Friday, September 28, 2007

Founders College Curriculum - Novels I

Novels I has six novels:

1. Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
3. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
4. Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
5. Edward Cline, Sparrowhawk Book One
6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

This list is broadly Randian. Ivanhoe, The Scarlet Letter, and Ninety-Three are books that Rand read, and Ninety-Three was perhaps her favorite. It doesn't appear that Rand said anything about Dickens and Austen.

Most notable is the first volume of Edward Cline's book Sparrowhawk series. Cline, who is associated with the ARI, is quite dogmatic, even for an ARIan.

2 comments:

Daniel Barnes said...

Heavens. If, by "dogmatic" you mean "batshit crazy", then I concur...;-)

Michael Brown said...

Having read Neil's "meticulous and scrupulous examination" of Valiant's "meticulous and scrupulous examination" of the Brandens, I'd have to agree...