Bob Walton’s

NOTES ON CLASSIC LITERATURE

for the Christian High School Teacher

by Author

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart

Anonymous, Everyman

Anouilh, Jean, Becket

Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Austen, Jane, Persuasion

---------- Pride and Prejudice

---------- Sense and Sensibility

Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot

Blackmore, R.D., Lorna Doone

Bolt, Robert, A Man for All Seasons

Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451

Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre

---------------- Villette

Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights

Camus, Albert, The Plague

----------- The Stranger

Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote

Chekhov, Anton, The Cherry Orchard

Chesterton, G.K., The Man Who Was Thursday

Chopin, Kate, The Awakening

Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in White

Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness

-------------- Lord Jim

Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage

Dante Alighieri, Inferno

Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles, Bleak House

--------------- A Christmas Carol

--------------- David Copperfield

--------------- Great Expectations

--------------- Little Dorrit

--------------- Nicholas Nickleby

--------------- Our Mutual Friend

--------------- A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov

------------------ Crime and Punishment

Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo

----------------- The Three Musketeers

Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose

Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda

---------- Middlemarch

---------- Silas Marner

Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary

Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford

------------------ North and South

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust

Golding, William, Lord of the Flies

Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory

Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun

Hardy, Thomas, The Mayor of Casterbridge

--------------- Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter

Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises

Homer, The Odyssey

Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

Ibsen, Henrik, An Enemy of the People

James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw

Kafka, Franz, The Metamorphosis

Kipling, Rudyard, The Man Who Would Be King

Knowles, John, A Separate Peace

Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind

Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird

Lewis, C.S., The Abolition of Man

-------- Out of the Silent Planet

-------- Perelandra

-------- The Screwtape Letters

-------- That Hideous Strength

Lewis, Sinclair, Elmer Gantry

MacDonald, George, Lilith

--------------------- Phantastes

Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince

MacLeish, Archibald, J.B.

Marlowe, Christopher, Doctor Faustus

Melville, Herman, Bartleby the Scrivener

---------------- Billy Budd

---------------- Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur, All My Sons

------------ The Crucible

Milton, John, Paradise Lost

Moliere, Tartuffe

O’Connor, Flannery, The Violent Bear It Away

--------------------- Wise Blood

Orczy, Emmuska, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George, Animal Farm

------------- Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago

Paton, Alan, Cry, the Beloved Country

Plato, The Republic

Pope, Alexander, An Essay on Man

Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front

Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac

Sartre, Jean-Paul, No Exit

Scott, Walter, Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra

--------------------- As You Like It

--------------------- The Comedy of Errors

--------------------- Hamlet

--------------------- Henry IV, part 1

--------------------- Henry IV, part 2

--------------------- Henry V

--------------------- Henry VI, part 1

--------------------- Henry VI, part 2

--------------------- Henry VI, part 3

--------------------- Julius Caesar

--------------------- King Lear

--------------------- Macbeth

--------------------- Measure for Measure

--------------------- The Merchant of Venice

--------------------- The Merry Wives of Windsor

--------------------- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

--------------------- Much Ado About Nothing

--------------------- Othello

--------------------- Richard II

--------------------- Richard III

--------------------- Romeo and Juliet

--------------------- The Tempest

--------------------- Twelfth Night

--------------------- The Two Gentlemen of Verona

--------------------- The Winter’s Tale

Shaw, George Bernard, Major Barbara

------------------------ Pygmalion

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, The Rivals

------------------------------ The School for Scandal

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

-------------- Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels

Tennyson, Alfred, Idylls of the King

Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina

--------- The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Trollope, Anthony, Barchester Towers

------------------ The Warden

Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

---------- Huckleberry Finn

Voltaire, Candide

Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited

Wells, H.G., The Time Machine

Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence

-------------- Ethan Frome

White, T.H., The Once and Future King

Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest

---------- The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilder, Thornton, Our Town

Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie

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