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The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of [[Titles by Topics: Reading List II]]. | The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of [[Titles by Topics: Reading List II]]. | ||
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| − | == | + | # ''Beowulf'' (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) [http://www.heorot.dk/beo-ru.html Benjamin Slade's edition] Best printed edition: ''Beowulf'', a dual-language edition translated with an introduction and Commentary by Howell D. Chickering, Jr. (New York: Anchor, 1977/2006). |
| + | # Geoffrey Chaucer ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400). [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public Virginia e-text] (you may try to read the [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=33&division=div1 Shipman's tale] with a [http://www.librarius.com/canttran/shiptale/shiptale001-019.htm translation into modern English]). | ||
| + | # Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (1471/1485) [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1188480744_15972&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=25050&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html Marteau] esp. Caxton's preface and book 5 | ||
| + | # William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1608). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=99846503&FILE=../session/1193063451_7446&SEARCHSCREEN=param(SEARCHSCREEN)&VID=11476&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=param(SEARCHCONFIG)&DISPLAY=param(DISPLAY) EEBO] | ||
| + | # William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12738515&FILE=../session/1188896327_12749&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=93051&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= ECCO] | ||
| + | # Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0653600100&SU=All&c=5&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW113746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&tiPG=1 ECCO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1719-robinson-crusoe.html Marteau] | ||
| + | # George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' <!--Untertitel-->(1871/72). [http://www.19thnovels.com/middlemarch.php 19thNovels.com] | ||
| + | # T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land Wikisource] | ||
| + | # Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965) | ||
| + | # Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988). | ||
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| + | * Beowulf c.750 (in modern translation) | ||
| + | * Sir John Mandeville; ''Travels'' (1370) | ||
| + | * ''Sir Gawayn and the Green Night'' (c.1380) - printed editions preserved the text into the early 18th century. | ||
| + | * Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' [1471] (London: William Caxton, 1485) - especially the first five and the last four books in Caxton's numbering of chapters. | ||
| + | * Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400) | ||
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| + | *Thomas Morus, ''Utopia'' (1515) | ||
*Thomas Kyd, ''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe'' (c. 1590). | *Thomas Kyd, ''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe'' (c. 1590). | ||
| + | *Christopher Marlowe, ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe'' (1594 [published in 1604]). | ||
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*William Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'' (1603). | *William Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'' (1603). | ||
| + | *William Shakespeare, ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (c. 1607 [published in 1623]). | ||
*John Fletcher, ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (c.1621 [published in 1652]). | *John Fletcher, ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (c.1621 [published in 1652]). | ||
| − | + | *Richard Head, ''The English Rogue'' vol.1 (1665). | |
| − | + | *John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' (1667). | |
| − | + | *William Congreve, ''The Country Wife'' (1675). | |
*John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1678). | *John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1678). | ||
*Aphra Behn, ''Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister'' (1684). | *Aphra Behn, ''Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister'' (1684). | ||
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*John Donne - Selected Poems | *John Donne - Selected Poems | ||
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*Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719). | *Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719). | ||
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*Eliza Haywood, ''Love in Excess'' (1719-1720). | *Eliza Haywood, ''Love in Excess'' (1719-1720). | ||
*Richard Steele, ''The Conscious Lovers'' (1722). | *Richard Steele, ''The Conscious Lovers'' (1722). | ||
| + | *Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726). | ||
*Jonathan Swift, ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'' (1729). | *Jonathan Swift, ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'' (1729). | ||
*Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). | *Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). | ||
| − | *Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man'' (1734). | + | *Alexander Pope, ''An Essay on Man'' (1734). |
| + | *Samuel Richardson, ''Pamela'' (1740). | ||
*John Cleland, ''Fanny Hill'' (1748). | *John Cleland, ''Fanny Hill'' (1748). | ||
| − | + | *Laurence Sterne, ''Tristram Shandy'' (1759-67). | |
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*James McPherson, ''Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] composed by Ossian [...], translated from the Gaelic Language'' (1761). | *James McPherson, ''Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] composed by Ossian [...], translated from the Gaelic Language'' (1761). | ||
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| − | + | *Walter Scott, ''Waverley'' (1814). | |
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*Mary Shelley, ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1819). | *Mary Shelley, ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1819). | ||
*Charles Dickens, ''Oliver Twist'' (1838). | *Charles Dickens, ''Oliver Twist'' (1838). | ||
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*James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1826). | *James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1826). | ||
*Mary Shelley, ''The Last Man'' (1828). | *Mary Shelley, ''The Last Man'' (1828). | ||
*Jane Austen, ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813). | *Jane Austen, ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813). | ||
| + | *Herman Melville, ''Moby-Dick'' (1851). | ||
| + | *Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (1854). | ||
| + | *Walt Whitman, ''Leaves of Grass'' (1855). | ||
*Edgar Allan Poe, ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (?) | *Edgar Allan Poe, ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (?) | ||
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*Harriet Beecher Stowe, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' (1852). | *Harriet Beecher Stowe, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' (1852). | ||
