Modern and classic selections for discussion in nine themed anthologies
- Love and Marriage
- Parent and Child
- Living with the Past
- Order and Chaos
- Identity and Self-Respect
- The Evil and the Guilty
- Politics, Leadership, and Justice
- Happiness and Discontent
- Clashes of Culture
Love and Marriage
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
The Spinoza of Market Street
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Either / Or*
JOSEF SKVORECKY
Emöke
FLORA ANNIE STEEL
Tom-Tit-Tot and Caporushes
YUKIO MISHIMA
Patriotism
PLATO
Symposium
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 116
SYLVIA PLATH
The Applicant
GREGORY CORSO
Marriage
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
To Be in Love
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Questions for To the Lighthouse
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Questions for Lolita
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- To the Lighthouse : Harcourt Brace & Company (Harvest) edition (first printing 1989).
- Lolita: Vintage International (first printing 1989).
Parent and Child
A. B. YEHOSHUA
The Continuing Silence of a Poet
JAMAICA KINCAID
Gwen and Somewhere, Belgium
EURIPIDES
Iphigeneia at Aulis
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Barn Burning
ANDREA LEE
New African
FRANZ KAFKA
Letter to His Father and The Judgment
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Among School Children and A Prayer for My Daughter
DEREK WALCOTT
A Letter from Brooklyn
RANDALL JARRELL
The Lost Children
SHARON OLDS
Exclusive
JANE AUSTEN
Questions for Persuasion
HEINRICH BÖLL
Questions for Billiards at Half-past Nine
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Persuasion: Bantam Classic edition (first printing 1984).
- Billiards at Half-past Nine: Penguin 20th Century Classics edition (first printing 1994).
Living with the Past
MARCEL PROUST
Overture*
SIGMUND FREUD
The Rat Man*
GUSTAW HERLING
The Island
DAVID GROSSMAN
Momik*
ANNIE DILLARD
An American Childhood*
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
ADRIENNE RICH
Diving into the Wreck
ROBERT LOWELL
For the Union Dead
TONI MORRISON
Questions for Song of Solomon
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Questions for One Hundred Years of Solitude
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Song of Solomon: Plume/Penguin edition (first printing 1987).
- One Hundred Years of Solitude : HarperPerennial (first printing 1991).
Order and Chaos
NIKOLAI GOGOL
The Overcoat
BHAGAVAD-GITA*
GREGOR VON REZZORI
Troth
EURIPIDES
The Bacchae
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Everything That Rises Must Converge
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Lapis Lazuli
WALLACE STEVENS
Sunday Morning
ROBERT FROST
Design
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Armadillo
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
Questions for The Master and Margarita
CHINUA ACHEBE
Questions for Things Fall Apart
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- The Master and Margarita: Vintage International (first printing 1996).
- Things Fall Apart: Anchor Books/Doubleday (first printing 1994).
Identity and Self-Respect
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time*
PLATO
Apology
ALICE MUNRO
A Real Life
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A Room of One's Own*
ANTON CHEKHOV
A Dull Story
T. S. ELIOT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
JANE AUSTEN
Questions for Emma
RALPH ELLISON
Questions for Invisible Man
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Emma: Bantam Classic (first printing 1981).
- Invisible Man: Vintage International (second printing 1995).
The Evil and the Guilty
LEO TOLSTOY
After the Ball
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
On Evil, Guilt, and Power
ROBERT MUSIL
Moosbrugger
CHARLES JOHNSON
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Stavrogin's Confession
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Questions for Coup de Grâce
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
Questions for Philadelphia Fire
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Coup de Grâce: The Noonday Press (first printing 1981).
(This title is currently out of print. Used copies may be available at your local used bookseller or at your library.)
- Philadelphia Fire: Vintage Contemporaries (first printing 1991).
Politics, Leadership, and Justice
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Second Inaugural Address
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
ISAK DINESEN
Sorrow-Acre
WOLE SOYINKA
Kongi's Harvest
THUCYDIDES
The Melian Dialogue
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
AMOS OZ
Longing
LAO-TZU
Tao Te Ching*
J. M. COETZEE
Questions for Age of Iron
DUONG THU HUONG
Questions for Paradise of the Blind
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Age of Iron: Penguin (first printing 1998).
- Paradise of the Blind: Penguin Books (first printing 1994).
Happiness and Discontent
ARISTOTLE
The Highest Good
GITA MEHTA
A River Sutra*
JOHN BERGER
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
MARY LAVIN
Happiness
REYNOLDS PRICE
Endless Mountains
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
EMILY DICKINSON
Poetry
GEORGE ELIOT
Questions for Middlemarch
DAVID MALOUF
Questions for An Imaginary Life
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- Middlemarch: Penguin Classics (first printing 1994).
- An Imaginary Life: Vintage International (first printing 1996).
Clashes of Culture
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
CARLOS FUENTES
The Two Shores
W. E. B. DU BOIS
The Souls of Black Folk*
DORIS LESSING
The Antheap
JONATHAN SWIFT
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
DEREK WALCOTT
The Schooner Flight and A Far Cry from Africa
E. M. FORSTER
Questions for A Passage to India
JEAN RHYS
Questions for Wide Sargasso Sea
This anthology includes discussion questions for two novels. We citepage references to specific editions that can be purchased at yourlocal bookstore.
- A Passage to India: Harcourt Brace & Company (Harvest) edition.
- Wide Sargasso Sea: Norton Paperback edition (first printing 1982).
*Indicates selections taken from longer works. Discussion questionsare included for all selections. For novels, only discussion questionsare included, with page references to popular editions to be purchasedseparately from your local bookseller.