O.K., so we all knew the canon was formed at a less politically correct time.
George Eliot turns up, not for her own work, but as translator of David Friedrich Strauss’ 1835 Jesus without the Myths from German into English in 1840.Īmong the most prized books are original edition copies of Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species.’ Waverley, we read, “has become the progenitor of the historical novel throughout the world,” while Austin’s book might only be notable for still being known to this day. So, Jane Austen’s dedicating her novel Emma to Sir Walter Scott is noted in his inclusion for Waverley, the first of 40 or so of the Waverley novels he published starting in 1814. The only reference to women authors is with reference to males who are included. The PMM is a male club, to be sure-the canon at its most hierarchical and traditional. “We make special note when we obtain one of those consignments.” “PMM books, as they are called, have an exalted status,” said Tom Lecky, head of books and manuscripts at Christie’s. The exhibition catalogue and a subsequent 1983 printing have themselves become collectible books, available on Amazon and from rare book dealers. (It includes writings predating Gutenberg, such as those by Aristotle, Dante, Homer and Plato, which were published in book form later.) Among the books that made the cut are Aesop’s Fables, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Voltaire’s Candide, Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, Thomas More’s Utopia and Cicero’s Discourse on Old Age. These are the volumes listed in a publication based on a 1963 British exhibition titled “Printing and the Mind of Man,” which identifies 424 books, starting with the Gutenberg Bible and ending with a compilation of Winston Churchill speeches, that are said to have influenced Western civilization.
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