Books I am sitting next to at this moment (December 30, 2001):

Atlantic Monthly:  The Diversity Myth, May 1995

_The Night Before Christmas_, Clement Moore, Little Golden Books, 1949

_Shakespeare's Late Plays_, Essays in Honor of Charles Crow, ed. Tobias and Zolbrod (Ohio University Press, 1974)

_A Midsummer Night's Dream_, Wm. Shakespeare, ed., with illustrations and commentary, by Lucy Fitch Perkins (Cambridge University Press, 1907)

_King Lear_, Shakespeare
_Henry IV, Part I_, Shakespeare
_Richard III_, Shakespeare

_The Poetical Works of John Milton_, ed. Bridges, 1868

_Complete Poems and Major Prose_, John Milton (1608-1674), ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Oddyssey Press 1957), read 1973, 1975, 1978, 1985

_The Complete Rhyming Dictionary_, ed. Clement Wood, 1936 (owned by my grandfather, Edwin B. Fast)

The Journal of Myst, WPH, begun 12/3/94

_Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold_, Riverside 1961, read Fall 1972

_Selected Poems and Prefaces by William Wordsworth_, Riverside 1965, read Fall 1972

_Prose of the Romantic Period_, Riverside 1961, read Fall 1972

_Prose of the Victorian Period_, Riverside 1958, read Fall 1972

_Reconstruction in Philosophy_, lectures by John Dewey at the Imperial University of Japan (1919), ed. John Dewey (Beacon Press 1948), read Jan. 1972

_Philosophy in the Age of Crisis_, ed. Eleanor Kuykendall (Harper & Row, 1970), read Jan. 1973

_Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt_, Richard Brautigan, 1970

_MLA Style Sheet_, 1970

_The Elements of Style_, Strunk & White, 1959

_The College English Association Critic_, Jan. 1975

_British Farm Stock_, The Earl of Portsmith (Collins, 1950) (part of The British People in Pictures)

_Knights, the Age of Adventure_

_The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne_, ed. Untermeyer 1948 (gift from Katherine April 1995) (Barnes & Noble 1994)

_The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning_, ed. Untermeyer (gift to Katherine April 1995) (Barnes & Noble 1994)

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_The Palace of Pleasure_, William Painter (1575), gift from dad, Xmas 1982 (Dover 1890, 1966)

_Tudor Poetry and Prose_, ed. Hebel, Hudson, et al. (Appleton-Century-Crofts 1929, 1953)

_Surfing on the Internet_, J.C. Herz (Little, Brown, 1995), a favorite chapter posted to <http://www.betatesters.com/penn/addict.htm>.

_Why is Everyone So Cranky_, C.L. Charles (Hyperion 1999)

_The Message (The Old Testament Wisdom Books)_, tr. Eugene H. Peterson (NavPress 1996)

_The Revised English Bible with Aprcrypha_ (Oxford and Cambridge University Press 1989)

_The Holy Bible_, New Revised Standard Version (Thomas Nelson 1990) gift to WPH3 June 1997

_The Holy Bible_, King James Version, gift to WPH June 1962

_Westminster Study Bible_, RSV 1952 (Collins 1965), First Prize in Bible Study, ELPC 1966

_The Pilgrim's Progress_, John Bunyan 1678, ed. Sharrock  (Penguin 1965, 1986)

_Ants, Indians, and Little Dinosaurs_, ed. Ternes, selected from _Natural History Magazine_, 1975 

_Amo, Amas, Amat, and More_, Eugene Ehrilch (Harper & Row 1985) gift from JHK June 1988

_The Dictionary of Misinformation_ Tom Burnam (Crowell 1975), gift to WPH3 summer 1993

_Mazes and Labyrinths of the World_, Janet Bord (EP.Dutton 1976)

_38 Illustrations from The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry_, c. 1400, with commentary  (at the Cloisters)

_Vassilisa the Beautiful_ (Goznak Moscow 1976)

_Dealing with Conflict in the Congregation_, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program (Riverside Drive 1983?)

_Beardsley, A Biography_, Stanley Weintraub (Braziller 1967)

_In Ruins:  The Once Great Houses of Ireland_, photographs by S. Marsden, text by D. McLaren (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)

_Medieval England_, Colin Platt (Scribners 1978)

_The World Guide ot Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People_, Thos. Keightley (_The Fairy Mythology_ 1880), Avenel 1978

_Irish Myth and Magic_, Anna Collins,  and John Skelton, illus. (The Educational Company of Ireland, 1974)  

_The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci_, ed. Edward MacCurdy (Reynal & Hitchcock 1939, Braziller 1958)

_Plays and Poems_, Andrew Marlowe (1564-93), ed. Ridley (Everyman 1905, 1955, 1973), read  at TCD Jan 1974

_Poems and A Defence of Ryme_, Samuel Daniel (1562-), ed. A.C. Sprague (Harvard 1930, London 1950, Phoenix 1972, read at Ithaca 1978

