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  BIOGRAPHIES TEXTS ILLUSTRATIONS
       
Babel Isaak Babel    
Babeuf Gracchus Babeuf    
Bacchylides Bacchylides    
Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann    
Bacon Francis Bacon PART I  "New Atlantis",
PART II "THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS"		  
Bacon Roger Bacon    
Baif Jean-Antoine de Baif    
Bainbridge Beryl Bainbridge    
Bakhtin Mikhail Bakhtin    
Baldwin James Baldwin    
Balmont Konstantin Balmont    
Balzac Honoré de Balzac "Father Goriot"  
Bancroft George Bancroft    
Banville Théodore de    
Baratynsky Yevgeny Baratynsky    
Barbey Jules Barbey    
Barbusse Henri Barbusse    
Barclay Alexander Barclay    
Barker George Barker    
Barnes Barnabe Barnes    
Barnes Julian Barnes    
Baroja Pío Baroja    
Barrie  J. M. Barrie  "Peter Pan" 
"Peter and Wendy" CHAPTER 1-5, CHAPTER 6-17
 "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens"   
 CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II-IV, CHAPTER V-VI  		 Illustrations by F. D. Bedford
Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
Barrow Isaac Barrow    
Barstow Stan Barstow    
Barth John Barth    
Barthelme Donald Barthelme    
Bashō Bashō "Haiku"  
Basile Giambattista Basile "Stories from Il Pentamerone" Illustrated by Warwick Goble
Bassani Giorgio Bassani    
"Battle" The Battle of Brunanburh    
"Battle" "The Battle of Maldon" "The Battle of Maldon"  
Batyushkov Konstantin Batyushkov    
Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire "The Flowers of Evil"  
Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard    
Baumgarten Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten    
Bayle Pierre Bayle    
Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais "The Marriage of Figaro"  
Beaumont Francis Beaumont    
Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir    
Beckett  Samuel Beckett  "Waiting for Godot"  
Beckfor  William Beckfor  "The History of Caliph Vathek"  
Becque Henry-François Becque    
"Bede" "St. Bede the Venerable" "St. Bede the Venerable"  
Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes    
Bédier Joseph Bédier "The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" Illustrations Mac Harshberger from "Tristan and Iseult"  by Joseph Bedier
Behn Aphra Behn    
Belinsky Vissarion Belinsky    
Belleau Rémy Belleau    
Belloc Hilaire Belloc    
Bellow Saul Bellow    
Bely Andrey Bely    
Bembo Pietro Bembo    
Benavente Jacinto Benavente y Martínez    
Bennett Alan Bennett    
Bennett  Arnold Bennett  "The Old Wives' Tale"   BOOK I-II, BOOK III-IV  
Benn Gottfried Benn    
Bentham Jeremy Bentham    
"Beowulf" "Beowulf" "Beowulf"  
Béranger Pierre-Jean de Béranger    
Berceo Gonzalo de Berceo    
Berdyaev Nikolai Berdyaev    
Berens Berens E.M. "Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome"  
Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac    
Bergson Henri Bergson "Creative Evolution"  
Berkeley George Berkeley I. "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision",
II. "Threee Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous"		  
Bernanos Georges Bernanos    
Bernardin Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre "Paul and Virginia"  
Bernhard Thomas Bernhard    
Bertolucci Attilio Bertolucci    
Bertran Bertran de Born    
Besht Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht)    
Betjeman John Betjeman    
Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik    
Bitov Andrey Bitov    
Blair Robert Blair    
Blake  William Blake  I.  "Songs of Innocence",
II. "Songs of Experience",
III. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell",
IV-V. "The Book of Job"		  
Blok Aleksandr Blok "Dvenadtzat" ("The Twelve")   llustrations by Yuri Annenkov
Blunden Edmund Blunden    
Boccaccio  Boccaccio  "Decameron"  DAY 1  DAY 2  DAY 3  DAY 4  DAY 5 
DAY 6  DAY 7  DAY 8  DAY 9  DAY 10		 Illustrations by Salvador Dali
Bodel Jehan Bodel    
Bodin Jean Bodin    
Bodmer Johann Jakob Bodmer    
Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius    
Bogdanovich Ippolit Bogdanovich    
Boileau Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux    
Bokenam  Osbern Bokenam     
Boll Heinrich Boll Nobel Lecture, 1973  
Bonald Louis-Gabriel, vicomte de Bonald    
"Book" "Book of the Dead" "Book of the Dead" (PART I, PART II)  
Borel Petrus Borel    
Borges Jorge Luis Borges    
Borne Ludwig Borne    
Boron Robert de Boron    
Bosanquet Bernard Bosanquet    
Bossuet Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet    
Boswell James Boswell    
Boucicault Dion Boucicault    
Bowen Elizabeth Bowen    
Bowles Paul Bowles    
Bowles William Lisle Bowles    
Bowne Bordon Parker Bowne    
Boyle Robert Boyle    
Bracciolini Poggio Bracciolini    
Brackenridge Hugh Henry Brackenridge    
Bradbury Malcolm Bradbury    
Bradbury Ray Bradbury    
Bradley F. H. Bradley    
Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet    
Braine John Braine    
Brant Sebastian Brant "Ship of Fools" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V Illustrations by  Albrecht Durer
Brecht Bertolt Brecht    
Breitinger Johann Jakob Breitinger    
Brentano Clemens Brentano    
Brentano Franz Brentano    
Breton André Breton "Manifesto of Surrealism", "What is Surrealism?",
"Second  Manifesto  of Surrealism"		  
Breton Nicholas Breton    
Borchert Wolfgang Borchert    
Broch Hermann Broch    
Brodsky Joseph Brodsky "Poems"
 Nobel Lecture  December 8, 1987 		 
Brome Richard Brome    
Bronte Anne Bronte    
Bronte  Charlotte Bronte  "Jane Eyre"  CHAPTER I-XXIV, CHAPTER XXV-XXXVIII Illustrations by F. H. Townsend
Bronte Emily Bronte    
Brooke Henry Brooke    
Brooke Rupert Brooke    
Browne Sir Thomas Browne    
Browne William Browne    
Brown Charles Brockden Brown    
Brown William Hill Brown    
Browning  Elizabeth Barrett Browning  "Sonnets from the Portuguese"  
Browning  Robert Browning  "Dramatic Romances"  
Bruni Leonardo Bruni    
Bruno Giordano Bruno    
Bryant William Cullen Bryant    
Bryusov Valery Bryusov    
Buchner Georg Buchner    
Buck Pearl S. Buck    
Buffon Georges-Louis, count de Buffon    
Bulfinch Bulfinch Thomas "THE AGE OF FABLE OR STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES"  
Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov "Master i Margarita" ("The Master and Margarita")  
Bulgakov Sergei Bulgakov    
Bunin Ivan Bunin    
Bunyan  John Bunyan  "The Pilgrim's Progress" 
PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5  		Illustrations by G. Woolliscraft, F. Rhead, & L. Rhead
Buridan Jean Buridan    
Burke Edmund Burke    
Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett    
Burney Fanny Burney    
Burns  Robert Burns  "Poems & Songs"   BOOK I, BOOK II  
Burroughs William S. Burroughs    
Buson Buson    
Burton   Robert Burton   "Anatomy of Melancholy" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV  
Butler Joseph Butler    
Butler  Samuel Butler  "Hudibras"   Illustrations by  William Hogarth
Byatt A.S. Byatt    
Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron "Don Juan"
CANTO THE FIRST-CANTO THE FIFTH,
CANTO THE SIXTH-CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH		  
       
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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