The Prodigal Reader

Acknowledgments

To The Reader

Murder and the Art of Rhetoric: Reading Between the Lines

Non-Fiction Prose

1.Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

2.Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

3.Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907)

4.Nicole Carroll (1967–)  

5.Andrew Sullivan (1963–)

6.David Brooks (1961–)

Fiction

1.Aesop (Sixth Century BCE?) 

2.Gesta Romanorum (circa 1200 CE) 

3.Jacques de Vitry (1160–1240 CE) 

4.Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

5.Kate Chopin (1851–1904)

6.James Joyce (1882–1941)  

7.Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

8.Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938) 

9.Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)

10.Mia Couto (1955–)

Poetry

1.Anakreon (c. 582–485 BCE)

2.Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE)

3.Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38–103 CE) 

4.William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

5.Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)  

6. Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) 

7. Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 

8. Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) 

9. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) 

10. Robert Frost (1874–1963) 

11. Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) 

12. Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) 

13. Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

14. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) 

15.Christine Timm

Drama

1.Karel Čapek (1890–1938)  

2.August Strindberg (1849–1912)

Appendix

A Glossary of Literary Terms

B “But . . . Can’t / Doesn’t / Shouldn’t It Mean Whatever I Want It to Mean?”

Index