Halcyon Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Thought others might find this link to my school's course catalog interesting. I loved my education, and the reading list for Juniors and Seniors (these are elective courses of which there are many to choose from, but students get to choose) include: Selections from Genesis and Exodus and Joshua; The Bacchae; Selections from The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath and The Prioress; The Merchant of Venice; Persuasion; Heart of Darkness; Mrs. Plum; Waiting for Godot; Giovanni’s Room; Sula; Angels in America. Homer, Iliad (parts) Shakespeare, King Lear Melville, Moby-Dick Camus, The Plague or Joyce Ulysses (parts) Gogol’s Dead Souls, Turgenev’s Home of the Gentry and several of his Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, Joyce Stendhal Gordimer Frederick Douglass the Brontës M. Robinson R. Doyle W.G. Sebald. Shakespeare Nabokov Conrad Ishiguro Poe Charlotte Perkins Gilman Morrison Kincaid Chekhov Virginia Woolf Philip K. Dick Aldous Huxley Wallace Stevens Milan Kundera Haruki Murakami, Emily Dickinson Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White. James’ The Turn of the Screw Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. A Winter's Tale, Shakespeare The Tempest Swift Gulliver’s Travels or shorter works Balzac Père Goriot Dostoevsky The Eternal Husband or shorter works Unamuno's Mist Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Beckett's Waiting for Godot Nabokov's Pnin Short stories by Gogol, Kafka, Borges. Sigh. :001_wub::001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Oh very cool! Thank you! Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 You're welcome. It really is a wonderful education. Unfortunately, it is now about $40,000 a year. (was NOT that much when i went!!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 You're welcome. It really is a wonderful education. Unfortunately, it is now about $40,000 a year. (was NOT that much when i went!!!!) Oh... if it was a boarding school! And had generous financial aid! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 Oh... if it was a boarding school! And had generous financial aid! ;) Well, it isnt a boarding school, but does have good financial aid. I believe Newsweek namedit the top high school in the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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