Lectures on literature
Below is a catalogue of texts for which The Shambles offers original curriculum. If you are interested in a lecture, a discussion,
pre-reading exercises, or guidance on an essay for any of the following titles (or even titles not included in the list below),
please contact The Shambles with your question or request.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Peace by Richard Bausch
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Papillon by Henri Charriere
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
The Duel by Anton Chekhov
The Steppe by Anton Chekhov
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anything Worth Doing by Jo Deubrouck
To the White Sea by James Dickey
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
20 Hrs., 40 Min. by Amelia Earhart
Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
That Night by Alice McDermott
Shannon by Campbell McGrath
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
1984 by George Orwell
Tales from a Troubled Land by Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
True Grit by Charles Portis
Gringos by Charles Portis
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Journal of John Smith by John Smith
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Clockwinder by Anne Tyler
The Soldier’s Return by Rebecca West
Fences by August Wilson
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
In Pharaoh’s Army by Tobias Wolff
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig