Reading and Writing

Adam Zagajewski

Frank Norris, McTeague

Robert Frost, ”Home Burial”

Don Quixote

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

”As Kingfishers Catch Fire...”, a poem by GM Hopkins

Hamlet

How to Enjoy Poetry, and Why

The Upanishads

The Book of Chuang Tzu

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

Dante, Paradiso

Dante, Purgatory

Dante, Inferno

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," and more.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Bob Dylan

The Bhagavad Gita

John Steinbeck, The Pearl

Masterpieces of World Literature, Final Thoughts

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Part 2

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1

Shakespeare, As You Like It

Camus, The Plague, Part 2

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Camus, the Myth of Sisyphus, and The Plague, part 1

Robert Frost 2

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Charlie Chaplin, The Kid

Robert Frost 1

Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor, 2

Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor, 1

Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Derek Walcott 2

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Derek Walcott, part 1

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 3

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 2

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1

Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III