English 3413 Mercer

OUTSIDE READING NOT IN TEXT

Choose a work that you have NOT previously read. If the work is shorter than 200 pages, read research about the book to reach a total of at least 200 pages.

Classical Period

* Homer, The Iliad

* Homer, The Odyssey

* Edith Hamilton, Mythology [I can give you a study sheet for this work.]

Plato, The Republic

Virgil, The Aeneid

Bhagavad Gītā

Medieval Period through 18th Century

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Boccaccio, The Decameron

Machiavelli, The Prince

* Cervantes, Don Quixote [It’s not necessary to read this entire book.]

The Qu’ran (Koran)

Molière, selected plays

19th and 20th Centuries

Goethe, Faust

* Flaubert, Madame Bovary

De Maupassant, selected short stories

Hugo, Les Misérables

Ibsen, selected plays

Chekhov, selected plays or short stories

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Tolstoy, War and Peace

Tolstoy, Anna Karénina

Camus, The Plague

* Camus, The Stranger +

* Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Iván Denisovich +

Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

* denotes highly recommended works

+ denotes novels shorter than 200 pages for which I have research materials on reserve in a folder in the NSU-BA library