Required Books
de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote. Excerpts from translation by John Ormsby (PDF) (Download the complete work from Project Gutenberg.)
de Balzac, Honore. Père Goriot. Translated by Henry Reed. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2004. ISBN: 9780451529596. (Version used in class, translated by Ellen Marriage (PDF).)
Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Translated by Lloyd C. Parks. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2006. ISBN: 9780451530288.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9781593080525. (PDF) (Download this translation in other formats from Project Gutenberg.)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, NY: Vintage, 1993. ISBN: 9780679734505. (Download a different translation by Constance Garnett from Project Gutenberg.)
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by David Magarshack. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780451528612. (Download a different translation by Constance Garnett from Project Gutenberg.)
| LEC # | READINGS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | Don Quixote. Chapters I-XXIII. |
| 3 | Don Quixote. Chapters XXIV-XXX. |
| 4 | Don Quixote. Chapters XXXI-end of excerpt. |
| 5 | Balzac. Père Goriot, pp. 7-84. (Signet edition.) |
| 6 | Balzac. Père Goriot, pp. 85-236. |
| 7 | Balzac. Père Goriot, pp. 237-end. |
| 8 | Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Book I, chapters 1-XXIII. |
| 9 | Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Book I, chapters XXIV-end; Book II, chapters I-IV. |
| 10 | Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Book II, chapters V-XXVIII. |
| 11 | Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Book II, chapters XXIX-end. |
| 12 | Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Part I; part II, chapters 1-5. |
| 13 | Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Part II, chapters 6-11. |
| 14 | Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Part II, chapters 12-end; part III, chapters 1-5. |
| 15 | Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Part III, chapters 6-end. |
| 16 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part I; part II, chapters 1 and 2. |
| 17 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part II, chapters 3-end; part III, chapters 1 and 2. |
| 18 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part III, chapters 3-end; part IV; part V, chapters 1 and 2. |
| 19 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part V, chapters 3-end; part VI; epilogue. |
| 20 | Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Parts I, II. |
| 21 | Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Parts III, IV. |
| 22 | Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Part V. |
| 23 | Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Part VI; part VII, chapters 1-12. |
| 24 | Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Part VII, chapters 13-33; part VIII. |
| 25 | To be announced |
| 26 | To be announced |