What I Learnt in English Lit

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Macbeth (Penguin Popular Classics)
1.  Macbeth (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
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  "Undoubtedly one of Shakespeare's best, I first read this (sceptically) at 14 and it left me with an appreciation of older plays (as you'll see later in the list)."
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics)
2.  The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  "An interesting gothic tale. Though 'only' a GCSE-level text, I find it much better than the A-level Frankenstein."
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Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
3.  Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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  "A Shakespearian comedy that, to be honest, I find infinitely less interesting than Macbeth. Might just be cause I like darker stuff."
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Mean Time
4.  Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
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  "A thought-provoking collection of poems by the critically-acclaimed poet. To be honest, I enjoy these a lot more than older works, such as Blake."
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Knowledge Of Angels
5.  Knowledge Of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
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  "A fantastic novel, exploring many theological issues, but in an interesting manner. Part thriller, part philosophical discussion. In the end, I loved it."
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Dr Faustus based on the A text (New Mermaids)
6.  Dr Faustus based on the A text (New Mermaids) by Christopher Marlowe
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  "More religion in this play by Christopher Marlowe (a contemporary of Shakespeare, if you don't know the name). Has its moments."
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
7.  Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
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  "To be honest, I dislike William Blake and most of his work. Some of the poems are interesting to me, but most of it I just find dull."
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Duchess of Malfi
8.  Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
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  "Another dark play, and as such I rather like it. Deals with themes such as incest and insanity, even if they seem to be present in a rather loose way."
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics)
9.  Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
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  "One of two gothic novels that I had to compare for my coursework. I dislike "Frankenstein" intensely, finding it repetitive, melodramatic and dull because of it."
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The Cement Garden
10.  The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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  "The other gothic text, this one of my choice. More dark stuff here, with death and incest forming some of the themes of the novel."
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The Wasp Factory
11.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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  "In the end I didn't use this for my essay, but I read it as a modern example of the gothic novel. A damn fine book, though again it's dark and contains some highly disturbing moments."
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Rupert Brooke: Selected Poems (Poetry Classics)
12.  Rupert Brooke: Selected Poems (Poetry Classics) by Rupert Brooke
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  "The first of many texts from the WW1 module, for which we study a wide variety of works. Brooke is one of the war poets, and not one I like especially."
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The War Poems (FF Classics)
13.  The War Poems (FF Classics) by Siegfried Sassoon
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  "Sassoon is one of the better war poets. He also penned six volumes of an autobiography, which naturally cover his time in the trenches."
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Regeneration
14.  Regeneration by Pat Barker
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  "More about Sassoon, in this fiction that looks at his time at Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917. First part of a trilogy."
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Letters from a Lost Generation - First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow
15.  Letters from a Lost Generation - First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow by Alan Bishop
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  "A collection of letters between Vera Brittain and four soldiers in the trenches of World War One. An account of the war from people writing whilst it was happening all around them."
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Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
16.  Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Cedric Sherriff
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  "Written in 1928, just 10 years after the war, by someone who had lived through it in the trenches. Especially interesting for the characters, mainly the opposing characters of Stanhope and Raleigh."
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty
17.  Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty by John Lloyd
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  "You may think it unusual to look at Blackadder Goes Forth in English, but a script excerpt came up on the paper a year or two ago. Amusing, yet based in fact."
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Birdsong
18.  Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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  "Heading into the realm of becoming a classic, it would seem, as everyone seems to love it. Came 13th in the BBC's Big Read contest."
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