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Spring 2008: Catching up on the Classics

Sense and Sensibility                             Austen, Jane    

Jane Eyre                                             Bronte, Charlotte

Wuthering Heights                                Bronte, Emily

Don Quixote                                        Cervantes, Miguel de

Canterbury Tales                                  Chaucer, Geoffrey

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 Rye                       Salinger, J.D.

Grapes of Wrath                                   Steinbeck, John

Kidnapped                                           Stevenson, R.L.

Huckleberry Finn                                  Twain, Mark

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