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Booklist of British Literature: Primary Reading: The English Renaissance (1550-1642) 1. One of the masterpieces by William Shakespeare (Four tragedies—Hamlet, Othello, King Lear Macbeth) 2. Essays by Francis Bacon The 17th Century (1603-1688) 3. The Vanity Fair by John Bunyan The 18th Century (1688-1798) 4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 5. Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift 6. Poetry of Robert Burns 7. Poetry of William Blake The Age of Romanticism (1798-1832) 8. Poetry of William Wordsworth 9. Poetry of Percy Shelley 10. One of the masterpieces by Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility) The Victorian Age (1832-1901) 11. One of the masterpieces by Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities) 12. One of the masterpieces by The Bronte Sisters (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte) 13. Poetry of Alfred Tennyson 14. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Modern Period 15. Poetry of William Butler Yeats 16. Poetry of T. S. Eliot 17. Dubliners by James Joyce Advanced Reading: 1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Paradise Lost by John Milton 3. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding 4. Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5. Poetry of George Gordon Byron 6. Poetry of John Keats 7. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott 8. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 9. Poetry of Robert Browning 10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 11. Middlemarch by George Eliot 12. Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw 13 Woman in Love by D. H. Lawrence 14. The Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man, or Ulysses by James Joyce Booklist of American Literature: Primary Reading: I. Enlightenment and independent revolution period (c.1765-1800) 1. Autobiography and Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin 2. Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson II. Romanticism Time (1800---1865) 1. The Sketch Book by Washington Irving The Leathestorking Tales by James