AP EN 12/AP EN LIT 12 Mr. Wyatt

September 2005- June 2006 READING LIST

June 2004

NOTE: Although these lists seem daunting at first glance, please remember that you do not need to read everything on all the lists. I have made clear where necessary which readings are required and which are suggested. You are free to determine how you will prepare yourself for the exams. Books on this main list can be obtained from me. The selections on the specified readings list are contained in Literature: the British Tradition, the main text of the course. For further readings, visit your public library or bookstore. Required Readings (except where otherwise noted: * indicates that we will not read the work as a class, but reading the work is helpful to your studies) All readings are subject to change depending on the changing requirements of the provincial exam, availability of resources, class tastes and abilities, and time constraints. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Oedipus at Colonnus*

Antigone

Aristophanes: Lysistrata The Bible:* See attached sheet. Readings are recommended; we will NOT be reading all this in class. Read as much as you can and wish. Shorter passages will be read in class. Classical Mythology:* See attached sheet. Readings are recommended; we will NOT be reading all this in class. Read as much as you can and wish. Shorter passages will be read in class. Beowulf

A quick read of the whole of the epic will acquaint you with the work. We will read and study parts of it in depth in class, as required for the provincial exam.

Everyman Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer: The Prolog to the Canterbury Tales The Pardoner’s Tale The Nun’s Priest’s Tale The Wife of Bath’s Tale Dante: The Inferno

Shakespeare: King Lear Hamlet The Tempest* Macbeth* Romeo & Juliet* If you did not read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth in grades ten and eleven, you should try to at least give them a quick read-through, or view the Polanski movie version of Macbeth and the Zefirelli version of R&J. Film versions of The Tempest are also available. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. This is a play, and therefore not a long read. A film version is also available. Read/view AFTER reading Hamlet (but don’t necessarily wait for the class to get there). Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice Mary Shelley – Frankenstein If you have not studied these in Honours English 11 or Joseph Conrad -Heart of Darkness another class, you should pre-read these novels before we get to them in class. Charles Dickens – Hard Times These will be independent novel studies, with short Aldous Huxley – Brave New World discussions or no discussion in class. They are, however, George Orwell- 1984 good choices in preparation for the AP exam. Oscar Wilde -

The Importance of Being Earnest

See attached sheet for a list of specified readings, i.e. the poets we MUST read for the exam. We will of course being reading other poems as well. I suggest that you take notes as you read, recording your thoughts about characters and theme, references to noteworthy passages, symbol and allusion, and any questions that arise from your reading. I would be happy to discuss with you at any time the works that you are reading. Exam Preparation – LIT 12 and AP

Two further lists are attached, one of the “Specified Reading List” from the Provincial Literature 12 Exam 2004 (already mentioned above), and the other of recommended texts for preparation for the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature. The latter list is not required reading, but to prepare for the AP exam, the student must have read broadly in texts of “literary merit.” This list names all the suggested texts for question 3 from the AP exams of the past thirty years. That is to say, these texts qualify as being of “literary merit.” If you begin reading one and find that you do not like it, move on to one you do like. As with the required readings, I suggest that you take notes as you read, recording your thoughts about characters and theme, references to noteworthy passages, symbol and allusion, and any questions that arise from your reading. I would be happy to discuss with you at any time the works that you are reading. I can be reached (although I cannot promise always an immediate response) at [email protected] Have a pleasant summer reading.

SPECIFIED READINGS LIST Anglo-Saxon and Medieval from Beowulf "The Coming of Grendel"; "The Coming of Beowulf?'; "The Battle with Grendel"; "The Burning of Beowulf' s Body" (if using Athena edition) / "The Farewell" (if using Prentice-Hall edition)  from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, "The Prologue" (Lines 1-42, Knight, Squire, Nun, Monk, Friar, Oxford Cleric, Wife of Bath, Parson, Plowman, Miller, Reeve, Summoner, Pardoner)  "Bonny Barbara Allan" (ballad)  from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(lines 1 to the end if using the Athena edition, and lines 259 to the end if using Prentice-Hall edition)

17th

Renaissance and Century  Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"  Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"  Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"  William Shakespeare, Sonnets 29, 116, 130; Hamlet, King Lear or The Tempest John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; "Death Be Not Proud" Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins" John Milton, "On His Blindness"; from Paradise Lost (Book I, lines 1-263)  Samuel Pepys, "The Fire of London"

Assessment Department (Issued September 2005)

18th Century and Romantic  Lady Mary Chudleigh, "To the Ladies"  Alexander Pope, from The Rape of the Lock (Canto III and V excerpts)  Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"  Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"  William Blake, "The Tiger"; "The Lamb"  Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"  William Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up"; "The World Is Too Much with Us"  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"  George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Apostrophe to the Ocean"  Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"  John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"; "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" Victorian and 20th Century  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43  Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"  Emily Brontë, "Song"  Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"  Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"  Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"  Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"  William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"  T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"  Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"  Stevie Smith, "Pretty"  Margaret Atwood, "Disembarking at Quebec" English Literature 12 Table of Specifications and Description of Examination

