The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Aldous Huxley—Perennial Library (HarperCollins) issues Brave New World separately and also bound with Brave New World Revisited. The same imprint also at one time published many of Huxley's other novйis, such as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Antic Hay, Crome Yellow, Point Counter Point, Eyeless in Gaza, as well as Great Short Works. Consult your bookseller or library for collections of his essays.

Further reading: For the formidable Huxley family, see Ronald W. Clark, The Huxleys. Biographies: Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography, (2 vols.); Jocelyn Brooke, Aldous Huxley. A good academic study: Robert S. Baker, The Dark Historie Pages: Social Satire and Historicism in the Novйis of Aldous Huxley, 1921-1939.

William Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury: Vintage and Modern Library. As I Lay Dying: Vintage. Viking has The Portable Faulkner, splendidly edited by Malcolm Cowley. Vintage issues Collected Stories. Бbsalom, Absalom!: Penguin, Vintage. The Library of Amйricas three-volume set includes ali of the major novйis.

Further reading: The authorized life is J. L. Blotners William Faulkner: A Biography (2 vols.). Faulkner may end by having more commentators than readers. Here are a few excellent studies: Michael Millgate, The Achievement of William Faulkner; Cleanth Brooks's three-volume work: William Faulkner: First Encounters; William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country and William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond; F.J. Hoffman, William Faulkner; Irving Howe, William Faulkner: A Criticai Study. Perhaps the finest short estimate remains Malcolm Cowley's classic introduction to The Portable Faulkner.

Ernest Hemingway—Ali of Hemingway is published by Scribners; they offer an omnibus Short Stories and also a Hemingway Reader. The recent Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway (the so-called Finca Vigia edition) includes stories previously uncollected and is the one to read.

Further reading: The standard biography is Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. See also: Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration; Carlos Baker, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist; Scott Donaldson, By Force of Will; Peter Griffin, Along with Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years; Jeffrey Meyer, Hemingway; Michael Reynolds. The Young Hemingway and Hemingway: The 1930S; K.S. Lynn, Hemingway: The Life and Work. This last stresses his early years, and treats Hemingway's darker side. For other insights, see Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds; F.J. Hoffman, The Modern Novel in America; Edmund Wilsons essay in Eight Essays; Denis Brian, The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him.

Kawabata Yasunari—Beauty and Sadness, Snow Country, The House of the Sleeping Beauties, A Thousand Cranes, The Master of Gх, and other works, mostly translated by Edward Seidensticker, are available from Knopf.