I've compiled a selection of Wikipedia articles for our use this coming Semester in Brilliant Minds. You can download free ebook versions in ePub (readable in iBooks and Nook) and PDF (readable in Kindle) formats. Print versions are available through PediaPress (161 pages, $11.95).
We're just a few weeks away. Below you'll find our reading list for the upcoming term. Download a printable PDF.
Books and recommended editions:
1. Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, trans. Lombardo (Shambhala)
2. Thucydides, The Pelopponesian War, trans. Hammond (Oxford)
3. Malory, Le Morte Darthur, ed. Cooper (Oxford)
4. Marlowe, Tamburlaine (Dover)
5. Shakespeare, Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Burrow (Oxford)
6. Calderón, Life is a Dream, trans. Appelbaum (Dover)
7. Shelley, Frankenstein, ed. Butler (Oxford)
8. Eliot, Middlemarch, ed. Ashton (Penguin)
9. Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Vintage)
10. Morrison, A Mercy (Vintage)
Reading Schedule:
Week 1: Sep 23 Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching (4th century BCE)
Week 2: Sep 30 Thucydides, The Pelopponesian War (395 BCE)
Week 3: Oct 7 Thucydides, The Pelopponesian Wars
Week 4: Oct 14 Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1470, Middle English)
Week 5: Oct 21 Marlowe, Tamburlaine (1590)
Week 6: Oct 28 Shakespeare, Sonnets (1609)
Week 7: Nov 4 Calderón, Life is a Dream (1635, La vida es sueño)
Week 8: Nov 11 Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Week 9: Nov 18 Eliot, Middlemarch (1874)
Week 10: Nov 25 Eliot, Middlemarch
Week 11: Dec 2 Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Week 12: Dec 9 Morrison, A Mercy (2008)