SR 9/03.

Preface -- Prologue: Why Read? -- I. Short Stories -- Introduction -- Ivan Turgenev -- "Bezhin Lea" -- "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands" -- Anton Chekhov -- "The Kiss" -- "The Student" -- "The Lady with the Dog" -- Guy de Maupassant -- "Madame Tellier's Establishment" -- "The Horla" -- Ernest Hemingway -- "Hills Like White Elephants" -- "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" -- "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" -- "A Sea Change" -- Flannery O'Connor -- "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" -- "Good Country People" -- "A View of the Woods" -- Vladimir Nabokov -- "The Vane Sisters" -- Jorge Luis Borges -- "Tlön, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius" -- Tommaso Landolfi -- "Gogol's Wife" -- Italo Calvino -- Invisible Cities -- Summary Observations -- II. Poems -- Introduction -- Housman, Blake, Landor, and Tennyson -- A. E. Housman -- "Into My Heart an Air That Kills" -- William Blake -- "The Sick Rose" -- Walter Savage Landor -- "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday" -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- "The Eagle" -- "Ulysses" -- Robert Browning -- "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" -- Walt Whitman -- Song of Myself -- Dickinson, Bronë, Popular Ballads, and "Tom O'Bedlam" -- Emily Dickinson -- Poem 1260, "Because That You Are Going" -- Emily Brontë -- "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning" -- Popular Ballads -- "Sir Patrick Spence" -- "The Unquiet Grave" -- Anonymous -- "Tom O'Bedlam" -- William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 121, "'Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed" -- Sonnet 129, "Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" -- Sonnet 144, "Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair" -- John Milton -- Paradise Lost -- William Wordsworth -- "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" -- "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Shelley and Keats -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Triumph of Life -- John Keats -- "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" -- Summary Observations -- III. Novels, Part I -- Introduction -- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote -- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma -- Jane Austen: Emma -- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations -- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment -- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady -- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time -- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain -- Summary Observations -- IV. Plays -- Introduction -- William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler -- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest -- Summary Observations -- V. Novels, Part II -- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick -- William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying -- Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts -- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot -- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian -- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man -- Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon -- Summary Observations -- Epilogue: Completing the Work