Posted by alexandra_k on August 19, 2005, at 22:30:30
In reply to Really enjoying..., posted by NikkiT2 on August 19, 2005, at 9:30:01
"Pride and Prejudice" is a good read. "Wuthering Heights" is a bit more... demanding... I didn't manage to read it (mind you I was attempting it in hospital and my meds weren't helping)...
Dickens can be lovely. Especially... The one with Estella. The orphan (pip) who gets an anonymous inheritance and moves on up in the world... Can't remember what it's called...
If you wanted to get really fancy you could have a go at "Le Morte De Arthur". Thats middle english though (a bit harder than shakespeare). I remember having to do it for English... Need a commentary to help with translation. Worth it for the origins of the story about the knights of the round table though.
English classics...
Hrm...Shakespeare of course... And if you are into plays there are some of his contemporaries who are quite good too... "Marlowe" most notably with "Faust" who makes a pact with the devil...
There are some good authors who write about colonisation too... "Heart of Darkness" is a good read. About colonising Africa. Discovering the blackness in civilisation etc. And "Aphra Behn"...
This is stuff that I remember from English Lit at uni...
Have you read any Russian Novels? "Crime and Punishment"? "War and Peace"? I got into those for a while... And Kafka's plays "The Trial" etc.
And existentialism... "Camus" plays... "Sartre" plays... Not his novels (or philosophy) though... Couldn't get into that.
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