinari (Japanese, 1734-1809) - Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776) [Chambers translation] * Marquis de Sade (French, 1740-1814) - The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (1787)[Oxford World's Classics] * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832) - The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) - Faust: A Tragedy (1808) - Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (1832) [Constantine translations- Werther from Oxford World Classics, Faust from Penguin Classics] * William Blake (English, 1757-1827) - Selected Poems * William Thomas Beckford (English, 1760-1844) - Vathek (1786) * Jan Potocki (Polish, 1761-1815) - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805-15) [Maclean translation] * Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817) - Pride and Prejudice (1813) * E. T. A. Hoffmann (Prussian, 1776-1822) - The Golden Pot and Other Tales (Oxford World’s Classics) — The Golden Pot (1814) — The Sandman (1816) — Princess Brambilla — Master Flea — My Cousin’s Corner Window - Tales of Hoffmann (Penguin Classics) — Mademoiselle de Scudery —The Sandman — The Artushof — Councillor Krespel — The Entail — Doge and Dogaressa — The Mines at Falun — The Choosing of the Bride Novel: - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1819) [Bell translation] See also: - The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud * Washington Irving (American, 1783-1859) - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories * Thomas de Quincey (English, 1785-1859) - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)- On Murder (1827) * The Brothers Grimm (German) Jacob (1785-1863) Wilhelm (1786-1859) - Selected Tales [Luke translation] - Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm [Pullman translation] * George Gordon, Lord Byron (English, 1788-1824) - Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics) - Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) See also:- Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler * James Fenimore Cooper (American, 1789-1851) - The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) * Percy Bysshe Shelley (English, 1792-1822) - Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) * John Keats (English, 1795-1821) - Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) * Mary Shelley (English, 1797-1851) - Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) * Honoré de Balzac (French, 1799-1850) From La Comédie Humaine novel sequence: - Eugénie Grandet (1834) [Crawford translation] - Old Man Goriot (1835) [McCannon translation] - Lost Illusions (1837-43) [Hunt translation] - A Harlot High and Low (1838-47) [Heppenstall translation] - The Black Sheep (1842) [Adamson translation] - Cousin Bette (1846) [Crawford translation] - Cousin Pons (1847) [Hunt translation] * Victor Hugo (French, 1802-85) - Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)[Sturrock translation] - Les Misérables (1862) [Donougher translation] * Alexandre Dumas (French, 1802-70) - The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) [Buss translation] * Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804-1864) Novels: - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - The House of the Seven Gables (1851) - The Blithedale Romance (1852) - The Marble Faun (1860) Short stories: - Selected Tales and Sketches * Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849) - The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics) * Charles Darwin (English, 1809-82) - On the Origin of Species (1859) - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) * Nikolai Gogol (Russian, 1809-52) - The Collected Tales (1831-42) - Dead Souls (1842) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Elizabeth Gaskell (English, 1810-65) - North and South (1854-5) - Gothic Tales (1851-61) * Harriet Beecher Stowe (American, 1811-96) - Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) * Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870) - David Copperfield (1849-50) * Sheridan Le Fanu (Irish, 1814-73) - In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World’s Classics short story collection) * Emily Brontë (English, 1818-48) - Wuthering Heights (1847) * George Eliot (English, 1819-80) - Middlemarch (1871-72) * Herman Melville (American, 1819-91) - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) * Walt Whitman (American, 1819-92) - The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics) * Gustave Flaubert (French, 1821-80) - Madame Bovary (1857) [Davis translation] * Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian, 1821-81) - Crime and Punishment (1866) - The Idiot (1869) - The Brothers Karamazov (1880) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Leo Tolstoy (Russian, 1828-1910) Fiction - War and Peace (1869) - Anna Karenina (1877) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] Nonfiction- What is Art?[Pevear and Volokhonsky translation]- Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy * Emily Dickinson (American, 1830-86) - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson * Lewis Carroll (English, 1832-98) - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Through the Looking-Glass (1871) * Mark Twain (American, 1835-1910) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) - Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Austrian, 1836-95) - Venus in Furs (1870) * Thomas Hardy (English, 1840-1928) Novels: - The Return of the Native (1878) - Two on a Tower (1882) - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved and The Well-Beloved (1892) - Jude the Obscure (1895) Short story collections: - The Withered Arm and Other Stories - The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales Poetry: - Selected Poems * Ambrose Bierce (American, 1842-circa 1914) - Tales of Soldiers and Civilians * Henry James (American, mostly writing in Britain, 1843-1916) Novels: - The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - What Maisie Knew (1897) - The Spoils of Poynton (1897) - The Wings of the Dove (1902) - The Ambassadors (1903) [see also: E. M. Forster’s 1905 novel Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cynthia Ozick’s 2010 novel Foreign Bodies] - The Golden Bowl (1904) Short stories and novellas: - Daisy Miller (1878) - The Turn of the Screw (1898) - Selected Tales (includes Daisy Miller) See also: - What Henry James Knew & Other Essays on Writers by Cynthia Ozick * Friedrich Nietzsche (German, 1844-1900) - The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Untimely Meditations (1876) - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) - Beyond Good and Evil (1886) - Twilight of the Idols (1888) and The Antichrist (1888) See also: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken * Bram Stoker (Irish, 1847-1912) - Dracula (1897) * Joris-Karl Huysmans (French, 1848-1907) - Against Nature (1884) * Lafcadio Hearn a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo (Greek living in Japan, 1850-1904) - Japanese Ghost Stories (Penguin Classics) * Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, 1850-94) - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) * Guy de Maupassant (French, 1850-93) - A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (1880-90) [Miles translation] - Belle-Ami (1885) [Parmée translation] - Pierre and Jean (1888) [Tancock translation] * Kate Chopin (American, 1850-1904) - The Awakening [1899] and Selected Stories * Oscar Wilde (Irish, 1854-1900) - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) * James Frazer (Scottish, 1854-1941) - The Golden Bough (1890) * Sigmund Freud (Austrian, 1856-1939) - The Psychology of Love (Penguin Classics collection) Contents – Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora) – Three Essays on Sexual Theory – On the Sexual Theories of Children – Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life – ‘A Child is being Beaten’ – On Female Sexuality - The Uncanny (Penguin Classics collection) Contents – Screen Memories – The Creative Writer and Daydreaming – Family Romances – Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood – The Uncanny - Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) (Collected in The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis and The Penguin Freud Reader) - Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) * L. Frank Baum (American, 1856-1919) The Wonderful World of Oz (Penguin Classics, 9780141180854) Contents - The Wizard of Oz (1900) - The Emerald City of Oz (1910) - Glinda of Oz (1920) * George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950) - Man and Superman (1903) * Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857-1924) - Heart of Darkness (1899) - Lord Jim (1900) - Nostromo (1904) - The Secret Agent (1907) See also: The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics), which contains both Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent, along with other quintessential stories and writings. * Arthur Conan Doyle (British, 1859-1930) Sherlock Holmes novels (selected): - A Study in Scarlet (1886) - The Sign of the Four (1890) - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) Sherlock Holmes story collection: - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) * J. M. Barrie (Scottish, 1860-1937) - Peter Pan (Penguin Classics)Contents-- Peter and Wendy (1911)-- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) * Anton Chekhov (Russian, 1860-1904) - Stories of Anton Chekhov (1883-1903) - The Complete Short Novels (1888-96) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American, 1860-1935) - The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings * Edith Wharton (American, 1862-1937) - The House of Mirth (1905) - Ethan Frome (1911) - The Age of Innocence (1920) * O. Henry (American, 1862-1910) - Selected Stories (1904-17) [Penguin Classics] * M. R. James (English, 1862-1936) - Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 1) - The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 2) * Arthur Machen (Welsh, 1863-1947) - The Great God Pan (1894) (Collected in Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Oxford World’s Classics. “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.” - Stephen King) - The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) * Konstantin Stanislavski (Russian, 1863-1938) - An Actor Prepares (1936) See also: No Acting Please: “Beyond the Method” A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living by Eric Morris and Joan Hotchkis * Maurice Leblanc (French, 1864-1941) - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief (1905) * W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865-1939) - The Collected Poems (Finneran edit) * H. G. Wells (English, 1866-1946) - The Time Machine (1895) * Natsume Sōseki (Japanese, 1867-1916) - Sanshirō (1908) [Rubin translation] - Kokoro (1914) [McKinney translation] * Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) - The Phantom of the Opera (1910) * Edwin Arlington Robinson (American, 1869-1935) - Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1896-1935) * Algernon Blackwood (English, 1869-1951) - Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories * D. T. Suzuki (Japanese, 1870-1966) - An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (1934) * Marcel Proust (French, 1871-1922) - In Search of Lost Time (formerly Remembrance of Things Past): Vol. 1: The Way by Swann’s (1913) [Davis translation] Vol. 