Covers the time period of 1250 B.C. to present beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh and The Iliad, The Odyssey, Histories, The Death of Socrates, The Republic, The Poetics, Oedipus Rex, The Aeneid, Meditations, Confessions, Divine Comedy (Inferno only), Poema del Cid, The Tragedy of Faust I & II, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, A Doll’s House, The Lowenskold Ring, The Stranger, All Quiet on the Western Front, Nectar in a Sieve, and Cry the Beloved Country.

Customer Reviews

 
Susan C. from Indiana wrote the following on 08/12/2007:
What follows is the reading list for the senior high level of James Stobaugh's World Literature course. These additional texts are needed for the course and must be obtained separately: The Iliad (Homer), The Odyssey (Homer), Histories (Herodotus), The Death of Socrates (Plato), The Republic (Plato), Rhetoric and the Poetics (Aristotle), Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), The Aeneid (Virgil), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Confessions (Augustine of Hippo), Divine Comedy - "The Inferno" only (Alighieri Dante/Dante Alighieri), Poema del Cid (author unknown; no specific edition requested), The Tragedy of Faust I and II (Goethe), War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen), The Lowenskold Ring (Selma Lovisa Lagerlof), The Stranger (Albert Camus), All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque), Nectar in a Sieve (Kamala Markandaya), and Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton). It is also "strongly suggested" that, during the summer before taking this World Lit. course, students complete the following reading: Confessions (Augustine), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Tragedy of Faust (Goethe), Iliad (Homer), Odyssey (Homer), Cry the Beloved Country (Paton), War and Peace (Tolstoy), Aeneid (Virgil). Yes, all of the books on the summer reading list are also part of the World Lit. course material. The author frequently recommends prereading literature before it is covered during the course. Happy Reading!

 
Kara S. from Fort Smith, AR wrote the following on 12/20/2006:
Meaty, meaty, meaty! The Skills for Literary Analysis course, just like the others in the Literature Critical Thinking series, is a full serving of reading, discussing, thinking, and writing. This is one of the best sources I’ve found for emphasizing the process of digging in deeply to understand the literature. Adding to that the regular task of writing, there is no way that a student can fail to improve their ability to compose a thoughtful essay. I would suggest that this would be especially successful for a student who already enjoys reading. Teacher prep is limited mostly to reviewing the literature selections. However, be prepared for plenty of discussion time concerning Christian worldview and literary themes. I also had the dreaded chore of being held accountable for editing and grading compositions promptly, not something I’ve ever done before. (A growth process for both mom and student, hmmm?) The teacher’s manual contains all the info you need, plus examples of good compositions on the topics suggested. That alone gave me the courage to tackle writing when it had been neglected for too long. The author suggests this curriculum is suitable for seventh grade and up, and I think it would be easy to adapt for use by several children of differing ages/abilities. Each lesson (about a week’s worth) offers essays for analyzing the literary piece, Biblical application, and a challenge essay. Younger students may only write one of those per week, while an older sibling might do two and outline the third. I think there is plenty of flexibility to go around. The books are non-consumable - practically a requirement at our home! Have on hand a good thesaurus and a grammar handbook for those editing days. All in all, for about forty dollars and a library card for the classic literature, you get a full year of high quality English. Not bad!