Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Pessl, Marisha

• ISBN13: 9780670037773
• ISBN10: 067003777X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: Viking Adult

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