Senior Choices from Age of Restoration or Romanticism.
Do your research to find a book that you will read during this unit . Decide on a book to read in the next month. Must have book with you in class Jan.17/18, 2013.
Jane Austin – (any Austin novel) Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility …
Lady Aphra Behn – Oroonoko, or The History of the Royal Slave
Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons (play)
James Boswell – The Life of Samuel Johnson
Frances Burney – The Mysteries of Udolpho
Miguel Cervantes – Don Quixote
Saul David – Prince of Pleasure (nonfiction)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens – (any Dickens novel except The Christmas Carol) Hard Times, Great Expectations…
George Eliot – Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner (3 different titles)
Henry Feilding – Tom Jones, Joseph Andrew, Shamela (3 different titles)
C S Forester – The Horatio Hornblower series ( about the Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815)
James Gleick – Isaac Newton (nonfiction)
Thomas Hardy – Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Ubervilles ( 2 titles)
Mary Hays – Memoirs of Emma Courtney (epistolary novel)
Eliza Haywood – Love in Excess
Christopher Hibbert – The Days of the French Revolution (nonfiction)
Ignacy Krasicki – The Adventures of Nicholas Experience
John Locke – Essays Concerning Human Understanding (nonfiction)
Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’ Arthur
Moliere – Tartuffe, The Miasnthrope (dramas)
A Lloyd and Dorothy C. Moote – The Great Plague (nonfiction)
Charles Nordhoof & James Norman Hall – Mutiny on the Bounty
Samuel Richardson – Pamela
Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (if you have not read it in a previous class and I can check)
Tobias Smollett – The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire – Candide
Dorothy Wordsworth – The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (nonfiction)
Dig into a new adventure!