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (scheduled publication of 1914 delayed by World War I until 1919) [Grieve translation] Vol 3: The Guermantes Way (1920/21) [Treharne translation] Vol. 4: Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) [Sturrock translation] Vol. 5 and 6: The Prisoner and The Fugitive - The Albertine novel, parts 1 & 2 (1923 and 1925) [Clark and Collier translations] Vol. 7: Finding Time Again (1927) [Patterson translation] See also: Marcel Proust: A Life, by Edmund White * Kyōka Izumi (Japanese, 1873-1939) - Japanese Gothic Tales - In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka [Inouye translations] * W. Somerset Maugham (English, 1874-1965) - The Magician (1908) - Of Human Bondage (1915) - The Moon and Sixpence (1919) - The Painted Veil (1925) - The Narrow Corner (1932) - Up at the Villa (1941) - The Razor’s Edge (1944) - Short Stories - Far Eastern Tales - More Far Eastern Tales - Ten Novels and Their Authors (1948-49) - A Writer’s Notebook (1949) * Sherwood Anderson (American, 1876-1941) - Winesburg, Ohio (1919) * Zitkála-Šá (Sioux, 1876-1938) - American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings * Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss, 1877-1962) - Beneath the Wheel (1906) - Siddhartha (1922) - Steppenwolf (1927) - Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) - Journey to the East (1932) - The Glass Bead Game (1943) * Lord Dunsany (English, 1878-1957) - In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales * E. M. Forster (English, 1879-1970) - A Room with a View (1908) - Howards End (1910) - A Passage to India (1924) - Selected Stories (1903-60) (Penguin Classics) - Aspects of the Novel (1927) * H. L. Mencken (American, 1880-1956) - A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings (1949) * Lu Xun (Chinese, 1881-1936) - The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (1918-35) [Lovell translation] * James Joyce (Irish, 1882-1941) Short Stories: - Dubliners (1914) Novels: - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - Ulysses (1922) - Finnegans Wake (1939) See also: - Re Joyce, by Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) - James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, by Stuart Gilbert - A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, by Joseph Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth, etc.) - Joyce’s Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake, by John Bishop * Virginia Woolf (English, 1882-1941) - Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - To the Lighthouse (1927) - The Waves (1931) * Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungarian, now Czech Republic, 1883-1924) - The Trial (written 1914-5, published 1925) - The Castle (written 1922, published 1926) - The Complete Short Stories (1908-24) [Muir translations] * Eugen Herrigel (German, 1884-1955) - Zen in the Art of Archery (1948) * D. H. Lawrence (English, 1885-1930) Fiction: - Sons and Lovers (1913) - The Rainbow (1915) - Women in Love (1920) - Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928) - Selected Stories Literary criticism: - Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) * Ezra Pound (expatriate American, 1885-1972) - The Cantos of Ezra Pound (unfinished, 1917-69) See also: A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound by William Cookson * Sinclair Lewis (American, 1885-1951) - Main Street (1920) - Babbitt (1922) * Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen’s pen name) (Danish, 1885-1962) - Seven Gothic Tales (1934) - Out of Africa (1937) - Winter’s Tales (1942) - Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) (includes Babette’s Feast) * Ring Lardner (1885-1933) - Selected Stories (Penguin Classics) * Marianne Moore (American, 1887-1972) - Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1921-67) - The Poems of Marianne Moore (Penguin Classics) * T. S. Eliot (American born British citizen, 1888-1965) - The Waste Land (1922) and Other Poems - Four Quartets (1943) * Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese, 1888-1935) - The Book of Disquiet [Zenith translation] * Eugene O'Neill (American, 1888-1953) - The Iceman Cometh (written 1939, first performed 1946) - Long Day’s Journey Into Night (written 1941, first performed 1956) * Katherine Mansfield (born in New Zealand, wrote in England, 1888-1923) - The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield * Katherine Anne Porter (American, 1890-1980) - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965) * H. P. Lovecraft (American, 1890-1937) - The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories - The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories See also: - H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq - I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 by S. T. Joshi - I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 by S. T. Joshi * Boris Pasternak (Russian, 1890-1960) - Doctor Zhivago (1957) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translation] * Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian, 1891-1940) - The Master and Margarita (written 1928-40, published 1967) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translation] * Zora Neale Hurston (American, 1891-1960) - Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) * Henry Miller (American, 1891-1980) - Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Tropic of Capricorn (1939) (Banned in the United States until 1964) * Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Japanese, 1892-1927) - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (1914-27) [Jay Rubin translation with introduction by Haruki Murakami] * Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942) - The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (1934) * J. R. R. Tolkein (English, 1892-1973) - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937) - The Lord of the Rings (written 1937-49, published 1954-55) – The Fellowship of the Ring – The Two Towers – The Return of the King * Dorothy Parker (American, 1893-1967) - Complete Stories * Clark Ashton Smith (American, 1893-1961) - The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies (Weird Fiction from 1926-35) * Aldous Huxley (English, 1894-1963) Novels: - Brave New World (1932) - The Genius and Goddess (1955) - Island (1962) Essay collections: - The Perennial Philosophy (1945) - The Doors of Perception (1954) - Brave New World Revisited (1958) * F. Scott Fitzgerald (American, 1896-1940) - The Great Gatsby (1925) - Tender is the Night (1934) - The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection (Bruccoli Edit) * Betty Smith (American, 1896-1972) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) * Joan Lindsay (Australian, 1896-1984) - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) * John Dos Passos (American, 1896-1970) - U.S.A. trilogy (1938) 1. The 42nd Parallel (1930) 2. 1919 (1932) 3. The Big Money (1936) * William Faulkner (American, 1897-1962) - The Sound and the Fury (1929) - As I Lay Dying (1930) - Light in August (1932) - Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - Go Down, Moses (1942) (Go Down, Moses consists of seven interrelated short stories) - The Hamlet (1940) - The Town (1957) - The Mansion (1959) (The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion form the Snopes trilogy) - Collected Stories - Uncollected Stories See also: - The Portable Faulkner (1946), edited by Malcolm Cowley (Penguin Classics) (The Portable Faulkner was published at a time when Faulkner’s fading reputation put his work at risk of ultimately languishing in a state of almost criminal neglect, Cowley compiled this definitive sample of Faulkner’s work up to that point. As a result, Faulkner became a household name. Faulkner wrote in a letter to Cowley, “The job is splendid. Damn you to hell anyway. But even if I had beat you to the idea, mine wouldn’t have been this good. By God, I didn’t know myself what I had tried to do, and how much I had succeeded.” More info, and table of contents at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288779/the-portable-faulkner-by-william-faulkner/9780142437285/ * Georges Bataille (French, 1897-1962) - Story of the Eye (1928)- Literature and Evil (1957)- Eroticism (1957) * R. H. Blyth (English, 1898-1964) - Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics (1942) * Ernest Hemingway (American, 1899-1961) - The Sun Also Rises (1926)- A Farewell to Arms (1929) - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) - The Old Man and the Sea (1951) - The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author * Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese, 1899-1972) - Snow Country (1935) - The