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
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Any unabridged copy will do. |
 
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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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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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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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Any unabridged edition will do. |
 
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Any unabridged edition will do. |
 
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Any unabridged edition will do. |
 
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Any unabridged edition will do. |
 
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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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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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A novel published in 1850 about Puritan New England. Any unabridged edition will do. |
