Teaching American Lit.

gerrydodge · Oct 17, 2007

If you had to teach an American Lit. course to college-level students, and you could only choose five books, which books would you choose?

Me?

The Scarlet Letter
Billy Budd
The Sun Also Rises
The Hamlet
Slaughterhouse Five

johnnysannie · Oct 17, 2007

gerrydodge said:
If you had to teach an American Lit. course to college-level students, and you could only choose five books, which books would you choose?

Me?

The Scarlet Letter
Billy Budd
The Sun Also Rises
The Hamlet
Slaughterhouse Five

My five would be:
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
An American Tragedy (Dresier)
Little Women (Alcott)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Some Came Running (Jones)

But it would be hard to stop there; I could think of many, many more.

josephwise · Oct 17, 2007

Moby Dick
Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
On the Road
American Psycho

Will Lavender · Oct 17, 2007

The Sound and the Fury
Invisible Man
Portnoy's Complaint
Valis
Salem's Lot

JoNightshade · Oct 17, 2007

Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
Little Women
Call of the Wild
East of Eden

gerrydodge · Oct 18, 2007

I don't know whether I'm forgetful or just and idiot...

I have to replace The Sun Also Rises with The Great Gatsby

Deleted member 42 · Oct 18, 2007

English majors or non-majors?

C.bronco · Oct 18, 2007

The Great Gatsby
The Scarlet Letter
As I Lay Dying
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Melville's short stories
Farenheit 451

That's six, but two are collections of short stories, so there, I cheated.

Teaching American Lit.

gerrydodge

johnnysannie

josephwise

Will Lavender

Everything is what it seems.

JoNightshade

has finally arrived

gerrydodge

Deleted member 42

C.bronco

I have plans...