Master of Go (1951) - Thousand Cranes (1952)- The Sound of the Mountain (1954) - The Old Capital (1962) - Beauty and Sadness (1964) * Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American, 1899-1977) - Lolita (1955) - Speak, Memory (originally published as short stories from 1936-51, extended edition published 1966) * Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine, 1899-1986) - A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) - Ficciones/Fictions (1944) - Labyrinths (1962) - The Aleph and Other Stories (1933-1969) * John Steinbeck (American, 1902-68) - Of Mice and Men (1937) - The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - East of Eden (1952) * Stevie Smith (English, 1902-71) - Selected Poems of Stevie Smith * George Orwell (English, 1903-50) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) * John Wyndham (English, 1903-69) - The Day of the Triffids (1951) - The Chrysalids (1955) - Chocky (1968) * Nathanael West (American, 1903-40) The Collected Works of Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust (1939) - Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) * Joseph Campbell (American, 1904-87) - A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) - Myths to Live By (1972) - The Power of Myth (1988)- Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal- Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor * Graham Greene (English, 1904-91) - The Power and the Glory (1940) - The Quiet American (1955) - Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics) * Shunryū Suzuki (Japanese, 1904-71) - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970) * Jean-Paul Sartre (French, 1905-80) - Nausea (1938) - No Exit and Three Other Plays (1944-48) * Clifford Odets (American, 1906-63) - Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays (1935-38) * Samuel Beckett (Irish, 1906-89) Short Stories: - More Pricks than Kicks (1934) Plays: - Waiting for Godot (1949) - Endgame (1957) - Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) - Happy Days (1961) Novels: - Watt (written in France during WWII, published 1953) - Three Novels 1. Molly (1951) 2. Malone Dies (1951) 3. The Unnameable (1953) * Daphne du Maurier (English, 1907-89) - Rebecca (1937) - The Birds and Other Stories (1952, collection originally published as The Apple Tree in the U.K. and as Kiss Me Again, Stranger in the U.S.) * W. H. Auden (English, 1907-73) - Collected Poems (Vintage) * Eudora Welty (American, 1909-2001) - The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty * Malcolm Lowry (English, 1909-57) - Under the Volcano (1947) * Wallace Stegner (American, 1909-93) - The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) - Angle of Repose (1971) - The Spectator Bird (1976) - Crossing to Safety (1987) - Collected Stories (1990) - On Teaching and Writing Fiction (1988) * Nelson Algren (American, 1909-81) - The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) * Paul Bowles (American expatriate in Tangier, 1910-99) - The Sheltering Sky (1949) * William Golding (English, 1911-93) - Lord of the Flies (1954) * Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) (Irish, 1911-66) - The Third Policeman (completed in 1940, published in 1967) * Tennessee Williams (American, 1911-83) - The Glass Menagerie (1944) - A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) * John Cheever (American, 1912-82) - The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - The Wapshot Scandal (1964) - Bullet Park (1969) - Falconer (1977) - Collected Stories * Northrop Frye (Canadian, 1912- 91) - Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) - Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society * Ralph Ellison (American, 1913-94) - Invisible Man (1952) * Albert Camus (French, 1913-60) - The Stranger (1942) [Ward translation] - The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) [O'Brien translation] * Robertson Davies (Canadian, 1913-95) - The Deptford Trilogy 1. Fifth Business (1970) 2. The Manticore (1972) 3. World of Wonders (1975) * Alfred Bester (American, 1913-87) Novels: - The Demolished Man (1953) - The Stars My Destination (1956) Short story: - Fondly Fahrenheit (1954) * Delmore Schwartz (American, 1913-66) - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories * John Berryman (American, 1914-72) - The Dream Songs (1969) - Collected Poems, 1937-1971 * James Purdy (American, 1914-2009) - The Complete Short Stories * Bernard Malamud (American, 1914-86) - The Assistant (1957) - The Fixer (1966) - Dubin’s Lives (1979) - The Complete Stories (written 1940-84, collected 1997) * Saul Bellow (Canadian-American, 1915-2005) - The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Seize the Day (1956) - Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Herzog (1964) - Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) - Humboldt’s Gift (1975) - The Dean’s December (1980) - Ravelstein (2000) - Collected Stories (2001) Non-fiction:- It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (1994) - Saul Bellow: Letters, edited by Benjamin Taylor See also: - The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachary Leader- The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader * Arthur Miller (American, 1915-2005) - Death of a Salesman (1949) - The Crucible (1953) * Alan Watts (English, 1915-73) - The Way of Zen (1957)- Nature, Man and Woman (1958)- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966) * Shirley Jackson (American, 1916-65) - The Lottery and Other Stories (1959) - The Sundial (1958) - The Haunting of Hill House (1959) - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) * Jack Vance (American, 1916-2013) - Tales of the Dying Earth (1950-84) * Carson McCullers (American, 1917-67) - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951 novella along with previously published short stories) * Anthony Burgess (English, 1917-93) - A Clockwork Orange (1962) - The Wanting Seed (1962) - Earthly Powers (1980) * Robert Bloch (American, 1917-94) - Psycho (1959) * Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Indian, 1918-2008) - Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation (1963) * J. D. Salinger (American, 1919-2010) - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - Nine Stories (1953) - Franny and Zooey (1961) - Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) See also:- Salinger, by David Shields * Iris Murdoch (Anglo-Irish, 1919-99) - Under the Net (1954) - The Bell (1958) - A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) - The Black Prince (1973) - The Sea, The Sea (1978) * Oakley Hall (American, 1920-2008) - Warlock (1958) * Sloan Wilson (American, 1920-2003) - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) * Isaac Asimov (Russian American, 1920-92) - Foundation Originally published as a series of eight short stories, between 1942-50. These were later divided into what is now known as the Foundation Trilogy of novels: 1. Foundation (1951) 2. Foundation and Empire (1952) 3. Second Foundation (1953) - Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume 1 * Frank Herbert (American, 1920-86) The Great Dune Trilogy: - Dune (1965) - Dune Messiah (1969) - Children of Dune (1976) * Richard Adams (English, 1920-2016) - Watership Down (1972) * Timothy Leary (American, 1920-96) - The Psychedelic Experience (1964, with Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and Ralph Metzner) * Charles Bukowski (German-born American, 1920-94) - Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) - Post Office (1971) - Factotum (1975) - Ham on Rye (1982) - Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983) See also: Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast by David Charlson * James Jones (American, 1921-77) - From Here to Eternity (1951) * Alex Haley (American, 1921-92) - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) * Patricia Highsmith (American, 1921-95) - Strangers on a Train (1950) - The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952) republished as Carol in 1990 under Highsmith’s name. - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966) - Ripley Under Ground (1970) - Ripley’s Game (1974) - The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) - Ripley Under Water (1991) - The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith * Stanislaw Lem (Polish, 1921-2006) - Solaris (1961) - Mortal Engines (1961) - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (1965) * Jack Kerouac (American, 1922-69) - On the Road (1957) - On the Road: The Original Scroll - The Dharma Bums (1958) - Big Sur (1962) - Desolation Angels (1965) * Kurt Vonnegut (American, 1922-2007) - Cat’s Cradle (1963) - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1964)- Welcome to the Monkey House (Short Story Collection) (1968) - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Breakfast of Champions (1973) * William Gaddis (American, 1922-98) - The Recognitions (1955) - JR (1975) See also: - Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis, by Joseph Tabbi * Kingsley Amis (English, 1922-95) - Lucky Jim (1954) - The Green Man (1969) - Collected Short Stories (1980) - The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage (1997) * John Williams (American, 1922-94) - Stoner (1965) * Philip Larkin (English, 1922-85) - The Complete Poems * Howard Zinn (American, 1922-2010) - A People’s History of the United States (1980) * Joseph Heller (American, 1923-99) - Catch-22 (1961) * Italo Calvino (Italian, 1923-85) - Invisible Cities (1972) - If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979) - Why Read the Classics? (1991) [Weaver translations] * Norman Mailer (American, 1923-2007) - The Executioner’s Song (1979) * William H. Gass (American, 1924- ) - The Tunnel (1995) * Kōbō Abe (Japanese, 1924-93) - The Woman in the Dunes (1962)- The Face of Another (1964)- The Ruined Map (1967) - The Box Man (1973) * Truman Capote (American, 1924-84) - In Cold Blood (1966) - The Complete Stories of Truman Capote - A Capote Reader (Penguin Modern Classics) See also: - Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton * James Baldwin (American, 1924-87) - Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) - Notes of a Native Son (1955) - The Fire Next Time (1963) * Yukio Mishima (Japanese, 1925-70) - Confessions of a Mask (1949)- The Sound of Waves (1954) - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)- After the Banquet (1960) - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) - The Sea of Fertility tetralogy (written 1965-70): 1. Spring Snow (1965) 2. Runaway Horses (1969) 3. The Temple of Dawn (1970) 4. The Decay of the Angel (1971) See also:Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima, by Naoki Inose * Flannery O'Connor (American, 1925-64) Novels: - Wise Blood (1952) - The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Short Story Collections: - A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) - Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) - The Complete Stories (1971) * Robert Cormier (American, 1925-2000) - The Chocolate War (1974) - I Am the Cheese (1977) - Beyond the Chocolate War (1985) - We All Fall Down (1991) * Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 1925-91 and 1933-2012, respectively) - Roadside Picnic (1971) (Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker is loosely based on Roadside Picnic, and the Strugatsky brothers wrote the screenplay) * Malcolm X (American, 1925-65) - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) (coauthor: Alex Haley) * Harper Lee (American, 1926-2016) - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) * John Knowles (American, 1926-2001) - A Separate Peace (1959) * John Fowles (English, 1926-2005) - The Collector (1963) - The Magus (1965) - The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) - The Ebony Tower (1974) - Daniel Martin (1977) - Mantissa (1982) - A Maggot (1985) * Richard Yates (American, 1926-92) - Revolutionary Road (1961) - Disturbing the Peace (1975) - The Easter Parade (1976) - A Good School (1978) - The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (2001) * Daniel Keyes (American, 1927-2014) - Flowers for Algernon (1958 short story, 1966 novel) * John Ashbery (American, 1927- ) - Selected Poems * Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian, 1927-2014) - One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) [Rabassa translation] * David Markson (American, 1927-2010) - Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) See also: - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Foster Wallace * Maya Angelou (American, 1928-2014) - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) * Cynthia Ozick (American, 1928- ) - The Puttermesser Papers (1997) - Foreign Bodies (2010) - Collected Stories - What Henry James Knew & Other Essays on Writers (1993) * Alan Sillitoe (English, 1928-2010) - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) * Anne Sexton (American, 1928-74) - The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton * Hubert Selby, Jr. (American, 1928-2004) - Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) - Requiem for a Dream (1978) * William Kennedy (American, 1928- ) The Albany Cycle - An Albany Trio 1. Legs (1975) 2. Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1978) 3. Ironweed (1983) - Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2012) * Robert M. Pirsig (American, 1928- ) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) - Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991) * Philip K. Dick (American, 1928-82) - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) - Ubik (1969) - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) - A Scanner Darkly (1977) - Valis (1981) * Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87) - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again (1975) * Milan Kundera (Czech-born French, 1929- ) - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) - The Art of the Novel (1986) * Norton Juster (American, 1929- ) - The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) * J. G. Ballard (English, 1930-2009) - The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) - Crash (1973) - High-Rise (1975) - The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) - Super-Cannes (2000) - The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006) - The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006) * John Barth (American, 1930- ) - The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) - Lost in the Funhouse (1968) * Chinua Achebe (Nigerian, 1930-2013) - The African Trilogy 1. Things Fall Apart (1958) 2. Arrow of God (1964) 3. No Longer At Ease (1960) - A Man of the People (1966) * Harold Pinter (English, 1930-2008) Plays: - The Birthday Party (1957) - The Homecoming (1964) - Betrayal (1978) * Harold Bloom (American, 1930- ) - The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) - The Book of J. (1990) - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994) - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998) - How to Read and Why (2000) - Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2003) - Novelists and Novels: A Collection of Critical Essays (2007) - The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (2011) - The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible (2011) - The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (2015) * Toni Morrison (American, 1931- ) - The Bluest Eye (1970) - Sula (1973) - Song of Solomon (1977) - Beloved (1987) * Ram Dass (American, born Richard Alpert, 1931- ) - The Psychedelic Experience (1964, with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner) - Be Here Now (1971) * Donald Barthelme (American, 1931-89) - Sixty Stories (1981 collection of stories originally published 1964-79) - Forty Stories (1987 collection of stories originally published 1964-76) * Colin Wilson (English, 1931-2013) Non-fiction - The Outsider (1954)- The Occult: A History (1971)- From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) Fiction:- The Mind Parasites (1967)- The Philosopher's Stone (1969) * Tom Wolfe (American, 1931- ) - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) - The Right Stuff (1979) * E. L. Doctorow (American, 1931-2015) - The Book of Daniel (1971) - Ragtime (1975) - Billy Bathgate (1989) * John Updike (American, 1932-2009) - Rabbit, Run (1960) - The Centaur (1963) - Rabbit Redux (1971) - Rabbit is Rich (1981) - Rabbit at Rest (1990) - The Early Stories: 1953-1975 * Robert Coover (American, 1932- ) - The Origin of the Brunists (1966)- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968)- The Public Burning (1977)- Spanking the Maid (1982)- Briar Rose (1996)- Ghost Town (1998) * Daniel Quinn (American, 1932- ) - Ishmael (1992) * Tom Robbins (American, 1932- ) - Jitterbug Perfume (1984) * Cormac McCarthy (American, 1933- ) - Blood Meridian (1985) - The Border Trilogy: 1. All the Pretty Horses (1992) 2. The Crossing (1994) 3. Cities of the Plain (1998) - No Country for Old Men (2005) - The Road (2006) * Philip Roth (American, 1933- ) - Goodbye, Columbus (1959) - Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) - Sabbath’s Theater (1995) - The American Trilogy: 1. American Pastoral (1997) 2. I Married a Communist (1998) 3. The Human Stain (2000) - Nemesis (2010) * Jerzy Kosiński (Polish-American, 1933-91) - The Painted Bird (1965) - Steps (1968) - Being There (1970) (Kosiński also wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby’s 1979 film adaptation of Being There, starring Peter Sellers) * Susan Sontag (American, 1933-2004) - On Photography (1977) * Joan Didion (American, 1934- ) Fiction: - Play It as It Lays (1970) Nonfiction: - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) - The White Album (1979) * Carl Sagan (American, 1934-1996) - Cosmos (1980) - see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), the 13-epsiode TV series that the book is based on - Pale Blue Dot (1994) * Vincent Bugliosi (American, 1934-2015) - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (1974) - And the Sea Will Tell (1991) * Kenzaburō Ōe (Japanese, 1935- ) Novels: - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) - A Personal Matter (1965) - The Silent Cry (1967) Short story collection: - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977) * Ken Kesey (American, 1935-2001) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) - Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) * Richard Brautigan (American, 1935-84) Fiction: - Trout Fishing in America (1967) - In Watermelon Sugar (1968) - Revenge of the Lawn (1971) - The Abortion (1971) - So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982) Poetry: - The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1969) * Larry McMurtry (American, 1936- ) - The Last Picture Show (1966) * Paul Zindel (American, 1936-2003) - The Pigman (1968) * A. S. Byatt (English, 1936- ) - Possession: A Romance (1990) - Little Black Book of Stories (2003) * Don DeLillo (American, 1936- ) - White Noise (1985) - Libra (1988) - Mao II (1992) - Underworld (1998) * Thomas Pynchon (American, 1937- ) - V. (1963) - Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) - Mason & Dixon (1997) - Against the Day (2006) See also: - A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel, 2nd Edition, by Steven Weisenburger - The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow to Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, by Stefano Ercolino Note: Pynchon dedicated G’s R to Richard Fariña - see below: * Richard Fariña (American, 1937-66) - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) * John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-69) - A Confederacy of Dunces (completed 1964, published 1980) * Hunter S. Thompson (American, 1937-2005) - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971) * Joyce Carol Oates (American, 1938- ) Short story collections: - High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 - Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) - The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) Novels: - Blonde (2000) * Raymond Carver (American, 1938-88) Short story collections: - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) - Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories (1988) - Collected Stories (2009) - complete short fiction including Beginners * W. Timothy Gallwey (American, 1938- ) - The Inner Game of Tennis (1974) * Jean Giraud (French, 1938-2012) a.k.a. “Moebius” Graphic novels/comic book series: - Blueberry (1965-2007) - Arzach (1976) - The Long Tomorrow (1976) - The Airtight Garage (1976-80) - The Incal (1981-88, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky) - The World of Edena (1985-2001) * Margaret Atwood (Canadian, 1939- ) - The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) - Cat’s Eye (1988) * Angela Carter (English, 1940-92) - The Magic Toyshop (1967) - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) - Nights at the Circus (1984) - Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995) * J. M. Coetzee (South African, 1940- ) - Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) - Disgrace (1999) - Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 (a collection of letters exchanged with Paul Auster) - The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, with Arabella Kurtz (2015) * Bob Dylan (American, 1941- ) - Chronicles: Volume One (2004) See also: - Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews, edited by Jonathan Cott - Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu - Judas!: From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall: A Historical View of Dylan’s Big Boo by Clinton Heylin - Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron * Stephen Hawking (English, 1942- ) - A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) * Sam Shepard (American, 1943- ) Sam Shepard: Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) (1984) Shepard is also an actor- Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book of the same title), and Robert Rayburn aka “Papa Ray” in the 2015 Netflix series, Bloodline * Alice Walker (American, 1944- ) - The Color Purple (1982) * Katherine Dunn (American, 1945-2016) - Geek Love (1989) * Patti Smith (American, 1946- ) - Just Kids (2010) * David Lynch (American, 1946- ) - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (2006) * Keri Hulme (New Zealand, 1947- ) - The Bone People (1985) * Salman Rushdie (British Indian, 1947- ) - The Satanic Verses (1988) - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) * Paul Auster (American, 1947- ) - The New York Trilogy (1987) - Moon Palace (1989) - The Music of Chance (1990) - The Brooklyn Follies (2005) * Lydia Davis (American, 1947- ) - The End of the Story (1994) - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009) - Can’t and Won’t: Stories (2014) * Francine Prose (American, 1947- ) - Reading Like a Writer (2006) - Mister Monkey (2016) * Stephen King (American, 1947- ) - Carrie (1974)- The Shining (1977) - The Stand (1978)- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)- It (1986)- Misery (1987)- The Green Mile (1996) - On Writing (2000) - Doctor Sleep (2013) * S. E. Hinton (American, 1948- ) - The Outsiders (1967) * Ian McEwan (English, 1948- ) - In Between the Sheets (Short story collection) (1978) - Atonement (novel) (2001) * Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo, 1948- ) - Ceremony (1977) * Azar Nafisi (Iranian American, 1948- ) - Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) - Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter (2008) - The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books (2014) * Lester Bangs (American, 1948-82) - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung * George R. R. Martin (American, 1948- ) - A Song of Ice and Fire 1. A Game of Thrones (1996) 2. A Clash of Kings (1998) 3. A Storm of Swords (2000) 4. A Feast for Crows (2005) 5. A Dance with Dragons (2011) 6. The Winds of Winter 7. A Dream of Spring * Haruki Murakami (Japanese, 1949- ) Novels: - A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) - Norwegian Wood (1987) - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-5) - Kafka on the Shore (2002) - After Dark (2004) - 1Q84 (2009-10) - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Endless Pilgrimage (2013) Short story collections: - The Elephant Vanishes (17 stories, 1980-91) - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (24 stories, 1980-2005) - Birthday Stories (an anthology of stories featuring birthdays, by various authors including Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, and Murakami himself) (2002) See also: The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Stretcher * Martin Amis (Welsh, 1949- ) - London Fields (1989) - The Pregnant Widow (2010) - The Zone of Interest (2014) * Bob Roth (American, 1950- ) - Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation (2018) * Amy Hempel (American, 1951- ) - The Collected Stories (1985-2005) * Breece D'J Pancake (American, 1952-79) - The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake * Geoff Nicholson (British, 1953- ) - Everything and More (1994) * Alan Moore (English, 1953- ) - Watchmen (1987) (Graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gibbons) * Roberto Bolaño (Chilean, 1953-2003) - 2666 (2004) * Kazuo Ishiguro (British, 1954- ) - Never Let Me Go (2005) - The Buried Giant (2015) * Hanif Kureishi (British, 1954- ) - The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) * Iain Banks (Scottish, 1954-2013) - The Wasp Factory (1984) * Irvine Welsh (Scottish, 1957- ) - Trainspotting (1993) See also: - Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Reader’s Guide by Robert Morace * Jeanette Winterson (English, 1959- ) - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) - memoir * William T. Vollmann (American, 1959- ) - The Rainbow Stories (1989) - 13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs (1991) - The Royal Family (2000) * Jonathan Franzen (American, 1959- ) - The Corrections (2001) - Freedom (2010) - Purity (2015) * Neil Gaiman (English, 1960- ) - The Sandman (Graphic novel, various artists) * Rick Moody (American, 1961- ) - The Ice Storm (1994) - The Diviners (2005) - Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (2007) - Hotels of North America (2015) * Daniel Clowes (American, 1961- ) Graphic Novels/ Comics: - Ghost World (1997) - Wilson (2010) - Mister Wonderful (2011) Screenplays: - Ghost World (2001) - Art School Confidential (2008) - Wilson (2017) * Jennifer Egan (American, 1962- ) - A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)- Manhattan Beach (2017) * David Foster Wallace (American, 1962-2008) Novels: - The Broom of the System (1987) - Infinite Jest (1996) - The Pale King (unfinished, published 2011) Short story collections: - Girl with Curious Hair (1989) - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) - Oblivion (2004) Nonfiction: - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (1997) - Consider the Lobster (2005) - Both Flesh and Not (2012) See also: - David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide, by Stephen Burn - Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, by Greg Carlisle- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky - Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by D. T. Max * Peter Hedges (American, 1962- ) - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1991) * JT Leroy, literary persona created by Laura Albert (American, 1965- ) - Sarah (1999) - The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (1999) * Mark Z. Danielewski (American, 1966- ) - House of Leaves (2000) - Only Revolutions (2006) * Ian F. Svenonius (American, 1968- ) - The Psychic Soviet (2006) - Super-Natural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group (2013) * Junot Díaz (Dominican American, 1968- ) - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) * Stephen Chbosky (American, 1970- ) - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) * Zadie Smith (English, 1975- ) - White Teeth (2000) - The Autograph Man (2002) * Eimear McBride (Irish, 1976- ) - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (written 2004, published 2013) * Chen Chen (American, 1989- ) - When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017) * Anthologies: Penguin Classics: - The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: From Washington Irving to Lydia Davis - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: From P. G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith - The Penguin Book of American Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories - The Penguin Book of English Short Stories - The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories- The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce - American Supernatural Tales- The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry - Roots of Yoga- Roots of Ayurveda- Hippocratic Writings- Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann - The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories- The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories Oxford World's Classics:- Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others- Late Victorian Gothic Tales - Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-De-Siecle - The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (editor: Tobias Wolff) - The Art of the Short Story: 52 Great Authors, Their Best Short Fiction, and Their Insights on Writing - The Best American Short Stories of the Century (editor: John Updike) - That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written - The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories - The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: 1929-1964 - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: Novellas - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B: Novellas * See also: The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books by J. Peder Zane - A funny article about the book: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time by Lev Grossman http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html Top 10 books from all of the book’s featured writers’ respective lists: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot

