Series
Summary
"Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can finish-- and engage with-- in a day or less with A day's read. Professor Arnold Weinstein of Brown University and Professor Grant L. Voth of Monterey Peninsula College-- two... Full description
- V. 1,
- lectures 1-12.
- Kafka, "A country doctor"
- PreĢvost, Manon Lescaut
- Flaubert, "A simple heart"
- Faulkner, "Pantaloon in black"
- Borges, Short story selections
- Hemingway, "The old man and the sea"
- O'Connor, Short story selections
- Lagerkvist, The Sybil
- Vesaas, The Ice Palace
- Calvino, Invisible cities
- Duras, The lover
- Coetzee, Disgrace.
- V. 2,
- lectures 13-24.
- Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Austen, Lady Susan
- Balzac, The girl with the golden eyes
- Meredith, Modern love
- Huysmans, Against the grain
- Stevenson, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
- James, The beast in the Jungle
- Joyce, "The dead"
- Proust, The Lemoine affair
- Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"
- McEwan, On Chesil Beach.
- V. 3, lectures 25-36.
- Cather, Alexander's bridge
- Lu Xun, Short story selections
- Chopin, The awakening
- Melville, Billy Budd
- McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Chekhov, Short story selections
- Hersey, Hiroshima
- Satrapi, Persepolis
- Jataka story selections
- Munro, Short story selections
- Basho, The narrow road of the interior
- Sijie, Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress.