Readings from May

It has been a profictable reading for the second half of the year, from Summer;

May
Le Cid by Corneille
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
The Italian Renaissance by Peter Burke

June
Inferno by Dan Brown
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
The Cambridge History of German Literature
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age by by Robert C. Davis,Beth Lindsmith
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (New Approaches to European History) by Charles G. Nauert
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings
The Struggle For Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850 (European History in Perspective) by Brendan Simms
Why don't we learn from History? by Basil Liddell Hart

July
Decline of French Patriotism, 1870-1940 by Herbert Tint
Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown
English Civil War: Conservatism and Revolution, 1603-1649 by Robert Ashton
The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

August
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Making of the Modern World) by Julian Jackson
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815 (Routledge Classics) by A.J.P Taylor
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler

September
The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward(tr)
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Geoffrey Kabaservice
The Iliad by Homer, bk 2
Physics And Politics Or Thoughts On The Apllication Of The Principles Of 'Natural Selection And Inheritance' To Political Society by Walter Bagehot
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown

October
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson
Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Richard Moe
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

November
Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics) by Victor Hugo, Alban Krailsheimer Iliad, bk 3 Caesar: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library) by Caesar, bk 1
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin edition) by J.K. Rowling, Peter Needham(tr), ch 1
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election amid the Storm by Susan Dunn
Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (New Studies in European History) by Annika Mombauer