Recommended reading

"There are people in the world who derive no small pleasure from the game of 'major' and 'minor.' They think that no major work can be painted in watercolors. They think, too, that Hemingway writing about boys in the woods is major; Mansfield writing about girls inthe kitchen is minor. These people join up with other bad specters, and I have to banish them."

--"The Parable of the Cave; or, In Praise of Watercolors"

 

Gordon in 1988

Photo: Joyce Ravid

 

Prof. Gordon encourages all English-speaking people to read these books:


The Good Soldier, by Ford Maddox Ford

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Howards End, by E.M. Forster

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust (even better for French-speakers)

Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford

The Dubliners, by James Joyce