My Reading List For University

[Cheese]

Just got my reading list for University through the door. That's a lot of reading...
The Secret Self: Short Stories by Women 1900-1984

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays

The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton

The Iliad - Homer

Agamemnon in the Orestian Trilogy - Aeschylus

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anon

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Paradise Lost - John Milton

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Beginning Theory - Peter Barry

The Rape of the Lock - Alexander pope

The Specatator - Joseph Addison/Richard Steele

Oroonoko; Or the history of the Royal Slave - Aphra Behn

The Life and strange and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Dafoe

Gulliver - Johnathon Swift

The School for Scandal - Richard B.Sheridan

From Britain Literature 1640-1789:

The Deserted Village - Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray
Fingal - James Macpherson
Ode to Evening - William Collins

Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson

The New Penguin Book of English Verse

The Poetry Handbook

The ones in red are ones I have got already.

[uNz[i]]

How long are they giving you to read that rather interesting yet very tall pile Cheese?

[DanB]

You want to start now and you could be finished by 2006

[Cheese]

[i]Originally posted by uNz@19 August 2004 - 10:01
How long are they giving you to read that rather interesting yet very tall pile Cheese?

The course starts properly at the end of September.

Quote from list:

We do not, of course, expect you to have read everything on these lists but it may be useful for you to familirise yourself with some of the reading required for the first and especially with some of the longer literary works.

Just getting them all is going to be a task. Amazon here I come. (If anyone knows of any other cheap UK based second hand online book stores please post them here.)

[MagicNakor]

Well, a number of them are available for free on the net.

Great Gatsby
Iliad
Agamemnon
Sir Gawain
Macbeth
Paradise Lost
Heart of Darkness
The Rape of the Lock
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Ode to Evening
Elegy

are all ones I've seen plastered about. If you want the addresses, just ask. Most are on Project Gutenberg.


Whose translations of Iliad and Gawain are you reading?

It's really not as long as it seems. But I've read 16 of those already.

Your bigger task will be in the understanding, rather than the reading. Macbeth, for example, has a huge amount of themes running through it. Too bad you don't have Hamlet, though. I love Hamlet.

[Cheese]

Your bigger task will be in the understanding, rather than the reading. Macbeth, for example, has a huge amount of themes running through it. Too bad you don't have Hamlet, though. I love Hamlet.

I'd love to do Hamlet as well, my favourite Shakespeare text. Macbeth I actually did at GCSE level...will be interesting to see how it is treated at this higher level.

Looking on Amazon it doesn't look like I'm going to have to spend too much money for these books. Or, I should say, my parents aren't going to pay too much.

[uNz[i]]

There's always the local second-hand bookshops.



But don't get your hopes up.

[MagicNakor]

Why not?

The best bookstore in my town is a second-hand shop. It's absolutely huge, with such a great selection.

The other two bookstores cater to either the "_____ for dummies" or the coffeetable-gardening set.

[Cheese]

Originally posted by MagicNakor@19 August 2004 - 12:20
Why not?

The best bookstore in my town is a second-hand shop. It's absolutely huge, with such a great selection.

The other two bookstores cater to either the "_____ for dummies" or the coffeetable-gardening set.

An English Degree For Dummies book would be great.

[Peerzy]

Guess Harry Potter isnt on the list this year either .