Georges Bataille's Major Works

• The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism edited by Georges Bataille, (Michael Richardson, trans.), Verso, 1994
  The Accursed Share Vol I: An Essay on General Economy: Consumption, (Robert Hurley, trans.), Zone Books, 1991

• The Accursed Share Vols II and III: An Essay on General Economy: The History of Eroticism (vol II); Sovereignty (vol III), (Robert Hurley, trans.), Zone Books, 1993

• The Bataille Reader (Fred Botting and Scott Wilson, eds.), Blackwell, 1997

• Blue of Noon, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1988

• [3] Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary and Related Texts, (Bataille and Isabelle Waldberg, eds.), Atlas Press, 1996

• Erotic Art: From the 17th to the 20th Century: The Dopp Collection, (Peter Weiermair ed.), DAP, 1995

• Erotism: Death And Sensuality, (Mary Dalwood, trans.), City Lights, 1991 (originally published in english as Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo, 1962. Original publication as L'Erotisme, 1957.)

• Guilty, Lapis Press, 1988 (Out of Print)

• The Impossible: A Story of Rats Followed by Dianus and by the Oresteia, (Robert Hurley, trans.), City Lights, 1991. (Original publication as L'Impossible, 1962)

• Inner Experience (Suny Series: Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory), SUNY Press, 1988 -

    We receive these hazy illusions like a narcotic necessary to bear life. But what happens to us when, disintoxicated, we learn what we are? Lost among babblers in a night in which we can only hate the appearance of light which comes from babbling. The self-acknowledged suffering of the disintoxicated is the subject of this book.
  

  - Georges Bataille, from the Preface

• L'Abbe C, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1994

• Literature and Evil, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1990

• Manet, (Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons, trans.), Rizzoli Pubs, 1983 (Out of Print)

• My Mother Madame Edwarda & The Dead Man, (Austryn Wainhouse, trans.), Marion Boyars Publishers, 1995

• On Nietzsche, Paragon House, 1994

• Poemas, Lectorum Pubs, 1980 (Out of Print)

• Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art, (Austryn Wainhouse, trans,), Macmillan, 1955

• [1] The Story of the Eye, (Joachim Neugroschel, trans.), City Lights, 1997

• The Tears of Eros, (Peter Connor, trans.), City Lights, 1989. (Original publication as Les Larmes d'Eros, 1961.)

• Theory of Religion, (Robert Hurley, trans.), Zone Books

• Trial of Gilles de Rais, Amok, 1991 (Out of Print)

• Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, Univ of Minnesota, 1985

• Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un-Knowing, (Annette Michelson, trans.), October No. 36, Spring 1986