What to Read/Hear/View
Spring 2008: Catching up on the Classics
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
Jane Eyre Bronte,
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de
Divine Comedy Dante
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
Iliad Homer
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Hugo, Victor
A Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Ulysses Joyce, James
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
1984 Orwell, George
Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn
The Catcher and the
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
Kidnapped Stevenson, R.L.
Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
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