Contents HIGH VICTORIAN AGE (1830 - 1880) Historical and Social Background ………..………..……………… 408 Literary Background ……....………………………………...………… 408 Charles Dickens …………..……………………………..…………… 409-457 Sketches by Boz ……………………………………………..……….… 411 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club …….……..… 411 Oliver Twist …………………………………….……….………….…… 412 Nicholas Nickleby …………………………….………..……………… 412 The Old Curiosity Shop……………………….……………………… 412-413 Barnaby Rudge ………………………………………………………… 413-414 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit …………… 414 A Christmas Carol ………………………………………….………… 414 Dombey and Son ……………………………………….……………… 414 David Copperfield …………….…….………………………………… 414 Bleak House …………………………..…….…………………………… 414 Hard Times ……………………………….……………………………… 414 Little Dorrit ……………………………………………………………… 415 A Tale of Two Cities ………………………..………………………… 415 Great Expectations …………………………………….……………… 415 Our Mutual Friend …………………………………….……………… 415 Mystery of Edwin Drood …………………………………………… 415 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club …………… 415-418 Oliver Twist …………………………………….……………………… 419-422 A Christmas Carol ………………………..…….……..…………… 422-424 Dombey and Son ………………………………..…………………… 424-426 David Copperfield …………………………………………………… 426-430 Bleak House …………………………………………………………… 430-433 Hard Times ………………………………………………….………… 433-437 Little Dorrit …………………………………………….……………… 437-440 A Tale of Two Cities ………………………………………………… 441-444 Great Expectations ………………………………….……………… 444-448 Our Mutual Friend …………………………………….…………… 448-451 Barnaby Rudge ………………………………………….…………… 451-453 The mystery of Edwin Drood …………………….…..………… 453-457 William Makepeace Thackeray ………………….…..……… 458-464 The Great Hoggarty Diamond ………………….…..…………… 460 The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last V Century ………………….…..…………………………….…..…………. 460 The Snobs of England ………………….…..……………………….. 460 Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero .…….………………….. 460 The History of Pendennis ……………….…….…………………… 460 The History of Henry Esmond …...…….…..…………………… 460 The Newcomes …..………………………..…….…………………..… 461 The Rose and the Ring…..……………….………..………………… 461 The Virginians …..………………………..…………………….……… 461 Denis Duval …..………………………..………………………..……… 461 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero ………………..……… 461-464 Charlotte Brontë ………………….……….…………….…………… 466-477 Jane Eyre …………………………………………………….…………… 468 Shirley ………………………………………………………...…………… 468 Villette ……………………………………………..………….…………… 468-469 The Professor …………………..………………………….…………… 469 Jane Eyre…………………………………….…………….…………… 469-472 Shirley……………………………………………………….…………… 472-474 Villette ……………………………………………..……….…………… 474-476 The Professor …………………………………………….…………… 476-477 Emily Brontë …………………………………………….……………… 478-483 Old Stoic and Last Lines ……………………………………………. 479 Wuthering Heights …………………………………………….……… 479-483 Anne Brontë ……………………………………………….………….… 484-489 Agnes Grey …………………………………..…………….…………… 484 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ……………..…………….………..… 484 Agnes Grey ………………………….…………………….…………… 485-487 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ……………..…………….………… 487-489 George Eliot …………………………….….…..…………….………… 489-503 Scenes of Clerical Life …..………………………..………………… 491 Adam Bede ……………………………….….…..…………….………… 491 The Mill on the Floss …………………………….……..……………. 492 Silas Marner …………………………….……...…………….………… 492 Romola …………………………….……………..…………….………… 492 Felix Holt, the Radical …………………………….……...………… 492 The Spanish Gypsy …………………………….……..…………….… 492 Middlemarch …………………………….……..…………….………… 492 Daniel Deronda …………………………….……..…………………… 492 The Impressions of Theophrastus Such …..……………..…… 492 Adam Bede…………………………….……..…………….….……… 492-494 The Mill on the Floss…………………………………….…….…… 494-496 VI Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe…..…………………… 496-500 Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life…..……………… 500-503 LATE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LITERATURE (1880 - 1920) Lewis Carroll …..………………………..………………………..…… 506-509 Jabberwocky …..………………………..……………………………… 507 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland …..……………………….… 507 The Hunting of the Snark …..………………..………………….… 507 Alice’s Adventures Underground …..…………………………… 507 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland …………………………… 507-509 Matthew Arnold …..………………………..……………….……….. 510-514 The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems …..………..………… 511 Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems …..…………………… 511 New Poems …..…………………………………..……………………… 511 Essays in Criticism …..………………………..……………………… 511 Dover Beach …..………………………..……………..………….…… 512 On the Study of Celtic Literature …..…………………………… 512 Culture and Anarchy…..…………………………………………..… 512 Friendship’s Garland …..………………………………………….… 512 Literature and Dogma…..…………………………………………… 512 Dover Beach…..…………………………………………………….… 512-514 Oscar Wilde …..………………………..………………………….…… 515-527 Vera, or The Nihilists …..………………………..………………..… 517 The Canterville Ghost …..………………………..