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@trashboatprince It's hilarious! I love it and they both look great! Thanks for drawing it!

SINdy really is Sammy’s kid, haha.

@rosebloodcat asked for faun Henry to meet my boy, and I couldn’t resist making a reference. 

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I decided to draw Faun Henry in his usual winter wear. He's even wearing his winter leggings, to cover the parts of his legs that don't grow wool.

Also, hooves do not get traction on ice. At all.

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Some more sheep faun Henry sketches.

Henry working at his desk, Henry giving an unamused No, and Norman getting protective over Lamb Henry.

Henry being protected by Norman would probably do wonders for the faun's nerves, Lamb or no. Because the Projectionist is big, strong, and everything takes him seriously.

Also he wouldn't be having to go through the Studio's dangers alone.

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Little Sheep AU: Tests

It was an open secret at Joey Drew Studios that it's cofounder, Henry Stein, was a bit…  Odd.

No one could really name one specific reason that he was different, but they all knew.

There were only two members of the studio who tried to figure it out.  One was Wally Franks, the Studio's young, curious Janitor; but the other was the studio's own and namesake, Joey Drew.

Both men thought the reason he was so different, was due to him not actually being human.

Henry was used to their antics as they tried to figure out what, exactly, he was.  It was funny, because they were both right. But he had no intention of telling them that.

And honestly?

He found their attempts at guessing his true nature were actually pretty funny.

Mostly because (in his own mind, at least) he was so much more mundane than the various supernatural they would throw out at him.  A Wizard, vampire, bugbear, demon, a werewolf… It was a riot.  Also he was pretty sure at least one of those would be considered more of a predator for his kind, which made being compared to them even funnier.

Henry was none of those.  He was just a Faun, plain and simple.

Fauns were known shy and solitary woodland beings, with the legs/lower body and horns of a goat.  At least that was the general image shown of them. Henry, specifically, was actually a rather sheep-like Faun.  He had a sheep-like lower body, complete with wool that he needed to shear off every spring, and horns that curled around his head just like a ram's.  He was also a lot more sociable than most of his kin, he liked being around others more than hiding himself away in the wood.

That didn't, however, mean there weren't days where the idea of fleeing to the forests to escape the people in his life was really tempting.

His jaw twitched.

“Joey, why is my desk covered in herbs and surrounded by salt?”  Henry asked, only just keeping his tone even as he spoke.  He was pretty sure the salt was in a circle, which was a common warding technique, but it was useless against a Faun.

And the herbs were some of the strongest smelling ones he'd ever come across. He was getting a migraine from proximity alone.

Joey gave the faun his best innocent look, but all it did was make Henry's frown deepen.

“Sorry Henry, I was trying store some stuff in the closet behind your desk and ended up spilling some things by accident. I've already called Wally and I'm sure he’ll be able to clean it all up.”  Henry pulled a slow, deep breath (holding back a wince from the smell) then slowly let it out.

“Joey, is this another one of you “supernatural” tests?  Because, in case you've forgotten, you already know that nothing here has any special effect on me.”  Henry said in a tired, aggravated tone. “Heck, you've seen me eat a lot of these with various meals over the years.  But we really need to get rid of them. Because this amount is giving everyone over here, myself included, a killer headache.”

Joey was an old friend, but that didn't make dealing with his supernatural fascination any easier at times.  Henry shook his head in silent annoyance the carefully stepped over the “spilled” salt on the floor, struggling to ignore the way herbs made his sinuses burn and started fussing with his stuff.

He heard more than saw Wally arrive, the younger man immediately exclaiming at the stench coming from the nook Henry’s desk was in.

Henry froze, his nose twitching, then gave a huge sneeze that made the faun stagger from the force of it.

