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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 1:11am | IP Logged Quote Chari
Hey, friends.........will you help me to put together a list of every book you think should belong on a high school or college English literature survey list........those must-reads.

Thanks! Looking forward to compiling with you!

I will start:

Everything by Jane Austin, especially Pride and Prejudice

Everything by Charles Dickens

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, plus her other books

Middlemarch by George Eliot



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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 4:45am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Hi Chari,

Here are a few titles for your list:

Everything by Shakespeare

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I'll be looking forward to hearing the suggestions. Many moons ago I was an English major with a love of literature -- one of my goals this year is to re-read the classics (well, a few of them anyway! )

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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 10:34am | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
Lewis' Space Trilogy, The Screwtape Letters, 'Til we Have Faces, The Great Divorce

The Importance of Being Earnest (does Irish lit count as English? Could start a war... )

Brideshead Revisited and The Loved One

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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 11:11am | IP Logged Quote momwise
Hey MacBeth....I'm on the side of the Irish

I hardly have the backround to suggest anything besides Dickens and Lewis (well, Shakespeare's a no-brainer), but what about George MacDonald and G.K.C? What, if anything of theirs should be on the list?

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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 12:18pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
Chari,
As a General Text...which happens to be very "living", I think , I have been impressed with
Prose and Poetry of England reprinted by Seton Press.

I bought it for my high schooler but he kinda left me in a corner with it.   

Looking through the list I compiled for him, here are some "English reads" that he read and we discussed:

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
The Rocking Horse Catholic by Caryll Houselander (anything by this English writer is good)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder


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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 1:02pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
momwise wrote:
I hardly have the backround to suggest anything besides Dickens and Lewis (well, Shakespeare's a no-brainer), but what about George MacDonald and G.K.C? What, if anything of theirs should be on the list?


For GKC, I remember studying "Ballad of the White Horse."

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I'd like to add:
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Canterbury Tales
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Anything by Kipling
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

Don't forget there are many poems (Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, yeats, Woolf, TS Elliot), plus short stories and essays which should be read, as well.A good anthology is often the best way to go for these.

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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 2:57pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
momwise wrote:
but what about George MacDonald and G.K.C? What, if anything of theirs should be on the list?


Lilith is MacDonald, and I meant to say Father Brown, but needed to run .

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Posted: Jan 22 2006 at 7:42pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
Cay Gibson wrote:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder


Oops!
Not English.
But a great story!


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Posted: Nov 30 2009 at 12:26pm | IP Logged Quote Chari
I was just re-visiting this old thread.........anything else someone wants to add?

The Importance of Being Earnest was listed above, but all by osacr Wilde, too, should be added. He wrote some fun plays!

Just beware of his bio.   

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Posted: Dec 02 2009 at 3:48pm | IP Logged Quote Amanda
Spencer, Sidney, Marlowe, George Herbert, Donne...to name some of the early stuff.

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