John Carey (critic) - Works

Works

  • The Poems of John Milton (1968) editor with Alastair Fowler
  • Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (1969) editor
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1969) editor
  • John Milton (1969)
  • Complete Shorter Poems of John Milton (1971), revised 2nd edition (1997) editor
  • The Violent Effigy. A Study of Dickens’ Imagination (1973) published in America as Here Comes Dickens. The Imagination of a Novelist. Republished in Faber Finds (2008)
  • John Milton, Christian Doctrine (1971) translator
  • Thackeray: Prodigal Genius (1977) republished in Faber Finds (2008)
  • English Renaissance Studies: Presented To Dame Helen Gardner In Honour Of Her Seventieth Birthday (1979)
  • John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (1981) new revised edition (1990) republished in Faber Finds (2008)
  • William Golding : The Man and His Books (1986) editor
  • Faber Book of Reportage (1987) editor. Published in America as Eyewitness to History, Harvard University Press, (1987)
  • Original Copy : Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 (1987)
  • John Donne. The Major Works (1990) editor, Oxford Authors, reprinted with revisions (2000) World’s Classics
  • The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992)
  • Short Stories and the Unbearable Bassington by Saki (1994) editor
  • Faber Book of Science (1995) editor. Published in America as Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals, Harvard University Press, (1997)
  • Selected Poetry of John Donne (1998) editor
  • Faber Book of Utopias (2000) editor
  • Pure Pleasure: a Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books (2000)
  • George Orwell, Essays (2002) editor
  • Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (2002) editor
  • What Good are the Arts? (2005)
  • William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies' (2009)

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