The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Henrick Ibsen—Virtually ali the plays have been translated by Michael Meyer and are published in five paperback volumes by Methuen. Anchor publishes his When We Dead Awaken and Three Other Plays. Another reputable translator is James W. MacFarlane; see his Henrik Ibsen: Penguin Criticai Anthology (Penguin). Oxford offers three volumes comprising Ibsen's best work. Modern Library has Eva Le Gailienne's translation of six well-known plays. New American Library offers complete Major Prose and Plays; tr. Rolf Fjelde.

Further reading: M.J. Valency, The Flower and the Castle. A slanted but brilliant essay is Shaw's The Quintessence of Ibsenism. See also: H. Clurman, Ibsen; J. Northam, Ibsen: A Criticai Study. For biography, see M.C. Bradbrook, Ibsen the Norwegian; H. Meyer, Ibsen: A Biography. For Ibsen's influence on Asian litera­ture, see Lu Hsьn's famous essay, "What Happens After Nora Leaves Home," in his Selected Works, tr. Yang and Yang.

Emily Dickinson—Little, Brown publishes the Complete Poems; there are various editions of selected poems. Her Letters, in three vol­umes (Belknap), are very interesting.

Further reading: Biographies by Cynthia G. Wolff; Helen McNeil; John E. Walsh, The Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson; R.B. Sewell, The Life of Emily Dickinson.

Lewis Carroll—The two Alice books are so readily available that editions need not be cited. Try, of course, to get one contain- ing the Tenniel illustrations. Dover has Humorous Verse of Lewis

Carroll and also Pillow Problems (bound with A Tangled Tale).

Further reading: Official, dull, and reticent is S. Dodgson Collingwood's Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll. It's rather hard to find, which may be a good thing. Derek Hudsons Lewis Carroll takes advantage of the diaries and many hitherto unpublished let­ters. Anne Clark's Lewis Carroll is also a good short biography. See also Morton N. Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography. Florence Becker Lennon's The Life of Lewis Carroll offers an interesting analysis of Carroll's peculiar temperament, as refracted through his work. Shorter studies are legion, one of the best being Edmund Wilson's "C. L. Dodgson: The Poet-Logician" in his The Shores of Light. Highly amusing and instructive is The Annotated Alice, edited by Martin Gardner. For an interesting collection of mainly modern viewpoints, some profound, some mildly lunatic, see Robert Phillips, ed., Aspects of Alice.

Mark Twain—Huckleberry Finn is available in many editions. A good one, ed. by Lionel Trilling, is the Holt, Rinehart issue. Perennial has Great Short Works, and there are many editions of Life on the Mississippi—well worth reading. The Library of America publishes the complete novйis in three volumes, and Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches ir Essays in two volumes. Oxford U. Press publishes the Complete Works in 29 volumes.

Further reading: The (highly) official biography is Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (3 vols.). Two quite different inter- pretations: Van Wyck Brooks, The Ordeal of Mark Twain; Bernard De Voto, Mark Twain s America. See also: H.N. Smith, Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer; Charles Neiders remarkable edition of The Autobiography of Mark Twain; Justin Kaplan, Mister Clemens and Mark Twain; Walter Blair, Mark Twain and Huck Finn; Andrew Jay Hoffman, Inventing Mark Twain.

Henry Adams—Riverside has a fine edition of The Education; also Houghton Mifflin (Sentry edition). Penguin offers Mont- Saint-Michel and Chartres in paperback. The Library of America has The Education and Mont-Saint-Michel together with Adams's complete novйis in a single volume.