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Holly wanted to read: Anyone have any recommendations for classics that they think would be good to read for an someone interested in doing an English Literature degree?

Jun 03, 2013 12:54AM · Like

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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee

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Tender Is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Wuthering Heights
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Emily Brontë

she said: " gothic tragedy "

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The Moor's Last Sigh
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Salman Rushdie

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Daughter of Fortune
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

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The Fixer
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Bernard Malamud

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1984
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George Orwell

she said: " sci-fi classic. highly recommended. "

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Middlemarch
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George Eliot

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A Room with a View
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E.M. Forster

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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë

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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad

he said: " If you are interested in doing an English Lit degree, try this book out and see what you get out of it. Reason why I picked this book is because this seems to show up in a lot of English Lit courses (I have to do it again next semester) and if you can pick it apart then maybe you are ready/right for this degree. "

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Moll Flanders / Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe

they said: " Robinson Crusoe was one of the first (if not THE first) novels in English. Moll Flanders is a picaresque novel. "

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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer

they said: " Does it ever get more classic than this? Get ready for Middle Ages reads when doing an English Lit degree. "

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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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Aldous Huxley

they said: " I haven't read this edition, but I'm told BNW Revisited contains Huxley's thoughts on how BNW was received and that it was NOT supposed to be a guide! ;) ...more "