The New Lifetime Reading Plan

John Bunyan—Paperbacks of The Pilgrims Progress are easily come by: Airmont; Holt, Rinehart; and Signet (with a foreword by the formidable F.R. Leavis) ali offer handy volumes.

Further reading: G.B. Harrison, Bunyan: A Study in Personality; R. Sharrock, John Bunyan, rev. ed.; O.E. Winslow, John Bunyan, perhaps the most useful biography.

John Locke—Second Treatise: Bobbs-Merrill. Essay Concerning Human Understanding: (2 vols., Dover), Meridian; Everyman; Collier.

Further reading: D.J. 0'Connor, John Locke, a good introduc- tion; R.I. Aaron, John Locke; Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography, a fine job. See also: Locke Reader, ed. J.W. Yolton; Locke Selections, ed. S.P. Lamprecht.

Matsuo Bashх—There are many translations; one of the best of The Narrow Road is by Nobuyuki Yuasa (Penguin). See also Sam Hamill, The Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambala); Lucien Stryk, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashх (Penguin); Makoto Ueda, Bashх and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentaries (Stanford U. Press).

Further reading: Makoto Ueda, Matsuo Bashх; Robert Aitken, A Zen Wave: Bashх's Haiku and Zen.

Daniel Defoe—Many paperback editions of Robinson Crusoe are available: among others, Signet, Dutton, and Washington Square Press. Dutton and Holt, Rinehart offer Moll Flanders; Oxford has Roxana, ed. Jane Jack.

Further reading: The fullest biography is J.R. Moore's Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World. See also: James Sutherland, Defoe; the essay by Virginia Woolf in The Common Reader.

Jonathan Swift—Dell, Norton, Oxford, and Holt, Rinehart ali offer good editions of Gulliver. The Portable Swift, ed. Carl Van Doren (Viking), contains a fine selection from Swift's miscella- neous work in both prose and verse.

Further reading: For biography, see I. Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age (2 vols.). See also: Carl Van Doren, Swift; R. Quintana, The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift; David Ward, Jonathan Swift: An Introductory Essay.

Voltaire—Candide is widely available. Modern Library includes "other writings," as does Signet. Ben Redman's Portable Voltaire (Viking) is a good collection. You may be able to find Peter Gay's translation of the Philosophical Dictionary (Harvest).

Further reading: The best biography in English is probably Theodore Besterman's Voltaire. See also Richard Aldington,

Voltaire; Virgil W. Topazio, Voltaire: A Criticai Study of His Major Works; W. Andrews, Voltaire; H.N. Brailsford, Voltaire. A.J. Ayers Voltaire deals brilliantly with his lesser-known works. Peyton E. Richter and Ilona Ricardo's Voltaire is a good introductory biogra- phy.

David Hume—An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Oxford U. Press, Open Court.

Further reading: E.C. Mossners The Life of David Hume is the definitive biography. J.Y.T. Greig's David Hume is shorter. See also: Barry Stroud, Hume; David Hume: Many-Sided Genius, ed. K.R. Merrill and R.W. Shahan; A.J. Ayer, Hume.

Henry Fielding—Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews are widely available. Signet and Everyman offer Jonathan Wild.

Further reading: The standard biography is the two-volume Henry Fielding: His Life, Work, and Times, by F. Homes Dudden. Thackeray's estimate of Fielding is good but deeply Victorian: See his The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Useful also is Ronald Paulson, ed., Fielding: A Collection of Criticai Essays; Andrew Wright, Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast.