Our reading list for this Semester, beginning October 2014, is as follows:
Week One: Monday 6th October, 5.30-6.30pm (Peter's Yard, Middle Meadow Walk)
Frederick Douglas, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881/ 1891)
There are three copies of the collected autobiographies of Douglas in the Main University Library, shelfmark E449.D749 Dou. Alternatively there are several online sources including this one from the American Libraries Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lifetimesoffrede1881doug
Week Two: Monday 3rd November, 5.30-6.30pm
Edgar Allan Poe, "A Predicament" (1838), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, "The Jew's Beech" (Die Judenbuche) (1842), and Herman Melville "Bartelby, the Scrivener" (1853)
These three short stories are all available to read online via numerous sources, and so here is one for each:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2150/2150-h/2150-h.htm
http://www.almabooks.com/excerpts/jewsbeech.pdf
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html
Week Three: Monday 1st December, 5.30-6.30pm
Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, (1818)
This novel is available to read online, as follows:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6944/6944-h/6944-h.htm
There are many copies in Edinburgh University Main Library, and in Bookshops and Charity shops the city-wide.
Week One: Monday 6th October, 5.30-6.30pm (Peter's Yard, Middle Meadow Walk)
Frederick Douglas, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881/ 1891)
There are three copies of the collected autobiographies of Douglas in the Main University Library, shelfmark E449.D749 Dou. Alternatively there are several online sources including this one from the American Libraries Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lifetimesoffrede1881doug
Week Two: Monday 3rd November, 5.30-6.30pm
Edgar Allan Poe, "A Predicament" (1838), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, "The Jew's Beech" (Die Judenbuche) (1842), and Herman Melville "Bartelby, the Scrivener" (1853)
These three short stories are all available to read online via numerous sources, and so here is one for each:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2150/2150-h/2150-h.htm
http://www.almabooks.com/excerpts/jewsbeech.pdf
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html
Week Three: Monday 1st December, 5.30-6.30pm
Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, (1818)
This novel is available to read online, as follows:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6944/6944-h/6944-h.htm
There are many copies in Edinburgh University Main Library, and in Bookshops and Charity shops the city-wide.