“Woah, you alright there Henry?”  Wally asked worriedly, stepping forward.

The faun snuffled, rubbing at his nose with the back of his hand.

“I'm fine, the herbs are just really strong.  I don't think I'm gonna be able to work at my desk until this stuff is cleared out.”

Joey frowned while Wally nodded, wrinkling his nose slightly.

“Yeah, why don't you take up one of the spare desks off the entrance room and I’ll get on cleaning this up.”  Henry sneezed again and nodded, gathering everything he knew he would need for the day and heading back to the main entrance, thanking Wally as he went.

He knew there was a smaller room connected to the entrance that was set up as a spare animation station, but most didn't use it due to how cramped the room was.  But with the deadline coming up, it was the only free desk Henry could think of. Henry could handle being in a cramped room for the next couple of days it would probably take for Wally to clean and air out his usual work space.

He didn't really mind small, cramped spaces, which was why he didn't mind having his small, back hall work desk.  It was working in a room where there was constantly someone in his peripheral vision that bugged him.

It rankled his faun instincts, having someone in that space.  So for his peace of mind, it was better to have his own private space to work in, instead of trying to share a space facing away from someone.

Arms laden with papers and inks, Henry opened the door and carefully stepped into the space.  He knew he would probably end up filling the room enough to have to squeeze his way in later. He could only hope he wouldn't end up catching some of his wool on the door, that would hurt.

Well, he would just have to make due until his desk was usable again.  That shouldn't take too long. Hopefully.

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And now; Henry arguing with his pet sheep, Rammy.

I based Henry's side of of the argument off of an argument my Dad once had with one of our cats. The cat is question, a lovely Maine coon named T'pring, had been trying bring a live squirrel she'd caught inside the house.

They'd argued just like this, and you could tell they were actively arguing with each other.

It was hilarious, and something I can totally picture Henry doing with his sheep.

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My friend, @liliflower137, suggested I draw Faun Henry as a baby. He came out so cute! I've decided to dub him Lamb Henry.

Honestly he's the cutest baby I've ever drawn.

I also drew Boris and Norman going mushy over Lamb Henry.

Now the question is, are they seeing baby pictures of Henry? Or are some kind of ink magic shenanigans to blame here?

What would this be called? Little Lamb AU?

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I've decided to take a trick from Optic Ink AU artist to give Norman/The Projectionist a more expressive face. I really like how it looks. Henry's for more than his wool to worry about.

You know, thinking of it.

Faun Henry is probably having a harder time than canon Henry.

After all, sheep are PREY animals.

And in the Studio, everything is danger.

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Sheep Faun Henry

Cyborg Geek Girl: I read somewhere that some Satyr's bare a stronger resemblance to sheep than goats, to the point of growing wool instead of regular fur. And now for some reason my brain is picturing Henry as a Sheep Satyr; he's human from the waist up, but sheep from there down, and with Ram horns on his head. He normally wears a charm of some kind to keep people from realizing he's not actually human. He had to leave because of something magic-related (or something). When he came back, he lost his charm at some point in chapter 2, and that's one of the reasons Sammy calls him a "Sheep".

Mom’s Lili Kittyflower: Oooo. Neat.

Cyborg Geek Girl: He wears pants (for modesty) after sheering himself in the spring, but during fall and winter, the wool on him is too thick to allow that. And he has specialized leg warmers he wears during the winter (for the areas that aren't covered in wool) Satyr Henry is very flexible since he has to do all kinds of fancy twisting to sheer himself without cutting himself.

Some Bastardisation of “Mango”: yesss

CGG: Satyr Hen is a floof. I want to talk more about the sheep or see a picture of him.

SBOM: yesss

CGG: Joey didn't know about Henry being a Satyr. He suspected he was magic, but something more grande then a sheep.

SBOM: Ye, lol

CGG: Henry is going through the studio in the fall, which means there's ink soaking into his wool. He's very unhappy about it. He'll have to sheer himself early to get rid of the mats. People are confused by the sheepman making his way through the studio. Alice wants to hug him because he looks so fluffy, but he's drenched in tainted ink. Bendy is confused by the clopping he's hearing instead of footsteps. Boris found Henry a brush to get rid of the worst of the tangles in his hair and wool.

SBOM: Yesss. the butcher clones are fascinated by henry's wool

CGG: Pfft, yes. They want to pet the floof. There are no Satyr toons, so they've never seen anyone like Henry before.

SBOM: i love this. ooo satyr henry meets benry

CGG: He's so tired of the feeling of ink in the gaps of his hooves. That would be interesting.

SBOM: s!hen: i'm guessing you weren't always like that

b!hen: what gave it away?

castor: ANOTHER FLUFFY HENRY

CGG: Henry keeps being startled by them because they keep trying to grab some of his wool or his tail. And it's all on his lower body, so it's very uncomfortable. Especially since they're all butt level against him.

SBOM: when some of the wool gets cut off somehow, the butcher clones all mob on it, trying to look at it

CGG: Henry is very confused by it. Like "It's just some wool?"

SBOM: i feel like toons, in general, are just fascinated by wool aLSO NORMAN he's just like "my life is already weird enough, might as well add this onto the pile"

CGG: I don't follow. What would Norman's reaction be?

SBOM: that's norman's reaction i was just exclaiming because *i forgot my boy*

CGG: That Henry's actually a sheep man? He's just kinda rolling with it?

SBOM: Yeah.

CGG: Henry escapes the ink demon once by accidentally bleating when it startles him. The demon just... Stops. It doesn't know what to do because bleating is not something humans do when scared. Henry takes the chance to run as fast as he can.

SBOM: pfft there's no horror just comedy, confusion, and odd fascination

CGG: Which is just as fun as the Horror. Well, there's still body horror from the toons. And the coffins from the earlier chapters. Henry and Bo still get dropped down an elevator shaft.

SBOM: but it's not pure horror

CGG: That's true. I want to talk more about Satyr Henry. But I’m not sure what to talk about.

MLK: I want to talk more about him too How does he lose the charm?

CGG: I want to say it was some carved beads (or something like that) that he kept one of those leather pouches that you can wear around your neck, and a searcher ripped the pouch, and the beads ended up scattered on the floor. Henry couldn't fix the pouch right then, and even if he could, he hadn't been able to find all the beads.

SBoM: he's just annoyed that he'll have to recraft the charm from scratch again

CGG: Oh yeah. I’ve just decided Satyr Henry has sheepy ears too.

SBOM: yessss4

CGG: [image] I’m not really an SU person, but I love these Satyr designs. I want Hen to have horns like Rose's and a tail like Pearl's.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesss

Cyborg Geek Girl: Also, I finally found what a proper black sheep looks like. [image]

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: BROWN FUZZY FRIEND

Cyborg Geek Girl: YUS Hen is gonna be that shade of brown.

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: FUZZY FREEEN

Cyborg Geek Girl: Their legs are so skinny.

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: I wanna hug the sheep

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: saaaaame

Trash Mom: SHEEP

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: Fluffy wooly freeeen

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yeeeee

Cyborg Geek Girl: If Bendy is separate from 'Bendy' in this AU (or even if he's healed from that form), He loves trying to play with Henry's long tufted tail.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesssss

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: He's a cat. Bendy is always a cat X3 And honestly same I would too

Cyborg Geek Girl: Boris is fascinated by the Sheepman, and asking all kinds of questions about how magic is supposed to be outside the studio.

