21L.003-2 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Reading Fiction

Readings

This section features the required texts and several links to their corresponding e-texts and audiobooks. Readings by session are also available below.

Required Texts

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. Any edition. The e-text and audiobook are available at Project Gutenberg.

Scott, Sir Walter. “The Highland Window.” In Chronicles of the Canongate. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780140439892.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Any edition. The e-text and audiobook are available at Project Gutenberg.

Melville, Herman. Typee. Any edition. The e-text and audiobook are available at Project Gutenberg.

Flaubert, Gustave. “A Simple Heart.” In Three Tales. Translated by Roger Whitehouse. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780140448009. This text is also known as “A Simple Soul.” The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Any edition. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Any edition.

MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief. Any edition.

Readings by Session

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction  
2 Jane Austen Volume I of Northanger Abbey.
3 Volume II of Northanger Abbey.
4 Northanger Abbey.
5 Workshop  
6-7 Sir Walter Scott The Highland Window.
8 Workshop  
9-11 Mary Shelley Frankenstein.
12 Herman Melville Chapters 1-18 of Typee.
13 Chapters 19-34, appendix, and sequel of Typee.
14 Typee.
15-16 Gustave Flaubert “A Simple heart.”
17-19 Kate Chopin The Awakening.
20-22 Virginia Woolf “The Window.” In To the Lighthouse.
23 “Time Passes.” In To the Lighthouse.
24 “The Lighthouse.” In To the Lighthouse.
25-26 Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief.

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