Pepys, Samuel – Pepys Diary – 4 Volume Braybrook ed. Plato – Four Socratic dialogues (Oxford pr.) (1903) Ouiller-Couch, Arthur The Oxford Book Of English Verse Ouiller-Couch, Arthur , Oxford Book of English Prose Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin– “‘Idea of a University” (18) Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Memoirs of (Louis the) Duke de Saint-Simon – trans. Latin Vulgate Bible / Latin Vulgate New Testament Landor, Walter Savage – Vol II of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor (1876) – Imaginary Conversations Johnson, Samuel, On Shakespeare, 1908, Intro by Walter Raleigh Hazlitt – Selected Essays Of William Hazlitt 1778 To 1830, Nonesuch Press edition. Grahame, Kenneth – Wind in the Willows (w/Shepherd illus.) The Sir Roger De Coverley Papersĭonne, John – Complete Sermons (p.78 – FPD says the sermons an only be found in the 40-vol. by Leonard Smithers–HH not a fan as the translators “cleaned up” the language)Ĭhaucer – Canterbury Tales (“a modern English version, not Old English or Anglo-Saxon”) (translated by Hill, published by Longmans 1934)ĭe Tocqueville – Journey to America (1831-32)ĭobson, Austen ed.
I compiled this list from two sources:Īusten, Jane – Pride and Prejudice (1813)īeowulf (mentioned, but no interest in reading)Ĭatullus – Loeb classic edition (Latin text verse trans. She was, however, a devourer of English literature, as this list of the books she ordered from Frank Doel and Marks and Co., between 19 attests. Helene Hanff never read fiction, saying that “ I never can get interested in things that didn’t happen to people who never lived.”
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