Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature by Arnold Weinstein

Another Great Courses lecture. This one delves into novels that I am (mostly) to terrified to even think of picking up. Here's the line up:

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by

Brontë
















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