Required texts are available from the College Bookstore. Rely on the ISBN to be sure you are getting the correct edition.
2021–22 Required Texts
Fall Semester
- Walcott, Derek, Omeros, 1992 ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374523503.
- Carson, Anne, If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Vintage. ISBN 978-0375724510.
- Virgil, The Aeneid of Virgil, trans. Alle Mandelbaum. Random House. ISBN 978-0553210415.
- Alighieri, Dante, The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse, trans. Robert Pinsky. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374524524.
- Leon-Portilla, Miguel, Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, trans. Lysander Kemp, Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807055007.
- Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, ed. Peter Holland, Stephen Orgel, and A.R. Braunmuller. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0143128632.
2021–22 Required Texts
Spring Semester
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin. ISBN 978-0143131847.
- Frederick Douglass, The Portable Frederick Douglas, ed. J. Stauffer & H.L. Gates, Jr. Penguin. ISBN 978-0143106814.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. D. McLellan. Oxford. ISBN 978-0199535712.
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Mariner Books. ISBN: 978-0156628709.
- James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, Vintage. ISBN: 978-0345806567.
- Homer, The Odyssey, trans. R. Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374525743.
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