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title: Form 6 Literature
description: This is a list of curricular books studied during the 11th and 12th grade humanities classes at Lorien Wood, a private school in Vienna, VA.
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## Form 6 Literature

Explore a sampling of the titles studied in 10th and 11th grade. 

##### 11th Grade Humanities

**Unit 1: Paradise, Innocence and Experience**

*Paradise Lost* by John Milton

*Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley

Romantic poetry

*Things Fall Apart* by China Achebe

*Age of Innocence* by Edith Wharton

**Unit 2: Rebellion**

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Declaration of Independence

*Great Expectations* and *Oliver Twist* by Charles Dickens 

*Metamorphosis* by Franz Kafka

*A Doll’s House* by Henrik Ibsen

*Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad

*A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich* by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

*The Waste Land* by T.S. Eliot

*The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self* by Carl Trueman

**Unit 3: Resistance and Restoration**

*Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes

“Letter From the Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

*The Winter’s Tale* by Shakespeare

*An Artist of the Floating World* by Kazoo Ishiguro

*Les Miserables* by Victor Hugo

 

##### 12th Grade Humanities

**Unit 1: Relationship with God**

"Enuma Elish"

"Theogony" by Hesiod

Books of Job, Romans, and Revelation

*Confessions of St. Augustine* by Augustine of Hippo

*The Monkey and the Monk* (abridged version) by Anthony C. Yu

*Divine Comedy* by Dante Alighieri

**Unit 2: Family**

*Oresteia* by Aeschylus, 

*Oedipus Rex* by Sophocles

*Antigone* by Sophocles

*Medea* by Euripides

Books of II Samuel and Hosea

**Unit 3: Society**

*Republic* by Plato

Books of I and II Corinthians and proverbs

*Politics* by Aristotle

*The Trojan Women* by Euripides

*On The Good Life* by Cicero

*The Analects* by Confucius

Excerpts from *The Art of War* bySun Tzu

Excerpts from *The Bhagavad Gita* by Vyasa

*Fall of the Roman Empire* by Plutarch

*City of God* by St. Augustine

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