From Homer to Hegi

Fall 2015 Booklist for English 1B:

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon;
Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm;
Homer's Iliad (Fagles' translation);
Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source;
Burton Raffel's How to Read a Poem;
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice;
     and
Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Kitto's translations).

Various additional short stories, poems, and literary/historical criticism will be included as well.