Advanced Table
English Department
Book List
Companion
reading
Websites
ADVANCED
NOVELS
1984
Poems, Essays,
articles
Audio movies or other v
book on CD, DVD
A Tale of Two Cities
Beowulfe
Grendel- john
gardner
A hypertext
version:
http://faculty.vir
ginia.edu/OldEn
glish/Beowulf.Re
adings/Beowulf.
Readings.html
-Audio reading of the or
version:
http://faculty.virginia.edu
eowulf.Readings/Beowulf
-Several
resources:
http://www.heorot
.dk/beo-links.html
Brave New World
Catch-22
DVD
Clockwork Orange
DVD
Frankenstein
DVD’s
Gormenghast
DVD
Grapes of Wrath
VHS
Great Gatsby
VHS
Grendel
 BeowulfeHeaney
version or
 abbreviated
version in
“Literature
and the
Language
Arts”
textbookmaple leaf
edition.
 Grendex- an
interesting
index of
most words
and phrases
in Grendel
with
explanations
. Also links
to other
grendel
resourceshttp://www.
brtom.org/g
r/grendintro
.html
-
Heart of Darkness
Huckleberry Finn
Invisible Man
Island
Lolita
DVD
Lord of the Flies
DVD
Lords of Discipline
Moon is Down
Night
On the Road
Song of Solomon
Tar Baby
The Awakening
The Handmaid’s Tale
DVD
Part of the novel
with slideshow
accompanyinghttp://www.you
tch?v=2CkGVtRn
PlayList&p=B9C6
F78&playnext=1
om=PL&index=1
The Jungle
The March
The Metamorphosis
The Picture of Dorian
Gray
The Razor’s Edge
The Scarlet Letter
DVD
The Winter of Our
Discontent
SHORT STORIES
9 Stories
Welcome to the
Monkey House
Stranger Things
Happen
Burning Your BoatsAngela Carter
Tin House (Literary
Mag. W/ poetry too)
Yellow Wallpaper
Turn of the ScrewJames
Borges
The Lagoon- Joseph
Conrad
The Bloody Chamber-  Paired with
Carter
Feminist lit,
gothic , folk
Essay
comparing tale
to “Bluebeard”
tales or fairy
tales.
Advanced
vocab.
 Based on the
legend of
Bluebeard
(found
onlinehttp://www.
onlineliterature.co
m/anatolefrance/4014
/
).
Poetry
Paradise Lost
The Paris Review
Elizabeth Bishop
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
www.poetryfoundati
on.org
Robert Frost
John Keats
Theodore Roethke
Walt Whitman
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos
Williams
Dean Young
and good
discussion of
each talehttp://www.en
dicottstudio.com/rdr
m/forblue.html
Essays
Viewpoints
The Longman Reader
Seagull Reader
Essays
Politics and the
English LanguageOrwell- in seagull
reader: essays
-
http://www.or
well.ru/library
/essays/politic
s/english/e_pol
it
(online
version)
VQR essay
celebrating the
essay 50 years
laterhttp://www.vq
ronline.org/arti
cles/1997/wint
er/pinskermusing-aboutorwells/
http://www.orwell.ru/l
s/politics/english/e_pol
version)
Rap version of
Hamlet by Shel
Silverstein (rrated):
http://ringofste
el.org/reference
/raphamlet.htm
l
-Mel Gibson version
Plays
Richard III
Hamlet
 All his plays
and poems
online and a
TON of
resources:
http://absol
uteshakespe
are.com/ind
ex.htm
 A grouping
of several
hamlet
activities
and
-Brannagh version
-Rosecrantz and Gildens
dead
-Audio version (well don
divided by scene) in Eng
hayden-books-shakespe
noveltie
websites all
summarized
with links
(some
expired
links):
http://www.
webenglisht
eacher.com/
hamlet.html
 Engaging
FAQ about
Shakespeare
’s life and
work (quick
read):
http://absol
uteshakespe
are.com/triv
ia/faq/faq.ht
m

The Importance of
Being Earnest
Plays in One Act
King Lear
The Ian mckellan versio
http://www.pbs.org/vid
075274407/subject/95
DVD
Other
The Iliad
The Odyssey
VHS