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Old 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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Old 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 - 1400
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Thomas Malory - 1405 - 1471
Le Morte d'Arthur
Edmund Spenser - 1552 - 1599
The Faerie Queene
Christopher Marlowe - 1564-1593
Tamburlaine
Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
John Bunyan - 1628 - 1688
The Pilgrim's Progress
Jonathan Swift - 1667 - 1745
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
William Blake - 1757 - 1827
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772 - 1834
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Jane Austen - 1775 - 1817
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Lord Byron - 1788 - 1824
So, we'll go no more a roving
She Walks in Beauty
John Keats - 1795 - 1821
Ode on a Grecian Urn
La Belle Dame sans Merci
William Wordsworth - 1770 - 1850
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The world is too much with us
Charles Dickens - 1812 - 1870
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Lewis Carroll - 1832 - 1898
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Oscar Wilde - 1854 - 1900
The Importance of Being Earnest
Thomas Hardy - 1840 - 1928
Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Rudyard Kipling - 1865 - 1936
The Jungle Book
T.S. Elliot - 1888 - 1965
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
J. R. R. Tolkien - 1892 - 1973
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Roverandom
Anthony Burgess - 1917 - 1993
A Clockwork Orange
The Wanting Seed
J. K. Rowling - 1965 - ?
Harry Potter
[Books and authors being added as we go.]

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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 07-24-2008, 06:09 PM

I know a lot of those authors! O:
Mainly because I'm british. xD

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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 07-24-2008, 06:24 PM

But he studied and lived in England. xD

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Old 07-24-2008, 06:25 PM

Irish is still british. Because it is part of the United Kingdom. xP

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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 07-24-2008, 09:20 PM

Jane Austen was English, wasn't she?

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Old 07-24-2008, 11:41 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by wish View Post

;-; why isn't a tale of two cities on there. ish one of my favorites.

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?

Yep, she was.
I'll be sure to add her too.

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Old 07-25-2008, 12:03 AM


yay :D OK

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Old 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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Old 07-25-2008, 02:41 AM

Oh, thought of another well-known English writer; J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 07-25-2008, 11:14 AM

Hello everyone. ^^

 


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