This bibliography is an effort to provide the one thing really missing from Pérez-Reverte's engaging novel, so thick with references to books that one might wish, someday, to track down and read or inspect. Included are both books that are fabrications of Pérez-Reverte's rich imagination and books that exist independently of his imagination. I have rarely sought to distinguish between the two types of books. Excluded is the complete catalog of Dumas novels spread over two pages of Chapter 4; only those works otherwise mentioned in the Club Dumas text are listed here. "n.a." means "no author," and "no author" could mean that the book's authorship is not attributed to anyone or that I cannot find the name of the author. Readers of this bibliography are invited to contribute missing information. Corrections and any other comments are welcome, too.
Oh, just for fun, I've inserted one completely bogus entry into the bibliography. Can you tell me what it is?
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica
Agripa, Cornelius, De occulta philosophia
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
Aristotle, Poetics
Astarloa, Jaime, Treatise on the Art of Fencing
Balkan, Boris, Dumas: The Shadow of a Giant
Bielke, Baron, Polyglot Bible
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita
Camões, Luís de, Os Lusiadas
Carpi, Berengario de, Tractatus
Casiano, Benedicto, Summa diabolica
Cazotte, Jacques, The Devil in Love
Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote
------, Persiles
Christie, Agatha, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Cisneros, Francisco Ximénez de, ed., Polyglot
Clavel, Picturesque History of Freemasonry
Clement VIII, Pope, ed. (actually, CEO might be more accurate), Vulgata Clementina (edition of Christian Bible)
Colines, Simon de, Praxis criminis persequendi
Colonna, Francesco, La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo
Copernicus, Nicholas, De revolutionis celestium
Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien de, Memoires de M. d'Artagnan
------, Memoires de MLCDR (Monsieur le comte de Rochefort)
Crespet, Pierre, La haine de Satan
Crozet, --, Encyclopedia of Printers and Rare and Curious Books
Dante, The Divine Comedy
De la Porte, --, Memoirs
del Rio, Martin, Disquisitionum Magicarum
d'Este, Paolo, The Three Books of the Art (Les trois livres de l'Art)
Dickens, Charles, Pickwick Papers
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov
Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
------, A Scandal in Bohemia
------, Study in Scarlet
------, The Valley of Fear
Dumas, Alexandre, "The Anjou Wine" (Chapter 42 of The Three Musketeers)
------, The Century of Louis XV
------, The Chevalier de la Maison Rouge
------, The Chevalier d'Harmental
------, The Companions of Jehu
------, The Countess de Charny
------, The Count of Monte Cristo
------, The Forty-Five
------, From Madrid to Cadiz
------, Joseph Balsam
------, Memoirs
------, The Mohicans of Paris
------, Queen Margot
------, The Queen's Necklace
------, The Three Musketeers
------, Twenty Years After
------, The Two Dianas
------, The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Dürer, Albrecht, De Symmetria
Feval, Paul, The Hunchback
Fioravanti, Leonardo, Compendi dei secreti
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust
Guazzo, Francesco Maria, Compendium Maleficarum
Hawkins, Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
Highsmith, Patricia, Carol
Homer, Ulysses
Innocent VIII, Pope, Sumnis Desiderantes Affectibus
Joyce, James, Ulysses
Kircher, Atanasius, Oedipus Aegiptiacus
Kramer, Henry, and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum
Leblanc, Maurice, Arsène Lupin
Les Cases, --, Memoirs of Saint Helena
Lorena, Valerio, De magna imperfectaque opera
Maquet, Auguste-Jules, Buvat the Good, or the Conspiracy of Cellamare
Marquina, Eduardo, "The Sun Has Set in Flanders"
Mateu, --, Universal Bibliography
Maturin, Charles, Melmoth the Wanderer
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick
Mérimée, Prosper, Corsican Revenge
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind
Molière, Le Tartuffe
Montesquieu-Fezensac, Duke of, Le vrai d'Artagnan
n.a., Académie de l'épée
n.a., Asclemandres
n.a., Book of Wonders
n.a., Corpus Hermeticum
n.a., Curious Explanations of Mysteries and Hieroglyphs
n.a., De origine, moribus et rebus gestis Satanae
n.a., Destructor omnium rerum
n.a., Disertazioni sopra le apparizioni de' spiriti e diavoli
n.a., Imperial Violets
n.a., Key to Captive Thoughts
n.a., Lagardère
n.a., Royal Charter of Castille
n.a., Theatrum diabolicum
n.a. [Lucifer?], Delomelanicon
n.a. [possible partial author Fernando de Rojas], Celestina
n.a. [pub. Enrique Taillefer], The Secrets of the Barbecue
n.a. [pub. Enrique Taillefer], The Thousand Best Desserts of La Mancha
n.a. [unnamed supposed Nobel laureate], I, Onan
n.a. [unnamed supposed Nobel laureate], In Search of Myself
n.a. [unnamed supposed Nobel laureate], Oui, C'est Moi
Ollero, Julio, Dictionary of Rare and Improbable Books
Plancy, Collin de, Infernal Dictionary
Poe, Edgar Allan, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Ponson du Terrail, Victor-Alexis, Rocambole
Pontius, Saint, De Consummatione saeculi
Ptolemy, Cosmography
Queiroz, Eça de, The Mystery of the Sintra Road
Remy, Nicholas, Daemonolatriae Libri
René, Lucas de, The Knight with the Yellow Doublet
Rivio, Juan, De spectris et apparitionibus
Roederer, Political and Romantic Intrigues from the Court of France
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Confessions
Sabatini, Rafael, Captain Blood
------, Scaramouche
Samaran, Charles, D'Artagnan, capitaine des mousquetaires du roi, histoire véridique d'un héros de roman
Schedel, Hartmann D., Nuremberg Cronicarum
Schopper, Hartmann, Speculum Vitae
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet
------, Romeo and Juliet
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Quo Vadis
Sinistrari, Ludovico, De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Sucubus
Souvestre, Pierre, and Marcel Allain, Fantomas
Stendahl, The Charterhouse of Parma
------, The Red and the Black
Stoker, Bram, Dracula
Sue, Eugene, The Mysteries of Paris
Taillefer, Enrique, The Dead Man's Hand, or Anne of Austria's Page
Tarnisso, Nicholas, The Secrets of Wisdom
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
Torchia, Aristide, Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows
Tory, Geoffroy, Champfleuri
Trevisano, Bernardo, The Lost Word
Tritemius, Abbot, Steganography
Ungern, Frieda, The Devil, History and Legend (uncompleted)
------, Isis, the Naked Virgin
Verona, Amaury de, "Angeline de Gravaillac, or Unsullied Virtue"
Virgil, Giunta's edition, Venice, 1544
Voragine, Jacobo de la, The Golden Legend
Zevaco, M., Los Pardellanes