Please Don't Jump

My name is Shelby and I like being told stories and sharing my own when asked. My sincerest goal is to contribute to the tradition of the American short story.

Reading List, Spring Semester 2012

Homobok and Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York by Stephen Crane

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern

Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis

Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Celestial Railroad by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane

Othello by William Shakespeare

Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

 Woyzeck by Georg Büchner

 Die Judenbucheby Annette Ishoff

Bergkristall  by Adalbert Stifter

Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe by Gottfried Keller

Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm 

Bahnwärter Thiel by Gerhart Hauptmann

Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann

Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka

Leben des Galilei by Berholt Brecht

Der geteilte Himmel  by Christa Wolf

Die wunderbaren Jahre by Rainer Kunze

Erzählungen seit 1960 aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, aus Österreich und der Schweiz 

OH MY GOD. Guess who is never reading another book during her free time again? This lady. 

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