The moral of the story: an anthology of ethics through literature

pt. I: Personal Moral Issues. I Who Am I?

Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison

Puberty Blues / Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey

Giovanni's Room / James Baldwin

Bonfire of the Vanities / Tom Wolfe

Middlemarch / George Eliot

The Crucible / Arthur Miller

Macbeth / William Shakespeare

Duties to Kin. "The Unnatural Mother" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Bleak House / Charles Dickens

The good German / Joseph Kanon

Antigone / Sophocles

Measure for Measure / William Shakespeare

"The Soft-hearted Sioux" / Zitkala-èa

"A Horseman in the Sky" / Ambrose Bierce

"The Peace of Utrecht" / Alice Munro

Love,Marriage and Sex. Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare

A Suitable Boy / Vikram Seth

"The Model"

Middlemarch / George Eliot

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy

Mrs Warren's Profession / George Bernard Shaw

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure / John Cleland

Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe

Abortion, Euthanasia and Suicide. "Shepherd's Bush" / Maeve Binchy

Whose Life is it Anyway? / Brian Clark

Moral Hazard / Kate Jennings

Hamlet / William Shakespeare

"A Summer Tragedy" / Arna Bontemps.

pt. II: The community and beyond. Work North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell The Company / Edwin Seaver My Year of Meats / Ruth L. Ozeki "An Enemy of the People / Henrik Ibsen The Search / C. P. Snow What do we owe to our country, compatriots, and strangers? Iphigeneia at Aulis / Euripedes Year of Wonders / Geraldine Brooks Enduring Love / Ian McEwan How to be Good / Nick Hornby "The Undesirable Table" / Joyce Carol Oates Ethics and politics. Can You Forgive Her / Anthony Trollope Primary Colors / Anonymous (Joe Klein) Phineas Finn / Anthony Trollope Racism and sexism. Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe "The Convert" / Lerone Bennett Jr. The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare The Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen War. War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy Regeneration / Pat Barker "S.I.W." / Wilfred Owen King Henry V (Act 3 .Scene 3) / William Shakespeare King Henry V (Act 4, Scene 1) / William Shakespeare "The Charge of the Light Brigade" / Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Prisoner" / S. Yizhar The Magus / John Fowles Animals and the environment. "The Limits of Trooghaft" / Desmond Stewart The Plague Dogs / Richard Adams Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Douglas Adams The Pioneers / James Fenimore Cooper Duties to God. Prometheus Bound / Aeschylus The Holy Bible / Genesis 22 The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoyevsky New life forms. Frankenstein / Mary Shelley The makropulos secret / Karel Capek

pt. III: Reflecting on ethics. The nature of ethics. "The Sea Serpent" / E. Pauline Johnson

Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

The Third Man / Graham Greene

"This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" / Tadeusz Borowski

Rules, rights, duties, and the greater good. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" / Ursula K. Le Guin

Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro

Dr Wortle's School / Anthony Trollope

Middlemarch / George Eliot

To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee

"Sonnet 138" / William Shakespeare

Ultimate values. Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe

The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James

Brave New World / Aldous Huxley

The Princess Casamassima / Henry James.