The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Mishima Yukio—The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, tr. Ivan Morris; The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and The Sea of Fertility, tr. John Nathan; Confessions of a Mask, tr. Meredith Weatherby; ali published by Knopf, with various paperback reprints.

Further reading: Henry Scott-Stokes, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima; John Nathan, Mishima: A Biography; Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima; Marguerite Yourcenar, Mishima: A Vision of the Void; Gwenn Boardman Peterson, The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez—One Hundred Years of Solitude is in Avon. HarperCollins offers three volumes of his short stories: Innocent Indira and Other Stories; Leaf Storm and Other Stories; No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories. An interesting recent novel is Love in the Time of Cholera (Knopf).

Further reading: G.H. McMurray, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Chinua Achebe—Things Fali Apart from Doubleday and Heinemann; A Man of the People, No Longer at Ease, and Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays ali from Doubleday.

Further reading: Catherine L. Innes, Chinua Achebe ; Robert M. Wren, Achebe s World: The Historical and Cultural Context of the Novйis of Chinua Achebe; R.O. Muoneke, Art, Rebellion, and Redemption: A Reading of the Novйis of Chinua Achebe.

Some Important General Works

Fiction: Though hardly new, perhaps the most penetrating studies of the novel still remain: E.M. Forsters Aspects of the Novel; Henry James's The Art of Fiction and Other Essays and The Art of the Novel; Percy Lubbock's The Craft of Fiction.

For a good general survey of English fiction see Walter Allen, The English Novel; also I.P. Watt, The Rise of the Novel. F.R. Leavis's influ- ential The Great Tradition has long chapters on George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad, as well as a general discussion of English fic­tion. For Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontкs, and George Eliot, see David CeciPs Victorian Novelists.

Poetry: There are dozens of good general anthologies of English and American verse. The anthology edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, Poets of the English Language (5 vols., paperback) seems as good as any, but you may also wish to consult Richard Aldington, ed., The Viking Book of Poetry of the English Speaking World (2 vols.); The Oxford Book of English Verse; J.F. Nims, The Harper Anthology of Poetry and the Library of America's American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (2 vols.). Louis Untermeyers Lives of the Poets is a good, readable compendium of biography plus criticai summary. It deals with English and American poets from Beowulf to Dylan Thomas.