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Listopia > and our prophecy has come true's votes on the list The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class (5 Books)
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Beowulf
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"So hard to pick just five, but i guess these would be my bare essentials! Ideally I'd divide material into literary "eras" chronologically while shaving off a lot of contemporary degeneration"
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Hamlet
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"can't have an english class without Shakespeare tbh"
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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"Seeing my top 5, I'd pretty much be your average English teacher as these are already popularly assigned books ._. maybe a touch more depressing"
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Heart of Darkness
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"a personal favourite, plus it's a relatively shorter read with immaculate prose and a haunting setup.. also, colonialism"
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Ulysses
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"Intro to postmodernism (without throwing up from vertigo or smth)"
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