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_Poetical Works_, Edmund Spenser (1552-99), ed. Smith and de Selincourt, Oxford Standard Authors 1912, Oxford Paperbacks 1970, read at TCD Oct. 1973

_Edmund Spenser_, selections and annotations, ed. Kellogg and Steele Oddyssey Press 1965 (read Jan 1973)

_Contradictory Quotations_, Hearn Stephenson (Longman Group Limited, 1983)

_Note Bene:  Latin Phrases and Quotations_  

_Medieval Panorama_, G.G. Coulton, Cambridge University Press 1939, gift from CPR Feb 1985

_Panorama of Rural England_, ed. W.J. Turner, Chanticleer Press 1944

_The Essays of Francis Bacon_ (1561-1626), Peter Pauper Press

_The Art of Living Long_, Luigi Cornaro (1464-1566), w/ essays by Addison, Bacon, Temple, ed. Wm. Butler 1918

_Eleanor of Aquitaine_, Amy Kelly (Harvard 1950)

_Doctor Rabelais_, D.B. Wyndham Lewis (Sheed & Ward 1957)

_Leviathan_, Thos. Hobbes (1588-1679), ed. H.W. Schneider (Liberal Arts Press 1958)

_The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, Thos. Kuhn, International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. II, No. 2 (University of Chicago 1962, 1970) (read CMU 1972)

_The Western Intellectual Tradition:  from Leonardo to Hegel_, J. Brownowski & Bruce Mazlish (Harper Torchbooks 1960) (read CMU 1975)

_The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_, Philip Sydney (1593) (Penguin 1977) (read in Ithaca, NY 1978)

_Utopia_, and _A Dialogue of Comfort_, Thos. More (1478-1535), ed. J. Warrington, Everyman 1910, 1951 (read TCD 1973)

_Chips and Shavings_, poems by Victor M. Rubert, 1961, gift of the author May 1967)

_Nothing Like It in the World_ (The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-69), by Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, 2000)

_From Dawn to Decadence, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life_, Jacques Barzun (Harper Collins 2000) (gift from Katherine Xmas 2000, read thereafter)

_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ (1776 - ), by Edward Gibbon, abridgement by D.M. Low (Harcourt Brace 1960)

_Masques of God:  Form and Theme in the Poetry of Henry Vaughn_, James D. Simmonds (University of PIttsburgh Press 1971), read March 1979

_The Pageant of Medieval Art and Life_, Richard McLanathan (Westminster Press 1966)

_Damn Everything but the Circus_, Corita Kent (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970) a gift from my mother Xmas 1971

_The Universal Magazine_, Vol. CV (July-Dec. 1799)

_Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence_, Vol. IV (1828)

_The American Biography:  Officers and Statesmen of the Revolution_, Wheeling 1833

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_The American Dream in Literature_, ed. S.A. Werner, Jr. (Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1970)

_The Oxford Companion to "The Mind"_, ed. Richard L. Gregory (Oxford University Press 1987)

_The Merriam-Webster Book of Word Histories_, 1976

_The Merriam-Webster Dictionary_, 1974

_Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, E. Cobham Brewer (1813-1897), rev. Ivor H. Evans (Harper, Row 1959, 1970)

_Lark Rise to Candleford_, Flora Thompson (Reprint Society, 1948)

_East Liberty Church Symbols_, Stuart Nye Hitchinson (1934)

_Thayer's Life of Beethoven_, Elliot Forbes (Princeton University Press 1921, 1967)

_The Life and Works of Beethoven_, John N. Burk (Random House 1943)

_The Background of the Old Testament_, Esther Kellner (Doubleday 1963)

_The New topical Textbook, Aids to Christian Living_

_Comic Epitaphs from the Very Best Old Graveyards_, Peter Pauper Press 1957

_On God and Political Duty_, John Calvin, ed. John T. McNeill (Bobbs-Merrill 1950, 1956)

HIKA, The Undergraduate Literary Magazine of Kenyon College, Fall 1972

_Mere Christianity_, C.S. Lewis (1943, 1945) (MacMillan 1958)

_The Pilgrim's Regress_, C.S. Lewis (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1933, 1943) 

_The Screwtape Letters_, C.S. Lewis

_An Experiment in Criticism_, C.S. Lewis (Cambridge U. Press 1961, 1969)

_Christian Reflections_, C.S. Lewis, ed. Walter Hooper (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1967)

_Till We Have Faces_, C.S. Lewis (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1956)

_The Discarded Image_, C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press 1971)

_C.S. Lewis:  Speaker and Teacher_, ed. Carolyn Keefe (Zondervan 1971)

_The Wives' Tale_, Alix Wilber (W.W. Norton & Co. 1991)

_The Way of the Wizard_, Deepak Chopra ((Harmony Books 1995)

