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| − | The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of [[Titles by Topics: Literature Reading List II]].
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| − | ==The short historical reading list==
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| − | Our Basismodul 1 offered this - short - historical reading list, designed to give you a broad view of the variety of Materials
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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).
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| − | # 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]).
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| − | # 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
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| − | # 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]
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| − | # 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]
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| − | # 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]
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| − | # George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' <!--Untertitel-->(1871/72). [http://www.19thnovels.com/middlemarch.php 19thNovels.com]
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| − | # T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land Wikisource]
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| − | # Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)
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| − | # Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
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| − | ==The longer historical reading list==
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| − | * Beowulf c.750 (in modern translation)
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| − | * Sir John Mandeville; ''Travels'' (1370)
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| − | * ''Sir Gawayn and the Green Night'' (c.1380) - printed editions preserved the text into the early 18th century.
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400)
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| − | ===1500===
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| − | *Thomas Morus, ''Utopia'' (1515)
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| − | *Thomas Kyd, ''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe'' (c. 1590).
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| − | *Christopher Marlowe, ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe'' (1594 [published in 1604]).
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| − | ===1600===
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| − | *William Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'' (1603).
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| − | *William Shakespeare, ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (c. 1607 [published in 1623]).
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| − | *John Fletcher, ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (c.1621 [published in 1652]).
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| − | *Richard Head, ''The English Rogue'' vol.1 (1665).
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| − | *John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' (1667).
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| − | *William Congreve, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).
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| − | *John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1678).
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| − | *Aphra Behn, ''Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister'' (1684).
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| − | *John Donne - Selected Poems
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| − | ===1700===
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| − | *Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).
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| − | *Eliza Haywood, ''Love in Excess'' (1719-1720).
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| − | *Richard Steele, ''The Conscious Lovers'' (1722).
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| − | *Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726).
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| − | *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).
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| − | *Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
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| − | *Alexander Pope, ''An Essay on Man'' (1734).
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| − | *Samuel Richardson, ''Pamela'' (1740).
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| − | *John Cleland, ''Fanny Hill'' (1748).
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| − | *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).
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| − | *Laurence Sterne, ''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'' (1768).
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| − | ===1800===
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| − | *Jane Austen, ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813).
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| − | *Walter Scott, ''Waverley'' (1814).
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| − | *Mary Shelley, ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1819).
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| − | *James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1826).
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| − | *Mary Shelley, ''The Last Man'' (1826).
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| − | *Charles Dickens, ''Oliver Twist'' (1838).
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| − | *Herman Melville, ''Moby Dick'' (1851).
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| − | *Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (1854).
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| − | *Walt Whitman, ''Leaves of Grass'' (1855).
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| − | *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).
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| − | *George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-72).
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| − | *Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' (1886).
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| − | *Mark Twain, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1889).
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| − | *Edward Bellamy, ''Looking Backward: 2000-1887'' (1888).
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| − | *Oscar Wilde, ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1890, revised edition: 1891)
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| − | *H. G. Wells, ''The Time Machine'' (1895).
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| − | *Oscar Wilde, ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1895).
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| − | ===1900===
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| − | *T.S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922).
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| − | *Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from ''Men Without Women'' (1927).
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| − | *George Orwell, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949).
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| − | *D. H. Lawrence, ''The Rainbow'' (1915).
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| − | *James Joyce, ''Ulysses'' (1922).
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| − | *John Dos Passos, ''U.S.A.'' trilogy, comprising: ''The 42nd Parallel'' (1930), ''Nineteen Nineteen'' (1932), and ''The Big Money'' (1936).
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| − | *Virginia Woolf, ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925).
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| − | *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).
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| − | *Vladimir Nabokov, ''Lolita'' (1955).
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| − | *Chinua Achebe, ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958).
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| − | *John Irving, ''The World According to Garp'' (1978).
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| − | *J.M. Coetzee, ''Life & Times of Michael K'' (1983).
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| − | *Jeanette Winterson, ''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'' (1985).
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| − | *Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
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| − | *Martin Amis, ''Time's Arrow'' (1991).
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| − | *David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], ''Twelve Monkeys'' [movie] (1995).
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| − | ===2000===
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| − | *Ian McEwan, ''Atonement'' (2001).
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| − | *Jonathan Franzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001).
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| − | *Cormac McCarthy, ''The Road'' (2006).
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