Special Topics in Calamity Physics,9780670037773

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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ISBN13: 9780670037773
ISBN10: 067003777X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-08-03
Publisher(s): Viking Adult
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Summary

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, this mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 5(8)
PART 1 13(134)
Chapter #1: OTHELLO, William Shakespeare
15(7)
Chapter #2: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, James Joyce
22(13)
Chapter #3: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë
35(10)
Chapter #4: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, Nathaniel Hawthorne
45(9)
Chapter #5: THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Wilkie Collins
54(7)
Chapter #6: BRAVE NEW WORLD, Aldous Huxley
61(12)
Chapter #7: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
73(10)
Chapter #8: MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert
83(25)
Chapter #9: PYGMALION, George Bernard Shaw
108(23)
Chapter #10: THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, Agatha Christie
131(16)
PART 2 147(130)
Chapter #11: MOBY-DICK, Herman Melville
149(22)
Chapter #12: A MOVEABLE FEAST, Ernest Hemingway
171(22)
Chapter #13: WOMEN IN LOVE, D.H. Lawrence
193(18)
Chapter #14: "THE HOUSEBREAKER OF SHADY HILL," John Cheever
211(19)
Chapter #15: SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, Tennessee Williams
230(12)
Chapter #16: LAUGHTER IN THE DARK, Vladimir Nabokov
242(12)
Chapter #17: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND OTHER FAIRY TALES, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
254(8)
Chapter #18: A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E.M. Forster
262(15)
PART 3 277(232)
Chapter #19: HOWL AND OTHER POEMS, Allen Ginsberg
279(14)
Chapter #20: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, William Shakespeare
293(18)
Chapter #21: DELIVERANCE, James Dickey
311(17)
Chapter #22: HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad
328(9)
Chapter #23: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, Ken Kescy
337(9)
Chapter #24: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
346(15)
Chapter #25: BLEAK HOUSE, Charles Dickens
361(14)
Chapter #26: THE BIG SLEEP Raymond Chandler
375(10)
Chapter #27: JUSTINE, Marquis de Sadc
385(18)
Chapter #28: QUER PASTICCIACCIO BRUTTO DE VIA MERULANA, Carlo Emilio Gadda
403(10)
Chapter #29: THINGS FALL APART, Chinua Achebe
413(13)
Chapter #30: THE NOCTURNAL CONSPIRACY, Smoke Wyannoch Harvey
426(10)
Chapter #31: CHE GUEVARA TALKS TO YOUNG PEOPLE, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
436(21)
Chapter #32: "GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE," Flannery O'Connor
457(3)
Chapter #33: THE TRIAL, Franz Kafka
460(11)
Chapter #34: PARADISE LOST, John Milton
471(8)
Chapter #35: THE SECRET GARDEN, Frances Hodgson Burnett
479(16)
Chapter #36: METAMORPHOSES, Ovid
495(14)
FINAL EXAM 509

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