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Required Texts


Amazon logo Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780141439471. The e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg.

Amazon logo Hawthorn, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780142437261. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Amazon logo Forster, E. M. Howard's End (1910). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780141183350. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Amazon logo Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780156907392. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg of Australia.

Amazon logo Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying (1930). New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732259.

Amazon logo Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.

Amazon logo O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780156364652.

Amazon logo Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban (1992). New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780345381439.

Amazon logo Morrison, Toni. Jazz (1992). New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.

Amazon logo Roy, Arundhati. God of Small Things (1997). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.



Readings by Session



SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction(no readings)
2Leo TolstoyAmazon logo Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina (1877). Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780140449174. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
3Mary ShelleyFrankenstein, vols. 1-2.
4Frankenstein, vol. 3.
5Edgar Allan PoeAmazon logo Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Fall of the House of Usher." In The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1839). Edited by Stephen Marlowe. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451526755. Both the e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg.
6Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter, "Custom House." - chapter 9.
7The Scarlet Letter, chapters 10-end.
8Workshop: Crafting an argument(no readings)
9E. M. ForsterHoward's End, chapters 1-16.
10Howard's End, chapters 17-end.
11D. H. LawrenceAmazon logo Lawrence, D. H. Rocking Horse Winner (1926). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9781419180835.
12Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse, "The Window," and "Time Passes."
13To the Lighthouse, "The Lighthouse."
14William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying, pp. 1-140.
15As I Lay Dying, pp. 141-end.
16James BaldwinGo Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 1-128.
17Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 129-end.
18

Carson McCullers

Workshop: Revising a paper

Amazon logo McCullers, Carson. "A Domestic Dilemma." In Collected Stories of Carson McCullers (1951). New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395925058.
19Flannery O'ConnorA Good Man is Hard to Find, "A Good Man," and "The Life You Save."
20A Good Man is Hard to Find, "Good Country People."
21Cristina GarciaDreaming in Cuban, pp. 1-126.
22Dreaming in Cuban, pp. 127-end.
23Toni MorrisonJazz, pp. 1-87.
24Jazz, pp. 89-end.
25Arundhati RoyGod of Small Things, chapters 1-7.
26God of Small Things, chapters 8-end.

 








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