The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Henry David Thoreau—Walden is readily available. Most edi­tions include Civil Disobedience. Penguin has a Portable Thoreau and A Week on the Concord and Merimack Rivers; Bantam has Walden and Other Writings, ed. J.W. Krutch. The Library of America has ali of Thoreau's major works in a single large volume. A newly published Thoreau work is of interest: Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings (Island Press).

Further reading: A good biography is Walter Hardings The Days of Henry Thoreau. See also Richard Lebeaux, Young Man Thoreau; R.T. Richardson Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind; Sherman Paul, The Shores of America: Thoreau s Inward Exploration; H.S. Canby, Thoreau.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev—Fathers and Sons is available in Modern Library (Guerney's translation), Bantam, Norton, Signet, Penguin. Penguin has Sketches from a Huntefs Бlbum (another rendering of A Sportsmans Sketches).

Further reading: Three reliable biographies are A. Yarmolinsky's Turgenev: The Man_y His Art, and His Age; L.B. Shapiro's Turgenev: His Life and Times; and D. Magarshack's Turgenev: A Life. Edmund Wilson contributes an interesting, lengthy introduction to a Turgenev collection, Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments (Evergreen). A fine study is V.S. Pritchett's The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: There are many editions of the Communist Manifesto; Penguin has a handy volume. International Publishing has Selected Works of Marx т- Engels; you might want to try reading their greatest work, Capital (Das Kapital).

Further reading: A standard life is Franz Mehrings Karl Marx: The Story of His Life. See also: S.K. Padover, Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography; Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx. His Life and Environment, a brilliant short account; Sidney Hook, Marx and the Marxists. For insight into Marx and his connection with thought in general, see R.H. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers; Jacques Barzun, Darwin, Marx, Wagner; J.K. Galbraith, The Evolution of Economics. An excellent psychological study is Bruce Mazlish, The Meaning of Karl Marx.

Herman Melville—Moby Dick is generally available in many editions. Riverside has a good one edited by the distinguished scholar Alfred Kazin. Penguin issues a Portable Melville and Perennial has Great Short Works, including Bartleby. Signet and Phoenix, among other imprints, offer Billy Budd. The Library of America has a three volume Melville set containing ali the major works.

Further reading: The literature is vast and various. Some inter­esting treatments: Leon Howard's Herman Melville: A Biography; Newton Arvins Herman Melville; Richard Chase's Herman Melville: A Criticai Study; W.E. Sedgwick, Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind; Lewis Muniford, Herman Melville; A.R. Humphreys, Melville; Van Wyck Brooks, The Times of Melville and Whitman; Jay Leydas The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville is just what the title suggests. Two recent biogra­phies are Laurie Robertson-Lorant's Melville: A Biography, and

the authoritative Herman Melville: A Biography by Herschel Parker (the first of two volumes).

George Eliot—Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede are widely available. The Riverside editions are edited by the great Eliot scholar G.S. Haight. Daniel Deronda: Penguin, Signet.