Bible Study

AP English Lit 12

Mr. Wyatt

Because literature is rich in biblical allusion, you should familiarize yourselves thoroughly with each of the following books of the Bible. Old Testament histories and stories Genesis – all Exodus – all Ruth – all 2 Samuel 11-12 Job – all 1 Kings 3: 16-28 Daniel 3 and 5

Judges

wisdom and poetry Proverbs – all Ecclesiastes – all Song of Solomon – all New Testament life of Jesus Matthew 5-8 Luke - all John - all writings of the apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 13

Bible Review Sheet Most literary allusions are to the King James version of the Bible. You should therefore read as many of the assigned selections as possible in that translation, particularly the 23rd Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and 1 Corinthians. You may also wish to consult a more modern, easier-to-follow translation or paraphrased translation, such as the Living Bible. The best approach, especially if you are unfamiliar with the Bible, would be to read both a modern translation for the ease of understanding and the King James version for the beauty of the language. Avoid children’s Bibles, however. The stories are usually too abbreviated and simplified for our purposes. Take notes on each of these: 1. Review these stories from the Book of Genesis: Creation Adam and Eve The Fall Cain and Abel The Flood and the Covenant The Tower of Babel The Call of Abraham Abraham Pleads for Sodom 33) Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

(Genesis 1) (Genesis 2) (Genesis 3) (Genesis 4) (Genesis 6-9) (Genesis 10-11) (Genesis 15) (Genesis 18: 16(Genesis 19)

Abraham's Test Jacob’s Dream Jacob and Esau Rachel and Leah Joseph and his brothers Joseph in Egypt The Marriage of Isaac The Birth of Moses Moses and the Burning Bush Plagues of Egypt

(Genesis 22)

(Exodus 2) (Exodus 3)

Moses Parts the Red Sea 14) Moses on the Mount The Ten Commandments 5) The Death of Moses The Sun Stands Still Samson and Delilah Ruth David and Goliath

(Exodus 13: 17-20; (Exodus 19) (Exodus 20; Deut (Deut. 34) (Joshua 10) (Judges 15, 16) (Ruth) (I Samuel 17)

Solomon's Temple Chronicles 2-4) Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon Chronicles 9} Jezebel Killed 34) Prologue and Job's First Test Job's Second Test A Time for Everything The Fall of Babylon Jonah and the Whale

(I Kings 5-7; II (I Kings 10; II (11 Kings 9: 30(Job 1) (Job 2) (Ecclesiastes 3) (Daniel 6) (Jonah 1 and 2)

2. Review the story of Moses as told in the Book of Exodus. Include each of the following topics: the discovery of the baby Moses the Passover the burning bush the journey through the Red Sea Moses and the Pharaoh manna from heaven the plagues of Egypt the Ten Commandments the Ark of the Covenant

3. Relate the story of Ruth. What is the major theme of this story? 4. List the problems that plague Job. What does the Book of Job tell us should be our response to suffering? 5. Characterize the contents of Song of Solomon (also called Song of Songs). Who are the voices speaking? What topics or themes occur here? How is each treated? 6. Retell the story of King Solomon and his wisdom. Give one example of the wisdom of Solomon. 7. Characterize the contents of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Who is the Preacher? Select a short passage that appeals to you, write it down, and be prepared to discuss it. 8. The Book of Matthew tells of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Verses 3-12 of Matthew 5 are called the Beatitudes. Be sure you are thoroughly familiar with all of these. (You may wish to list them in your spiral.) Many writers allude to the other sections of this sermon, in addition to the Beatitudes. Which references in the sermon are already familiar to you? List them. 9. Summarize the story of the Crucifixion. Identify the role played by each of the following: Pontius Pilate Barabbas Mary Magdalene

Peter Judas

Classical Myth 1. Cupid and Psyche 2. Orpheus and Eurydice 3. Pygmalion and Galatea 4. Daphne and the laurel wreath 5. The Amazons 6. Echo and Narcissus 7. Damon and Pythias 8. Jason and the Golden Fleece 9. Atlas and his burden 10. Paris and the Golden Apple 11. Hera and Io 12. Baucis and Philemon 13. Arachne and Athena 14. Adonis and Aphrodite 15. Dido and Aeneas 16. Perseus and Andromeda 17. Daedalus and Icarus 18. Midas and the Golden Touch 19. The Twelve Labors of Heracles 20. Bellerophon and Pegasus 21. Apollo and Cassandra 22. Castor and Pollux 23. The sword of Damocles 24. Selene and Endymion 25. Europa and Zeus 26. Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot 27. Demeter and Persephone 28. Hero and Leander 29. Jason and Medea 30. Perseus and Medusa 31. Niobe and Leto 32. Phaedra and Hippolytus 33. Procrustes 34. Romulus and Remus 35. Odysseus and the Trojan Horse 36. Phaeton and Zeus 37. Pandora’s Box 38. Nessus and Heracles

