Reading List 2011

  • November - Candide
  • October - Hopkins poetry
  • September - Shirley
  • August - A Passage to India
  • July - A Room With a View
  • June - Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • May - Brideshead Revisited
  • April - The Sun Also Rises
  • March - West With the Night
  • February - Dubliners
  • January - Wings of the Dove

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The General Prologue

The Knight's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Tale

The Clerk's Tale (a king keeps sending his wife Job-like trials to est her patience and loyalty)

The Franklin's Tale (a couple enter into a marriage of "equality," wife refuses an adulterous suit by making an impossible bargain,suitor finds a magician to make the impossible happen, husband tells wife she must honor her part of the deal, everybody let's everybody off the hook)

The Pardonder's Tale (three drunk men go out in search of death and betray each other)
The Nun's Priest's Tale (the one with Chaunticleer the rooster)

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