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Texts


Amazon logo Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York, NY: Bantam Classics, 1983. ISBN: 9780553213102. (See an annotated version of the text online at the Republic Of Pemberly.)

Amazon logo Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1997. ISBN: 9780451526557. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)

Amazon logo Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780451527561. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)

Amazon logo Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. 1st ed. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780156628709.

Amazon logo Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN: 9780060837020.

Amazon logo Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780156028356.

Amazon logo Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.

Amazon logo Reynolds, Sheri. The Rapture of Canaan. New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780425162446.



Additional Readings


Atwood, Margaret. "Marrying the Hangman." 1978.

Plath, Sylvia. "The Applicant." 1962.



Schedule



SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Set up, Poetry by Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath
2Toni Morrison: Jazzpp. 1-114.
3Toni Morrison: Jazz (cont.)pp. 115-229.
4Jane Austen: Pride and PrejudiceChapters 1-35, pp. 1-174.
5Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (cont.)Chapters 36-61, pp. 175-334.
6Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dallowaypp. 1-102, through "...that she did not like that man."
7Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (cont.)pp. 102-192.
8Edith Wharton: The House of MirthBook 1, pp. 1-189.
9Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (cont.)Book 2, pp. 190-350.
10Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of CanaanEntire book.
11Charlotte Brontë: Jane EyreChapters 1-22, pp. 1-251.
12Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (cont.)Chapters 23-38, pp. 252-461.
13Alice Walker: The Color PurpleEntire book.
14Sylvia Plath: The Bell JarEntire book.

 








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