English 3653 English Literature II Mercer

OUTSIDE READING: Choose one of the following nineteenth- or twentieth-century novels or some other novel (or book of poems or selection of plays) approved by me. Be sure to choose a work that you have not previously read. Please feel free to talk with me if you need help in choosing a book to your own taste. Also, please let me know what work you have selected; I may be able to make some helpful comments about the book. The following list is in chronological order. An asterisk means Ahighly recommended@ for this assignment; two asterisks means Amost highly recommended.@ (See also AOUTSIDE READING@ on the syllabus. Note that this assignment is required only for an A in the course.)

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice**

---, Emma*

Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

---, David Copperfield

---, Nicholas Nickleby

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre*

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Anthony Trollope, The Warden

---, Barchester Towers

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native*

---, The Mayor of Casterbridge*

---, Tess of the D'Urbervilles**

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

---, To the Lighthouse

George Orwell, 1984

Selected plays by Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, or Harold Pinter