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ENGLISH 12, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

You are required to read and write a report on a total of 8 books.  Only one title per author is permitted.  One of these may be a biography.  You MUST read at least 5 of the starred (*) books.

 

A             Aeschylus                             *Prometheus Bound

                Aristophanes                        *Lysistrata and The Clouds

                Austen, Jane                         *Pride and Prejudice

                                                                *Sense and Sensibility

                                                                *Mansfield Park

                                                                *Emma

B             Baines, Keith                        *Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur

                Bede, Venerable                   *The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

                Bronte, Ann                          *Agnas Gray

                Bronte, Charlotte                  *Jane Eyre

                                                                *Shirley

                Bronte, Emily                        *Wuthering Heights (In Class Assignment)

                Bunyan, John                       *The Holy War

C             Chaucer, Geoffery                *Canterbury Tales

                Conrad, Joseph                    *Heart of Darkness

                Dante, Alighieri                    *The Inferno

                                                                *Purgatory

                                                                *Paradise

                DeFoe, Daniel                       *Moll Flanders

                Dickens, Charles                  *Bleak House

                                                                *Hard Times

                                                                *Pickwick Papers

                Dostoyevsky, Fyodor         Crime and Punishment

E              Eliot, George                         *The Mill on the Floss

F              Forster, E.M.                         *A Passage to India

G             Goldsmith, Oliver *She Stoops to Conquer

                                                                *The Vicar of Wakefield

                Goodrich, Norma                  *Medieval Myths

H             Hardy, Thomas                     *Far from the Madding Crowd

                                                                * Jude the Obscure (In Class Assignment)

                                                                *The Return of the Native

                                                                *Tes of the D’Urbervilles

                Huxley, Aldous                    Brave New World

I               Isherwood, C.                       Great English Short Stories

J              Joyce, James                         *A Portrait of the Young Man

                                                                *Dubliners

K             Kafka, Franz                          *The Metamorphosis

L              Lamb, Charles                       Tales from Shakespeare

                Lewis, C. S.                            *The Screwtape Letters

                Lattimore, R.                          *The Odyssey of Homer

                  (Homer)                                *The Iliad of Homer

M            Milton, John                         *Paradise Lost

                                                                *Paradise Regained

                Moliere                                  *Tartuffe

                                                                *The Misanthrope

                Morrell, J. M.                        *Four English Comedies

O             O’Neill, Eugene                    *A Long Day’s Journey into Night

                Orwell, George                      *Homage to Catalonia

                                                                *1984

                Ovid                                       *Metamorphases

S              Scott, Walter                         *Ivanhoe

                Shakespeare, W.                  *Hamlet

                                                                *King Lear

                                                                *Othello

                Singer, Isaac                         Gimpel the Fool

                Sophocles                             *The Oedipus Cycle

                Swift, Jonathan                     *Gulliver’s Travels

T             Thackery, W. M.                  *Vanity Fair

                Tenneyson, Alfred Lord     *Idylls of the King

V             Voltaire                                  *Candide and Zidig

W            Walker, Hughe                     *Selected English Short Stories

                Walpole, Horace                  *The Castle of Otranto

                Wells, H. G.                           Selected Short Stories

                Wilde, Oscar                         *The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Anderson, Courtney           To These Golden Shores (Adonirim Judson)

Boothroyd, Basil                  Prince Philip (Philip of England)

Carter, Violet B.                    Winston Churchill

D’Aubigne, Merle                The Protector:  A Vindication (Cromwell)

de Vilallonga, Jose               The King (Juan Carlos I)

Dinesen, Isak                        Out of Africa

Edwards, Brian H.                Through ManyDangers (Newton)

Ford, Sallie R.                        Mary Bunyan

Fraser, Antonia                    Mary Queen of Scotts 

Garfinkel, Gernard                Margaret Thatcher

Hummel, Charles E.              The Galileo Connection

Luke, Mary M.                      Catherine the Queen

MacLean, Alistair                Captain Cook

Murray, Iain                          The Forgotten Spurgeon

Pollock, John                        The Apostle (Paul)

                                                Hudson Taylor and Maria

                                                The Master (Christ)

Reid, W. Stanford                Trumpeter of God (John Knox)

Shelter, Joanne                     And the Word Came with Power (Modern day missionary biography)