British Literature Summer Reading List and Project Ms. Wright

Welcome to British Literature! Over the summer, you must read one of the texts listed below. No exceptions. While reading the text, you will need to complete the following project:

A Thematic Journal: • What thematic subjects are portrayed in the novel? Select three dominant thematic subjects to analyze. You may choose any thematic subject within your novel. o For example: Love, betrayal, and jealousy • For each thematic subject, you are to keep a journal of its journey in the text. You must select six textual references per thematic subject. For each textual reference, you are to explain how the reference 1) relates to the thematic subject 2) how it relates to the text as a whole 3) reflect on the characters’ interaction or role with the thematic subject. • This may be hand-written or typed. Each textual reference should be labeled by its thematic subject, and the reflection/analysis should be a long, detailed paragraph. Overall, you will have 18 entries= 18 paragraphs. • If you have any questions regarding the assignment, email me at [email protected]. I will be checking emails over the summer. • This project will be due in on the first day of school, August 21st.

Reading List:

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice/Emma/Sense and Sensibility

Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot

Conrad, Jospeh The Heart of Darkness

Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders/ Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles Great Expectations/Tale of Two Cities

Doyle, Arthur C. Hound of the Baskervilles

DuMaurier, Daphne Jamaica Inn

Elliot, George Middlemarch

Forster, E.M. Passage to India/Howard’s End/A Room with A View

Fowles, John The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Greene, Graham The Heart of the Matter

Hardy, Thomas Tess of d’Urbervilles

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go

James, Henry Daisy Miller/The Portrait of a Lady

Joyce, James Ulysses/Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Lawrence D. H. Women in Love

Malory, Thomas Le Morte d’ Arthur

Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall

Marlowe, Christopher Doctor Faustus

McEwan, Ian Atonement

Milton, John Paradise Lost

Orwell, George 1984

Rushdie, Salman Midnight’s Children

Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William Any of the history plays

Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels

Thackeray, William Vanity Fair

Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited

Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds

Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway