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  Ever wonder just how many books go into a single issue of Lapham's Quarterly? Follow along using this complete syllabus, which assembles all the fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays that produced this issue's readings. As always, we encourage you to read wider, deeper and at your leisure.

  The Ancient World
  The Odyssey, by Homer
  The Mozi, by Mozi
  The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius
  The Epic of Gilgamesh
  The Bacchae, by Euripides
  The Book of Daniel

  The Medieval World: 480-1400
  The Big Red Book, by Rumi
  The Conference of the Birds, by Farid ud-Din Attar
  The Alexiad, by Anna Comnena

  The Renaissance: 1400-1600
  On Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
  A True History of the Conquest of New Spain,        
  by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  The Death of King Arthur, by Thomas Malory

  The 17th Century
  Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, by Pu Songling
  Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, by Olaudah Equiano

  The 18th Century
  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
  Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  Opticks, by Isaac Newton
  The Phantom World, by Antoine Augustin Calmet

  The 19th Century
  Dracula, by Bram Stoker
  “Written in Aspin Castle”, by Emily Bronte
  "The Nose", by Nikolai Gogol
  “Sonnet—To Science,” by Edgar Allan Poe
  The Humbugs of the World, by P.T. Barnum
  Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
  Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, by Carl Jung
  Letters on Mesmerism, by Harriet Martineau
  Science and Health with the Key to the Scriptures,        
  by Mary Baker Eddy

  The 20th Century
  The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein
  The Barnum Museum and Other Stories, by Steven Millhauser
  Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer
  The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
  Anatomy of an Epidemic, by Robert Whitaker
  One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
  Envy, by Yuri Oleshi
  The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
  "The Cats of Ulthar", by H.P. Lovecraft
  A Magician Among the Spirits, by Harry Houdini
  Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
  The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
  The Magus, by John Fowles

  The 21st Century
  Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

  July 23, 2012
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