UChicago

Books

• Confessions, St. Augustine
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
• Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov+
• Ake: The Years of Childhood, Wole Soyinka
• Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima+
• Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
• If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino+
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (re-read)
• Eugene Onegin, Aleksander Pushkin
• Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
• Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Short Stories

• Poor Liza, Nikolai Karamzin
• The Queen of Spades, Aleksander Pushkin+
• Nevsky Prospekt, Nikolai Gogol
• The Nose, Nikolai Gogol
• The Diary of a Madman, Nikolai Gogol

Excerpts/Essays

• Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
• Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
• The Discourse on Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
• On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
• On the Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill
• The Jewish Question, Karl Marx
• Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx
• The Capital, Karl Marx
• On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
• Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Serge Zenkovsky
• Reinterpreting Russian History, Daniel Kaiser and Gary Marker
• Letter on the Use of Glass, Mikhail Lomonosov+
• A Slavophile Statement, Ivan Aksakov
• What is to Be Done?" Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Plays

• Oh, These Times!, Catherine II

Poetry

• God, Derzhavin
• Monument, Derzhavin
• Swan, Derzhavin
• The Bronze Horseman, Aleksander Pushkin

Outside of Class

Plays

• The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde+
• The Elephant Man, Bernard Pomerance
• Antigone, Sophocles
• Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Short Stories

• Misery, Anton Chekhov

Poetry

• The Trouble with Poetry, Billy Collins
• Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

Miscellaneous

• Symposium, Plato

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