World Literature: European: 1600-1800
Period Reading List for Part One Exam
Moliere, The Misanthrope (tr. Wilbur) or The Middle-class Gentlemen
Racine, Phaedra (tr. Lowell)
Voltaire, Candide
Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Penguin)
Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
Schiller, Maria Stuart; "On the Aesthetic Education of Man"
Goethe, Faust, Part One
Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, Cantos 1 and 2 (tr. Walter Arndt)
Holderlin, Hugo, Heine, Selections
Corneille, Le Cid
Mme. de La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves
Kleist, The Prince of Homburg
Buchner, Danton's Death or Woyzeck
Beaumarchais, Figaro's Marriage
Selected Text for Part Two Exam
The next time the comprehensive examination in this period is offered, the Part Two text will be
Voltaire, Candide
