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featuring Kimberly J. Stern, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature   One of the most beloved heroines in the English canon —With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.—Penguin Classics —No writer ever lived who had anything like her power of manifold, but disinterested and impartially observant, sympathy. If Sophocles or Cervantes had lived in the light of…

*Sold Out* - email human@unc.edu to be added to the waitlist featuring William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics Emeritus   An essential classic of Ancient Greek drama   On Sophocles' Electra: —Although it has been at times overshadowed by his more famous Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Sophocles' Electra is remarkable for its extreme emotions and taut drama. Sophocles presents this story as a savage though necessary act of vengeance, vividly depicting Electra's grief, anger, and exultation.—Oxford University Press —Electra's journey of…

*Sold Out* - email human@unc.edu to be added to the waitlist featuring William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics Emeritus   An essential classic of Ancient Greek drama   On Sophocles' Electra: —Although it has been at times overshadowed by his more famous Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Sophocles' Electra is remarkable for its extreme emotions and taut drama. Sophocles presents this story as a savage though necessary act of vengeance, vividly depicting Electra's grief, anger, and exultation.—Oxford University Press —Electra's journey of…

featuring Gerald Postema, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus   One of the most popular writers in the world during the 1920s and 1930s —The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.—New York Review Classics —Zweig has chronicled a hopeless and tragic relationship in a manner that so…

featuring Gerald Postema, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus   One of the most popular writers in the world during the 1920s and 1930s —The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.—New York Review Classics —Zweig has chronicled a hopeless and tragic relationship in a manner that so…

featuring Petal Samuel, Assistant Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies   A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award —A lithe, artfully-plotted debut, Here Comes the Sun is deceptively well-constructed, with slow and painful reveals right through the end.—The New York Times —Impossible to forget, Dennis-Benn’s writing is as lush as the island itself....She knows how to make the women so complex that we believe every hairpin turn of her…

featuring Petal Samuel, Assistant Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies   A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award —A lithe, artfully-plotted debut, Here Comes the Sun is deceptively well-constructed, with slow and painful reveals right through the end.—The New York Times —Impossible to forget, Dennis-Benn’s writing is as lush as the island itself....She knows how to make the women so complex that we believe every hairpin turn of her…

featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of German   One of the most original and fruitful minds of the Twentieth Century —In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.—Penguin Classics —It is hard to name another thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first.—The New Yorker —Arendt…

featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of German   One of the most original and fruitful minds of the Twentieth Century —In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.—Penguin Classics —It is hard to name another thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first.—The New Yorker —Arendt…

featuring Sarah E. Boyd, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature   The birth of detective fiction as a genre —Edgar Allan Poe introduced to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, inspiring the creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes.—Modern Library Classics —"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice.—Dorothy L. Sayers —Poe’s formula appealed in the nineteenth century because detective stories promised that reasoning could…