LITERARY "PHILE" CABINET

Illustration to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, by Arthur Rackham

Favourite Authors

• Richard Adams
• Jane Austen
• G. K. Chesterton
• Arthur Clarke
• Lord Dunsany
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• Robert Heinlein
• C. S. Lewis
• George MacDonald
• William Morris
• E. Nesbit
• Dorothy Sayers
• Charles Williams

Favourite Long Fiction

• All Hallows Eve by Charles Williams
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany
• Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke
• The City and the Stars by Arthur Clarke
• Descent into Hell by Charles Williams
• Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley by Lord Dunsany
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden
• The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
• The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Nightland by William Hope Hogdson
• The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
• Rendevouz with Rama by Arthur Clarke
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "The Space Trilogy": Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
• Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Favourite Short Fiction

• Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
• The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth by Lord Dunsany
• Lord Peter Wimsey Short Stories by Dorothy Sayers
• Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Favourite Children's Books

• Beatrix Potter Books
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S Lewis
• The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
• The Fairy Tale Book illustrated by Adrienne Ségur
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• Retellings of Arthur and Robin Hood, and Greek, Egyptian, and Norse Myths by Roger Lancelyn Green
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• The White Marble by Charlotte Zolotow
• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Favourite Non-Fiction

• The Discarded Image by C. S. Lewis
• The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
• Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hoffstadter
• A History of the Plantagenets by Thomas Costain
• Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C. S. Lewis
• The Mystery of Matter edited by Louise B. Young
• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
• Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton
• A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
• Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
• The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis

Favourite Poets and Poetry

• Dante Alighieri
• C. S. Lewis
• John Donne
• Little Brown Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• T. S. Eliot
• George Herbert
• Homer
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• The Eve of St. Agnes and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
• The Fire of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• William Shakespeare
• Edmund Spenser
• Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other early English alliterative poetry

Favourite Illustrators

• Peter Collington
• Alexandra Day
• Gustave Doré (see graphics on Al Dante and The Magnetism of Love pages)
• Edmund Dulac (see graphics on Loose Cannons Philosophy and Science pages)
• Michael Hague
• Beatrix Potter
• Howard Pyle
• Arthur Rackham
• Ernest H. Shepard
• Adrienne Ségur