 | The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Buy used from: £6.54 Essential for a flavour of poetry through the 'ages'
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 | The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Reference Books) by J. Cuddon
Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £4.17 For the jargon
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 | Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Hutchinson reference classics) by E.Cobham Brewer
Buy used from: £1.49 Who is Hansel? Where have I heard the name 'Dante' before?
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 | The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
Buy used from: £2.99 Quick referencing
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 | Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature 1100-1500 (OPUS) by J. A. Burrow
Buy used from: £0.18 To get you through the writing that came first
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 | How to Write Essays, Dissertations and Theses in Literary Studies
Buy used from: £9.60 Oh!, I wish someone would buy me this book.
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 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.00 Beautiful poem about the creation story
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy used from: £0.01 We all know the story of the first one or two books - but does anyone know how to pronounce Hounhymns?
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 | Prelude: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays (Norton Critical Editions) by W Wordsworth
Buy new: £9.29 / Used from: £5.91 Admittedly difficult to get into, but a turning point in literature
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 | Bleak House (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £6.22 / Used from: £1.29 Gripping yarn about lawyers in early 19th century
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.32 A family coping with life - in southern america, a black family coping with life
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 | The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism by John Lennard
Buy used from: £6.50 Recommended reading for getting your head round the analysis of poetry
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 | Thinking About Texts by Chris Hopkins
Buy new: £15.09 / Used from: £13.46 Highly recommended by all tutors
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 | The Holy Bible: King James Version
Buy used from: £0.15 Try and get the Oxford World Classics' edition if you can..hehe..
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 | The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.42 Great fun voyage; countless times better than the feeble attempt at a film... Brad Pitt in skirts?!
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 | The Symposium (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £4.38 / Used from: £1.94 Grown men discussing the suitability of men as partners. Need a better reason to read it??
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 | Oedipus Rex (Norton Critical Editions) by Sophocles
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £0.61 The Penguin edition is better, but the text remains essentially the same
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 | Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £3.07 Verrrry interesting theories on how to write, and the philosophy of literature
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 | The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
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 | The Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £4.03 Beautifully, intricately woven together stories of how things become other things - did you know that the spider used to be an expert weaver called Arachne?
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 | The Confessions of St.Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions) by Saint Augustine
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 | The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Ancius Boethius
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.24 Frightening, enlightening, sometimes mystical, sometimes fantastical journey of a man through hell to find himself, with his guide Virgil - an excellent part one the Divine Comedy trilogy
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 | Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas More
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £1.49 A perfect world - is it possible? Try comparing this one to Huxley's 'Brave New World'
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 | The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed. by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy used from: £6.20 Aaargh! Only room for one more - the complete Chaucer, the father of English dirty stories..hehe.. Especially 'The Miller's Tale' in the Canterbury Tales!
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