Selected readings in English and American literature

CONTENTS
ENGLISH LITERATURE
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
The Merchant ofVenice (Act IV, Scene 1)
John Milton
To Cyriack Skinner
Paradise Lost (excerpt from Book IV)
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (Chapters 7, 8 & 9)
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels (Part IV, Chapters 6 & 8)
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews (Chapter 12)
Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
Three Satirical Epigrams
William Blake
London
1 Heard an Angcl Singing
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudicc (Chapters 1 & 2)
George Gordon Byron
Sonnet on Chillon
Wellington
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song to the Men of England
Ode to thc West Wind
John Keats
On the Grasshopper and Crickct
To Autumn
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (Chapter 11)
William Makepeace Thackerqy
Vanity Fair (Chapter 6)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Chapter 15)
Thomas Hardy
Tess ofthe D'Urbervillcs (Chapters 13, 55 & 56)
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (excerpt from
Act 1)
John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga (Birth of a rorsyte)
George Bemard Shaw
Pygmalion (excerpts)
William Somerset Maugham
A Friend in Need
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Morning at the Window
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
John Bqynton Priestley
An Inspector Calls (excerpt from Act 1)
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography (Chapter 6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthome
The Ministcr's Black Veil
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Excelsior
The Quadroon Girl
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabcl Lee
To Helen
Walt Whitman
Selections from Lcaves of Grass
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapter 11)
Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy (Chapters 42 & -13)
Jack London
Lovc of Life
Robert Frost
The Pasture
Mcnding Wall
The Road Not Taken
Eugene O'Neill
Thc Hairy Apc (Scene VIII)
Emest Hemingwqy
A farewell to Arms (Ghapters 36 & 41)
John Steinbeck
The Grapes ofWrath (Ghapter 25)
Arthur Miller
Death ofa Salesman (exccrpt from Act 11)