Works by
Clifton Fadiman
(Writer)
[1902 - 1999]

• Reading I've Liked (1943)
  Personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries.

• Party Of One -The Selected Writings Of Clifton Fadiman  (1955)

• The American Treasury, 1455 - 1955, Prose, Poetry & Song Drawn from Our Life, Laughter & Literature, with commentary (1955)

• Fantasia Mathematica (1958)
  Classical collection of mathematical stories, anecdotes, and essays.

• The Lifetime Reading Plan (1960, revised 1999) by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major, eds.
  In print for almost 40 years, The Lifetime Reading Plan has long been a worthy addition to any serious reader's bookshelf, providing entertaining and informative introductions to the great works of Western civilization. Now, this "classic about classics" has been updated to reflect more diverse traditions. The New Lifetime Reading Plan recommends great literature from around the globe, including writers and works from Confucius to Chinua Achebe, Gabriel García Márquez to the Koran. Also new is an appendix profiling books by 100 important 20th-century authors--or "temporary classics," as coauthor John S. Major calls them.

• The Mathematical Magpie (1962)
  The companion volume to Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica, this second anthology of mathematical writings is even more varied and contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and many other renowned figures.

• Fifty Years - Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, Reportage and Essays All Drawn from Volumes Issued during the Last Half-Century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf (1965)

• The Joys of Wine (1981)

• The World Treasury of Children's Literature (1984)

• The World Treasury of Children's Literature, Vols. I & II (1984)
  An anthology of children's literature (ages 5-8) in two harcover books totalling 629 pages in an illustrated slip case.

• Wally the Wordworm (1984) with Lisa Atherton, Illustrator
  A worm with a voracious appetite for words who has grown bored with those he finds in the tabloids, discovers the dictionary where his flagging appetite revives. Includes puns, puzzles, and plays on words.

• The Faber Book of Anecdotes (1985)

• The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (1985)

• The Well-stocked Bookcase: Sixty Enduring Novels By Americans Published Between 1926 and 1986 (1986)
  Book of the Month editorial board selects its 60 favorites to celebrate the Club's 60th anniversary.

• A Toast to Wines and Spirits (1989)

• The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989) by Clifton Fadiman and David Hartwell, eds.

• Living Philosophies (1990)

• The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought (1990) by Clifton Fadiman and Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, eds.

• World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1990)

• Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1992)

• Great Books of the Western World (1994) by Clifton Fadiman, Mortimer J. Adler, and Philip W. Goetz, eds.
  60 volumes -- Reading and understanding great works by history`s outstanding minds has always been considered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th Century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among the Great Books` 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists, and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories).

• World Poetry (1998) by Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major, and Katharine Washburn, eds.
  This indispensable volume contains more than 1,600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures and spans a period of more than 4,000 years. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the "Carmina Burana"; from the magnificence of Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the revelatory verse of Emily Dickinson, Garcia Lorca, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and many more.

• Essential Sufism (1999) by Clifton Fadiman and Robert Frager, eds.
  "Sufis are celebrated in the West for their joy, humor, and devoted worship. Two students of Sufism, James Fadiman and Robert Frager, have collected some of the jewels of Sufic literature, polished them up a bit, and organized them for ready contemplation. Rumi's poems, Attar's stories, Mohammed's terse sayings, and even some moving pieces from contemporary Western devotees make Essential Sufism a treasury of Sufic literature. The extensive introduction provides practical context, and preambles to each section set the tone for what's to come. If you haven't encountered the wisdom of Sufi mysticism, the material in this book is a good place to start; if you have, it's a comfortable place for return."  -- Amazon.com

• Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (2000) by Andre Bernard and Clifton Fadiman, eds.
  These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science, and the arts. Bartletts Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse.

See also:

• A Book of Prefaces By Ten Famous Men-Of-Books (1941) by Van Wyck Brooks
  Andre Maurois, Bernard de Voto, Carl Van Doren, Christopher Morley, Clifton Fadiman, Frank Swinnerton, G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, J. B. Priestley, and Van Wyck Brooks

• When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling (2001) by Carolyn G. Heilbrun