Our assignment is to read Grapes of Wrath and another novel of outstanding literary merit!. So my question is would Emma by Jane Austen be a good choice!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: These are some of the books that I read over the course of my AP lit class (maybe they'll help since I haven't read Emma): All the King's Men by Robert Warren Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky The ARt of Loving by Fromm The Inferno by Dante The Little Prince by St!. Exupery The Stranger by Camus The Orestia Mourning becomes Electra by O'Neill Aristotle's Ethics The Great Dialogues of Plato Oedipus Rex I'm sure any of those listed would be good choices, since they're often options on one of the essays during the AP exam!. But I also think Emma would be fine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I'd suggest reading a novel that you can apply to the free-response question!. Austen is a good writer, but she's been done to death, and her work may not be considered to be of literary merit!. During my AP class, I read the following: The Awakening –Kate Chopin The Metamorphosis –Franz Kafka Beowulf Invisible Man –Ellison Oedipus Rex–Sophocles A Midsummer Night’s Dream –Shakespeare The Master and Margarita –Bulgakov Catch-22 –Heller Invisible Man is especially useful, and almost always suggested on the free-response question!. It is a long book, and many of my classmates hated it, but I enjoyed it—Ellison’s passages are particularly memorable, and you’ll be able to use them in your essay!. I also found Faulkner’s works particularly helpful, especially As I Lay Dying and Light in August!. The more styles and writers you are acquainted with, the better your chances of scoring well on the AP exam will be!. Good luck with your class!. If you have a good teacher, the course will be challenging, but with the right background, the test will be relatively easy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I just completed AP English Lit Hears the books I read during the course Novels Crime and Punishment One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Madame Bovary The Kite Runner A Prayer For Owen Meany As I Lay Dying A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Things Fall Apart Invisible Man Plays Medea Oedipus Rex A Doll's House American Dream The Zoo Story Death of a Salesman Hamlet Othello Hears some other works I read that helped me for the exam Slaughter-House Five Fahrenheit 451 Catch 22 The Brothers Karamazov King Lear Tess of the D'ubervilles Brave New World All these works are good for the AP test but I think Catch 22 or The Brothers Karamazov cover the most questions that can be thrown at you on the AP testWww@QuestionHome@Com maybe!. i'm not sure that qualifies for "outstanding literary merit" though!. something of more depth like maybe wuthering heights, tess of the d'urbervilles, etc!. if you like the Romantic era in british lit and you haven't read wuthering heights you should do that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Read Pride & Prejudice instead, it's much better!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Tim O briens The Things They Carried I studied it in English and American History!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |