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Preface | 19 | |
Prologue: Why Read? | 21 | |
I. | Short Stories | |
Introduction | 31 | |
32 | ||
"Bezhin Lea" | 32 | |
"Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands" | 34 | |
36 | ||
"The Kiss" | 37 | |
"The Student" | 39 | |
"The Lady with the Dog" | 40 | |
42 | ||
"Madame Tellier's Establishment" | 43 | |
"The Horla" | 44 | |
46 | ||
"Hills Like White Elephants" | 46 | |
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" | 47 | |
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" | 48 | |
"A Sea Change" | 50 | |
51 | ||
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 52 | |
"Good Country People" | 52 | |
"A View of the Woods" | 53 | |
54 | ||
"The Vane Sisters" | 54 | |
56 | ||
"Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius" | 58 | |
60 | ||
"Gogol's Wife" | 61 | |
62 | ||
Invisible Cities | 62 | |
Summary Observations | 65 | |
II. | Poems | |
Introduction | 69 | |
Housman, Blake, Landor, and Tennyson | 70 | |
71 | ||
"Into My Heart an Air That Kills" | 71 | |
71 | ||
"The Sick Rose" | 71 | |
72 | ||
"On His Seventy-fifth Birthday" | 72 | |
73 | ||
"The Eagle" | 73 | |
"Ulysses" | 74 | |
79 | ||
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" | 79 | |
88 | ||
Song of Myself | 89 | |
Dickinson, Bronte, Popular Ballads, and "Tom O'Bedlam" | 94 | |
94 | ||
Poem 1260, "Because That You Are Going" | 95 | |
97 | ||
"Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning" | 97 | |
99 | ||
"Sir Patrick Spence" | 99 | |
"The Unquiet Grave" | 102 | |
dAnonymous | 104 | |
"Tom O'Bedlam" | 104 | |
110 | ||
Sonnet 121, "'Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed" | 111 | |
Sonnet 129, "Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" | 113 | |
Sonnet 144, "Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair" | 114 | |
116 | ||
Paradise Lost | 116 | |
120 | ||
"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" | 121 | |
"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" | 123 | |
124 | ||
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 124 | |
Shelley and Keats | 129 | |
129 | ||
The Triumph of Life | 129 | |
134 | ||
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" | 134 | |
Summary Observations | 138 | |
III. | Novels, Part I | |
Introduction | 143 | |
Don Quixote | 145 | |
The Charterhouse of Parma | 150 | |
Emma | 156 | |
Great Expectations | 162 | |
Crime and Punishment | 166 | |
The Portrait of a Lady | 173 | |
In Search of Lost Time | 181 | |
The Magic Mountain | 187 | |
Summary Observations | 193 | |
IV. | Plays | |
Introduction | 199 | |
Hamlet | 201 | |
Hedda Gabler | 218 | |
The Importance of Being Earnest | 224 | |
Summary Observations | 231 | |
V. | Novels, Part II | |
Moby-Dick | 235 | |
As I Lay Dying | 239 | |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 245 | |
The Crying of Lot 49 | 249 | |
Blood Meridian | 254 | |
Invisible Man | 263 | |
Song of Solomon | 269 | |
Summary Observations | 272 | |
Epilogue: Completing the Work | 277 |
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