Readings for HUM 2052

 

 

Machiavelli: The Prince

 

The Prince: With Related Documents, Machiavelli, Bedford/St Martins, December 2004, 206 Pages, $16.35, 0312149786.

 

The original Italian is online at

http://www.fausernet.novara.it/fauser/biblio/index007.htm

 

Norton uses Allan H. Gilbert's translation. The extracts they choose are from Chapters 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25 and 26.

 

Online versions of W. K. Marriott's excellent translation include http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli-prince.html , http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/prince/prince_contents.html and http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/gutenberg/etext98/tprnc10.txt

 

Montaigne: Essays

 

'Of the power of the imagination'; 'Of cannibals'; 'Of the inconsistency of our actions'

 

Extracts from 'Of Cannibals' may be found in Lualdi.

 

All three essays are included in Norton (as is 'Of coaches'). Norton uses Donald Frame's 1957 translation.

 

Online versions seem mostly to use Charles Cotton's 17th century translation. See http://oll.libertyfund.org/person/50, http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-essays_contents.html, or http://glad.best.vwh.net/montaigne/index.html. The first of these is the only one to have 'Of the inconsistency of our actions'.

 

Available in the original French at http://www.chez.com/trismegiste/montable.htm

 

For more on Montaigne's life and works, see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/

 

Shakespeare: Hamlet

 

Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Signet, June 1998, 271 Pages, $4.95, 0451526929

 

The full text of the play is available at (among many other places):

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/hamlet/

 

This website contains many of Shakespeare's works, including several Hamlet links which change in avalability over time.

http://books.mirror.org/gb.shakespeare.html

 

Bacon: Novum Organum

 

Handout

 

Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind

 

Handout

 

Swift: A Modest Proposal

 

Online

 

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html

 

Biography and works available at: http://www.online-literature.com/swift/

 

Voltaire: Candide

 

Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories, Francois M. Voltaire, Signet, 2009, 400 Pages, $4.95, 0451531159

 

(or Candide, Francois M. Voltaire, Bedford/St Martins, September 1998, 138 Pages, $16.35, 0312148542)

 

http://www.literature.org/authors/voltaire/candide/ 

 

More on Voltaire

 

Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations

 

The first twelve paragraphs of Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book Four, Chapter II: `Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home', are in Lualdi. If you do not have Lualdi, this material can be found at libertyfund.org.

 

More specifically, it can be found here: http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=237&chapter=39454&layout=html&Itemid=27

 

William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience

 

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets, Oscar Williams, Penguin, 1963, 576 Pages, $8.99, 0451626370

 

(or English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor), Dover, November 1996, $3.50, 0486292827)

 

Neither has an ideal selection of Blake's work.

 

Read at least the following poems:

 

Songs of Innocence: Introduction; The Lamb; The Little Black Boy; Holy Thursday; The Chimney Sweeper.

 

Songs of Experience: Introduction; Earth's Answer; The Tyger; The Sick Rose; London; The Chimney Sweeper.

 

Available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1934

 

"Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau" available online at

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/blake/mock_on_mock_on_voltaire.html

 

"And Did Those Feet" available online at

http://www.online-literature.com/blake/611/

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets, Oscar Williams, Penguin, 1963, 576 Pages, $8.99, 0451626370

 

(or English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor), Dover, November 1996, $3.50, 0486292827)

 

Read at least the following poems:

 

Ozymandias

England In 1819

Ode to the West Wind

 

All these may be found at

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/anthology/Shelley/index.htm

 

Norton also has extracts from the final pages of Shelley's prose work, A Defence of Poetry. The full essay is at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Defence_of_Poetry

 

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto

 

The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document, Marx & Engels, Haymarket, 224 Pages, Price $14.99, 1931859256

 

Friedrich Engels: Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

 

Appendix B in The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document, Marx & Engels, Haymarket, 224 Pages, Price $14.99, 1931859256

 

(or Lualdi)

 

Biography and works available at: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUengels.htm 

 

Alfred Russel Wallace: On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type

 

Online

 

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S043.htm

 

Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man

 

Relevant excerpts online

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin-desc3.html

 

Rudyard Kipling

 

The World’s Greatest Short Stories, James Daley, Dover, April 2006, 235 Pages, $3.50, 0486447162

 

The Man who would be King

 

Also available online

 

Online

The White Man's Burden - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html

 

The Gods of the Copybook headings - http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm

 

Biography and works available at: http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/

 

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

 

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Penguin, September 2007, 136 Pages, $8.00, 0141441674 or 0140186522

 

also available in the Norton's Anthology Volume 2

 

Biography available at: http://www.online-literature.com/conrad/

 

Sigmund Freud

 

A brief overview: The Structure of the Unconscious, from An Outline of Psychoanalysis

 

More detail: Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

 

Anton Chekov: The Lady with the Dog

 

Available online at

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LadyWith.shtml

 

Anton Chekhov - Biography and Works Available online at http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/

 

Wilfred Owen

 

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets, Oscar Williams, Penguin, 1963, 576 Pages, $8.99, 0451626370

 

Read at least the following poems:

 

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Dulce et Decorum Est

Spring Offensive

Strange Meeting

 

 

William Butler Yeats

 

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets, Oscar Williams, Penguin, 1963, 576 Pages, $8.99, 0451626370

 

Read at least the following poems:

 

Easter 1916

The Second Coming

Leda and the Swan

The Circus Animals' Desertion

 

Accumulation of Poems

http://my.fit.edu/~kpessa/william%20butler%20yeats.html

 

F A Hayek: The Road to Serfdom

 

The Road to Serfdom: Text & Documents, F. A. Hayek, University Of Chicago Press, 2007, 304 Pages, $17, 0226320553

 

An abridged version is available online.

 

Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist

 

The World’s Greatest Short Stories, James Daley, Dover, April 2006, 235 Pages, $3.50, 0486447162

 

The same translation is available online.

 

Kafka's most famous story, "Metamorphosis", is also available online.

 

Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities 

 

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, Harvest, 1978, 165 Pages, $14, 0156453800