My Brilliant Career
Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Brilliant Career has continued to delight readers and to…
World Literature and Works in Translation
WORLD LITERATURE AND WORKS IN TRANSLATION The Odyssey: Selections (8th C BCE) Homer The Trojan Women (4th C BCE) Euripides The Apology and Related Dialogues (4th C BCE) Plato Philebus(4th C BCE) Plato Beowulf, second edition (c. 1000) The History of the Kings of Britain (12th C) Geoffrey of Monmouth The Four Branches of The Mabinogi…
Twentieth-Century Literature
TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE Lord Jim (1900) Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, Third Edition (1899 / 1902) Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (Ed. Peters) (1902) Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent (1907) Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes (1911) Joseph Conrad My Brilliant Career (1901) Sarah Miles Franklin Kim (1901) Rudyard Kipling The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902) Arnold Bennett The…