These books are part of Plath's personal library. Many contain annotations (handwritten notes), which are indicated in the catalog record for each book. The books are are listed in alphabetical order by author. The call number for each book begins with "825 P696L".
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The Oresteian trilogy / Aeschylus ; translated by Philip Vellacott. | 825 P696L Ae |
| The ethics of Aristotle : the Nicomachean ethics / translated [by] J.A.K. Thomson. | 825 P696L Are |
| Aristotle’s Politics / translated by Benjamin Jowett ; with an introduction by Max Lerner. | 825 P696L Arp |
| The collected poetry of W.H. Auden. | 825 P696L Audc |
| Nones / W.H. Auden. | 825 P696L Audn |
| The city of God : (De civitate Dei) / Saint Augustine. | 825 P696L Augci |
| The confessions of St Augustine / translated by E.B. Pusey ; with a foreword by A.H. Armstrong. | 825 P696L Augco |
| Creatures of darkness / by Esther Baskin ; drawings by Leonard Baskin. | 825 P696L Bas |
| Les fleurs du mal / Charles Baudelaire ; edited by Enid Starkie. | 825 P696L Bau |
| Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts / by Samuel Beckett. | 825 P696L Bec |
| Homage to Mistress Bradstreet : and other poems / John Berryman. | 825 P696L Ber |
| The portable Blake / selected and arranged, with an introduction, by Alfred Kazin. | 825 P696L Bl |
| The story of the Bible : retold from Genesis to Revelation in the light of present knowledge for both the young and the mature / Walter Russell Bowie. | 825 P696L Bow |
| The well wrought urn : studies in the structure of poetry / Cleanth Brooks. | 825 P696L Br |
| Understanding poetry : an anthology for college students / by Cleanth Brooks, Jr., and Robert Penn Warren. | 825 P696L Br2 |
| The Writer’s handbook / edited by A.S. Burack. | 825 P696L Bu |
| L’homme révolté / Albert Camus. | 825 P696L Cam |
| Sartor resartus : On heroes and hero worship / Thomas Carlyle ; introduction by W.H. Hudson. | 825 P696L Car |
| Cassell’s new French-English, English-French dictionary : with key to pronunciations and an appendix of proper names, weights and measures, etc. / edited by Ernest A. Baker ; with an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly. | 825 P696L Casf |
| Cassell’s new German and English dictionary : with a phonetic key to pronunciation / by Karl Breul. | 825 P696L Casg |
| The poetical works of Chaucer / edited by F.N. Robinson. | 825 P696L Cha |
| The white gate : adventures in the imagination of a child / Mary Ellen Chase ; decorations by Nora S. Unwin. | 825 P696L Chas |
| The stories of Anton Tchekov / edited, with an introduction, by Roert N. Linscott. | 825 P696L Che |
| Collected poems / E.E. Cummings. | 825 P696L Cuc |
| I : six nonlectures / E.E. Cummings. | 825 P696L Cui |
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Book |
Call Number |
|---|---|
|
Collected rhymes & verses / Walter De la Mare ; with decorations by Berthold Wolpe. |
825 P696L De |
| Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read. | 825 P696L Di |
| The brothers Karamazov / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Constance Garnett ; introduction by M | 825 P696L Dob |
| The diary of a writer / F.M. Dostoievsky ; translated and annotated by Boris Brasol. | 825 P696L Dod |
| The short novels of Dostoevsky / with an introduction by Thomas Mann. | 825 P696L Dos |
| T.S. Eliot, the design of his poetry / by Elizabeth Drew. | 825 P696L Dr |
| Henry James / F.W. Dupee. | 825 P696L Du |
| Saint Dunstan of Canterbury : a study of monastic reform in the tenth century / by Eleanor Shipley D | 825 P696L Duc |
| The complete poems and plays / T.S. Eliot. | 825 P696L El |
| Emerson : the basic writings of America’s sage / edited by Eduard C. Lindeman. | 825 P696L Em |
| The Bacchae : and other plays / Euripides ; translated by Philip Vellacott. | 825 P696L Eub |
| Three plays / Euripides ; translated by Philip Vellacott. | 825 P696L Eut |
| The sound and the fury : &, As I lay dying / by William Faulkner ; with a new appendix as a foreword | 825 P696L Fa |
