Lecture # 12 Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (1880 - 1910)

1. Characteristic features of the literature of the period

2. George Meredith (1828 - 1900): “The Amazing marriage ” (1895)

3. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902): “The Way of All Flesh”(1903)

4. Thomas Hardy: “The Mayor of Castorbridge” (1886), “Tess of the D’Urbevilles” (1891) , “The Dynasts”(epic drama, 1910)

5. Horror novels of Bram Stroker (1847 - 1912)

6. Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936): “The Light That Failed”(1890) , “The Jungle Book” (1894), “Captains Courageous”(1897), “Kim”(1901), “Just So Stories”(1902)

7. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895)

8. Robert Louis Stevenson “Kidnappes”(1886), “The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde”(1886)

9. Arthur Conan Doyle : “A Study in Scarlet”(1887) – detective story, he Sign of Four (1890), “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1891), “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1901)

10. Jerome K.Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat”1889

11. James M.Barrie “The Little Minister”(1891), “The Admirable Crichton” (play, 1902), “Twelve-pound Note”(play, 1910), “Dear Brutus”(1917)

12. Herbert Wells: “The Time Machine” (1895), “The Island of Dr. Moreau”(1896), “The Invisible Man”(1897), “The War of the Worlds”(1898)

13. W.Somerset Maugham “Liza of Lambeth” (1897)

14. Joseph Conrad “The Nigger of the “Narcissus” ”(1897).”Heart of Darkness”1902), “Typhoon”(1903), “Nostromo”(1904), “The Secret Agent” (1907), “Chance”(1913)

15. W.W.Jacobs “The Monkey’s Paw”(1902)

16. G.Bernard Shaw: “Man and Superman”(1903), “Pigmalion”(1913)

17. G.K.Chesterton “The Napoleon Of Notting Hill ” (1904)

18. E.M.Forster “Where Angels Fear to Tread”(1905), “A Passage to India”(1924), “A Room with a View”(1908)

19. John Galsworthy: “The Man of Property”(1906), “The Silver Box”(1909), “Justice (1910)”

20. Rider Haggard : “King Solomon’s Mines”(1885), “She”(1887)

Lecture # 13 English Literature of the 20th century (the period between 1910 – 1938)

1. D.H.Lawrence : “Sons and Lovers”(1913),”The Rainbow”(1915), “Women in Love”(1920), “Aaron’s Rod”(1924), “The Plumed Serpent”(1926), “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”(1928)

2. John Galsworthy: “In Chancery”(1920), “To Let”(1921), “The White Monkey”(1924), “A Silver Spoon”(1926), “The Swan song”(1928)

3. BernardShaw “Heartbreak House”(1919)

4. W.S.Maugham “The Moon and the Sixpence”(1919), “The Circle”(1921), “Cakes and Ale”(1930)

5. William Butler Yeats :”The Only Jealousy of Emer”(verse play, 1919), “The Tower”(collection of verse, 1928)

6. Huhg Lofting: “The Story of Dr. Dolittle”(1920) (children’s story)

7. Aldous Huxley: “Crome Yellow”(1921), “Point Counter Point”(1928), “Brave New World”(1932)

8. Rebecca West: “The Judge”(1922)

9. Percival Christopher Wren “Beau Geste”(1924)

10. Michael Arlen “The Green Hat”(1924)

11. Liam O’Flaherty:”The Black Soul”(1924), “The Informer”(1925), “Skerret”(1932), “Famile”(1937)

12. Sean O’Casey “Juno and Paycock”(1924), “The Plough and the Stars”(1926), “The Silver Tassel”(1926), “Within the Gates”(1933)

13. Arnold Bennet “The Clayhanger Family”(1925), “Imperial Palace”(1930)

14. Noel Coward : “Hay Fever”(comedic play, 1925), “Private Lives”(1930), “Design for Living”(1933), “Still Life”(1936)

15. Evelyn Waugh “Decline and Fall”(1928), “Vile Bodies”(1930), “Black Mischief”(1932), “A Handful of Dust”(1934), “Scoop”(1938)

16. Richard Aldington: “Death of a Hero”(1929)

17. J.B.Priestley :”The Good Companions”(1929), “Angel Pavement”(1930),”Time and the Conways”(1937), “I Have Been There Before”(1937), “When we are Married”(1938)

18. Graham Greene “The Man Within”(1929), “Orient Express”(1932), “Brighton Rock”(1938)

19. A.J.Cronin “Hatter’s Castle”(1931), “Stars Look Down”(1935), “The Citadel”(1937)

20. Agatha Christie “Murder on the Orient Express)”(1933), “Death on the Nile”(1937)

21. George Orwell: “Down and Out in Paris and London”(1933), “Burmese Days”1934)

22. Charles Percy Snow: “The Search”(1934)

23. J.R.R.Tolkien “The Hobbit”(1937)

24. Elizabeth Bowen “The Death of the Heart”(1938)

25. Richard Hughes “In Hazard”(1938)

26. C.S.Lewis “Out of Silent Planet”

27. Daphne du Maurier “Rebecca”

28. Samuel Beckett “Murphy”(novel, 19380