William Bryant High School, Global 1 Reading List

These books were selected by Barbara J. Tutino, from the Social Studies Department at William Bryant High School in New York. OBJECTIVE: to provide students with essential independent reading to supplement the state-mandated history course.

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD contains the full text of about dozens of books, in plain text format, organized for easy access.

Table of Contents

Austen, Jane

• Pride and Prejudice

Bronte, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily

• Wuthering Heights

Bulfinch, Thomas

• The Age of Fable

Cather, Willa

• O Pioneers

Catullus, translated by Robinson Ellis

• Poems and Fragments

Cervantes, Miguel de

• Don Quixote

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• Canterbury Tales

Cicero, translated by E S Shuckburgh

• On Friendship and On Old Age

Conrad, Joseph

• The Heart of Darkness
• Lord Jim

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen

• The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel

• Robinson Crusoe

Hardy, Thomas

• The Return of the Native

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• The House of the Seven Gables
• The Scarlet Letter

Homer

• The Iliad translated by Andrew Lang
• The Odyssey translated by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang

Hugo, Victor

• Les Miserables

London, Jack

• The Sea Wolf

Melville, Herman

• Moby Dick

Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett

• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthydemus
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William

• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein

Sophocles

• Oedipus Rex (in Oedipus Trilogy, which also include Oedipus at Colonnus and Antigone)

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Treasure Island

Swift, Jonathan

• Gulliver's Travels

Tacitus

• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2

Twain, Mark

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Tom Sawyer

Virgil

• The Aeneid

Wharton, Edith

• Ethan Frome