The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Further reading: Leo Ou-fan Lee, Voicesfrom the Iron House: A Study ofLu Xun; William Lyell, Lu Hsьris Vision ofReality.

James Joyce—The Ulysses to own is the Vintage "corrected text" edition. If you're determined to try the difficult Finnegans Wake, it's in Penguin, which also publishes The Portable James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Dubliners.

Further reading: The definitive biography is Richard Ellmann's James Joyce. Excellent general studies: Harry Levin, James Joyce: A Criticai Introduction; W.Y. Tindall, A Readers Guide to James Joyce; Anthony Burgess, Re Joyce. Edmund Wilson's brilliant esti- mate is in his AxeVs Castle. A good recent study is John Bishop, Joyce's Book of the Dead. On Ulysses see Stuart Gilbert, James Joyces Ulysses; H. Blamires, The Bloomsday Book; Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses; Hugh Kenner, Ulysses. If you attempt Finnegans Wake, take along Campbell and Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake.

Virgнnia Woolf—Ali four recommended titles as well as The Common Reader, First Series are in Harvest. Several volumes of the Essays and the Letters are published by Harcourt.

Further reading: Quentin Bell, Virgнnia Woolf (2 vols.) is the fullest biography. See also P. Rose, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virgнnia Woolf and Hermione Lee, Virgнnia Woolf. There is a large and increasing corpus of literature about Virgнnia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group of which she was the center. In connection with the latter, see Michael Holroyd's life of Lytton Strachey (2 vols.); Leon Edel, Bloomsbury: A House ofLions.

Franz Kafka—Modern Library and Vintage offer The Castle; Schocken has a "definitive edition" with commentary by Thomas Mann. Vintage has The Trial; Schocken publishes a "definitive edi­tion" with Kafka s own drawings. Schocken also has the Complete Stories.

Further reading: The Kafka literature is approaching industrial proportions. For biographies, see Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography; Ronald Hayman, Kafka: A Biography; Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason, a remarkable book. Criticai studies: Erich Heller, Franz Kafka; Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox; Ronald D. Gray, ed., Kafka: A Collection of Criticai Essays; Angel Flores, ed., The Kafka Problem.

D.H. Lawrence—Sons and Lovers and Women in Love are in Penguin, as are The Rainbow_y Complete Poems, and Complete Short Stories (3 vols.). The once shocking Lady Chatterly's Lover: Grove, Signet, Bantam. Viking publishes the Portable D.H. Lawrence, ed. Diana Trilling.

Further reading: D.H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, ed. Edward Nehis; H.T. Moore, The Intelligent Heart; Keith Sagar, The