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: Joey; So you're just... A sheep? Henry; One, I'm a satyr. Two, WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN

Cyborg Geek Girl: Lol, yes. Joey; Sorry, I just expected something a bit... More… Henry; rolls eyes Oh, like you have room to talk. Imma need to swap things around for Henry, turns out I was confusing Satyrs for Fauns. Satyrs are... different. From now on it's Faun Henry.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: fair nuff

Mom's Lil Kittyflower: Ah okay Snippy is going to love Faun Henry when she hears about him

Cyborg Geek Girl: [image] This is closer to what I picture for Faun Henry. But with fully curves ram horns and wool. (And older o' course) As much as I love the long swooshy tail, I think he's gonna have the cute little nub-tail most sheep have. Henry is so floofy. Joey is so caught off guard by Faun Hen, he just kinda freezes and goes "Wat?" He'd expected Henry to be something a bit grander than a sheepman for him. Like a Vampire, or a Werewolf, or a Wizard or something like that.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: pfft

Lil Lilipad: We gonna talk more about Faun Henry today?

Cyborg Geek Girl: I want to.

Lil Lilipad: Why don't we talk about why he left? You said "magical reasons" right?

Cyborg Geek Girl: “Magical or something" yeah. I want to say it was partially the stress of working at the studio, and Joey starting to stick his nose where it shouldn't be.

Lil Lilipad: I’m kinda wondering what Henry's family is like

Cyborg Geek Girl: Probably distant. He might not terribly close to them.

Lil Lilipad: Joey just starts dropping hints that he thinks Henry is something magical but all his guesses are completely off base so Henry leaves because it's annoying

Cyborg Geek Girl: Lol, yes. And because He's pretty much running the studio and not getting credit for it.

Lil Lilipad: Does he confront Joey about it before leaving?

Cyborg Geek Girl: For the Credit thing? Yes. It gets very bad. Joey walks out with a black eye and Henry's got some bruises too.

Lil Lilipad: Sorry I feel sick can't really talk

Cyborg Geek Girl: That's fine At first, Joey trying to guess what he really was had been amusing, but then it started to get on Henry's nerves.

Lil Lilipad: He never even gets remotely close

Cyborg Geek Girl: The closest he gets is Satyr, but that just visibly offends Henry. People often mistake them, but that's still pretty rude.

Lil Lilipad: “I’m sorry I guessed something that boring" Henry is further offended

Cyborg Geek Girl: (Satyr's are built like humans, but with Horsetails and ears. They were supposed to accompany Dianonsis, the Greek God of Wine, Celebrations and [ahem] "Sexual Activities") (Henry is less offended by the "boring" comment and more by the suggested activities) "My God Joey! Do you really think of me like that?!" Highly offended tone I want Sammy and/or Wally to be suspicious of Faun Henry not being human.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesss

Cyborg Geek Girl: They find something like some wool, or maybe a chip from one of his horns or hooves. He was helping carry something heavy and it smacked against his head and they found a chip from one of his horns. Henry yelps after having to squeeze his way through a partially blocked doorway, and claims he was just startled by a splinter digging into his hand.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: ouch

Cyborg Geek Girl: They go back and find some wool caught on the wood.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: they start getting suspicious

Cyborg Geek Girl: He didn't hurt his head, because it hit his horns and not his actual head.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: idea: henry makes and sells yarn made from his wool

Cyborg Geek Girl: Only during early summer and late spring

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: he has a little old lady for a neighbor that knows how to knit and she always buys his yarn

Cyborg Geek Girl: He had a few things he makes himself.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yep hen doesn’t knit or crochet he does macrame

Cyborg Geek Girl: He makes cord bracelets.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesss

Cyborg Geek Girl: Just with leftover yarn.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: he also sells roving wool for needle felters

Lil Lilipad: So his horns are just invisible with the charm? He can still knock into stuff with them? What is macrame?

Cyborg Geek Girl: He doesn't have a lot of yarn. 1/2 of a usual wool bag

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: it's doing yarnwork with your hands

Cyborg Geek Girl: From his self-sheering.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: “I have a very small sheep"

Cyborg Geek Girl: The charm is to basically trick peoples brains into not notice he wasn't actually human.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macram%C3%A9

Cyborg Geek Girl: Pants and shoes are normally considered "Not important" to peoples brains beyond, "That person is wearing them".

Lil Lilipad: He has a pen out back for a sheep and whenever people come over "She's out hiding somewhere" Oh I see

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: in reality, he has a pet goat named Sheep

Lil Lilipad: Thanks THAT IS ADORABLE

Cyborg Geek Girl: He claims it's an old ram that's not very sociable. So people should just leave the old boy alone.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: pfft

Cyborg Geek Girl: He should actually have an old ram. He got it when he was a kid, and stupidly named it Rammy. He argues with him sometimes. Like how Lili argues with her cat.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesss

Cyborg Geek Girl: Everyone suspects Henry isn't actually a normal human. Joey is just the only one trying to figure out what, exactly, he is. Someone should be a farm kid and knows that Henry's wool haul is more than he should have for only one old ram.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: also, yes, Grant is the farm boy

Cyborg Geek Girl: Sammy finds the wool from Henry, while Wally finds the chip, and it's Grant who identifies them as "possibly sheep".

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yes

Cyborg Geek Girl: Everyone thinks Henry is odd, but no one really points it out.  Except for Joey. Henry does yearly hair-cuts at home, but again, no one questions it. They just think he's trying to save money. Head hair has to be trimmed a bit more often since it grows at a human rate. But Henry still does it at home.

Lil Lilipad: Imagine Henry accidentally bleating when someone scares him

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: yesss

Cyborg Geek Girl: Yes, people look at him funny when he does. Also, apparently Sheep/Rams can shed the outer covering of their horns. This is how Henry's horn had chipped but still healed later.

Lil Lilipad: Henry almost never laughs, so a couple people make it a challenge to see who can make him laugh first When they finally succeed, they find out that Henry has a really weird sounding laugh

Cyborg Geek Girl: Wally: whispers “No wonder he doesn't laugh.”

Lil Lilipad: Wally, Shawn, and probably one other person

Cyborg Geek Girl: Thomas. His curiosity couldn't be contained. (Before the Machine, he was their Heating and Plumbing guy)

Lil Lilipad: He always struck me as someone who has really serious but okay

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: Henry and his nice old lady neighbor [image]

Lil Lilipad: Cuuuute

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: she wears a snuggie 24/7 cause she gets cold easy

Cyborg Geek Girl: Snuggies weren't a thing then, but a good robe/shawl wouldn't be out of place.

Some Bastardization of "Mango”: She just wears a robe all day then :P

Cyborg Geek Girl: Lol, I just found out sheep scream like people.

Lil Lilipad: Oh my god X3

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Faun Henry is so adorable ;;

Thank you~

He is a little cutie. I'm quite proud of how well he came out, and how well his story came out in my head.

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More Sheep Faun Henry!!

I decided to draw Faun Henry in his usual winter wear. He’s even wearing his winter leggings, to cover the parts of his legs that don’t grow wool.

Also, hooves do not get traction on ice. At all.