Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Scholarly Pursuit

I have signed up for a correspondence course in Nineteenth Century English Literature, and over the next quite-a-while, this is what I'll be reading:

  • Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott (1818)
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
  • Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)
  • Bleak House by Charles Dicken (1853)
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
  • Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1857)
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)
  • The Egoist by George Meredith (1879)
  • The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1884)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)


  • Do any of these appeal to you guys? Would you be interested in reading some of them with me? It would be fun to have company along my literary jouney!

    1 comment:

    Catnip said...

    I love Jane Eyre! I had to read that one for my English Literature course. I confess, however, that I had a hard time getting into Wutherington Heights.

    What inspired you to take a correspondence course? I feel like this is a question that warrants coffee!