Rise of Nation
HIGH SCHOOL1440 – 1860 A.D.
Literature Selections
Book Selections
Literature List
L-1b Page 1
African Folktales
L-1c Page 2
Dogan Creation Story
L-2b Page 3
An Account of Two Voyages to New England by John Josselyn
L-2c Page 3
Sioux Creation Story by Fredrica Bremer
L-2d Page 4 d
Narratives of New Netherlan
L-2e Page 7
Diario of Christopher Columbus
L-3c Page 9
Petrarchian Sonnets
L-3d Page 12
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
L-3e Page 20
On the Family by Leon Battista Alberti
L-4a Page 22
Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve by Isotta Nogarola
L-4b Page 28
The Life of Sir Thomas More
by William Roper
by William Roper
L-4bb Page 33
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
L-4c Page 37
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
L-5c Page 42
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda
L-5d Page 54
Don Quixote and the Lions by Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda
L-5e Page 59
Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius of Loyola
L-6a Page 61
Trial before the Holy Tribunal by Paolo Caliari Veronese
L-6b Page 64 95
Theses by Martin Luther
L-6bb Page 68
On Christian Freedom by Martin Luther
L-6c Page 70
Admonition to Peace by Martin Luther
L-6cc Page 74
A Mighty Fortress is our God by Martin Luther
L-6d Page 75
On Suffering Persecution by John Calvin
L-6e Page 77
The Life of Santa Teresa de Jesús, De Avila
L-7a Page 80
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
L-7b Page 85
Yet, When Compared, Martin Rossam Comes Out Best by Anna Bijns
L-7c Page 86
Unyoked is Best by Anna Bijns
L-7d Page 87
“Tis a Waste to Cast Pearls Before Swine by Anna Bijns
L-7e Page 88
Account of the History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations by John Heckewelder
L-8a Page 90
In Defense of Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney
L-8b Page 94
Paradise Lost by John Milton
L-8bb Page 102
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author William Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
L-8cc Page 104
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
L-8dd Page 106
Shakespeare Sonnets
L-8e Page 108
Psalms 23
L-8ee Page 109
The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe
L-9a Page 114
The King and the Poor Boy retold by Muriel Paskin Carrison
L-10 Page 115
Hymns of Charles Wesley
L-10b Page 116
In Defense of the Indians by Bartolomé de Las Casas
L-10c Page 119
True History of the Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
L-10d Page 122
A Journey to Pennsylvania by Gottlieb Mittelberger
L-10e Page 124
Catechism for Slaves
L-10ee Page 125
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
L-11b Page 126
Discourse on Methods by René Descartes
L-11c Page 132
Centuries by Nostradamus
L-12a Page 133
Candide by Voltaire
L-12b Page 140
A Good Will by Immanuel Kant
L-12d Page 141
Writing with Pictures
L-13a Page 142
Chapkin the Scamp
L-13bb Page 145
The Bewildered Arab by Jami
L-13c Page 146
Letter by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
L-14 Page 149
Russian Art
L-14a Page 150
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
L-14d Page 160
Message to Siberia by Alexander Pushkin
L-14e Page 161
The Bronze Horseman by Pushkin
L-14ee Page 162
My Monument by Pushkin
L-14ee Page 163
Letter to Posterity by Francesco Petrarch
L-15a Page 168
Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
L-17 Page 175
Mughal Art
L-17a Page 176
Marathi by Bahinabai
L-18 Page 177
West Meets East by Marco Polo
L-18a Page 178
On Being Happy Though Poor translated by Cyril Birch
L-18b Page 179
In the Country of Women translated by Cyril Birch