Beowulf on the beach
By: Jack Murnighan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780307409577
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism; Best books
Description: From Homer and Proust to "Beloved" and the Bible, "Beowulf on the Beach" is a user-friendly guide through the imposing world of literature.
Table of contents: title: The Iliad ; The Odyssey / Homer; title: The Bible: The Old Testament, The New Testament; title: The Aeneid / Virgil; title: Metamorphoses / Ovid; title: Beowulf / Anonymous; title: Inferno ; Paradiso / Dante Alighieri; title: The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio; title: The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer; title: The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser; title: Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth / William Shakespeare; title: Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes; title: Paradise lost / John Milton; title: The history of Tom Jones, a foundling / Henry Fielding; title: Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen; title: Faust I & II / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; title: Eugene Onegin / Alexander Pushkin; title: Pere Goriot / Honore de Balzac; title: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte; title: Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte; title: Moby Dick / Herman Melville; title: Bleak house; Great expectations / Charles Dickens; title: Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert; title: Crime and punishment; The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky; title: War and peace; Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy; title: Middlemarch / George Eliot; title: The wings of the dove / Henry James; title: Remembrance of things past / Marcel Proust; title: Ulysses / James Joyce; title: The magic mountain / Thomas Mann; title: The trial / Franz Kafka; title: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf; title: The sound and the fury / William Faulkner; title: Farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway; title: Tropic of Cancer / Henry Miller; title: Native son / Richard Wright; title: The man without qualities / Robert Musil; title: Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov; title: Giovanni's room / James Baldwin; title: One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez; title: Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon; title: Blood meridian / Cormac McCarthy; title: Beloved / Toni Morrison; title: Tips on reading classics, and good books in general