Literature Reading List

Before 1450

• Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1386-1400)

plus one of the following

• Beowulf (in modern translation)
• Sir Gawayn and the Green Night
• Mandeville; Travels (1370)

1450 - 1499

• Malory, Le Morte Darthur (London William Caxton, 1485).

plus one of the following

• Sir John Mandeville, Travels (early printed edition)

1500 - 1549

• Thomas Morus, Utopia (1515)

plus one of the following

1550 - 1599

plus one of the following

1600 - 1649

plus one of the following

1650 - 1699

• Richard Head, The English Rogue vol.1 (1665).
• John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
• Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)

plus one of the following

• William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675).

1700 - 1749

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740).

plus one of the following

• Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers (1722).

1750 - 1799

plus one of the following

1800 - 1849

plus one of the following

1850 - 1899

plus one of the following

1900 - 1949

plus one of the following

1950 - 1999

plus one of the following