College of the Holy Cross CrossWorks Holy Cross Books College Archives 1983 Holy Cross 100 Books College of the Holy Cross Follow this and additional works at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books Part of the Cultural History Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Liberal Studies Commons Recommended Citation College of the Holy Cross, "Holy Cross 100 Books" (1983). Holy Cross Books. 1. https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at CrossWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Holy Cross Books by an authorized administrator of CrossWorks. 1 THE HOLY CROSS II/ 100 BOOKS ~ I THE COMMITTEE ECKHARD BERNSTEIN JOHN L. ESPOSITO THEODORE P. FRASER ROBERT H. GARVEY JAMES HOGAN DAVID HUMMON THOMAS M. C. LAWLER RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S.J . ©The College of the Holy Cross Worcest~r . Massachusetts 1983 .I Our thanks to the faculty and staff who have suggested titles for the list: Susan L. Berman I Eckhard Bernstein I Patricia L. Bizzell I Donald R. Brand I Edward F. Callahan I Bernard J. Cooke I Robert F. Cur­ ran, Jr. I Mauri A. Ditzler I Jack Donnelly I John L. Esposito I Robert M. Fisher I Theodore P. Fraser I Robert H. Garvey I Ken­ neth F. Happe I William R. Healy I James Hogan I David M. Hum­ mon I Thomas P. Imse I Edward J. Kealey I George N. Kostich I Alice L. Laffey, R.S.M. I Thomas M.C. Lawler I Joseph H. Maguire I Theresa M. McBride I David J. O'Brien I John J. Paris, S.J. I Peter Parsons I Terri Priest I Gerard J. Quigley I George A. Rappolt I William E. Reiser, S.J. I David L. Schaefer I David J. Schap I Patrick Shanahan I Royce Singleton, Jr. I Thomas Syseskey I Melvin C. Tews I Maurizio Vannicelli I Helen M. Whall I John H. WHson I Rudolph L. ~~l: WHHam L. Zwiebel ~ / 0.35 H 7 1'1~3 C-~ Introduction: A Shared Enthusiasm This List is born out of a shared enthusiasm for reading and out of a conviction that a love for books is at the heart of both a liberal education and a happy life .. The project took root two years ago in informal conversations after introductory meetings with the faculty shortly after I arriv­ ed at Holy Cross, and it developed gradually - along with other larger and smaller projects, from the new curriculum to expan­ ding the paperback section in the book store - as the conversa­ tions continued. From the beginning, this has never been either a list of the 100 "greatest" classics, or an artificially "balanced" list representing the various academic disciplines, centuries, coun­ tries or literary, philosophical or religious traditions. Yet, we did try to have it reflect, in some ways, the intellec­ tual climate of Holy Cross today: these are books our faculty en­ joy - that they care enough about to recommend and write about, with confidence that the larger Holy Cross community - students, fellow-faculty, parents, alumni and friends - can pick up these books and share in the same discovery. _,Each of us will find in these essays his or her own unifying themes. These struck me: an emphasis on the fundamental classics of Western literature, works which could well give a unifying thread to anyone's education; an emphasis on the search for God as the central task of anyone's life; a commitment to the struggle for a just society. How were the 100 chosen? First each member of the committee drew up a personal 100 list, which we combined and chiseled down to Version One. This we published in the Crusader and circulated to all the faculty for sug­ gested changes. From over 400 titles we settled on about 95, then circulated that list again to a few faculty for more suggestions. Finally, we wrote to various faculty members, and one alumnus­ author, asking for the brief essays. In all, over 75 members of the Holy Cross community have contributed, in one way or another, to the list. I will always remember them with gratitude and I suspect that you, as you read on, will also. Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Dean of the College July 1983 Book List Contributors Isabel Alvarez-BorLand is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. *!John B. Anderson, Assistant Professor of History, is a member of the Worcester City Council. • Eckhard Bernstein, Professor of Ger­ man, is author of German Humanism. John D. Boyd is Associate Professor of English. *Robert L. Brandfon is Professor of History. • Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., Associate Professor of Religious Studies, is President of Holy Cross College. • Edward F. Callahan is Professor of English. • Hermann J. Cloeren is Associate Pro­ fessor of Philosophy. • Bernard J. Cooke, Professor of Religious Studies, is author of Sacraments & Sacramentality. • Robert K. Cor­ ding is Associate Professor of English. • Rev. Alfred R. Desautels, S.J., is Professor of French. • Mauri A. Ditzler is Assistant Pro­ fessor Chemistry. • Jack Donnelly is Assistant Professor of Political Science. • John L. Esposito, Professor of Religious Studies, is author of Women in Muslim Family Law. * Robert M. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Economics. * Stuart G. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Psychology. • Wallace Fowlie, Visiting Professor of French, is author of journal of Rehearsals. *Rev. William H. Fitz­ gerald, S.J., is Associate Professor of Classics. * Theodore P. Fraser, Associate Professor of French, is co-editor of Readings in French Literature. • Robert H. Garvey is Associate Professor of Physics. * Maurice A. Geracht is Associate Professor of English. * George H. Hampsch is Professor of Philosophy. • Kenneth F. Happe is Associate Professor of Classics. • Michael Harrington, who graduated from Holy Cross in 1947, is author of The Acciden­ tal Century and seven other books. • William R. Healy is Professor of Biology. * Edward J. Herson is Associate Professor of Theatre Art. *James E. Hogan is Assistant Librarian. *Joseph J. Holmes is Associate Professor of History. • David M. Hummon is Assis­ tant Professor of Sociology. • Patrick J. Ireland is Associate Pro­ fessor of English. • George N. Kostich is Associate Professor of Russian. • Sr. Alice L. Laffey, R.S.M., is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. • Gerard B. Lavery is Associate Professor of Classics. * Rev. Robert E. Manning, S.J. , is Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies and Rector of the Jesuit Community. • John T. Mayer is Associate Professor of English.'* Theresa M. McBride, Associate Professor of History, is author of The Domestic Revolu­ tion. * Marion F. Meilaender is Assistant Professor of English. * Blaise J. Nagy, Associate Professor of Classics, is co-translator of The Anthropology of Ancient Greece. • David J. O'Brien, Associate Professor of History, is author of The Renewal of American Catholicism. • Clyde V. Pax,· Professor of Philosophy, is author of An Existential Approach to God. • Peter Perkins is Professor of Mathematics. *.-Virginia C. Raguin, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, is author of Stained Glass in Thirteenth Century Burgundy. * John E. Reilly is Professor of English. • Rev. William E. Reiser, S.J., Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, is author of The Pot­ ter's Touch. • Richard H. Rodino is Assistant Professor of English. * Rev. Philip C. Rule, S.J., is Associate Professor of English. • David L. Schaefer, Associate Professor of Political Science, is author of justice or Tyranny?, A Critique of]ohn Rawls's A Theory of Justice. * Rev. Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., is Dean of the Col­ lege and author of The Eagle and Brooklyn. • Patrick Shanahan is Professor of Mathematics. * Royce Singleton, Jr., is Associate Professor of Sociology. *Leonard C. Sulski is Associate Professor of Mathematics. • Frank R. Tangherlini is Associate Professor of Physics. • Melvin C. Tews is Associate Professor of Mathematics. *Jorge H. Valdes is Associate Professor of Spanish. '-' Maurizio Vannicelli, Instructor of Political Science, is co-editor of The Com­ munist Parties of Italy, France & Spain: Postwar Change & Continui­ ty. *John H. Wilson is Associate Professor of English. • William J. Ziobro is Associate Professor of Classics. * Rudolph L. Zlody is Associate Professor of Psychology. * William L. Zwiebel is Associate Professor of German. Holy Cross 100 Books Holy Cross 100 Books—Texts The Bible Homer, The Odyssey Thucydides, History of the Pelopoennesian Wars, Plato, The Dialogues Vergil, The Aeneid Ovid, Metamorphoses Plutarch, Lives of Greeks and Romans Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions Dante, The Divine Comedy Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Patagruel Montaigne, The Essays The Life of Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote The Riverside Shakespeare Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Stendhal (Hernii Beyle), The Red and the Black Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights i Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, The Communist Manifesto Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville, Moby Dick Henry David Thoreau, Walden Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species y Means of Natural Selection Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Leo