The Tempest
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Romance, drama
Subject guide
Art
Explore 50 works associated with Art in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · Fin de siècle · Novel
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · Modernism · Novel cycle
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini · Renaissance · Autobiography
Laocoön
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Romantic · Novel / poetry / science
Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Romantic · Novel / poetry / science
Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Romantic · Novel / poetry / science
Italian Journey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Romantic · Novel / poetry / science
The Sandman
E. T. A. Hoffmann · Romantic · Fiction
The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer · 19th Century · Philosophy
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
E. T. A. Hoffmann · Romantic · Fiction
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer · 19th Century · Philosophy
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin · Victorian · Art and social criticism
Men and Women
Robert Browning · Victorian · Poetry
Unto This Last
John Ruskin · Victorian · Art and social criticism
The Ring and the Book
Robert Browning · Victorian · Poetry
Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans · Fin de siècle · Novel
Confessions of a Young Man
George Moore · 19th Century · Novel / memoir
Esther Waters
George Moore · 19th Century · Novel / memoir
Pleasures and Days
Marcel Proust · Modernism · Essays / fiction
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland · Modern · Novel / biography
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
The Making of Americans
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel / essays
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
The Years
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel / essays
The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel
Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel / essays
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
Bend Sinister
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel / criticism
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel
Contre Sainte-Beuve
Marcel Proust · Modernism · Essays / fiction
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway · Modernism · Novel / memoir
Ada or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel / criticism
Correction
Thomas Bernhard · Contemporary · Novel / drama
Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov · Modern · Novel / criticism
Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard · Contemporary · Novel / drama
The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway · Modernism · Novel / memoir
On the Sublime
Longinus · Ancient · Literary criticism