Product Description
This course provides a chronological study of classic English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Selections in the textbook include such diverse forms as poems and hymns, short stories, essays, and excerpts from novels and plays. Authors featured in the textbook include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wesley, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Dickens, Shaw, and Orwell. Background material, brief author biographies, and histories of each time period are provided, along with a glossary of literary terms.
Authors: Jan Anderson and Laurel Hicks, eds.
Publisher: Abeka Book Publishers
Copyright: 2013 (4th edition)
Number of Pages: 497
Academic Credit: 1.0
Course Materials: Textbook, 2 book report books (see below), answer key,* and 3 tests*
* Item published by Christian Liberty Press
Prerequisites: A course equivalent to World Literature is required.
Book Report Books: Choose any two from the following and list them in the comment box.
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| Description: This comprehensive collection of works uses satire throughout its stories to point out the foibles of human nature. Included in this collection are Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of a Tub, “The Battle of the Books,” “A Modest Proposal,” “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,” “The Bickerstaff Papers,” and more. |
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| Description: Set in early Victorian England, this novel follows the life of a tiny orphaned boy named Pip as he struggles with a desire for wealth and social status, and eventually discovers his own values and priorities. |
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| Description: Set in Britain, this light-hearted novel follows the relationship of Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry into a wealthy family, and her perceived-to-be arrogant and conceited suitor, Fitzwillian Darcy. Both must overcome both pride and prejudice if their relationship is ever to develop. |
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| Description: This book, a treatise on the battle between good and evil, is a collection of letters from tempter Screwtape to his apprentice Wormwood on how to best cause the fall of an ordinary young man. |
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| Description: This novel examines the differences between Europe and America through the life of a young American woman who moves to England and is caught in a struggle between independence and social propriety. |