| The age of Chaucer / edited by Boris Ford ; with an anthology of medieval poems. | 825 P696L Ford |
| Aspects of the novel / by E.M. Forster. | 825 P696L Fors |
| The golden bough : a study in magic and religion / by James George Frazer. | 825 P696L Fra |
| The basic writings of Sigmund Freud / translated and edited, with an introduction, by A.A. Brill. | 825 P696L Fre |
| Complete poems of Robert Frost. | 825 P696L Fro |
| College botany / Harry J. Fuller ; Oswald Tippo. | 825 P696L Fu |
| Books | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Goethe’s poems / edited with an introduction, notes and a vocabulary by Clarence Willis Eastman. | 825 P696L Goe |
| Restoration plays / introduction by Edmund Gosse. | 825 P696L Gos |
| Die Blechtrommel : Roman / Günter Grass. | 825 P696L Gr |
| New poets of England and America, second selection / English poets edited by Donald Hall ; American | 825 P696L Hal |
| The college short story reader / edited by Harry W. Hastings. | 825 P696L Has |
| Hawthorne’s short stories / edited and with an introduction by Newton Arvin. | 825 P696L Haw |
| Catch-22 / Joseph Heller. | 825 P696L Hel |
| A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman ; with decorations by Aldren Watson. | 825 P696L Ho |
| Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals / by David Hume | 825 P696L Hu |
| Eleven plays of Henrik Ibsen / introduction by H.L. Mencken. | 825 P696L Ib |
| International modern plays. | 825 P696L In |
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The ambassadors / by Henry James ; with introductions by Martin W. Sampson and John C. Gerber. | 825 P696L Jaha |
| The golden bowl / Henry James. | 825 P696L Jahg |
| The lesson of the master : and other stories / by Henry James. | 825 P696L Jahl |
| The portrait of a lady / by Henry James ; introduction by Fred B. Millet. | 825 P696L Jahp |
| Selected short stories / Henry James ; edited with an introduction by Quentin Anderson. | 825 P696L Jahs |
| What Maisie knew / by Henry James. | 825 P696L Jahw |
| The varieties of religious experience : a study in human nature : being the Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902 / by William James. | 825 P696L Jaw |
| Hamlet and Œdipus / Ernest Jones. | 825 P696L Jone |
| Ben Jonson’s Plays / introduction by Felix E. Schelling. | 825 P696L Jons |
| Chamber music / James Joyce ; edited with an introduction and notes by William York Tindall. | 825 P696L Joyc |
| Dubliners / by James Joyce ; introduction by Padraic Colum. | 825 P696L Joyd |
| Finnegans wake / by James Joyce. | 825 P696L Joyf |
| Ulysses / by James Joyce; with a foreword by Morris L. Ernst and the decision of the United States D | 825 P696L Joyu |
| Selected short stories of Franz Kafka / translated by Willa and Edwin Muir ; introduction by Philip | 825 P696L Ka |
| The letters of John Keats / edited by Maurice Buxton Forman. | 825 P696L Ke |
| Kant / by S. Körner. | 825 P696L Ko |
| Philosophy in a new key : a study in the symbolism of reason, rite and art / by Susanne K. Langer. | 825 P696L Lan |
| Aaron’s rod / by D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawa |
| The complete poems / D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawcp |
| The complete short stories of D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawcs |
| Lady Chatterley’s lover / D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawl |
| The plumed serpent / D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawp |
| The rainbow / by D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawr |
| Selected essays / D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawse |
| Sons and lovers / by D.H. Lawrence ; with an introduction by John Macy. | 825 P696L Lawso |
| Studies in classic American literature / by D.H. Lawrence. | 825 P696L Lawst |
| Women in love / D.H. Lawrence ; with an introduction by Richard Aldington. | 825 P696L Laww |
| The great tradition / by F.R. Leavis. | 825 P696L Leg |
| New bearings in English poetry : a study of the contemporary situation / F.R. Leavis. | 825 P696L Len |
