Saturday, May 09, 2026

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1994)

William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 2008.

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Editors: Roger Warren and Stanley Wells
  • Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
  • Roger Warren edited four additional individual plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series: Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part Two; Pericles; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
  • Warren, Roger, 1943-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
  • Stanley Wells, his website.
  • Stanley Wells (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • Stanley Wells has written and edited many, many books related to Shakespeare. Some of them are described in the Books section of the Stanley Wells website.
  • Stanley Wells, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
  • Wells, Stanley, 1930-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles :

Shakespeare : English Renaissance Literature, Drama : England during Shakespeare's Time :
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Discussions of Shakespeare and Twelfth Night :
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Some Other Recent Editions of Twelfth Night :
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Essays about Twelfth Night :
  • Harold Jenkins, "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," pages 72-87 in Shakespeare: The Comedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited by Kenneth Muir, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
    [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (Roger Warren's and Stanley Wells' Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night refers to this essay several times.)
  • Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986; Routledge, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Note :
I previously read Twelfth Night in 2024. My 2024 blog post is here.

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Saturday, May 02, 2026

Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722; 2011)

Daniel Defoe.
Moll Flanders.
Text Edited by G. A. Starr and Linda Bree.
Introduction and Notes by Linda Bree.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Editors: G. A. Starr and Linda Bree
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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book; English Literature; England during Defoe's times; William Hogarth
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Some other editions of Moll Flanders :
  • Daniel Defoe. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Edited by David Blewett. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1989.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders. Edited by Edward Kelly. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders. Edited by Albert J. Rivero. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders, Second Edition. Edited by Albert J. Rivero. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Miscellaneous Discussions of Daniel Defoe and/or Moll Flanders :
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Mori, The Wild Geese (1911–1913; 1959)

Mori Ōgai.
The Wild Geese.
Translated by Kingo Ochiai and Sanford Goldstein.
Tokyo; Vermont; Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 1959.

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Japanese Literature :
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Some other English translations of The Wild Geese :
  • Mori Ōgai. The Wild Goose. Translated by Burton Watson. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Mori Ōgai. Gan [Geese]. Translated by Glenn Anderson. Long Island City, New York: One Peace Books, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Thursday, April 02, 2026

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719; 2007)

Daniel Defoe.
Robinson Crusoe.
Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Keymer.
Notes by Thomas Keymer and James Kelly.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2008.

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Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Editor: Thomas Keymer
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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History
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Some other editions of Robinson Crusoe :
  • Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Edited by John Richetti. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2001, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, Second Edition. Edited by Michael Shinagel. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Saturday, March 21, 2026

Dunlop, trans, A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese (1986)

A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese.
Translated by Lane Dunlop.
Etchings by Tanaka Ryohei.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986.

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Another edition of this book was published by Tuttle in 1988.
[Google Books with Preview; Amazon.com.]

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Translator Information : Lane Dunlop
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Some More Recently Published (and currently in-print) Anthologies of Japanese Short Stories:
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Wikipedia Articles : Japanese Literature
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Contents of A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese:
  1. Shiga Naoya, 志賀直哉 (1883–1971).
    1. Infatuation.
    2. A Gray Moon [灰色の月 (1946)].
    3. At Kinosaki [城の崎にて (1917)].
    4. The Razor [Kamisori (1910)].
    ~~~~~ Shiga Naoya, short story collections and other works in English ~~~~~
  2. Ozaki Shiro, 尾崎 士郎 (1898–1964).
    1. The Wagtail's Nest.
    2. River Deer.
  3. Kawabata Yasunari, 川端 康成 (1899–1972).
    1. The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
    2. The Silverberry Thief (1925); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
    3. The Young Lady of Suruga (1927); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
    ~~~~~ Kawabata Yasunari, short story collections in English ~~~~~
    • Kawabata Yasunari. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan), 2006.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
    • Kawabata Yasunari. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories. Translated by J. Martin Holman. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint Press, 1997.
      [Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
    • The short story "The Dancing Girl of Izu" [伊豆の踊子 (1926)] appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010) as "The Izu Dancer".
    • The short story "The Silver Fifty-Sen Pieces" (1946) appears in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018) and Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
  4. Shimaki Kensaku, 島木 健作 (1903–1945).
    1. The Red Frog (1946).
    2. The Centipede.
    3. The Black Cat (1945).
    4. The Wasps.
  5. Hayashi Fumiko, 林 芙美子 (1903–1951).
    1. A Late Chrysanthemum [晩菊 (1948)].
    ~~~~~ Hayashi Fumiko, other works in English ~~~~~
  6. Dazai Osamu, 太宰 治 (1909–1948).
    1. Memories (1940).
    2. A Golden Picture.
    3. The Garden Lantern.
    4. Chiyojo [千代女 (1941)]; also in No One Knows (2025).
    ~~~~~ Dazai Osamu, some recent short story collections in English ~~~~~
  7. Abe Kōbō, 安部 公房 (1924–1993).
    1. The Red Cocoon [赤い繭 (1951)].
    2. The Flood [洪水 (1951)].
    3. The Stick [ (1955)].
    ~~~~~ Abe Kōbō, short story collections in English ~~~~~
    • The short story "The Bet" (1960) appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010).
    • Abe Kōbō. Beyond the Curve. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Kodansha International, 1991.
      [Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Weir, Project Hail Mary (2021)

Andy Weir.
Project Hail Mary.
New York: Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House), 2021.

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Author Information : Andy Weir
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Friday, March 13, 2026

Austen; Spacks, ed., Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition (1811, 1813; 2013)

Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition.
Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.
(Sense and Sensibility was first published in 1811; a modestly revised second edition was published in 1813; this book uses the text of the 1813 edition.)

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Editor: Patricia Meyer Spacks
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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History
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Discussions of Sense and Sensibility :
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Some other editions of Sense and Sensibility :
  • Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by Claudia L. Johnson. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
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  • Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. Edited by Ros Ballaster. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by John Mullan. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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I read a different edition Sense and Sensibility in 2023. My 2023 blog post is here.

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