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The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of [[Titles by Topics:Reading List]].
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*[https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/2019_10_10_Lektuereliste_Anglistik_Oldenburg.pdf General Reading List: British and Anglophone Literatures]
  
==Before 1450==
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[[Category:Reading lists|literature]]
 
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* Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400)
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'''plus one of the following'''
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* Beowulf (in modern translation)
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* ''Sir Gawayn and the Green Night''
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* Mandeville; ''Travels'' (1370)
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==1450 - 1499==
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* Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (London William Caxton, 1485).
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'''plus one of the following'''
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* Sir John Mandeville, ''Travels'' (early printed edition)
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==1500 - 1549==
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*Thomas Morus, ''Utopia'' (1515)
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'''plus one of the following'''
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==1550 - 1599==
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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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'''plus one of the following'''
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==1600 - 1649==
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*William Shakespeare, ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (c. 1607 [published in 1623]).
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'''plus one of the following'''
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*John Fletcher, ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (c.1621 [published in 1652]).
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==1650 - 1699==
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*Richard Head, ''The English Rogue'' vol.1 (1665).
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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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'''plus one of the following'''
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*William Congreve, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).
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==1700 - 1749==
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*Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).
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*Samuel Richardson, ''Pamela'' (1740).
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'''plus one of the following'''
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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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*Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
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*John Cleland, ''Fanny Hill'' (1748).
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==1750 - 1799==
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*Laurence Sterne, ''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'' (1768).
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*James McPherson, ''Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language'' (1761).
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==1800 - 1849==
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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'' (1828).
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*Jane Austen, ''Pride and Prejudice (1813).
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*Edgar Allan Poe, ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (?)
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==1850 - 1899==
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*Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (1854).
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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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*Herman Melville, ''Moby-Dick'' (1851).
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*George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-72).
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*Mark Twain, ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876).
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*Edward Bellamy, ''Looking Backward: 2000-1887'' (1888).
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*Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest'' (1895).
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==1900 - 1949==
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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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*James Joyce, ''Ulysses'' (1922).
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*Virginia Woolf, ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925).
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*Aldous Huxley, ''Brave New World'' (1932).
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==1950 - 1999==
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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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*David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], ''Twelve Monkeys'' [movie] (1995).
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*Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
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==2000 - Today==
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