Course Registration No. LIT-769
COURSE OVERVIEW
18-week course plan using the method introduced by Teaching the Classics to analyze four important novels. Prerequisites: completion of American Literature B. Completion of Essay Writing A is also strongly recommended.
-- Selection 1, choose one of the following: Pride & Prejudice; Jane Eyre; or Anna Karenina.
-- Selection 2, choose one of the following: The Scarlet Letter; A Tale of Two Cities; or Heart of Darkness.
-- Selection 3, choose one of the following: My Antonia or The Virginian.
-- Selection 4, choose one of the following: The Old Man and the Sea; To Kill a Mockingbird; or Animal Farm.
BOOKS AND MATERIALS
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Teaching the Classics DVD and Workbook
- Author: Adam Andrews and Missy Andrews
- Publisher/Copyright: : The Center for Literary Education, 2017. Print and DVD.
- ISBN: 0988898993 978-0988898998
- Supplier: Rainbow Resource
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Pride and Prejudice
- Author: Jane Austen
- ISBN: 1586172638 978-1586172633
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged copy will do.
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Author: Charles Dickens
- ISBN: 1586174428 978-1586174422
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A novel about the French Revolution set in London and Paris. Originally published as a serial in 1859. Any unabridged edition will do.
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The Virginian
- Author: Owen Wister
- Publisher/Copyright: : Penguin Classics, 1988. Print.
- ISBN: 0140390650 978-0140390650
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged edition will do. From the publisher: "Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become an enduring part of American mythology. Set in Wyoming Territory, 'The Virginian' depicts the loneliness and challenge of an unknown land where the whistle of a freight train sounds across great miles of silence, where easy camaraderie—and sudden violence—are found around the campfire, and where the rough honesty of "frontier justice" is just beginning to impose a sense of society on an unruly populace."
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- Author: Harper Lee
- Publisher/Copyright: : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002. .
- ISBN: 0060935464 978-0060935467
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unbridged edition will do. From the publisher: "A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime."
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Animal Farm
- Author: George Orwell
- ISBN: 0141182709 978-0141182704
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Any unabridged edition will do.
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Anna Karenina
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Publisher/Copyright: : Modern Library, 2000. .
- ISBN: 067978330X 978-0679783305
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged edition will do.
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Heart of Darkness
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Publisher/Copyright: : Oxford University Press, 2008. .
- ISBN: 0199536015 978-0199536016
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged edition will do.
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Jane Eyre
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- ISBN: 1586176994 978-1586176990
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged edition will do.
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My Antonia
- Author: Willa Cather
- Publisher/Copyright: : Dover Publications, 1918,1994. .
- ISBN: 0486282406 978-0486282404
- Supplier: Retail or Amazon.com
Any unabridged edition will do. From the publisher: "'My Ántonia' evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.
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The Old Man and the Sea
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- Publisher/Copyright: : Scribner, 1952, 1995. .
- ISBN: 0684801221 978-0684801223
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Any unabridged edition will do. From the publisher: "Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss."
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The Scarlet Letter
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher/Copyright: : Ignatius Press, 1850, 2009. Print.
- ISBN: 1586172816 978-1586172817
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A novel published in 1850 about Puritan New England. Any unabridged edition will do.
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