Mainstream Fifty Works of English Literature

This book is consisting of 50 chapters that are from nearabout all ages of English literature. These are the most important works by the most important writers to the UGC NET point of view. It covers the most important part in syllabus of D.U., B.H.U., K.U.U. M.D.U., P.U. and nearabout all universities of India. Multiple Choice questions (MCQ) are added based on the summary and from the previous NET, SLET, SET latest exam papers.

This book is prepared for those students who are doing their M.A. in English, and those who are preparing for UGC NET/JRF exam or other competitive exam like SET, SLET or any type of TET exam. It will be helpful for all English Literature learners. This book will help to achieve the desired results. It will be helpful to get knowledge of different novelists’ famous works.

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgement

1.    Canterbury Tales (1387) by Chaucer

2.    Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes 

3.    The Changeling (1653) by Thomas Middleton

4.    Paradise Lost (1667) by  John Milton

5.    The Man of Mode (1676) by George Etherege

6.    The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan

7.    Absalom and Achitophel (1681) by John Dryden

8.    A Tale of Tub (1704) by Jonathan Swift

9.    Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe

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

11.    The Beggar’s Opera (1728) by John Gay

12.    Clarissa (1748) by Samuel Richardson

13.    Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding

14.    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne

15.    Emma (1816) by Jane Austen 

16.    Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

17.    Prometheus Unbound (1820) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

18.    Don Juan (1824) by Lord Byron 

19.    Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte

20.    Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte 

21.    Vanity Fair (1848) by William Thackeray

22.    The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23.    Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville

24.    Middlemarch (1871-2) by George Eliot

25.    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain

26.    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde

27.    Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy 

28.    Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

29.    The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin

30.    Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling

31.    The Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H.Lowrence

32.    The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce

33.    Of Human Bondage (1920) by W. Somerset Maugham

34.    Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce 

35.    A Passage to India (1924) by EM Forster

36.    Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf

37.    The Great Gatsby (1925) by F Scott Fitzgerald

38.    The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway

39.    Orlando (1928) by Virginia Woolf

40.    Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley

41.    Kanthapura (1938) by Raja Rao

42.    Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell

43.    Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell

44.    Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

45.    A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) by V.S. Naipaul

46.    The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing

47.    Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) by Edward Albee

48.    Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie

49.    The Alchemist (1988) by Ben Jonson

50.    Disgrace (1999) by JM Coetzee

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