Essays, Biography, Etc.
Group 4: Addison and Steele's The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers or
selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (about 200 pages); selections from
Boswell's Life of Johnson (about 200 pages); Franklin's Autobiography;
selections from Irving's Sketch Book (about 200 pages) or his Life of Goldsmith;
Southey's Life of Nelson; selections from Lamb's Essays of Elia
(about 100 pages); selections from Lockhart's Life of Scott (about 200 pages);
Thackeray's lectures on Swift, Addison, and Steele, in the English Humorists;
any one of the following essays of Macaulay: Lord Clive, Warren Hastings,
Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Frederick the Great, Madame d'Arblay; selections
from Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay (about 200 pages); Ruskin's Sesame and
Lilies or selections from Ruskin's works (about 150 pages); Dana's Two
Years Before the Mast; selections from Lincoln's works, including at least the
two Inaugurals, the speeches in Independence Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last
Public Address, the Letter to Horace Greeley, together with a brief memoir
or estimate of Lincoln; Parkman's
The Oregon Trail; Thoreau's
Walden;
selections from Lowell's essays (about 150 pages); Holmes'
The Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table; Stevenson's
An Inland Voyage and
Travels with a
Donkey; Huxley's
Autobiography and selections from
Lay Sermons, including
the addresses
On Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education, and
A
Piece of Chalk; a collection of Essays by Bacon, Lamb, DeQuincey, Hazlitt,
Emerson and later writers; a collection of Letters by various standard writers.
