required! I've read Dorian Gray already, and it's a modern translation of Beowulf so hopefully it'll be a little easier too. :) reading "The Turn of the Screw" at the moment and really liking it. hope you're well bbz!! xxxxx
Christina Rossetti - The Complete Poems Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (I have a copy of this, is it good?) Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist, Hard Times George Eliot - Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James - The Turn of the Screw Tennyson - In Memoriam Robert Browning - The Major Works Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone Bram Stoker - Dracula Shakespeare - The Tempest Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Kenneth O. Morgan - The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain A.C.Baugh and T.Cable - A History of the English Language Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson - A Guide to Old English Seamus Heaney - Beowulf (in a different translation) S.A.J.Bradley - Anglo-Saxon Poetry
I have read bits of the other collected works. I really wish that I went somewhere for English that required reads like these. Everything at my college is either ~gender~ or ~minority~ literature to the point that you can get your degree in English without reading any Henry James, Jane Austen, or more than one short story by
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i read maybe the first 10 pages of Beowulf and decided that i'm much better off without it.
Heart of Darkness was hard to get through...
i liked the themes in Dorian Gray but not the plot.
are these books required by your college or are you reading them just for fun?
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I've read Dorian Gray already, and it's a modern translation of Beowulf so hopefully it'll be a little easier too. :)
reading "The Turn of the Screw" at the moment and really liking it.
hope you're well bbz!! xxxxx
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anglo-saxon poetry does not..
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Still haven't got on to anglo-saxon poetry... ;)
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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (I have a copy of this, is it good?)
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist, Hard Times
George Eliot - Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
Tennyson - In Memoriam
Robert Browning - The Major Works
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Shakespeare - The Tempest
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Kenneth O. Morgan - The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
A.C.Baugh and T.Cable - A History of the English Language
Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson - A Guide to Old English
Seamus Heaney - Beowulf (in a different translation)
S.A.J.Bradley - Anglo-Saxon Poetry
I have read bits of the other collected works. I really wish that I went somewhere for English that required reads like these. Everything at my college is either ~gender~ or ~minority~ literature to the point that you can get your degree in English without reading any Henry James, Jane Austen, or more than one short story by
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I personally loved Jude the Obscure
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