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Introduction

Exposition au Salon de 1787, etching by Pietro Antonio Martini published in "Aux armes et aux Arts" by Adam Biro, 1988 via Wiki Commons

Modern European Literature is a broad term that refers the plays, novels, short stories and poetry written in Europe from the Enlightenment period to the modern day. It is written in numerous European languages and includes literary movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.

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The Stranger by Albert Camus
Call Number: PQ2605.A3734 E813 1954

ISBN: 0394700023

Publication Date: 1954-09-12

Available at multiple locations
Don Quixote by Tobias George Smollett (Translator); Miguel de Cervantes
Call Number: PQ6329 .A2 2018

ISBN: 9780486821955

Publication Date: 2018-03-21
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories by Anton Chekov; Ralph E. Matlaw (Editor); Constance Garnett (Translator)
Call Number: PG3456 .A15 1979

ISBN: 0393045285

Publication Date: 1979-08-01

Available at Midwood and the Women's Building
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Nicholas Halmi; Paul Magnuson; Raimonda Modiano
Call Number: PR4472 .H35 2002

ISBN: 0393979040

Publication Date: 2003-07-18

Available at the Women's Building
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; George Gibian
Call Number: PG3326 .P7 1989

ISBN: 0393956237

Publication Date: 1989-02-17

On reserve at the Women's Building and available at Avenue J
Madame Bovary by Gustave. Flaubert; Mildred Marmur (Translator); Robin Morgan (Introduction by); Frederick Brown (Afterword by)
Call Number: PQ2246.M2 E5 2013

ISBN: 9780451418500

Publication Date: 2012-12-31

Available at the Women's Building
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; Stanley Corngold (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: PT2621.A26 V42613 1996

ISBN: 0393967972

Publication Date: 1996-02-17

Available at Midwood and the Women's Building
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Nick Groom (Editor)
Call Number: PR5397 .F7 2018

ISBN: 9780198814047

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Available at the Women's Building
Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe. Shelley; Neil Fraistat (Editor); Donald H. Reiman (Editor)
Call Number: PR5403 .R4 2002

ISBN: 0393977528

Publication Date: 2002-01-02

Available at Kew Gardens and the Women's Building
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Call Number: PG3366 .A6 2002b

ISBN: 0142000272

Publication Date: 2001-12-01

Available at the Women's Building
Candide or Optimism by Voltaire; Robert M. Adams (Editor)
Call Number: PQ2082.C3 E5 1991

ISBN: 0393960587

Publication Date: 1991-03-17

Available at multiple locations

Additional Resources

See below for recommended sites on reading and writing about literature

Close Reading
Includes tips and tricks for analyzing literature
Comparing and Contrasting
A guide to writing compare and contrast essays via The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MLA General Format
Useful guide to writing in the Humanities
Literary Terms
A glossary of commonly used terms
Writing about Literature
An overview of writing about literature

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