For an Ideal Library is a book compiled by Raymond Queneau left in 1956, in which are referred the 100 pounds favorites of many authors - of which Henry Miller.
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Shakespeare, Theater
- the Bible (including New Testament)
- Proust, With the research of time lost
- Montaigne, Tests
- Rabelais, the Five Books
- Baudelaire, Flowers of the evil
- Blaise Pascal, Thought
- Molière, Theater
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Confessions
- Stendhal, Red and the Black
- Plato, Dialogs
- Stendhal, Chartreuse of Parma
- François Villon, the Will
- Rimbaud, poetic Works (including the Illuminations )
- Cardinal of Retz, Memories (S: Memories (Cardinal of Retz) )
- Tolstoï,
War and Paix - Saint-Simon,
Memories - Cervantes,
Don Quichotte - Root,
Theater - Eschyle,
Theater - Dostoïevski,
The Brothers Karamazov - Mallarmé,
Poetries - the Fountain,
Fables - Goethe,
Faust - Apollinaire,
Alcohols - Flaubert,
sentimental Education - Homère,
the Odyssey - Crow,
Theater - Dante,
the Divine comedy - Chateaubriant,
Mémoires of in addition to-falls - Balzac,
the human Comedy - Sophocle,
Théâtre - James Joyce,
Ulysses - Laclos,
the dangerous Connections - Swift,
the Gulliver's Travels - Verlaine,
Poèmes - Flaubert,
Madam Bovary - Rimbaud,
One season in hell - Descartes,
Discourse on Method - Abbot Prévost,
Manon Lescaut - Ronsard,
Odes - Aristophane,
Tacit Theater - ,
Yearly and Stories - Ethical Spinoza,
- Hölderlin,
Poems - Gerard de Nerval,
Girls of fire - Daniel Defoe,
Robinson Crusoé - Holy Augustin,
the Confessions - Lautréamont,
Songs of Maldoror - Victor Hugo,
the Poor wretches - Lewis Carroll,
Alice with the country of the wonders - Alfred de Musset,
Comedies and Proverbs - Jules Fox,
Newspaper - Homère,
Iliade - Dostoïevski,
the Idiot - Emily Brontë,
Tops of Hurlevent - Dostoïevski,
Had the - Voltaire,
Tales - William Blake,
Poems - Dostoïevski, Crime and Châtiment
- Plutarque,
parallel Lives of the famous men (translation of Jacques Amyot) - Mrs. of Fayette,
the Princess of Clèves - Karl Marx,
the Capital - Benjamin Constant,
Adolphe - Beaumarchais,
Théâtre - Clutched of Aubigné,
the Tragedies - Alfred de Vigny,
the Destinies - Federico García Lorca ,
Poems - Malraux,
the Human condition - Rochefoucauld,
Maxims - the Heather,
the Characters - Madam de Sévigné,
Letters - Littré,
Dictionary of the French language - Alfred Jarry,
Ubu King - Paul Valéry,
Poems - Blaise Pascal,
Provincial the - T.E. Lawrence,
Seven Pillars of wisdom - Mérimée,
New - Paul Valéry,
Variety - Héraclite,
Fragments - Marivaux,
Theater - Victor Hugo,
the Legend of the Centuries - Kafka,
the Lawsuit - Voltaire,
Correspondence - Apollinaire,
Calligrammes - Andre Gide,
Newspaper - Andersen,
Tales - Alexandre Dumas,
the Three Musketeers - Casanova,
Memories -
Thousand and One Nights - Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim - Novalis,
Poetries and philosophical Fragments - Nietzsche,
Ainsi spoke Zarathoustra - Paul Claudel, Théâtre
- Tristan Corbière, the yellow Loves
- Victor Hugo, Contemplations
- Saint Jean of the Cross, the obscure Night of the Heart
- Nicolas Gogol, the dead Hearts
- Virgile, Énéide
- Georges Bernanos, Journal of a country priest