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* Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
* David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
* Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
* Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
* Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
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Cabbages and Kings – O. Henry
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
East is East – T.C. Boyle
The Metamorphosis –...

Type 'literary glossary' into Google and you'll find several online resources. And there are many fine books of literary terms.

I also HIGHLY recommend Shogun, along with the rest of the series (particularly Taipan and Noble House). They're just fantastic.

Many feminist criticisms would actually refute that Shelley intended the monster to be the sympathetic character.



This has to do with what I said above. All traditional female characters are...

We covered it in my Romantic lit class last month. I thinks it's great (it's on my must-read list), but don't feel bad if it confuses you. Blake purposefully contradicts himself over and over,...

I read My Life as a Fake. Wasn't too impressed.

I've been an avid reader since I was a kid. I devoured the classic adventure books in grade school (Huckleberry Finn, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure Island, etc). I never read any theory or...

I'm planning to pursue a graduate degree in English, so I'll be taking the GRE as well as the Subject test in Literature some time in the next two years or so. I'm preparing for both of them by...

The English department at my school is structured more like the way you wish yours would be. British literature from medieval to modern is broken into 6 different courses, and we are required to take...

If you're interested in writing, I would suggest an English writing program. You'll learn a LOT and actually have a useful degree in four years. From there you can get an MFA if you want to. What...

I'm an English lit major, so luckily I get to read nonstop! However, when it comes to my own personal reading list, it is indeed difficult to find time. On top of the hectic college life, I have a...

I've read it and yes, it is indeed. Glamorama is also.

JBI, I completely agree with you. It was an absolutely atrocious assemblage of words. It was a real shame to follow up that beautiful musical arrangement with a horrible attempt at poetry.

Atlas Shrugged is the longest for me, followed closely by James Clavell's Shogun. I've read Shogun thrice cover to cover, but AS was taxing to read once.

I finished 37 books this year. Here's the list:

http://mattfarina.wordpress.com/2008-book-list/

I'd like to read 50+ in 09', but I'm not sure if my school schedule will allow that. Latin,...

When I think of my favorite short 20th century writing, the first thing that comes to mind is Steinbeck's Cannery Row.

Either Atlas Shrugged or Shogun

I haven't read any of them, nor am I planning to. By the time these hit the scene I was already beginning my love affair with classics. I think as youth fiction they're probably fine books and seem...

I must be quite a Philistine - Steinbeck is my favorite writer and I find Hemingway dreadful. For Whom the Bell Tolls is his only work that I've read cover to cover, so I'm certainly no expert and am...

Penguin Classics look GREAT and some of them are annotated. However, the physical quality is not so good.

The new series of Barnes & Noble classics all have notes, which is awesome for me as an...

This book has always been characterized as 'a book about racism' when it clearly is not. Racism is one of the themes but I think everyone that believes that it is the main point of the book has...

"Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."
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Brand new member here! I've been looking for a place to discuss literature for a while. I'm a 21 year old English major in Georgia, USA and have a great zest and verve for reading.