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May 14, 2024 · Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and always highly readable, this poetry collection plays with our preconceptions of famous women from literature. Highlights include ‘Little Red-Cap’, ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Mrs Darwin’ and ‘Pygmalion’s Bride’. 10. The Kite Runner (2003) – Khaled Hosseini.
- Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury.
- Hamlet William Shakespeare.
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee.
- Animal Farm George Orwell.
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- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Emma, by Jane Austen
- The Lord of The Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
- To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’” Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has long been considered a classic novel...
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” Set in London in the late 19th Century, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an important examination of class, perspective, and the purpose of art – which was a noticeable talking point for society at the time. For students, The Picture of Dorian Gray offers so many interesting points of discuss...
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” It would be impossible not to include Wuthering Heights on a list of must-read books for English Literature students. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising if you have already studied ...
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” No matter who you ask, 1984 will always rank as one of the best books for English Literature students to read during their studies. Exploring themes of t...
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” As one of the greatest coming-of-age stories ever told, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations had to be the one novel of his included on our list of classic books to read, ...
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.” The Kite Runner is one of the newest on our list of best books for English Literature students, but it’s still considered one of the greatest classic novels. Written in 2003, The Kite Runner is a stellar example of postcolonial literature....
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.” For those who have never read a Jane Austen novel before, Emma is the perfect start – a funny, romantic, and easy-to-read novel. Set in the early 19th Century, the novel centres on Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young woman w...
*“The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” * Having studied at Exeter College in Oxford, J. R. R. Tolkien was one of the original members of “The Inklings,” a notable group of budding writers, including C. S. Lewis, who met for conversation, drinks, and readings from their works-in-progress. Tak...
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” Set in the 1930s in the small and sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy who lives with her ten-year-old brother, Jem, her father Atticu...
Aug 14, 2020 · Let’s get one fact straight right from the get go: no, reading these books will not make you a straight A student. What it will do, however, is prep you for the kind of text you will not only be exposed to, but expected to read and dissect as an English major. While I read Jane Austen’s books and a few other classics on my own time in high school, it wasn’t enough to fully pre
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. This tumultuous tale of life in a bleak farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors is a popular set text for GCSE and A-level English study, but away from the demands of the classroom it’s easier to enjoy its drama and intensity.
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot. Middlemarch, subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life”, is the story of the inhabitants of a Midlands village in the 1830s.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four makes depressing but essential reading. Published in 1949, it’s the author’s vision of a dystopian future dominated by totalitarian state surveillance, mind control and perpetual war.
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. If you haven’t read the book, you’ll almost certainly have seen Peter Jackson’s epic three-part movie adaptation of it.
Jan 7, 2016 · For a rather short book it covers a fair bit of ground, though Bate spends less time dealing with the ‘how to read’ questions that Eagleton treats so well in his book. Nevertheless, one of the best introductions to the study of English literature out there, by a first-rate scholar. John Peck and Martin Coyle, A Brief History of English ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · 8. Pick One Literary Giant & Read Everything They’ve Written. Now that you have a basic understanding of literary criticism, theory, and analysis, as well as exposure to some of the great works of English literature, it may be a good idea to do what Oxford English Lit students call the Special Author Module.