Titles from Free Response Questions Adapted from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson. Works referred to in the AP Literature exams 1973-2003 (specific years in parentheses). Works marked * are in the school and may be borrowed through me. A Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00) *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99) Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00) All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02) All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96) America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03) Another Country by James Baldwin (95) *Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03) Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91) Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94) Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01) As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92) Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02) The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02) B ”The Bear” by William Faulkner (94) Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03) A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03) Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89) Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02) The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97) Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00) Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95) Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03) *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90) C Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80) Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96) The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03) *The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00) Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94) The Centaur by John Updike (81) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01,

03) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (77) ”Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (76) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97) Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01) *Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03) ”The Crisis” by Thomas Paine (76) *The Crucible by Arthur Miller (83, 86, 89) D Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03) Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83) *”The Dead” by James Joyce (97) The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86) *Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03) Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97) Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97) *The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95) Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99) *A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen (83, 87, 88, 95) The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01) Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03) Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03) E Emma by Jane Austen (96) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01) Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01) *Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03) The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96) F The Fall by Albert Camus (81) *A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99) The Father by August Strindberg (01) Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90) Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03) The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76) Fences by August Wilson (02, 03) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03) *Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00) For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03) *Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03) G A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00) Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (90, 94, 97,

99, 02) Going After Cacciato by Time O’Brien (01) The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03) *Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03) *The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02) Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90) *Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01) H The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89) *Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00) *Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (03) *Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03) Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03) Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90) Henry V by William Shakespeare (02) The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90) House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday (95) The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (89) I The Iliad by Homer (80) In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03) J Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00) Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99) J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94) Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03) Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (76, 80, 85, 87, 95) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96) K *King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03) L A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99) Letters from an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur (76) Light in August by William Faulkner (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03) The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90) Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03) Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85) The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89) Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95) *”Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85) *Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87)

M *Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99,03) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85) Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87) Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96) *Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81) Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03) Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03) *The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02) M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95) Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97) *The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03) Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89) Middlemarch by George Eliot (95) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92) Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95) Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03) Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97) Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02) Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97) Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95) *”My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (85) My Antonia by Willa Cather (03) My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03) N Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01) Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03) *1984 by George Orwell (87, 94) No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86) No-No Boy by John Okada (95) Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89) O Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95) *The Odyssey by Homer (86) *Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00,03) *Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89) *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01) The Optimist’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence (94) The Orestia by Aeschylus (90) *Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03) Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90) Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97) P Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01) Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86) A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (77, 78, 88, 91, 92) *Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86)

Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02) Persuasion by Jane Austen (90) Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99) *The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02) The Plague by Albert Camus (02) Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97) Pocho by Jose Antonio Villareal (02) Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03) *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99) The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95) Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96) *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03) R Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03) A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99) *The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81) Redburn by Herman Melville (87) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03) *Richard III by William Shakespeare (79) A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03) *Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97) *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00) S Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02) Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03) A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97) Silas Marner by George Eliot (02) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91) *Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00) Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01) The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96) The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01) Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96) T *A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91) Tarftuffe by Moliere (87) *The Tempest by William Shakespeare (78, 96, 03) *Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88) The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00) Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00) Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02) *Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96) Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03) U Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87) V Victory by Joseph Conrad (83) Volpone by Ben Jonson (83) W *Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01) The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96) Washington Square by Henry James (90) The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81) Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92) The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78) Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95) *Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95) Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95) Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91) *Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01) Z The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01) Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)

Most Frequently Cited 17 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 11 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 11 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski 11 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 10 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 9 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9 King Lear by William Shakespeare 8 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 8 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7 Billy Budd by Herman Melville 7 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 7 Light in August by William Faulkner 7 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James

Joyce 7 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 7 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 6 Candide by Voltaire 6 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 6 Native Son by Richard Wright 6 Othello by William Shakespeare 6 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 5 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 5 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 5 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 5 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 5 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 5 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 5 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 5 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 50 2 Anthony and Cleopatra 1 As You Like It 5 Hamlet 2 Henry IV, Parts I and II 1 Henry V 2 Julius Caesar 9 King Lear 3 Macbeth

5 Merchant of Venice 1 Much Ado About Nothing 6 Othello 1 Richard III 3 Romeo and Juliet 3 The Tempest 3 Twelfth Night 3 Winter’s Tale Classical Greek Literature = 21

6 Antigone by Sophocles 1 The Eumenides by Aeschylus 1 The Iliad by Homer 1 Lysistrata by Aristophanes 5 Medea by Euripides 1 The Odyssey by Homer 5 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 1 The Orestia by Aeschylus