Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books (64 page)

Cambridge University Press:
Excerpt from
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare, edited by G. Blakemore Evans, copyright © 1984, 2003 by Cambridge University Press; excerpts from
The Tragedy of King Lear
by William Shakespeare, edited by Jay L. Hallo, copyright © 1992, 2005 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.:
Excerpt from
Exit the King
by Eugene Ionesco, translated by David Watson, copyright © 1963 and copyright renewed © 1991 by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company:
Excerpt from
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer, copright © 2005 by Jonathan Safran Foer; excerpt from
Everyman
by Philip Roth, copyright © 2006 by Philip Roth; excerpt from
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker, copyright © 1982 by Alice Walker; excerpt from
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf, copyright © 1927 by Harcourt, Inc., and copyright renewed © 1954 by Leonard Woolf. Reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.:
Excerpts from
Sula
by Toni Morrison, copyright © 1973 and copyright renewed © 2001 by Toni Morrison. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Oxford University Press:
Excerpt from
Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow (Oxford University Press, 2002); an excerpt from
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake, edited by Richard Willmott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990); and an excerpt from
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.

Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.:
Excerpts from
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray, translation copyright © 1985 by Random House, Inc., and William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.; excerpts from
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa and Blake Ferris, translation copyright © 2003 by L’Association, Paris, France; excerpts from
Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale/And Here My Trouble Began
by Art Spiegelman, copyright © 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991 by Art Spiegelman. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Querido:
Excerpt from
Out of Mind
by J. Bernlef. Reprinted by permission of Querido, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Random House, Inc.:
Excerpt from
Go Down, Moses
by William Faulkner, copyright © 1940 by William Faulkner and renewed 1968 by Estelle Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers; excerpts from
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II
by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, copyright © 1981 by Random House, Inc., and Chatto & Windus; excerpts from
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume III
by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, copyright © 1981 by Random House, Inc., and Chatto & Windus. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.:
Excerpt from
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway, copyright © 1952 by Ernest Hemingway and copyright renewed © 1980 by Mary Hemingway. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.:
Excerpt from
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee, copyright © 1999 by J. M. Coetzee; excerpt from “Oedipus at Colonus” from
Three Theban Plays
by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles, copyright © 1982 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

University of California Press:
Excerpt from
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, edited by Walter Blair, Victor Fisher, and Lin Salamo, copyright © 2002 by the Mark Twain Foundation, published by the University of California Press. Reprint by permission of the University of California Press.