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Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature

To quote Professor Arnold Weinstein , "Life flows onto the pages of the books we read."
These books are the "Essential Reading" texts analysed in depth in the course "Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature" developed by Professor Weinstein, who is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.
For those who have not yet read a particular book, the versions or translations in Slots 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 &15 are those specified by Weinstein for his course. Of course if you have read an "In Search of Lost Time" translation you can also click on Slot 15.
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Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, Albert J. Rivero)
Moll Flanders
1
Daniel Defoe, Albert J. Rivero
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
2
Laurence Sterne
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
3
Choderlos De Laclos
Père Goriot (Honoré De Balzac, Burton Raffel, and Peter Brooks)
Père Goriot
4
Honoré De Balzac, Burton Raffel, and Peter Brooks
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn)
Wuthering Heights
5
Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
6
Herman Melville
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
7
Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Cohen)
Madame Bovary
8
Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Cohen
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Trans.)
War and Peace
9
Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Trans.
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pevear & Volokhonsky Trans.)
The Brothers Karamazov
10
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pevear & Volokhonsky Trans.
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
11
Joseph Conrad
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, Clayton Koelb, Trans.)
Death in Venice
12
Thomas Mann, Clayton Koelb, Trans.
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold, Trans.)
The Metamorphosis
13
Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold, Trans.
The Trial (Franz Kafka, Willa Muir & Edwin Muir, Trans.)
The Trial
14
Franz Kafka, Willa Muir & Edwin Muir, Trans.
Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust; Trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, Mayor)
Remembrance of Things Past
15
Marcel Proust; Trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, Mayor
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
16
James Joyce
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
17
Virginia Woolf
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
18
William Faulkner
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
19
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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