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BLOCK 3: Prose

UNIT 1 Nelson Mandela Part 4 “The Struggle is My Life” from The Long Walk to
Freedom

BLOCK 4: Short Story
UNIT 1 Guy de Maupassant “A Wedding Gift” (France)
UNIT 2 Arabian Nights “The Merchant and the Genie” (Middle East)
UNIT 3 Haruki Murakami “The Kingdom That Failed” (Japan)

BLOCK 5: Novels/ Novella
UNIT 1 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Columbia)

BLOCK 6: Drama
UNIT 1 Anton Chekov Cherry Orchard

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Mack, Maynard and Sarah Lawall (Eds.). The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Third
Edition. 2012.

Lawall, Sarah, ed. Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1994.

Pamuk, Orhan. The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2011

Pizer, John. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge:
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Prendergast, Christopher, ed. Debating World Literature. London: Verso, 2004.

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