“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.”
– Emily Dickinson
Literary Salon
Candle & Quill escorts readers through the life-changing, life-giving wonders of great literature from around the globe:
Curricular enrichment: supplement your educational program through individualized study of select texts; develop skills in reading, annotating, and analysis
Custom-constructed courses tailored to the interests of individuals or small groups
Bucket-list guided reading: C&Q helps you tackle those tough texts you dream of finishing
A Short List of C&Q Obsessions
Novels and Novellas
Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Drama and Poetry
William Shakespeare’s sonnets, Macbeth and Hamlet
Homer’s Odyssey
Beowulf
Dante Alighieri’s Inferno
Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina”
Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night”
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sophocles’s Antigone
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust
Personal Narratives
Michel de Montaigne’s Essays
Viginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” and A Room of One’s Own
James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”
Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book
Xavier de Maistre’s A Journey around My Room
Junichiro Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker
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