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*George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-72). | *George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-72). | ||
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*Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' (1886). | *Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' (1886). | ||
*Mark Twain, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1889). | *Mark Twain, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1889). | ||
*Edward Bellamy, ''Looking Backward: 2000-1887'' (1888). | *Edward Bellamy, ''Looking Backward: 2000-1887'' (1888). | ||
| + | *Oscar Wilde, ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1890, revised edition: 1891) | ||
| + | *H. G. Wells, ''The Time Machine'' (1895). | ||
*Oscar Wilde, ''The Importance of Being Ernest'' (1895). | *Oscar Wilde, ''The Importance of Being Ernest'' (1895). | ||
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*T.S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). | *T.S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). | ||
*Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from ''Men Without Women'' (1927). | *Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from ''Men Without Women'' (1927). | ||
*George Orwell, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949). | *George Orwell, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949). | ||
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*D. H. Lawrence, ''The Rainbow'' (1915). | *D. H. Lawrence, ''The Rainbow'' (1915). | ||
*James Joyce, ''Ulysses'' (1922). | *James Joyce, ''Ulysses'' (1922). | ||
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*Virginia Woolf, ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925). | *Virginia Woolf, ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925). | ||
*Aldous Huxley, ''Brave New World'' (1932). | *Aldous Huxley, ''Brave New World'' (1932). | ||
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*Samuel Beckett, ''Waiting for Godot'' [originally written in 1948/49 under the title ''En attendant Godot''] (1952). | *Samuel Beckett, ''Waiting for Godot'' [originally written in 1948/49 under the title ''En attendant Godot''] (1952). | ||
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*Vladimir Nabokov, ''Lolita'' (1955). | *Vladimir Nabokov, ''Lolita'' (1955). | ||
*Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988). | *Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988). | ||
| − | + | *David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], ''Twelve Monkeys'' [movie] (1995). | |
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Revision as of 16:46, 6 March 2008
The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of Titles by Topics: Reading List II.
The short historical reading list
Our Basismodul 1 offered this - short - historical reading list, designed to give you a broad view of the variety of Materials
- Beowulf (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) Benjamin Slade's edition Best printed edition: Beowulf, a dual-language edition translated with an introduction and Commentary by Howell D. Chickering, Jr. (New York: Anchor, 1977/2006).
- Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text (you may try to read the Shipman's tale with a translation into modern English).
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1471/1485) EEBO, Marteau esp. Caxton's preface and book 5
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608). EEBO
- William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675). ECCO
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719). ECCO, Marteau
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871/72). 19thNovels.com
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Wikisource
- Edward Bond, Saved (1965)
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988).
The longer historical reading list
- Beowulf c.750 (in modern translation)
- Sir John Mandeville; Travels (1370)
- Sir Gawayn and the Green Night (c.1380) - printed editions preserved the text into the early 18th century.
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur [1471] (London: William Caxton, 1485) - especially the first five and the last four books in Caxton's numbering of chapters.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1386-1400)
1500
- Thomas Morus, Utopia (1515)
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe (c. 1590).
- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe (1594 [published in 1604]).
1600
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603).
- William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra (c. 1607 [published in 1623]).
- John Fletcher, The Wild Goose Chase (c.1621 [published in 1652]).
- Richard Head, The English Rogue vol.1 (1665).
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667).
- William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675).
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684).
- John Donne - Selected Poems
1700
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719-1720).
- Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers (1722).
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726).
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick (1729).
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734).
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740).
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1748).
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67).
- James McPherson, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] composed by Ossian [...], translated from the Gaelic Language (1761).
1800
- Walter Scott, Waverley (1814).
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1819).
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838).
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1828).
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813).
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851).
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854).
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855).
- Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (?)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852).
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72).
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, revised edition: 1891)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest (1895).
1900
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).
- Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from Men Without Women (1927).
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
- D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915).
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).
- John Dos Passos, U.S.A. trilogy, comprising: The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925).
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932).
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot [originally written in 1948/49 under the title En attendant Godot] (1952).
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955).
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988).
- David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], Twelve Monkeys [movie] (1995).
