English Language and Literature: World Literature

The adventures of Odysseus, with a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses.

One of the oldest stories in the world, about friendship, fame, courage, happiness.

Written in the sixteenth century. Tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures.

Depicts the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary, and the sacred to the profane.

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The classic, about life in 17th-century London.

Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.

A tale of mythic proportions.

A translation of all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition.

Mythological stories and tales from around the world.

Covers a vast array of works and writers from Britain and America, as well as a variety of genres - novels, short stories, poetry, and plays.

A haunting allegory of India's political turmoil in the early twentieth century.

The classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent, told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s.

One of the most influential literary works of our time. Tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication.

The classic parody of Richardson's "Pamela."