Frankenstein As a Classic

Over spring break, I actually sat reading my Frankenstein novel in order to relax. It's just one of those books that you are required to read for a course, and yet you can read it for pleasure, just to get away from the "boring" day-to-day texts that we usually get with our other literature courses. With this course, I love the fact that we get to read different novels...as a person who is going to teach literature to students one day, I like actually getting to read the "classics" that I will teach to them, as opposed to spending my days doing coursework that has little relevance to my future as a literature teacher. Yay for application!!!!! After thinking about this, I found a list of the Top 100 Classics to Read. For the next year I want to focus on this list and expand my reading horizons....seems like a good idea to me!!

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Crucible Arthur Miller
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Three Theban Plays, (The Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus) Sophocles (Author); Robert Fagles (Translator)
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (Author); Nevill Coghill (Translator)
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
East of Eden John Steinbeck
The Odyssey Homer (Author); E. V. Rieu (Translator)
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Epic of Gilgamesh N. K. Sandars (Translator)
The Iliad Homer (Author); Robert Fagles (Translator)
The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo) Plato (Author); Hugh Tredennick (Translator)
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Utopia Thomas More (Author); Paul Turner (Translator)
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Frederick Douglass
Candide Francois Voltaire (Author); John Butt (Translator)
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Awakening and Selected Stories Kate Chopin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Washington Irving
Confessions Augustine (Author); R. S. Pine-Coffin (Translator)
My Antonia Willa Cather
The Oresteia (Agamemnon; Libation Bearers; Eumenides) Aeschylus (Author); Robert Fagles (Translator)
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
The Adventures of Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (Author); J. M. Cohen (Translator)
The Divine Comedy (Volume 1: Inferno) Dante Alighieri (Author); Mark Musa (Translator)
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
The End of the Affair Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Koran N. J. Dawood (Translator)
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Hamlet William Shakespeare
The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Dual Language Ed) Pablo Neruda (Author); W. S. Merwin (Translator)
The Republic Plato (Author); Desmond Lee (Translator)
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham
The Histories Herodotus (Author); Aubrey de Selincourt (Translator)
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse (Author); Joachim Neugroschel (Translator)
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Moon Is Down John Steinbeck
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (Author); Rex Warner (Translator)
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone) Sophocles (Author); E. F.Watling (Translator)
Dubliners James Joyce
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx (Author); Friedrich Engels (Author); A. J. P. Taylor (Author)
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Medea and Other Plays Euripides (Author); Philip Vellacott (Translator)
The Autobiography and Other Writings Benjamin Franklin
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
Passing Nella Larsen
The Pearl John Steinbeck
The Twelve Caesars Suetonius (Author); Robert Graves (Translator)
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise Peter Abelard (Author); Heloise (Author); Betty Radice (Translator)
Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
Common Sense Thomas Paine
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Othello William Shakespeare
Lysistrata and Other Plays Aristophanes (Author); Alan H. Sommerstein (Translator)
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Brian Stone (Translator)
Hard Times Charles Dickens
A Doll's House and Other Plays Henrik Ibsen
Travels with Charley in Search of America John Steinbeck
Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
King Lear William Shakespeare
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio (Author); G. H. McWilliam (Translator)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez John Steinbeck
The Ramayana R. K. Narayan
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
The Tempest William Shakespeare
Seize the Day Saul Bellow
Les Miserables Victor Hugo (Author); Norman Denny (Translator)
We Yevgeny Zamiatin (Author); Clarence Brown (Translator)
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author); Maurice Cranston (Translator)
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
The Quiet American Graham Greene
Revelations of Divine Love Julian of Norwich (Author); A. C. Spearing (Translator)
Herzog Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche (Author); R. J. Hollingdale (Translator)
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ Friedrich Nietzsche (Author); R. J. Hollingdale (Translator)
Daisy Miller Henry James
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaro (Translator)
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Metamorphoses Ovid (Author); Mary M. Innes (Translator)
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

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