Selection from Beowulf (ca. 10th/11th century CE) translated by Seamus Heaney (1999) Lines 1-1643 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, …
Alice Munro “Dance of the Happy Shades” 1968 “Boys and Girls” 1968 “The Beggar Maid” 1977 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …
Guy de Maupassant “Boule de Suif” (1880) “The Necklace” (1884) “The Wreck” (1886) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending …
Naguib Mahfouz “Zaabalawi” (1962) “The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish”(1967) “The Time and the Place” (1982) “Half a Day” (1989) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM …
Marcel Proust “Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part II, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. …
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Selected Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Letters I, III, IX, XII No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …
Rachel Carson Selections from Silent Spring (1962) Chapters 1-3 Chapters 16-17 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send …
Ovid Book 1 and Book 2 from Metamorphoses (8 CE; translated by Ian Johnston, 2011) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please …
Arthur C. Clarke “Transience” (1949) “The Sentinel” (1951) “The Nine Billion Names of God” (1952) “The Star” (1954) For the month of July, we will be reading four short stories by British science fiction writer, futurist, and inventor Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). …
E.T.A. Hoffmann “The Automata” (1814) “The Sandman” (1817) For the month of June we will be reading two stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), a German Romantic author mainly of fantasy and gothic horror. Hoffmann was also a composer, music critic, …