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English Literature Deep Cuts playlist

These are the texts that didn’t quite make the All-Time Essentials playlist; they’re the texts that, though you don’t need to know about them in the same way you do those on the All-Time playlist, you really should know about them. You should at least have heard of them, especially if you want to impress people. These texts are, generally speaking, slightly trickier to read than those in the All-Time playlist, but that’s often because they’re more sophisticated. They’re the kinds of texts you’ll learn about if you take an English Literature degree.

English Literature Deep Cuts

  1. King Lear by William Shakespeare (1606)

  2. The poetry of John Donne (1572-1631)

  3. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (1688)

  4. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

  5. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)

  6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1767)

  7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

  8. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)

  9. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853)

  10. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)

  11. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

  12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)

  13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

  14. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898)

  15. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)

  16. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence (1928)

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