| Revaluation : tradition & development in English poetry / F.R. Leavis. | 825 P696L Ler |
| An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke ; abridged and edited by Raymond Wilburn. | 825 P696L Loc |
| Imitations / Robert Lowell. | 825 P696L Lowi |
| Lord Weary’s castle / Robert Lowell. | 825 P696L Lowl |
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The prince : and, The discourses / by Niccolò Machiavelli ; with an introduction by Max Lerner. | 825 P696L Mac |
| Death in Venice : and seven other stories / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Po | 825 P696L Man |
| Christopher Marlowe / edited by Havelock Ellis with an introduction by J.A. Symonds. | 825 P696L Mar |
| Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; introduction by Newton Arvin. | 825 P696L Mel |
| A review of French grammar / by André Mesnard. | 825 P696L Mes |
| Second April / Edna St. Vincent Millay. | 825 P696L Mil |
| Paradise lost / John Milton ; edited by Merritt Y. Hughes. | 825 P696L Mipl |
| Paradise regained : the minor poems ; and, Samson Agonistes : complete and arranged chronologically | 825 P696L Mipr |
| The Penguin book of modern American verse / selected with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Moor | 825 P696L Mog |
| Collected poems / Marianne Moore. | 825 P696L Momc |
| Predilections / Marianne Moore. | 825 P696L Momp |
| Thus spake Zarathustra / by Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated by Thomas Common. | 825 P696L N |
| The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse / chosen by David Nichol Smith. | 825 P696L Oei |
| The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918 / chosen and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. | 825 P696L Oen |
| The Oxford book of sixteenth century verse / chosen by E.K. Chambers. | 825 P696L Os |
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Picasso / [Exhibition. Organized by] the Arts Council of Great Britain. [At the Tate Gallery, 6 July to 18 September. | 825 P696L Pi |
| Euthyphro : Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo ; Phaedrus / Plato ; with an English translation by Harold North Fowler ; and an introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. | 825 P696L Ple I |
| Lysis : Symposium ; Gorgias / Plato ; with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb. | 825 P696L Ple V |
| Five dialogues / Plato. | 825 P696L Plf |
| Plato’s The republic / translated into English by B. Jowett. | 825 P696L Plr |
| A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter. | 825 P696L Po |
| Swann’s way / by Marcel Proust ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff ; introduction by Lewis Galanti | 825 P696L Pr |
| Théâtre complet de Racine : suivi d’un choix de ses épigrammes concernant son théatre / avec une préface, des notices et des notes par Maurice Rat. | 825 P696L Rac |
| The painted caravan : a penetration into the secrets of the tarot cards / by Basil Ivan Rákóczi. | 825 P696L Rak |
| Selected poems / by John Crowe Ransom. | 825 P696L Ran |
| The lonely crowd : a study of the changing American character / by David Riesman ; with Nathan Glaze | 825 P696L Rie |
| Der ausgewählten Gedichte erster Teil / Rainer Maria Rilke. | 825 P696L Rila |
| Sonnets to Orpheus : written as a monument for Wera Ouckama Knoop / Rainer Maria Rilke ; the German text, with an English translation, introduction & notes by J.B. Leishman. | 825 P696L Rils |
| A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud ; revised English translation by Louise Varèse ; Une saison en enfer. | 825 P696L Rim |
| Poèmes / Pierre de Ronsard ; choisis et commentés par André Barbier. | 825 P696L Ron |
| German in review : a concise survey of grammar / Robert O. Röseler. | 825 P696L Ros |
| Selected poems / Muriel Rukeyser. | 825 P696L Ru |
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Wind, sand and stars / Antoine de Saint Exupéry ; decorations by John O’H. Cosgrave II ; translated from the French by Lewis Galantière. | 825 P696L Sai |
| Nine stories / by J.D. Salinger. | 825 P696L Sal |
