The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Further reading: Takeo Doi, The Psychological World of Natsume Soseki; Edwin McClellan, Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki and Toson; Beongcheon Yu, Natsume Soseki; Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata.

Marcel Proust—The complete "definite Plйiade edition" of Remembrance of Things Past, tr. C.K Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Mayor, is published by Random House in three volumes. The seven parts are also available separately.

Further reading: An excellent brief biography is Andrй Maurois's Proust. Another is Richard H. Barkers Mareei Proust. George D. Painters Mareei Proust (2 vols.) is a detailed, compre- hensive, well-researched classic biography. For a brief but mas- terly appreciation, see Edmund Wilson's AxeVs Castle. See also: Germaine Brйe, Mareei Proust and Deliverance from Time; and the same authors The World of Mareei Proust; Roger Shattuck, Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in A la rйcherche du temps perdu; Samuel Beckett, Proust; Julia

Kristeva, Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, difficult but full of penetrating insights.

Robert Frost—Holt, Rinehart publishes Collected Poems in hardback and Selected Poems in paperback. Washington Square Press has Untermeyers edition, the New Enlarged Anthology of Robert Frosfs Poems. You may come upon other paperback edi­tions. The Library of America has a one-volume Collected Poems, Prose т- Plays.

Further reading: Lawrence Thompson's Robert Frost (3 vols.) is official but not reverent. Qualifying Thompson's interpretation of Frost's character is W.H. Pritchard's Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. See also: E.S. Sergeant, Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence; Sidney Cox, A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost; R.L. Cook, The Dimensions of Robert Frost; R.A. Brower, The Poetry of Robert Frost; Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing.

Thomas Mann—Modern Library and Vintage offer The Magic Mountain in the standard translation by H.T. Lowe-Poreter. Knopf has a new translation by John E. Woods. Vintage also has Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus, both well worth reading, as is Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage).

Further reading: Hans Buergin and Hans-Otto Mayer, Thomas Mann: A Chronicle of His Life; Richard Winston, Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist, 1875-1911. The reader may find useful commentary in The Stature of Thomas Mann, ed. by Charles Neider; J.G. Brennan's Thomas Manns World; Clifton Fadiman, Reading Vve Liked.

E.M. Forster—A Passage to нndia: Harvest. Howards End, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, and Where Angels Fear to Tread are ali in Vintage. The interesting Aspects of the Novel is in Harvest. His memoir of youthful employment as a secretary in нndia, The Hill of Devi, is out of print and hard to find, but worth looking for.

Further reading: Lionel Trilling's E.M. Forster is the best study. The authorized biography is by P.N. Furbank. See also: Rose Macaulay, The Writings of E.M. Forster; Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays; F.C. Crews, E.M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism; Wilfred Stone, The Cave and the Mountain.

Lu HsЬn—There are many translations; three good editions are William Lyell, tr., Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (U. Hawaii Press); Ah Q and Others: Selected Stories of Lu Hsьn, tr. by Chi-chen Wang (Greenwood); and Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, tr., Lu Xun: Selected Works (Foreign Languages Press, Beijing).