Giant Editions Sorted by Year

Here are all giant-sized Modern Library titles through 1970 sorted by year of first publication, and within each year sorted alphabetically by title. This page, an expanded hypertext version of a chart originally appearing in the Toledano Guide, includes titles and variations discovered by members of the Modern Library E-mail Group after publication of the Guide's final edition.

Scroll to find the year you're looking for, or just click the year in the following table.

For more information about any title, click its name and you'll be transported to it on its author's page.

For a similar list covering regular editions, see Regular Editions Sorted by Year.

Please let me know if you spot any omissions or errors in this list.

 

1931

 

G003.1

Hugo

Les Miserables

G002.1

Boswell

Life of Samuel Johnson

G001.1

Tolstoy

War and Peace

 

1932

G004.1

Keats etc.

Complete Poems of Keats & Shelley

G006.1

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 1)

G007.1

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 2)

G005.1

Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives

 

1933

G008.1

Austen

Complete Novels

G011.1

Montaigne

Essays

G009.1

Young

Medici

G012.1

Scott

Three Novels

G010.1

Misc

Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

 

1934

G014.1

Bulfinch

Bulfinch's Mythology

G015.1

Cervantes

Don Quixote

G013.1

Carlyle

French Revolution

G016.1

Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel

G017.1

Browning

Poems & Plays

 

1935 

G023.1

Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

G022.1

Strachey

Coming Struggle For Power

G019.1

Homer

Complete Works

G024.1

Lamb

Complete Works and Letters

G018.1

Ibsen

Eleven Plays

G020.1

Symonds

Renaissance in Italy Vol I

G021.1

Symonds

Renaissance in Italy Vol II

 

1936

G026.1

Marx

Capital

G025.1

Gilbert etc.

Complete Plays of Gilbert & Sullivan

G028.1

Carroll

Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

G029.1

Prescott

Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru

G030.1

Myers

History of the Great American Fortunes

G027.1

Darwin

Origin of the Species/Descent of Man

 

1937

G036.1

Dostoyevsky

Brothers Karamazov

G037.1

Hawthorne

Complete Novels/Selected Tales

G031.1

Werfel

Forty Days of Musa Dagh

G035.1

Bury

History of Greece

G033.1

Collins

Moonstone/Woman in White

G034.1

Nietzsche

Philosophy

G032.1

Smith

Wealth of Nations

 

1938

G039.1

Freud

Basic Writings

G040.1

Poe

Complete Tales and Poems

G038.1

Rolland

Jean Christophe

G042.1

Tennyson

Poems and Plays

G041.1

Farrell

Studs Lonigan

 

1939

G047.1

Misc

English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill

G043.1

Dewey

Intelligence in the Modern World

G048.1

Misc

Metropolitan Opera Guide

G046.1

Misc

New Anthology of Modern Poetry

G045.1

Lewisohn

Story of American Literature

G044.1

Dos Passos

U.S.A.

 

1940

G051.1

Eliot

Best Known Novels

G050.1

Whitman

Leaves of Grass

G054.1

Fielding

Tom Jones

G049.1

Twain

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

G052.1

Joyce

Ulysses

G053.1

Sue

Wandering Jew

 

1941

G057.1

Brooks

Flowering of New England

G058.1

Malraux

Man's Hope

G055.1

O'Neill

Nine Plays

G056.1

Sterne

Tristam Shandy and A Sentimental Journey

 

1942

G060.1

Dostoyevsky

Idiot

G020.2

Lincoln

Life and Writings

G059.1

Hemingway

Short Stories

G021.2

Misc

Sixteen Famous American Plays

 

1943

G061.1

Spaeth

Great Orchestral Music

G022.2

Clausewitz

On War

G062.1

Pushkin

Poems, Prose and Plays

G063.1

Misc

Sixteen Famous British Plays

 

1944

 

 

 

G065.1

Rabelais

Complete Works

G064.1

Melville

Moby Dick

 

1945

G067.1

Misc

Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry

G058.2

Austen

Complete Novels

 

1946

G069.1

Misc

101 Years Entertainment

G067.2

Misc

Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry

G070.1

Donne & Blake

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

G006.2

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 1)

G007.2

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 2)

G008.2

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 3)

G011.2

Montaigne

Essays

G048.2

Misc

Metropolitan Opera Guide

G046.2

Misc

New Anthology of Modern Poetry

G068.1

Fast/Paine

Selected Works/Citizen Paine

 

1947

G018.2 Ibsen Eleven Plays

G072.1

Misc

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

G071.1

Misc

Sixteen Famous European Plays

 

1948

G011.3

James H.

Short Stories

G073.1

Misc

Subtreasury of American Humor

 

1949

G009.2

De Quincey

Selected Writings

G022.3

Misc

Thirty Famous One-Act Plays

 

1950

G074.1

Augustine

City of God

G013.2

Carlyle

French Revolution

G075.1

Stevenson

Selected Writings

 

1951

G019.2

Homer

Complete Works

 

1952

G054.2

Misc

Anthology of Famous British Stories

G057.2

Melville

Selected Writings

G076.1

Grimm etc.

Tales of Grimm and Andersen

 

1953

G077.1

Misc

Anthology of Famous American Stories

 

1954

G009.3

Misc

Great Voices of the Reformation

G078.1

Holmes

Mind/Faith of Justice Holmes

 

1955

G056.2

Misc

Wisdom of Catholicism

 

1956

G080.1

Dreiser

American Tragedy

G059.2

Misc

Wisdom of China and India

G079.1

Misc

Wisdom of Israel

 

1957

G031.2

Misc

Famous Science Fiction Stories

G045.2

Misc

Stoic & Epicurean Philosophers

 

1958

G081.1

Misc

Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor

 

1959

G082.1

Faulkner

Faulkner Reader

 

1960

G016.2

Misc

European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

G084.1

Mann

Stories of Three Decades

G038.2

Murasaki

Tale of Genji

 

1961

G083.1

Misc

Shock of Recognition

G052.2

Joyce

Ulysses

 

1962

G086.1

Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago

G085.1

Misc

Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People

 

1963

G088.1

O'Hara

49 Stories

G087.1

Misc

Medieval Epics

 

1964

G089.1

Misc

Great Classical Myths

G090.1

Misc

Philosophies of Art and Beauty

G091.1

Spenser

Selected Poetry

 

1965

G023.2

Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

G092.1

Spengler

Decline of the West

G015.2

Cervantes

Don Quixote

G093.1

Misc

Parodies

 

1966

G094.1

Cooper

Leatherstocking Saga

G066.1

Misc

Three Famous Murder Novels

 

1967

G097.1

Balzac

Lost Illusions

G098.1

Hersey

Wall

G095.1

Brockway

World of Opera

 

1968 

G064.2

Thomas

Abraham Lincoln: Biography

G080.2

Nietzsche

Basic Writings

G044.2

De Beauvoir

Second Sex

G096.1

James W.

Writings

 

1969

G100.1

Lewis

Children of Sanchez

G073.2

Gogol

Collected Tales and Plays

G099.1

Olmsted

Cotton Kingdom

 

1970

G102.1

Misc

Between Hume and Mill

G101.1

Bewley

English Romantic Poets

 

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