Tracey--Honors+English+IV

The following list is a compilation of some of the important writings in world literature. None of these works are required reading. In some of them, there may be some language, some characters, and some incidents that are offensive. If you or your parents object to any of these, please feel free to exclude these works from your reading. Conrad,Joseph—__Heart of Darkness__ Milton, John—__Paradise Lost__ Chaucer, Geoffrey—Canterbury Tales (10) Orwell, George—__1984__ Browning, Robert—__The Ring and the Book__ Bronte, Emily—__Wuthering Heights__ Dickens, Charles—__A Tale of Two Cities__ Hardy, Thomas · __Jude the Obscure__ · __Tess of the d’Urbervilles__ · __Return of the Native__ · __Mayor of Casterbridge__ Shakespeare · __King Lear__ · __Midsummer Night’s Dream__ · __Othello__ · __Julius Caesar__ Huxley, Aldous—__Brave New World__ Tolkien, J.R.R.—__The Lord of the Rings__ trilogy
 * TRACEY HONORS IV READING LIST - WORLD LITERATURE**
 * From English literature**

Paton, Alan—__Cry, the Beloved Country__
 * from South African literature**

Faulkner, William · __The Unvanquished__ · __As I Lay Dying__ Agee, James—__A Death in the Family__ Hemingway, Ernest · __Old Man and the Sea__ · __“Snows of Kilimanjaro” and Other Stories__ James, Henry—__The Turn of the Screw__ Miller, Arthur—__The Crucible__ Lee, Harper—__To Kill A Mockingbird__ Melville, Herman · __Billy Budd__ · __Moby Dick__ Sinclair, Upton—__The Jungle__ O'Neill, Eugene · __Long Day’s Journey into Night__ · __Emperor Jones__ Williams, Tennessee—__The Glass Menagerie__
 * from American literature**

Goethe, Wolfgang—__Faust__ Schiller—__Wilhelm Tell__ (part I)
 * from German literature**

Voltaire--__Candide__ Flaubert, Gustav—__Madame Bovary__ Hugo, Victor—__The Hunchback of Notre Dame__ Dumas, Alexander · __The Three Musketeers__ · __The Count of Monte Cristo__
 * from French literature**

Kafka, Franz · __The Metamorphosis__, et al. · __The Trial__
 * from Czechoslovakian literature**

Ibsen, Henrik · __A Doll’s House__ · __A Wild Duck__ Strindberg, August—__The Father__
 * from Scandinavian literature**

Dostoevsky, Fyodor · __Crime and Punishment__ · __The Brothers Karamazov__ · __The Idiot__ Tolstoy, Leo · __War and Peace__ · __Anna Karenina__ Tergenev, Ivan—__Fathers and Sons__ Chekov, Anton—__The Cherry Orchard__
 * from Russian literature**

Cervantes—__Don Quixote__ (I or II) Homer · __The Iliad__ · __The Odyssey__ Plato · __The Death of Socrates__ · __The Apology of Socrates__ · __The Republic__ Aristotle—Poetics Sophocles—__Antigone__ and __Oedipus at Colonus__ Virgil—__The Aeneid__ Alighieri, Dante—__The Divine Comedy__ (__Purgatory__) Boccaccio—__The Decameron__
 * from Spanish literature**
 * from ancient literature**
 * from medieval literature**