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A selection from the books to which reference is made by Martin Wickramasinghe in his diverse writings is given below. This selection is only a small part of his personal reference library of over 5000 of titles now housed in the National Library. The fact that it is a personal selection of books, some with penciled comments on the pages of the books made by the writer, makes it a rare collection. This selection provides access to the database of the comprehensive catalogue of the 5000 volumes of his personal reference library.

       
    Author
Title
1.
  Schrodinger, Erwin My View of the World
2.
  Fromm, Erich The Crisis of Psychoanalysis
3.
  Bhave, Acharya Vinoba Talks on the Gita
4.
  Franzer, James George The Golden Bough
5.
  Muller, F. Max The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy
6.
  Nietzsche, Friedrich W. Thus Spake Zarathustra
7.
  Aascombe, G.E.M An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractacus
8.
  Koestler, Arthur The Act of Creation
9.
  Marx, K. On Religion
10.

  Lawrence, D.H.

Fantasia of the Unconscious and Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious.
11.
  Russel, Bertrand Human Knowledge
12.
  Whitehead, Alfred North Adventures of Ideas
13.
  Haldane, Elizabeth S. The Philosophical Work of Descartes
14.
  Jeans, James Physics & Philosophy
15.
  Henderson, W.O. Engels: Selected Writings
16.
  Gandhi,M.K. Socialism of my Conception
17.
  Guevara, Ernesto Che Man and Socialism in Cuba
18.
  Wilson, Edmund To the Finland Nation
19.
  Hume, David Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
20.
  Oparin, A.I. The Origin of Life
21.
  Davids, Rhys Psalms of the Early Buddhists
22.
  Jayatilleke, K.N. Early Buddhist theory of Knowledge
23.
  Malalasekara, G.P. Encyclopaedia of Buddhism
24.
  Radhakrishnan, S. Gautama the Buddha
25.
  Buddhist Committee The Betrayal of Buddhism
26.
  Anagarika Dharmapala The Maha Bodhi
27.
  Hume, Robert, Ernest The Thirteen Principal Upanishads
28.
  Fa-hsien A Record of the Buddhist Countries
29.
  Needham, Joseph History is on Our Side
30.
  Raglan, Lord Jocasta’s crime, an Anthropological Study
31.
  Hocart, A.M. The Life – Giving Myth
32.
  Macbride, E.W. An introduction to the study of heredity
33.
  Barnett, S.A. ed. A Century of Darwin
34.
  Freud, Sigmund Totem and Taboo
35.
  Wadding ton, C.H. The Scientific Attitude
36.
  Malinowski, Bronislaw The Dynamics of Culture Change
37.
  Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urbervilles
38.
  Haddon, Alfred C. History of Anthropology
39.
  De Chardin, Pierre T. The Phenomenon of Man
40.

  Medawar, P.B.

Induction and Intuition in Scientific
Thought.
41.
  Jeans, James Through space & Time
42.
  Popper, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
43.
  Tolstoy, Leo Resurrection
44.
  Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Possessed
45.
  Sholokhov, Mikhail Vigin Soil upturned
46.
  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One day in the life of Ivan Denisov….
47.
  Pushkin, Alexander
The Captain's Daughter & Other Stories
48.
  Dostoievsky, F.M. The Diary of a Writer
49.
  Gogol, Nikolai V. Taras Bulba and other Tales
50.
  Tolstoy, Leo Childhood, Boyhood and Youth.
51.
  Turgenev, Ivan A Desperate Character
52.
  Steiner, George Tolstoy or Dostoievsky
53.
  Chekov, Anton The Seagull
54.
  Moravia, Alberto Bitter Honeymoon
55.
  Canetti, Elias Auto Da Fe'
56.
  Naipaul, V.S An Area of Darkness
57.
  Faulkner, William Go Down, Moses
58.
  Prevost, Marcel The Virgin Man
59.
  Hemingway, Ernest To Have and Have not.
60.
  Bellow, Saul The Victim
61.
  Conard, Joseph Lord Jim
62.
  Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
63.
  Bronte, Emily Wathering Heights.
64.
  Orwell, George The Collected Essays, Journals & Letters
65.
  Leavis, F.R. New bearings in English Poetry
66.
  Joyce, James Ulysses
67.
  Hough, Graham An Essay on Criticism
68.
  Wilson, Edmund Axel's Castle
69.
  Myers, L.H The Near and the Far.
70.
  Wilde, Orcar Lady Windermere’s Fan
71.
  Forster, E.M Aspects of the Novel
72.
  Dreiser, Theodore Dawn
73.
  Mauriac, Francois A Kiss for the Leper
74.
  Gorky, M Mother
75.
  Shakespeare, William King Lear
76.
  Williams, Tenessee A Sstreet Car Named Desire
77.
  Shaw, Bernard Pygmalion
78.
  Mead, Margaret Anthropology
79.
  Thapar, Romila A History of India
80.
  Kafaka, Franz The Trial
81.
  Fanon, Franz The Wretched of the Earth
82.
  Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
83.
  Pound, Ezra A Selection of Poems
84.
  Fielding, Henry The History of Tom Jones
85.
  Galsworthy, John The Man of Property
86.
  De Manupassant, Guy 88 more stories
87.
  Eliot, T.S. Four Quartets
88.
  Greene, Graham The Power and the Glory
89.
  Woolf, Virginia Orlando – A Biography
90.
  Graves, Robert Antigna, Penny, Puce
91.
  Eliot, George Felixholt, the Radical
92.
  Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist
93.
  Dasgupta, Surendra Nath Fundamentals of Indian Art
94.
  Kramrisch, St.ella Indian Sculpture
95.
  Coomaraswamy, Ananda K East and West and Other Essays
96.
  Read, Herbert The Philosophy of Modern Art
97.
  Grigson, Geoffrey Henry Moore
98.
  Balxac, Honore Old Goriot
99.
  Sartre, Jean-Paul The Age of Reason
100.
  Maurois, Andre September Roses
101.
  Tun, Mao Spring Silkworms
102.

  Paranawitana, S

Report and the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1946
103.
  Bhacharya, Bhabani Contemporary Indian Short Stories
104.
  Maugham, Somerset The Moon and Sixpence
105.
  Zola, Emile The Masterpiece
106.
  France, Anatole On life and Letters
107.
  Silone, Ignazio Fontamara
108.
  Tagore, Rabindranath Gitanjali
109.
  Genet, Jean Our Lady of the Flowers
110.
  Colette Cheri
111.
  France, Anatole Penguin Island
112.
  Tolstoy, Leo What is Art?
113.
  Ishihasa, Shintar Season of Violence
114.
  Flaubert, Gustav Sentimental Education
115.
  Homer The Odyssey
116.
  Mann, Thomas Buddenbrooks
117.
  Yi, Hsien, Yang The Courtesan’s Jewel Box
118.
  Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mysterry
119.
  Camus, Albert The Rebel
120.
  Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture
121.
  Sastri, P.P.S. Valmiki's Ramayana
122.
  Arnold, Sir. Edwin The Light of Asia
123.
  Prabhavananda, Swami Bhagavat-Gita
124.
  Gorky, M. Mother
125.
  Ryder, Arthur. W The Panchatantra
       
  Selection of books in Sinhala

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