Knerd
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07-24-2008, 06:02 PM
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.
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Knerd
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07-24-2008, 06:03 PM
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 - 1400The Canterbury Tales Sir Thomas Malory - 1405 - 1471Le Morte d'Arthur Edmund Spenser - 1552 - 1599The Faerie Queene Christopher Marlowe - 1564-1593Tamburlaine
Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love John Bunyan - 1628 - 1688The Pilgrim's Progress Jonathan Swift - 1667 - 1745Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal William Blake - 1757 - 1827Songs of Innocence and Experience Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772 - 1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan Jane Austen - 1775 - 1817Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Lord Byron - 1788 - 1824So, we'll go no more a roving
She Walks in Beauty John Keats - 1795 - 1821Ode on a Grecian Urn
La Belle Dame sans Merci William Wordsworth - 1770 - 1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The world is too much with us Charles Dickens - 1812 - 1870A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities Lewis Carroll - 1832 - 1898Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass Oscar Wilde - 1854 - 1900The Importance of Being Earnest Thomas Hardy - 1840 - 1928Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Rudyard Kipling - 1865 - 1936The Jungle Book T.S. Elliot - 1888 - 1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land J. R. R. Tolkien - 1892 - 1973The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Roverandom Anthony Burgess - 1917 - 1993A Clockwork Orange
The Wanting Seed J. K. Rowling - 1965 - ?Harry Potter [Books and authors being added as we go.]
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07-24-2008, 06:06 PM
Knerd! <333
[just kick me if this post isn't meant to be here] x]
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Knerd
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07-24-2008, 06:08 PM
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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07-24-2008, 06:08 PM
Dx
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.
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07-24-2008, 06:09 PM
I know a lot of those authors! O:
Mainly because I'm british. xD
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Knerd
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07-24-2008, 06:09 PM
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.
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07-24-2008, 06:10 PM
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.
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KatMagenta
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07-24-2008, 06:11 PM
I forget Lewis Carroll lived (and died) so long ago.
Oscar Wilde was Irish wasn't he?
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Knerd
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07-24-2008, 06:15 PM
Yeah, he was.
But Irish can still be British, right? Since it's part of the United Kingdom?
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07-24-2008, 06:24 PM
But he studied and lived in England. xD
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07-24-2008, 06:25 PM
Irish is still british. Because it is part of the United Kingdom. xP
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07-24-2008, 06:30 PM
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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aeriise
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07-24-2008, 07:11 PM
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.
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07-24-2008, 08:27 PM
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.
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07-24-2008, 09:08 PM
;-; why isn't a tale of two cities on there. ish one of my favorites.
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07-24-2008, 09:20 PM
Jane Austen was English, wasn't she?
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Knerd
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07-24-2008, 11:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by wish
;-; why isn't a tale of two cities on there. ish one of my favorites.
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I really can't list every single book by each author, but I can add that one to the post if you want it. :yes:
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Jane Austen was English, wasn't she?
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Yep, she was.
I'll be sure to add her too.
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07-25-2008, 12:03 AM
yay :D OK
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Knerd
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07-25-2008, 01:54 AM
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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Cherry Who?
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07-25-2008, 02:41 AM
Oh, thought of another well-known English writer; J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Lilith the Ill
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07-25-2008, 05:14 AM
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
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Yreka
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07-25-2008, 05:24 AM
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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Lura Crane
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07-25-2008, 05:57 AM
*drops in* @o@
! Yay~ More books to add to my to-read-list. 8'D
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`Kitami
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07-25-2008, 11:14 AM
Hello everyone. ^^
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