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What's better: Victorian English literature or Modern English literature?
10/24/07
Choice please:
Actually, all 19th century English (no American or Irish) literature:
Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Follow up:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age by Catherine Robson
Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Maurice Hindle
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Richard Maxwell
Vanity Fair (Norton Critical Editions) by Peter L. Shillingsburg
or Modern Literature:
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry by Robert O'Clair
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
To the Lighthouse by Eudora Welty (Introduction)
Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Stanley Appelbaum
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by Michael North
The Time Machine (Signet Classics) by Greg Bear
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear) by Leslie S. Klinger
2 comments
A little Phillip Pullman? *sigh*
HG Wells is there at least... ;-)
All in all Tale of Two Cities wasn't my cup of tea, and neither was the other garbage we were forced to read in lit classes- "Tess of the d'oobieblahs" and "The Awakening."
I just have to say, no wonder kids hate to read!
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