Here are several (not all) of the short readings for the class
They appear in the order in which they appear on the class Schedule (reading list)
Click on the title of the reading you wish below:

 

"Little Red Riding Hood" transcribed by the Brothers Grimm

"Little Red Cap" by Charles Perrault

excerpt from The Use of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

"Cinderella" transcribed by the Brothers Grimm

"The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen

"The Parable of the Cave" by Plato

"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane

excerpt from The Danse Macabre by Stephen King

The short stories by James Thurber come and go on the internet; you can find them in the Files section of our class Canvas site.

The online copy of "And he Built a Crooked House," by Robert Heinlein was near-impossible to read; it can be found in the Files section of our class Canvas site.

 

e-texts - some of these are longer works

A number (not all) of the readings (some assigned, some mentioned in the various Lectures or Discussion Questions) are available online; here are a few sites with complete works now in public domain:

The Odyssey by Homer (of special interest are Books IX-XII, the wanderings)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Everyman author unknown

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

H.P. Lovecraft a complete list of eTexts by the author (Note: "The Call of Cthulu" and "The Dunwich Horror" are probably the most famous, but sample freely)

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

Note: there are other sites on the internet with complete texts by these authors; for example www.grtbooks.com has several; a quick GOOGLE or YAHOO! search will lead you to many of them. The newer works are still protected by copyright and are not printed online.