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The 50 Book Challenge :: Elizabethan Edition
http://i17.tinypic.com/85b28ep.png 50 Book Challenge :: Elizabethan Edition The 50 Book Challenge is simply a hangout of literary fans who strive to read 50 books per year. We read everything - science fiction, drama, mystery, romance...sometimes Shakespeare even slips in there. So here is a hangout to discuss the finest points of English literature, be it from Elizabethan times or more modern publications. Feel free to hang around and chat about your favorite English authors! Or the best books that take place England! Or just chatter away about Harry Potter. If you simply prefer to read: pick out your favorite play, pour yourself a cup of tea, and grab the coziest chair by the fireplace. |
Can't name any British authors besides Shakespeare?
That's okay - Here's a quick little guide to British Literature Through the Ages: Geoffrey Chaucer - 1343 - 1400 The Canterbury TalesSir Thomas Malory - 1405 - 1471 Le Morte d'ArthurEdmund Spenser - 1552 - 1599 The Faerie QueeneChristopher Marlowe - 1564-1593 TamburlaineJohn Bunyan - 1628 - 1688 The Pilgrim's ProgressJonathan Swift - 1667 - 1745 Gulliver's TravelsWilliam Blake - 1757 - 1827 Songs of Innocence and ExperienceSamuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772 - 1834 The Rime of the Ancient MarinerJane Austen - 1775 - 1817 Pride and PrejudiceLord Byron - 1788 - 1824 So, we'll go no more a rovingJohn Keats - 1795 - 1821 Ode on a Grecian UrnWilliam Wordsworth - 1770 - 1850 I Wandered Lonely as a CloudCharles Dickens - 1812 - 1870 A Christmas CarolLewis Carroll - 1832 - 1898 Alice's Adventures in WonderlandOscar Wilde - 1854 - 1900 The Importance of Being EarnestThomas Hardy - 1840 - 1928 Jude the ObscureRudyard Kipling - 1865 - 1936 The Jungle BookT.S. Elliot - 1888 - 1965 The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockJ. R. R. Tolkien - 1892 - 1973 The Lord of the RingsAnthony Burgess - 1917 - 1993 A Clockwork OrangeJ. K. Rowling - 1965 - ? Harry Potter[Books and authors being added as we go.] |
Knerd! <333
[just kick me if this post isn't meant to be here] x] |
Nope, it's okay!
I only needed those first two posts. I had this all written out already, so there wasn't much setting up to do. |
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Don't forget Oscar Wilde Knerd! How could you? I own those two Thomas Hardy books. xD Tess of the D'Urbervilles...And people call themselves emo nowadays.... xD Pat Barker is a good one. Regeneration was creepy. And then we have the Bronte sisters we can't forget about. |
I know a lot of those authors! O:
Mainly because I'm british. xD |
So many to choose from!
I haven't forgotten about those guys, I just need to figure out a way to add everyone to the list without making it 35 pages long. |
I don't think it has anything to do with your nationality. Americans would be laughed at if we didn't like American literature purely because it's American.
Plus being able to write works of literature doesn't necessarily have to be confined to a certain nationality. |
I forget Lewis Carroll lived (and died) so long ago.
Oscar Wilde was Irish wasn't he? |
Yeah, he was.
But Irish can still be British, right? Since it's part of the United Kingdom? |
But he studied and lived in England. xD
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Irish is still british. Because it is part of the United Kingdom. xP
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Sorry, I saw 'English authors' in the first post. I guess Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people are probably used to being grouped in with us lot. XD
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Edmund Spenser rocks my world.
Lay forth out of thine everlasting scryne The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still, Of Faerie knights and fairest Tanaquill. |
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is a real keeper. *__*
I liked Twelfth Night too;; haha I seem to like the more lighthearted ones. |
;-; why isn't a tale of two cities on there. ish one of my favorites. |
Jane Austen was English, wasn't she?
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Yep, she was. I'll be sure to add her too. |
yay :D OK |
Great - I've updated the list, so now all the author's names is a link, which will lead you to a handy-dandy Wikipedia article. If you've never heard of them before, or would like to know more, that will give you a little more information.
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Oh, thought of another well-known English writer; J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Soooo much love for Coleridge.
Everyone in my senior english class hated his works except me. For two weeks, instead of quietly doodling away in the back like usual, I was that one nerdy kid everyone wants to shut up that would always answer the questions and get carried away discussing the text with the teacher. Then again, I had been exposed to his works much earlier. My fascination with him actually started when I was around 12, and went on my first spelunking expedition. The main chamber in the cave was called Xanadu, and the absolutely massive pillar in the center was known as Kubla Khan. After seeing a sight like that the first time, of course I had to see what these stunning formations were named after! xDD |
Heh. For a second there I was going to scold you (Knerd) for leaving out a lot of people. Then I realized that I was thinking of poets. xD
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*drops in* @o@
! Yay~ More books to add to my to-read-list. 8'D |
Hello everyone. ^^
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