_Poems_, Edwin B. Fast (1940-1951)

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_Communism and the Historic Christian Faith_, Dr. Allan A. MacRae (Faith Theological Seminary, no date)

_A Sort of Life_, Graham Greene (Simon and Schuster 1971)

_The Labyrinthine Ways of Graham Greene_, Francis L. Kunkel (Sheed & Ward 1959)

_Experiences_, Arnold Toynbee (Oxford University Press 1969)

_The Short Stories of Saki (H.H. Munro)_, ed. Christopher Morley (The Viking Press 1930)

_The Moon and Sixpence_, W. Somerset Maugham (Grosset & Dunlap 1919)

_Lorna Doone_, R.D. Blackmore (1869) (A.L. Burt Co., no date)

_The Essays of Elia_, Charles Lamb (J.M. Dent 1888) (2 vols)

_The Complete Works of Charles Lamb_, ed. R.H. Shepherd (Chatto and Windus, 1875)

_Poems_, Algernon Charles Swinburne (Modern Library, no date)

_The Way of All Flesh_, Samuel Butler (Modern Library, no date)

_The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti_, (Little, Brown, and Co. 1887)

_Student Guide 1973-1974_ (Trinity College, Dublin)

_The Grapes of Wrath_, John Steinbeck (Viking 1939, Bantam 1972)

_The Pearl_, John Steinbeck (Viking 1947, Bantam 1968)

_East of Eden_, John Steinbeck (Viking 1952, Bantam 1967)

_The Winter of our Discontent_, John Steinbeck (Viking 1961, Bantam 1967)

_Travels with Charley_, John Steinbeck (Viking 1962, Bantam 1867)

_Contemporary Poetry_, ed. Marguerite Wilkerson (The Macmillan Company 1928)

_Louise Nevelson:  A Passionate Life_, by Laurie Lisle (Summit Books 1990)

_How Artists Work, an Introduction to Techniques of Art_, Pierre Belvès and François Mathey, English adaptation by Alice Bach (The Lion Press 1968)

_Mary Engelbreit, The Art and the Artist_, Patrick Regan and Mary Engelbreit (1996)

_Ten Philosophical Mistakes_ Mortimer J. Adler (MacMillan 1985)

_Ulysses_, James Joyce (Paris 1922) (Penguin 1969)

_Fabulous Voyager, a study of James Joyce's Ulysses_, Richard M. Kain (U. Chicago 1947) (Viking Press 1959)

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_The Teachings of Don Juan:  A Yaqui Way of Knowledge_, Carlos Castaneda (U. California 1968) (Ballentine Books 1972)

_Counsel Upon the Reading of Books_, Intro. Henry Van Dyke (Houghton, Mifflin, 1902)

_The Art of Loving_, Erich Fromm (Harper and Row 1956) (Bantam Books 1970)

_Extraordinary Living for Ordinary Men_, Sam Shoemaker (Zondervan 1965) (Pyramid Books 1967)

_The Six Great Humanistic Essays of John Stuart Mill_ (Washington Square Press 1963, 1970)

_The Man from the Sea_, Michael Innes (Haarper and Row 1955)

_Frankenstein_, Mary Shelley (1818) (Bantam Books 1967)

_Washington Square_, Henry James (1880) (Signet Classics 1964)

_The Story of Philosophy_, Will Durant (1926, 1961) (Washington Square Press 1969)

_Music for the Man who Enjoys Hamlet_, B.H. Haggin (1944) (Vintage Books 1960)

_The Rights of suspects_, ACLU 1974

_Sexual Personae:  Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickenson_, Camille Paglia (Vintage Books 1990)

_The Silmarillion_, J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin 1977)

_National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Member Handbook_ (2000)

_Hooking Up_, Tom Wolfe (Farrar Straus Giroux 2000)

_The Life and Times of Chaucer_, John Gardner (Alfred A. Knopf 1977)

_Reformed Faith and Politics_, ed. Ronald H. Stone (University Press of America 1983)

_Religions of America_, ed. Leo Rosten (Simon and Schuster 1955)

_The Case for Biblical Christianity_, Edward John Carnell, ed. Ronald H. Nash (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1969)

"One Word of Truth ...", Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Nobel Speech on Literature 1970 (The Bodley Head)

_Baker's Pocket Harmony of the Gospels_, ed. Benj. Davies (Baker Book House 1975)

_How to Spell Presbyterian_, James W. Angell (The Geneva Press 1977)

_Paul Tillich_, J. Heywood Thomas (John Knox Press 1966)

_Blake: Prophet Against Empire_, David V. Erdman (Dover:  1954, 1969, 1977)

_The Bestiary_, ed. T.H. Whilte (G.P. Putnam's Sons 1954)

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_The Celtic Tradition_ Caitlin Matthews (Element Books Limited 1989)

_Turn of the Century_, Kurt Andersen (Random House 1999)