Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
Contents:
The amber spyglass / by Philip Pullman -- The bloody chamber / by Angela Carter -- The Castle of Otranto / by Horace Walpole -- Clarissa / by Samuel Richardson -- The country of the blind / by H.G. Wells -- The door in the wall / by H.G. Wells -- Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus / by Mary Shelley -- The frozen deep / by Wilkie Collins -- The golden compass / by Philip Pullman -- Hard times / by Charles Dickens -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / by J.K. Rowling -- Howards End / by E.M. Forster -- The interlopers / by Hector Hugh Munro -- The island of Dr. Moreau / by H.G. Wells -- Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Brontèˆ -- King Solomon's mines / by Henry Rider Haggard -- The man who would be king / by Rudyard Kipling -- Midnight's children / by Salman Rushdie -- Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- Pamela / by Samuel Richardson -- The remains of the day / by Kazuo Ishiguro -- She / by Henry Rider Haggard -- Skin and other stories / by Roald Dahl -- The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- The subtle knife / by Philip Pullman -- Tom Jones / by Henry Fielding -- The unlit lamp / by Radclyffe Hall -- Utopia / by Thomas More -- The vampyre: a tale / by John Polidori -- Vanity fair / by William Makepeace Thackeray -- Villette / by Charlotte Brontèˆ.
Summary:
English Literature covers 31 works--novels, short stories, and poems--written by English authors, published between 1516 and 2003. Represented are a variety of ages, life styles, and political beliefs, including those whose work has been banned, burned, and revered. A major them in English literature and in this collection is alienation, with science, nature and religion as popular refrains.
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