Hehe, 19th Century American Literature too

WindSock

What do you recommend? I wish to start reading some soon and would appreciate a 'must read' list. Perhaps I'll start with Moby Dick...:)

is_that_so

Madame Bovary
Far from The Madding Crowd or Tess Thomas Hardy - not everyone's cup of tea but a personal favourite of mine
Great Expectations - a very good Dickens to start with

A lot of these classics tend to come in cheaper versions , under €5.

Enjoy.

John

What part of the US was Dickens from again?

McGinty

It is 19the century American literature you're looking to read, I don't know that much, but the short stories by Herman Merville are brilliant, Edgar Allen Poe, I think Nathianal Hawthorne is American, and of course Mark Twain, you definately have to read his stuff. If you are really interested in the foundations of American literature, you can get the norton anthology of american literature, it has passages from the early american founders (william bradford, etc) covers native american writings, slave narritives, puritan writings, and as such you can link the beginnings of american culture to their writings.

is_that_so

John wrote:

What part of the US was Dickens from again?

Well he toured there. Emm ....... regularly and wrote about it . RTFM

Esmereldina

is_that_so wrote:

Well he toured there. Emm ....... regularly and write about it . RTFM

Also Flaubert and Hardy ... I didn't realise they were American :rolleyes:

WindSock

McGinty wrote:

. If you are really interested in the foundations of American literature, you can get the norton anthology of american literature, it has passages from the early american founders (william bradford, etc) covers native american writings, slave narritives, puritan writings, and as such you can link the beginnings of american culture to their writings.

That sounds like what I'm looking for, ta