Book Lists

Classic Literature

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Emma by Jane Austen
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poetry and Short Stories by assorted classic authors (Dickinson, Poe, Tennyson, etc.), which I will provide

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A Year with the Bard (Shakespeare)

Much Ado about Nothing
Hamlet
Henry V
Sonnets
abridged versions of additional plays, which I will provide
supplemental literature and speeches, which I will provide​

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World Literature

​Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, translated by Carol Clark

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Oedipus Tyrannus/Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, translated by Peter Meineck
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
short stories by Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy, which I will provide
folk tales and poetry from China, Japan and India, which I will provide

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Literature's Search for God

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Bible
assorted literature by other classic authors, which I will provide