Dead, Dostoyevsky, 201 Mencius, 28-31, 329 Mencken, H.L., view of Ibsen, 204 "Mending Wall," Frost, 245 Meno, Plato, 25 Men of Mathematics, Bell, 111, 112
77нЈ Merchant ofVenice,
Shakespeare, 94 77нЈ Metamorphosis, Kafka, 257 "Michael," Wordsworth, 149 Micromegas, Voltaire, 125 Middlemarch, George Eliot, 195 Mill, John Stuart, 126, 164-65,
217, 222, 342 Miller, Arthur, 313 Miller, Barbara Stoler, tr.,
Bhagavad Gita, 37 77нЈ Mill on the Floss, George
Eliot, 194 Milton, John, 95, 107-9, 33^ "The Ministers BlackVeil,"
Hawthorne, 161 77нЈ Ministry of Fear, Greene, 308 77ie Misanthrope, 110, 111 77ie Miser, Moliиre, 111 Mishima Yukio, 294-95, 359 Moby Dick, Melville, 121, 190-91 Moliиre, 109-11, 336
Moll Flanders, Defoe, 121 Molloy, Beckett, 282 Montage of a Dream Deferred,
Hughes, 309 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de,
85-87, 105, 112, 334 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,
Adams, 213 More, Paul Elmer, view of Henry
Adams,213 Morley, Christopher,221 Morris, Richard B., ed., Basic Documents in American History, 139 Morrison, Toni, 313 Mother Courage, Brecht, 303 Mourning Becomes Electra,
0'Neill, 263 "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,"
Woolf,253 Mr. Scarborough's Family,
Trollope, 178 Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf, 254 Muhammad, 52-55 Muniford, Lewis, on Gullivefs
Traveis, 123 Murasaki, Shikibu (Lady
Murasaki), 64-66, 332 "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue," Poe, 172 Murdoch, нris, 313 Musil, Robert, 313 My Antonia, Cather, 305 My Life and Hard Times, Thurber, 320
"My Old Man," Hemingway,270 Myra Breckenridge, Vidal,321 The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
Dickens,177 The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus,286
Nabokov, Vladimir, 98, 274-76,
273, 357 view of Dead Souls, 170-71 The Naked and the Dead, 312
Naomi, Tanizaki, 261 Narayan, R.K., 278-80, 358 The Narrou) Road to the Deep
North, Basho, 119-20 Native Son, Wright, 323 Natsume Soseki, 238-40, 260, 352 Nature, Emerson, 159 77ie Negro Speaks ofRivers,
Hughes,309 Neu; Introductory Lectures on
Psychoanalysis, 227 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 146, 201, 220-22, 246, 350 view of Mill, 222 The Nigger of the Narcissus,
Conrad,231 Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell,
277-78 No Exif, Sartre, 318 "A Noiseless Patient Spider,"
Whitman, 198 Nostromo, Conrad, 231
0'Connor, Flannery, 313-14 "Ode: Intimations of Immortality,"
Wordsworth, 149 "Ode to Duty," Wordsworth, 149 Odyssey, Homer, 5, 6, 7-8, 32, 33, 44> 252
Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, 13, 14
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles, 13-14 OfMice and Men, Steinbeck, 319 O/ f/ie Nature of Things,
Lucretius, 41-42 0'Hara, John, 314 77ie Old Man and the Sea,
Hemingway,270 77ie Old Regime and the French