TravelingChris Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 My computer crashed in the fall and also some nameless people in my family didn't save my documents before reformatting my old computer and giving it to my daughter. Anyway, I remembered all the books until Gulliver's Travels but now I am lost. What next? She has read Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, a lot of Shakespeare Plays, Paradise Lost, Faust, and of course Gulliver's Travels. SHe has read DIckens a few times earlier in her high school so no more there. I want her done by late May. I know I don't want to subject her to Jane Eyre since I didn't like it. I will have her read some Yeats poetry and The Dubliners by James Joyce . I guess I also will do Heart of Darkness by Conrad and 1984. That takes care of the 20th century. But I need something or somethings from late 18th to the 20th century. Preferably nothing too long since she still has those others to do. Suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Oh, I gorgot to add that she also has read Frankenstein earlier too. Oh and she has read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility too in earlier years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 How about Keats? I really fell for him as a teenager. I second The Importance of Being Earnest for light relief. How about a different Bronte: Wuthering Heights maybe? I was surprised by the idea of Conrad for BritLit, but it makes as much sense as anything else. I think you'd find that Irish people would react to Joyce and Yeats being included in BritLit - they were both born during British rule in Ireland, but both would have called themselves Irish rather than British, I believe. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 1800s - British - Jane Eyre (Bronte) - Wuthering Heights (Bronte) - A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations (Dickens) - Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility; Emma (Austen) - Treasure Island (Stevenson) - Silas Marner (Eliot) - Lord Jim (Conrad) - Heart of Darkness (Conrad) - Ivanhoe (Scott) - Gulliver's Travels (Swift) - Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy) Sci-Fi / Fantasy - Frankenstein (Shelley) - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) - Lilith (MacDonald) - The Time Machine (Wells) - The Invisible Man (Wells) - War of the Worlds (Wells) 1900s - British - The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton) - The Screwtape Letters (Lewis) - Lord of the Flies (Golding) - A Passage to India (Forster) - Heart of Darkness (Conrad) - Lord Jim (Conrad) - Lord of the Flies (Golding) set in other than modern times - The Once and Future King (White) - Till We Have Faces (Lewis) humor - Life With Jeeves (Wodehouse) - Three Men in a Boat -- To Say Nothing of the Dog (Jerome) sci-fi / fantasy - Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) - Watership Down (Adams) - Peter Pan (Barrie) - Brave New World (Huxley) - Animal Farm (Orwell) - 1984 (Orwell) - On The Beach (Shute) Essays - A Modest Proposal (Swift) - A Piece of Chalk (Chesterton) Short Stories 1800s - Sherlock Holmes short story mysteries (Doyle) - The Open Window (Saki) - The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs) - The Golden Key (MacDonald) - The Light Princess (MacDonald) 1900s - A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan) - Father Brown short story mysteries (Chesterton) - Lord Peter Wimsey short story mysteries (Sayers) - The Dead (Joyce) Plays - A Man For All Seasons (Bolt) - Waiting for Godot (Beckett) - Hamlet (Shakespeare) - Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead (Stoppard) - The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) - Pygmalion (Shaw) Poetry 1800s - William Blake - John Keats - Lord Byron - Percy Shelley - William Wordsworth - Elizabeth Browning - Christina Rossetti - Samuel Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) - Alfred Tennyson 1900s - William Yeats - DH Lawrence - Dylan Thomas - T.S. Eliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 Thanks all. I chose Silas Marner since it is a short book and she has already seen THe Importance of Being Earnest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Thanks all. I chose Silas Marner since it is a short book and she has already seen THe Importance of Being Earnest. It's the most accessible of GE's works, I think, but there's still a lot of style/history/imagery to discuss. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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