Honors British Literature

Reading List (2008-2009)

Required Summer Reading:

Murder in the Cathedral         T.S. Eliot

Silas Marner                            George Eliot

Suggested Readings:

Anna Karenina                                    Leo Tolstoy

Pride and Prejudice                            Jane Austen

The Fixer                                            Bernard Malamud

The Mayor or Casterbridge                Thomas Hardy

A Passage to India                              E. M. Forster

Mill on the Floss                                 George Eliot

Wuthering Heights                              Emily Bronte    

Jane Eyre                                            Charlotte Bronte

The Power and the Glory                   Grahame Greene

Cry, the Beloved Country                   Alan Paton

Brave New World                                Aldous Huxley

Lord Jim                                              Joseph Conrad

David Copperfield                              Charles Dickens

Dracula                                               Bram Stoker

The Stranger                                       Albert Camus

Secret Sharer                                      Joseph Conrad

Moll Flanders                                      Daniel Defoe

Guest of Honor                                   Nadine Gordimer

The Picture of Dorian Gray                Oscar Wilde

The Lord of the Flies                          William Golding

The House of Spirits                            Isabel Allende

The African Queen or

Captain Horatio Hornblower             C. S. Forester

The Hobbitt                                         J. R. R. Tolkien

Candide                                               Voltaire

The Once and Future King                 T. H. White

For Class Discusion and Analysis:

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (to be read during the summer and tested on during the first six weeks grading period)

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Hedda Gabler, Ibsen