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June 28
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh, Chapters 1-5 (1926)

July 26
P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves Takes Charge” (1916)
The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy” (1924)
Without the Option” (1925)
Bertie Changes His Mind” (1922)

August 30
Aeschylus
The Eumenides (5th century BCE; translation by David Mulroy, 2018). 

September 27
Italo Calvino
“Lightness” and Quickness,” from Six Memos for the New Millennium (1985).

October 25
Cormac McCarthy
Wake for Susan” (1959)
A Drowning Incident” (1960)
The Dark Waters” (1965)

November 29
Marcel Proust
“Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part I, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919)

January 31
Mencius (Mengzi)
The Works of Mencius, Books 1 & 2, translated by James Legge. (ca. 300 BCE)

February 28
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl, 12 June – 22 December 1942, translated by Susan Massotty, 1997. (1947)

March 27
Carson McCullers
Wunderkind” (1936)
The Jockey” (1941)
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” (1941)

April 24
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land (1922)

May 29
William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 (ca. 1591)