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| Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland
Chinua Achebe
Dead Men's Path
Marriage is a Private Affair
Louisa May Alcott
Transcendental Wild Oats
Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Cantos 1-5
Sherwood Anderson
The Egg
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Matthew Arnold
The Buried Life
Dover Beach
Morality
John Ashbery
The Fear of Death
Myrtle
The Problem of Anxiety
W.H. Auden
The Fall of Rome
In Praise of Limestone
Jane Austen
Lady Susan
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations, Books One-Three
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Francis Bacon
First Ten "Essays"
James Baldwin
Sonny's Blues
Karl Barth
Is Man Immortal?
Walter Benjamin
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Sections 1-33
The Bible
Ecclesiastes
The Epistle of James
The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
Esther
Exodus (Selections)
Genesis 1-11, Creation to the Descendants of Shem
Genesis 11.26-35.29,The Abraham--Isaac--Jacob Cycles
Genesis 37-50,The Joseph Cycle
Job
Jonah
Judges, chapters 2-15
Lamentations
"The Last Days of Jesus" as described in the four canonical
gospels
and the so-called Gospel of Peter
Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7
Song of Songs
William Blake
Songs of Experience
Heinrich Böll
Christmas Every Day
Niels Bohr
"Atoms and Human Knowledge," address to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
Jorge Luis Borges
The Circular Ruins
The Garden of Forking Paths
Pierre Menard,
Author of the Quixote
The Library of Babel
The Lottery in Babylon
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Gwendolyn Brooks
First Fight, Then Fiddle
Negro Hero
Robert Burns
Comin Thro The Rye
Green Grow The Rashes, O
"Is There for Honest Poverty,"( A Man's a Man for a' That)
To a Mouse
A Red, Red Rose
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Life is a Dream
Marina Carr
By the Bog of Cats (a 1998 retelling of Euripides's Medea)
Willa Cather
Paul's Case
A Wagner Matinee
Miguel de Cervantes
The Tale of the Ill-Advised Curiosity, Chapters 33-35 from Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
John Cheever
"The Enormous Radio"
"The Five-Forty-Eight"
"The Swimmer"
Anton Chekov
Three Sisters
Kate Chopin
At the 'Cadian Ball
The Storm
The Story of an Hour
Joseph Conrad
The Heart of Darkness
Nicholas Copernicus
First nine chapters of On the Revolutions
Noel Coward
Hay Fever
Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge
Stephen Crane
I Explain the Silvered Passing of a Ship at Night
In the Desert
e. e. cummings
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
O sweet spontaneous
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Charles Darwin
Selections from The Origin of Species
An Historical Sketch
Introduction
Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory
Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Objections
to the Theory of Natural Selection
Summary from Chapter XI
Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion
The Declaration of Independence
Rene Descartes
Meditation 2
The Dhammapada
(Sayings of the Buddha)
Everett M. Dirksen
Congressional speech to end the Senate filibuster on the Civil Rights
bill, June 10, 1964
John Donne
The Canonization
Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)
The Flea
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Life and Sayings of the Elder Zosima
Frederick Douglass
May 11, 1857 Speech on the Dred Scott Decision Return to top
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Albert Einstein
Foreword to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Albert Einstein, Boris Poldosky, and Nathan Rosen
EPR Paradox: "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?"
T. S. Eliot
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ralph Ellison
Flying Home
In a Strange Country
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord's Supper
The Over-Soul
Self-Reliance
The Transcendentalist
Epictetus
Enchiridion
Euripides
Bacchae
Media
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James Faulkner
Barn Burning
A Rose for Emily
E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops
Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
Robert Frost
Desert Places
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
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Zona Gale
The Cobweb
Galileo Galilei
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
Susan Glaspell
A Jury of Her Peers
Nadine Gordimer
The Defeated
Graham Greene
The Destructors
Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas
A. R Gurney
What I Did Last Summer
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ethan Brand
The Great Stone Face
Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
Rappacini's Daughter
Young Goodman Brown
Werner Heisenberg
Remarks on the Origin of the Relations of Uncertainty
Lillian Hellman
Little Foxes
Heloise and Abelard
Letters 1-7
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Herodotus
"Tales from Herodotus" including Solon and Croesus, The
Rise of Cyrus,
and Rhampsinitis and the Thief
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Andromeda
The Candle Indoors
Inversnaid
The Sea and the Skylark
Langston Hughes
Cora Unashamed
Little Dog
Red-Headed Baby
Slave on the Block
David Hume
Miracles
On the Immortality of the Soul
Zora Neale Hurston
Magnolia
Spunk
Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt
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Shirley Jackson
The Lottery
Henry James
The Tree of Knowledge
James Joyce
After the Race
Clay
The Dead
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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Franz Kafka
The Burrow
A Hunger Artist
John F. Kennedy
Report to the People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Shimaki Kensaku
Black Cat
Centipede
Red Frog
Wasps
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963
John Koethe
(Milwaukee Port Laureate, 2000-2002)
In Italy
Theories of Prayer
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D. H. Lawrence
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
Robert Lowell
For the Union Dead
Skunk Hour
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Hugh MacDiarmid
The Little White Rose
Facing the Chair
Stony Limits
The Eemis Stane
Archibald MacLeish
You, Andrew Marvell
The End of the World
Nicolo Machiavelli
Selections from The Prince
Thomas Mann
Disorder and Early Sorrow
Katherine Mansfield
This Flower
The Child-Who-Was-Tired
Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
Gabriel García Márquez
Eyes of a Blue Dog
Eva is Inside Her Cat
One of These Days
Guy de Maupassant
Apparition
The Devil
Diary of a Madman
The Necklace
Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Happy Failure
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Chapter 1: "General Remarks"
Chapter 2: "What Utilitarianism Is"
John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book I
Gabriela Mistral
What You Loved
The Sad Mother
Molière
Lovers' Quarrels
(translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur, 2005)
The Misanthrope
Michel de Montaigne
On Cannibals
On Presumption
Marianne Moore
To a Steam Roller
What are Years?