| All my pretty ones / Anne Sexton. | 825 P696L Se |
| The complete plays and poems of William Shakespeare : a new text / edited with introduction and notes by William Allan Neilson and Charles Jarvis Hill. | 825 P696L Sha |
| Psychology and the Promethean will : a constructive study of the acute common problem of education, medicine and religion / by William H. Sheldon. | 825 P696L She |
| The canticle of the rose : poems: 1917-1949 / Edith Sitwell. | 825 P696L Si |
| Smith College bulletin : the catalogue number, 1953-1954. | 825 P696L Sm |
| Electra : and other plays / Sophocles ; translated by E.F. Watling. | 825 P696L Soe |
| The Theban plays / translated by E.F. Watling. | 825 P696L Sot |
| Baby & child care / Benjamin Spock. | 825 P696L Sp |
| West of your city : poems / by William Stafford. | 825 P696L Sta |
| Cambridge / by John Steegman. | 825 P696L Stee |
| The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / by Gertrude Stein. | 825 P696L Stei |
| The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; edited with an introduction by Samuel Holt Monk. | 825 P696L Ster |
| The collected poems of Wallace Stevens. | 825 P696L Stev |
| Eight famous plays : / August Strindberg / translated by Edwin Björkman and N. Erichsen ; with an introduction by Alan Harris. | 825 P696L Str |
| Collected plays / John M. Synge. | 825 P696L Sy |
| The Teach yourself French phrase book. | 825 P696L Te |
| In country sleep : and other poems / by Dylan Thomas. | 825 P696L Thi |
| Under milk wood : a play for voices / Dylan Thomas. | 825 P696L Thu |
| Iván Ilých and Hadji Murád / by Leo Tolstóy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude ; with a preface by Aylmer Maude. | 825 P696L To |
| Modern British poetry / edited by Louis Untermeyer. | 825 P696L U |
| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| John Webster and Cyril Tourneur : (four plays) / with an introduction and notes by John Addington Symonds. | 825 P696L We |
| Webster's new collegiate dictionary : a Merriam-Webster : based on Webster's new international dictionary, second edition. | 825 P696L Web |
| Poems, 1943-1956 / Richard Wilbur. | 825 P696L Wilb |
| A little treasury of modern poetry, English and American / edited with an introduction by Oscar Williams. | 825 P696L Willo |
| Camino Real / by Tennessee Williams. | 825 P696L Willt |
| Axel’s castle : a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 / by Edmund Wilson. | 825 P696L Wils |
| The Complete rhyming dictionary and poet’s craft book / edited by Clement Wood. | 825 P696L Wood |
| Between the acts / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolb |
| A haunted house : and other short stories / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolh |
| Jacob’s room / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolj |
| Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolm |
| A room of one’s own / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolr |
| The voyage out / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolv |
| The waves / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Woolw |
| The years / Virginia Woolf. | 825 P696L Wooly |
| The Writer : the oldest magazine for literary workers. | 825 P696L Wr |
| Writer’s yearbook. 1952, 1954, 1955 | 825 P696L Wri |
| The collected plays of W.B. Yeats. London : Macmillan, 1953. | 825 P696L Ypl |
| The collected poems of W.B. Yeats. New York : The Macmillan Co., 1952. | 825 P696L Ypo |
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| Book | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Les fleurs du mal / Charles Baudelaire ; edited by Enid Starkie. | 825 P696L Bau |
| The painted caravan : a penetration into the secrets of the tarot cards / by Basil Ivan Rákóczi. | 825 P696L Rak |
| A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud ; revised English translation by Louise Varèse ; Une saison en en | 825 P696L Rim |
| Psychology and the Promethean will : a constructive study of the acute common problem of education, | 825 P696L She |
| Camino Real / by Tennessee Williams. | 825 P696L Willt |