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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I loved English and went on to study it for another nine years after A-level! A-level: Great Expectations (made me very, very worried about Dickens' mental health because the picture of human sexual relationships it paints is not at all healthy!. It's interesting and well-written, but I didn't like several of the characters you're supposed to admire, such as Joe Gargery!. I much prefer Bleak House)!. Hamlet!. Amazing, one of my favourites!. William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience!. Another one of my favourites!. Tenessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire!. Very moving!. Pride and Prejudice!. Loved it! Women's war poetry anthology called Scars Upon My Heart (variable quality, some very moving, some I wasn't impressed by) Dr Faustus!. I didn't like it at the time, but I can appreciate it now!. GCSE: To Kill a Mockingbird!. Loved it!. Boys from the Blackstuff (TV scripts)!. Fantastic! I only saw two ot the films while studying these texts, but recently watched all of them on DVD!. Very intelligent and powerful criticism of society in 1982!. Pre-GCSE at comprehensive (can't remember all of them, there were lots): The Incredible Journey (meh!) Of Mice and Men (very moving) Island of the Blue Dolphins (interesting, liked it) Romeo and Juliet (I have to admit to finding this slightly soppy, although the language is beautiful!. I love Shakespeare, but this is not my favourite) JobyWww@QuestionHome@Com GCSE The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller Can't actually remember any more! A-Level Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Sons and Lovers - D!.H!. Lawrence Anthony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare!. I also remember studying the typical school classics such as Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird!. I have been very lucky in that I loved all of the texts we studied and went on to do an English degree as a result!. The ones that stayed with me the most were probably Wuthering Heights and The Handmaid's Tale!.Www@QuestionHome@Com We studied 'Silas Marner' by George Eliott & I know it's a classic and everything but I hated it, it so boring and moralistic!. The year before us got to study 'Wuthering Heights' and I really wished we could have done 'Wuthering Heights' instead - that really is classic literature at its best! We studied 'Othello' too which was excellent, but I would have preferred 'Macbeth' - one of my favourites by Shakespeare!.Www@QuestionHome@Com An Ispector Calls we did and i loved the story, i really loved it and its the sort of thing i would have read in my own time!. We did Shakespeare!. We did Atonement We did Jane Eyre as an author We did Beloved the most I liked most of them, in fact i liked all of them a bit but i wasnt so good at learning about Shakespeare!. My favourite was an Inspector Calls though!. Edit: We did Far from the Madding Crowd as well and i lived it, it remains one of my favourites till this day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Since I am not from an english speaking country there really was no such subject as English Lit!. But we read A winter's tale and for the rest you were free to chose from a list of books!. I think I read the darling buds of may and the loved one and 1984 and stuff like that!. but it's a long time ago!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy which is good but not as good as Tess of the D'Urbervilles!. Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, which is good but I'd rather see it performed as a play than trawl through the text for themes and meanings and all that "What Shakespeare was trying to say" stuff!. Animal Farm by George Orwell!. I thought it was pretty silly at the time but like it a bit better now I know more about the events it allegorises!.Www@QuestionHome@Com When I did my 'O' levels in 1978, I read "1984" and "Cider with Rosie"!. Both were excellent books for hormone raging teenagers!. I liked both of these books and have re-read them since school!. We also read "Twelfth Night", which we saw performed by the RSC and it changed my perception of Shakespear as it was really funny and rude (always good for maintaining the attention of 15/16-year olds)!. I love watching Shakespear plays now!. Edit, I almost forgot, we also did "The Mayor of Casterbridge"!.!.!. not so interesting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com We read a lot of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Julius Cesear We also read: The Catcher in the Rye Wuthering Heights A Streetcar Named Desire The Great Gatsby The Scarlet Letter 1984 To Kill a Mockingbird Beuwolf and probably more that I can't remember now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Of mice and men - i actually quite liked it, showed depth into the depression of the 1930s Romeo and juliet - i do not like shakesphere! The great Gatsby - A bit tedious and just so obvious! The only one i like studying was of mice and men!. It showed cuzi got an A in that exam and essay ^_^Www@QuestionHome@Com Our books is comprised of famous novels or writings compacted into one!.!.!. the ones I like are Beowulf (which is now had been noticed by Hollywood) and some poetries like The Last Leaf, Footprint in the Sand and may more!.!.!.!. I'm from Asian Continent and was raised using the American way of English!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i am ateacher we have one main course english lit book having the following lessons to name a few Julius Ceaser The night of the scorpion-----Poetry Ode to the west wind--------Poetry The frog & the nightingale-------Poetry The mirror---------Poetry The christmas carol--------Play The Tribute--------Fiction & a few moreWww@QuestionHome@Com A midsummer nights dream, great expectations and of mice and men!. Loved the first two, but of mice and men was just one of the worst books ive ever read - story was very poor and the writing style itself was baaaaad!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Great expectations!. its tediousl; long and if i hear ''Miss Havisham is an old, miserable lady!.'' and ''Estella is beautiful and sarcastic!.'' one more time im going to cry!. DONT DO IT!Www@QuestionHome@Com To kill a Mockingbird which remains my favourite book Thanks Laure, I did Lord of the Flies and of Mice and Men as well, but I couldn't remember the names so I guess they are forgetableWww@QuestionHome@Com OF MICE AND MEN WAS ONE OF THEM, AND I LOVED IT!. also LORD OF THE FLIES, REALLY STRANGE BOOK THAT! NOT BAD THO!.Www@QuestionHome@Com We did An Inspector Calls, Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth and Lord of The Flies for GCSE this year!. I preferred Lord of The Flies although An Inspector Calls was good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Of Mice and Men (really liked this) and A View From A Bridge were the ones in our exam and we also did Adventure of the Speckled Band and Romeo and Juliet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i am taking this class this coming school year and for my summer homework i have to read Grapes of Wrath and The Merchant of Venice!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No, we had a 'modern' teacher, which meant that we didn't do classics, we had dreary kitchen sink dross like 'Kes'!Www@QuestionHome@Com I read of Mice of Men and To kill a Mocking Bird!. A good movie to go with To Kill a Mocking Bird is Mississippi BurningWww@QuestionHome@Com Long time ago!.!.!.!.!.it was Lord of the Flies!.!.!.!.which I still think is a very thought provoking book!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Didn't do that babe although i like a Midsummer's Night Dream!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Wind in the Willows ~x~Www@QuestionHome@Com I did Bleak House which is 1400 pages long (or thereabouts), I never got past page 100!. This might be why I got a DWww@QuestionHome@Com Of Mice & Men and the Great Gatsby!.Www@QuestionHome@Com pride and prejudice far from the madding crowd!. Two great choices for young 16 year old lads lmaoWww@QuestionHome@Com |