5. The Victorian Age |
47 – William Makepeace Thackeray, his life and works, a synopsis of Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair |
48 – Charles Dickens, a synopsis of A Christmas Carol and Scrooge’s transformation from A Christmas Carol |
49 – Charles Dickens, Ignorance and want from A Christmas Carol |
50 – Charles Dickens, a synopsis of David Copperfield and Shall I ever forget those lessons? from David Copperfield |
51 – Charles Dickens, Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse from David Copperfield |
52 – Charles Dickens, A man of realities from Hard Times |
53 – Charlotte Brontë, Punishment from Jane Eyre |
54 – 54 Charlotte Brontë, A dramatic incident from Jane Eyre |
55 – Emily Brontë, Back to Wuthering Heights from Wuthering Heights |
56 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, A flood of sunshine from The Scarlet Letter |
57 – Herman Melville, Moby Dick from Moby-Dick |
58 – Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing |
59 – 59 Walt Whitman, Song of Myself |
60 – Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights – Wild Nights! |
61 – EEmily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – |
62 – William Shakespeare, Am I a coward? from Hamlet |
63 – Emily Dickinson, As if the Sea should part; Time feels so vast that were it not |
64 – George Eliot, her life and works, a synopsis of Middlemarch and Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch |
65 – Thomas Hardy, Angel and Tess in the garden from Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
66 – Thomas Hardy, Tess’s execution from Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
67 – Thomas Hardy, Jude and Sue from Jude the Obscure |
68 – Robert Louis Stevenson, The Carew murder case from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
69 – Rudyard Kipling, a synopsis of Kim and Kim at an Indian railway station from Kim |
70 – Oscar Wilde, A new hedonism from The Picture of Dorian Gray |
71 – Oscar Wilde, The vital importance of being Earnest from The Importance of Being Earnest |
72 – Oscar Wilde, The story of a hanging from The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
73 – George Bernard Shaw, a synopsis of Arms and the Man and Reality versus romance from Arms and the Man |
6. The Modern Age |
74 – Siegfried Sassoon, A Soldier’s Declaration |
75 – Isaac Rosenberg, Break of Day in the Trenches |
76 – William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old |
77 – William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
78 – William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium |
79 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
80 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, What the Thunder Said from The Waste Land |
81 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, a synopsis of The Hollow Men and This is the dead land from The Hollow Men |
82 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, Journey of the Magic |
83 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, a synopsis of Four Quartets and Burnt Norton from Four Quartets |
84 – Wystan Hugh Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts |
85 – Wystan Hugh Auden, Funeral Blues |
86 – Wystan Hugh Auden, September 1, 1939 |
87 – Wystan Hugh Auden, O Tell Me the Truth about Love |
88 – Dylan Thomas, his life and works and The force that through the green fuse drives the flower |
89 – Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill |
90 – David Herbert Lawrence, The wind-swept ash-tree from Sons and Lovers |
91 – David Herbert Lawrence, Paul meets Clara from Sons and Lovers |
92 – David Herbert Lawrence, a synopsis of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Clifford and Connie from Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
93 – David Herbert Lawrence, The wood from Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
94 – Edward Morgan Forster, a synopsis of A Room with a View and Things unladylike from A Room with a View |
95 – Edward Morgan Forster, Cecil’s proposal from A Room with a View |
96 – Edward Morgan Forster, The echo from A Passage to India |
97 – James Joyce, The Sisters from Dubliners |
98 – James Joyce, Araby from Dubliners |
99 – James Joyce, a synopsis of Ulysses and The funeral from Ulysses |
100 – James Joyce, a synopsis of Finnegans Wake and Riverrun from Finnegans Wake |
101 – Virginia Woolf, a synopsis of To the Lighthouse and My dear, stand still from To the Lighthouse |
102 – Virginia Woolf, Lily Briscoe from To the Lighthouse |
103 – Virginia Woolf, a synopsis of A Room of One’s Own and Shakespeare’s sister from A Room of One’s Own |
104 – Aldous Huxley, his life and works, a synopsis of Brave New World and The conditioning centre from Brave New World |
105 – Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond from Brave New World |
106 – George Orwell, a synopsis of Animal Farm and Old Major’s speech from Animal Farm |
107 – George Orwell, The execution from Animal Farm |
108 – George Orwell, Newspeak from Nineteen Eighty-Four |
109 – George Orwell, How can you control memory? from Nineteen Eighty-Four |
110 – Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Boats against the current from The Great Gatsby |
111 – Ernest Hemingway, Viva la pace! from A Farewell to Arms |
112 – Ernest Hemingway, Catherine’s death from A Farewell to Arms |
113 – Ernest Hemingway, a synopsis of The Old Man and the Sea and The marlin from The Old Man and the Sea |
114 – Robert Frost, his life and works and The Road Not Taken |
115 – Langston Hughes, I, too, sing America |
116 – Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
117 – John Steinbeck, Tom Joad’s speech from The Grapes of Wrath |
7. The Present Age |
118 – Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures |
119 – Ted Hughes, his life and works and Hawk Roosting |
120 – Seamus Heaney, Personal Helicon |
121 – John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, his life and works, a synopsis of The Lord of the Rings and Gandalf and Frodo from The Lord of the Rings |
122 – Doris Lessing, a synopsis of The Sweetest Dream and AIDS, a curse on us from The Sweetest Dream |
123 – Bruce Chatwin, his life and works, a synopsis of In Patagonia and Chilean trucks and Chilenos from In Patagonia |
124 – Angela Carter, her life and works and The Werewolf from The Bloody Chamber |
125 – Ian McEwan, Majdanek from Black Dogs |
126 – Ian McEwan, The force of adult hatred from Black Dogs |
127 – Ian McEwan, a synopsis of Atonement and Briony’s crime from Atonement |
128 – Ian McEwan, Easily torn, not easily mended from Atonement |
129 – Samuel Beckett, We’ll come back tomorrow from Waiting for Godot |
130 – Harold Pinter, his life and works, a synopsis of A Slight Ache and The matchseller from A Slight Ache |
131 – Harold Pinter, a synopsis of The Caretaker and Looking for a room from The Caretaker |
132 – Jack Kerouac, An ordinary bus trip from On the Road |
133 – Don DeLillo, a synopsis of Underworld and The cosmology of waste from Underworld |
134 – Nadine Gordimer, a synopsis of Burger’s Daughter and The donkey didn’t cry out from Burger’s Daughter |