happykids Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 6 British Lit. books, which would you choose? Thanks! Sabrina in NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peek a Boo Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 6 British Lit. books, which would you choose? Thanks! Sabrina in NY for high school? in one year, or over all 4 years of highschool? which ages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happykids Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 For a senior in high school. Thanks! Sabrina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Since it's such a huge field, I'm going to stick with fiction and (roughly) 19th/20 Centuries. American: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Violent Bear it Away - O'Connor Moby Dick - Melville The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck British: The Power and the Glory - Greene David Copperfield - Dickens Frankenstein - Shelley Pride and Prejudice - Austen Les Miserable - Hugo Greenmantle - Buchan I feel horribly guilty for excluding Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. And Faulkner. Sorry guys. If I wasn't sticking to the last 2 centuries, I'd have thrown Pilgrim's Progress onto the British list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Since it's such a huge field, I'm going to stick with fiction and (roughly) 19th/20 Centuries. American: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Violent Bear it Away - O'Connor Moby Dick - Melville The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck British: The Power and the Glory - Greene David Copperfield - Dickens Frankenstein - Shelley Pride and Prejudice - Austen Les Miserable - Hugo Greenmantle - Buchan I feel horribly guilty for excluding Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. And Faulkner. Sorry guys. If I wasn't sticking to the last 2 centuries, I'd have thrown Pilgrim's Progress onto the British list. I think Hugo was French???? So remove him and add a Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Return of the Native. And Great Expectations over Copperfield, if length/time is an issue. And I'd pick Huckleberry Finn over Tom Sawyer - more adult. Maybe Of Mice and Men over Grapes of Wrath, too. But that is just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in NM Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Fun... American authors (pick your own book!)--Hawthorne, Twain, James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck English authors--Defoe, Austin, Dickens, Thomas Hardy...maybe multiple works? James Joyce? *yikes!* (well, he counts as British...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in NM Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Now, I wasn't thinking of poetry and drama--guess I was focusing on novels for "literature." I'd agree with Shakespeare, and the American poets, too...I'd probably try something from Chaucer--you might want to seriously preview what, though--so much of his work is bawdy, so say the least... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I think Hugo was French???? So remove him and add a Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Return of the Native. And Great Expectations over Copperfield, if length/time is an issue. Yes, duh. :tongue_smilie: Wasn't thinking. Take out Hugo, but don't replace him with Thomas Hardy! He's almost unbearable. Yuck. Skip him, and throw in Tolkien or Lewis. Sabrina, you see how hard it is to follow your rules? :) You are a hard taskmaster! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Yes, duh. :tongue_smilie: Wasn't thinking. Take out Hugo, but don't replace him with Thomas Hardy! He's almost unbearable. Yuck. Skip him, and throw in Tolkien or Lewis. What? No! Hardy is great! OK, ok - how about a Bronte? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 You can't tell I have strong feelings about Hardy? ;) I LOVE Bronte, though. Jane Eyre is one of my "comfort" books. So after seeing the other posts, think we can narrow it down to 6 American and 6 British over the sweep of History - poetry too? Yikes! I think it's impossible. If we stuck to authors rather than specific works that might make it easier. But, maybe cheating. British: Chaucer - Canterbury Tales Bunyon - Pilgrim's Progress Shakespeare - impossible to narrow. How about 2 Sonnets and a play? You can never have too much Shakespeare! Austen - Pride & Prejudice Dickens - David Copperfield (or Tale of Two Cities if you need something shorter.) Green - The Power and the Glory American: Melville - Moby Dick Whitman - Leaves of Grass Twain - Tom Sawyer Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find Oh, this is too much fun. Must get back to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SheWhoWaits Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I don't come around much, but I couldn't resist this thread. I love literature! British: British: The Faerie Queen -- long, but worth it. maybe do selections? Beowulf Paradise Lost -- how can you not do this one? A Tale of Two Cities Henry V --my absolute favorite Shakespeare Picture of Dorian Gray American: The Grapes of Wrath For Whom the Bell Tolls Red Badge of Courage Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson and/or Emily Dickinson Autobiography of Malcolm X Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas You'll notice most of the books I've chosen have a strong moral component. To me, that's what literature is for, so those are the kinds of books that I enjoy. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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