Bob Walton’s

 

NOTES ON CLASSIC LITERATURE

for the Christian High School Teacher

by Title

 

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

 

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Becket by Jean Anouilh

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Candide by Voltaire

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo

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

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

 

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Everyman (anonymous)

 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

 

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Henry IV, part 1 by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, part 2 by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, part 1 by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, part 2 by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, part 3 by William Shakespeare

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

 

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

J.B. by Archibald MacLeish

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

 

King Lear by William Shakespeare

 

Lilith by George MacDonald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

 

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Middlemarch by George Eliot

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

 

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

 

The Odyssey by Homer

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Othello by William Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

 

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Phantastes by George MacDonald

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

 

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The Republic by Plato

Richard II by William Shakespeare

Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

 

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Silas Marner by George Eliot

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Tartuffe by Moliere

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor

 

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 

 

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