English Department Supplementary Reading List

The following are some suggestions for summer reading arranged by course. (A few courses do not have specific suggested lists.) These books are not part of the regular curriculum but are related to the ideas of the course. For your summer reading, be guided by this list, or you may make selections of your own choosing.

 Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Prod,
How Shakespeare Spent the Day--Brown
Shakespeare Without Tears--Webster
Shakespeare Alive!--Papp and Kirkland
Shakespeare of London--Chute
Clamorous Voices--Ruttner

 

Memoirs and Personal Wrt.
A Child Called "It"--Pelzer
Autobiography of a Face--Grealy
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters* First 100 Years
Delaney and Delaney
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius--Eggers

 Russian Literature
Lady Macbeth of the Mitsensk District-Leskov
A Hero of Our Time--Lermontov
Anna Karenina--Tolstoy
Demons--Dostoievsky
Stories of Chekov		  Irish Literature
The Course of Irish History-- Moody and Martin
Reading in, the Dark--Deane
Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories- ed. Trevor
Fools of Fortune--Trevor Yeats:
The Man and the Masks--Ellman
James Joyce--O'Brien
 American Literature
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water--Dorris
The Age of Innocence -Wharton
This Side of Paradise--Fltzgerald		  Adolescents
My Life as a Dog--Jonsson
A Soldier's Legacy--Boll
Kaffir Boy--Mathabane
 British Literature
Memento Mori--Spark
Seeing Things-Heaney
The Once and Future King--White
Vanity Fair--Thackeray
Collected stories of Win. Trevor		  Heroes
Down All.the Days--Brown
Josephine: The Hungry Heart--Baker
Mythology--Hami1ton
Days of Grace--Ashe
 Creative Writing -
The Call of Stories--Coie
Stories by, Ambrose Bierce
3 Lives--Gertrude Stein		  Bibilical and Classical Lit
The Aeneid-Virgil
The Iliad--Hower
The Voyage of the Argo--Appollonius of
Rhodes
The World of Odysseus--Finley
Mythology--Hamilton
 Expository Writing
On Writing Well--Zinsser
Slouching Toward Bethlehem--Didion
A Room of Ones Own--Woo		  Western Civ.
The Greeks--Kitto
Lions and Foxes--Alexander
The Travels of Marro. Polo
The Civilization of the Renaissance in
Italy---Burckhardt
 American Voices
The Flre Next Time--Baldwln
The Death of Artemio Cruz-Fuentes
Dreamtigers-Borges		  Continental Literature
Faust, Part Two--Goethe
Torquemada--Perez Galdo,
Cousin Bette--Balzac
The Masterpiece--Zola
Voices in the Evening--Ginzburg