Individual reading assingments for the freshmen
Read a book or a collection of stories. You can select a book from the list below or read something of your own choice. Your aim is to read at least 100 pages (or more if you wish). You can take a book in our university library, in the University library on line or on the web site http://manybooks.net/
The following books you can find in our library:
E. Segal Love Story
D. Adams The hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
K. Kesey One flew over the cuckoo's nest
M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind
L. Hearn Brilliance of the Moon
L. Hearn Grass for his Pillow
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
A. Christie The murder at the Vicarage
A. Christie N or M?
A. Christie The murder of Roger Ackroyd
J. H. Chase An Ear to the Ground
M. Puzo The Godfather
R. Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
W. Maugham Rain. Stories
The following authors are presented in the University library on line (you can register in our university main building in the Information department (информационный отдел)):
Austen, Jane
Beckford, William
Behn, Aphra
Bellamy, Edward
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
Blake, William
Boswell, James
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Bunyan, John
Burns, Robert
Butler (I), Samuel
Butler (II), Samuel
Byron, George Gordon Lord
Carroll, Lewis
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cleland, John
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Congreve, William
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Crane, Stephen
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Donne, John
Douglass, Frederick
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Dryden, John
Eliot, George
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Equiano, Olaudah
Fielding, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gay, John
Gissing, George Robert
Godwin, Francis
Godwin, William
Goldsmith, Oliver
Gray, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Harte, Bret
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Henry, O.
Irving, Washington
James, Henry
Johnson, Samuel
Jonson, Ben
Keats, John
Lawrence, David Herbert
Lear, Edward
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Lillo, George
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Macpherson, James
Malory, Sir Thomas
Mandeville, Bernard de
Mansfield, Katherine
Marlowe, Christopher
Melville, Herman
Meredith, George
Milton, John
Morris, William
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pope, Alexander
Quincey, Thomas de
Radcliffe, Ann
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Richardson, Samuel
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Scott, Sir Walter
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Smollett, Tobias
Spenser, Edmund
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Swift, Jonathan
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Synge, John Millington
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thomson, James
Twain, Mark
Walpole, Horace
Washington, Booker Taliaferro
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Wordsworth, William
Young, Edward
The tasks:
You can select a book from the list above or read something of your own choice. It can be a novel, a thriller, a detective, a romance, a play, a story, a poem, etc. If it’s difficult for you to make a choice then pay attention to the bold typed books, giving preference to the collections of stories.
If you don’t like the book you have chosen, change it.
Read your book, keeping a reader’s journal. It can be in a hand-written or typed format. Spare some time, think over and answer the questions carefully, thoughtfully and thoroughly.