Pablo Neruda
The Word and Past
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Flannery O'Connor
The Artificial Nigger
Everything That Rises Must Converge
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Greenleaf
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Revelation
The River
One Thousand and One Nights
12 short tales
José Ortega y Gasset
Selection from Revolt of the Masses
George Orwell
Politics and the English Language
Shooting an Elephant
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Octavio Paz
Between Going And Coming
Brotherhood
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sylvia Plath
Morning Song
Elm
Plato
Crito
The Death of Socrates
Euthyphro
Hippias Major
Hipparchus
Meno
Phaedrus
Theages
Pliny the Younger
Letters
Book 3, Letter 14
To his friend Acilius on a murdered magistrate
Book 3, Letter 16
To his friend Nepos on a woman's heroism
Book 4, Letter 11
To his friend Cornelius Minicianus on the death of a Vestal
Book 5, Letter 16
To his friend Aefulanus Marcellinus on a father's grief
Book 6, Letters 16 and 20
Letters on Vesuvius to his friend Tacitus
Book 9, Letter 33
To his friend Caninius on a boy and his dolphin
Edgar Allen Poe
Imp of the Perverse
Cask of the Amontillado
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Ezra Pound
Canto I
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Aleksandr Pushkin
The Blizzard (aka The Snowstorm)
Queen of Spades
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Qu'ran
Sura 4, The Women
Sura 6, The Cattle
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Selections of the The Ramayana
Ayn Rand
Anthem
The Objectivist Ethics
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not A Christian
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied (Sonnet II)
If I should learn, in some quite casual way (Sonnet V)
J.D. Salinger
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
"Down at the Dinghy"
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Wall
Shen Fu
Selections from Six Records of a Floating Life:
The Joys of the Wedding Chamber
The Sorrows of Misfortune
The Pleaures of Leisure
The Delights of Roaming Afar
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger's Cat, Sections 5 and 6 from The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics from the original 1935 paper in Die Naturwissenschaften.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It
Cymbeline
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
King Lear
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man
Sophocles
Antigone
Oedipus Rex, translation by David Mulroy (2011)
Trachiniae, or The Woman of Trachis
Wole Soyinka
The Swamp Dwellers
Shelby Steele
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America, chapts.1, 2, and 7
Laurence Sterne
The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Book 1
Wallace Stevens
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Snow Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
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Marilyn Taylor
(Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004-2006)
The Blue Water Buffalo
Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles
To Lucy, Who Came First
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotus-Eaters
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Henry David Thoreau
A Winter Walk
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War, Book 2:
Pericles' Funeral Oration and the Plague at Athens
Leo Tolstoy
Death of Ivan Ilych
Mark Twain
Diary of Adam and Eve
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Miguel de Unamuno
Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr
John Updike
A & P
The United States Constitution
The United States Supreme Court
Roe versus Wade (Opinions of Justices Blackmun and Renquist)
The Dred Scott Decision
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Virgil
Aeneid, Book 6
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Water Margin:
chapters 1-7
John Walch
The Nature of Mutation
George C. Wallace
4th of July speech (1964) against Civil Rights legislation
H.G. Wells
The Star
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
William Carlos Williams
To Elsie
This Is Just to Say
The Red Wheelbarrow
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Selections from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations
Virginia Woolf
The Mark on the Wall
An Unwritten Novel
William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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William Butler Yeats
Among School Children
Politics
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Vacillation
When You Are Old
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Karen Zacarias
The Sins of Sor Juana
Emile Zola
The Attack on the Mill
J'accuse
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