………………… 517-518 Happy Prince and other Stories …..………………………..…… 518 Salomé …..………………………..………………………..…………..… 518-519 Lady Windermere’s Fan …..………………………..……………… 519 A Woman of No Importance …..……………….………………… 519-520 An Ideal Husband …..………………………………………………… 520-521 The Importance of Being Earnest …..………..………………… 521 Ballad of Reading Gaol …..…………………………………….…… 521 The Picture of Dorian Gray …..…………………………………… 522 De Profundis …..………………………..………………….…………… 522 The Importance of Being Earnest …..………………………… 522-525 The Picture of Dorian Gray …..………………….……………… 525-527 George Meredith …..………………………..…….………………… 528-532 The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian …..………………..…… 529 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son …..………………………..………………………..………….……… 529 VII Evan Harrintgon; or, He would Be a Gentleman ……...… 529 Modern Love …..…………………………………………………..…… 529 Rhoda Fleming …..…………………………………………..………… 529 Victoria ………………………………………………………………….… 529 The Adventures of Harry Richmond …………………………… 529 The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative …..…………..…………… 529 Diana of the Crossways …..………………………..………….…… 529 The Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit …... 529 The Tale of Chloe …..…………………………………………….….… 529-530 Lord Ormont and his Aminta …..………………………………… 530 The Sentimentalists…..………………..………..…………………… 530 The Egoist…..………………………………..…..……………….…… 530-532 Robert Louis Stevenson …..………………………..…………… 533-545 Deacon Brodie…..………………………..……………………………. 534 Virginibus Puerisque ……..………………………..……………..… 535 The New Arabian ……………..………………………..…………..… 535 Nights …..………………………..………………………..……………… 535 Treasure Island …..………………………..………………………..… 535 Silverado Squatters ………………..………………………..……..… 535 Kidnapped …..………………………..………………………..……..… 535 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde …..…………… 535 The Black Arrow …..………………………..………………………… 535 The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale …..……………… 535 The Wrong Box …..………………………..………………………..… 535 Catriona …..………………………..………………………..…………… 535 Weir of Hermistone …..………………………..………………….… 535 Treasure Island…..………………………..………………………... 535-538 Kidnapped …..………………………..………………………..……… 538-540 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde…..………… 540-543 The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses…..…………… 543-545 Rudyard Kipling …..………………………..……………………….. 546-553 Plain Tales from the Hills …..………………………...…………… 548-549 His Private Honour …..………………………..………..…………… 549 The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes…..…………….……… 549 Without Benefit of Clergy…..………………………..……..……… 549 The Naulahka. A Novel of East and West …………..…..…… 549-550 Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses…..………………… 550 The Jungle Books…..………………………..………………………… 550 Kim…..………………………..………………………..…………………… 550 Puck of Pook’s Hill…..………………………..…………………….… 550 Kim…..………………………..………………………..………………… 550-553 VIII Thomas Hardy …..………………………..………………………..… 554-569 The Poor Man and the Lady …..………………………..………… 557 The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters …..……… 557 Desperate Remedies …..………………………..…………………… 557 Under the Greenwood Tree …..……………….………..………… 557 A Pair of Blue Eyes …..………………………..…..………………… 557 Far From the Madding Crowd …..……………..…………..…… 557 The Return of the Native ……………………..……..……………… 557 The Trumpet Major …..………………………..……..……………… 558 The Mayor of Casterbridge…..……………………..…..………… 558 The Woodlanders …..………………………..……..………………… 558 Wessex Tales …..………………………..……………….…………..… 558 Tess of the d’Urbervilles …..………………………..……………… 558 Jude the Obscure …..……………..……………..………………….… 558 The Well-Beloved: a Sketch of a Temperament …..…….… 558 A Changed Man …..………………………..…………………..……… 558 The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars …..……… 558 The Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall …..…………………… 558 The Three Strangers …..……………..……………………………. 559 Wessex Poems …..…………………………………………………….… 559 Time’s Laughing Stocks …..………………………..…………….… 559 Satires of Circumstance …..………………………..…………….… 559 Far from the Madding Crowd…..………………………..….… 559-560 The Return of the Native…..………………………..………….… 560-562 The Mayor of Casterbridge…..………………………..………… 562-564 Tess of the D’Urbervilles…..………………………..………….… 564-566 Jude the Obscure…..………………………..…………………….… 566-569 George Bernard Shaw …..…………………………..…………… 570-590 Fabian Society in Socialism …..………………..….…..………… 573 The Quintessence of Ibsenism …..……………………………..… 573 Widowers’ Houses …..………..……………………………………… 573 Candida …..…………………..…………………..……..……………… 574 The Man of Destiny …..…………..……………….………………… 574 Arms and the Man …..……………..……………..………………… 574 Mrs Warren’s Profession ………..………………………………… 574 The Devil’s Disciple …..…………………..………….……….……… 574 Man and Superman …..………………………..…………………… 575 Major Barbara …..………………………..……………..…………… 575 Androcles and the Lion …..………………………..…….………… 575 Pygmalion …..………………………..…………………….…..……… 575 Heartbreak House …..………………………..…………...………… 575 Back to Methuselah …..………………………..………….………… 575-576 Saint Joan