Newly Edited Selected Readings in British Literature (Part 2)

Author: Luo Jingguo
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Awarded the Second Prize of the National College Foreign Literature Teaching Research Association for Outstanding Teaching Research Achievements. Awarded the Second Prize of the Fifth Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. The second volume of this book includes three parts of literature from the early 19th century Romanticism, the Victorian period, and the 20th century. It features the poems of famous poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, and Browning, as well as selected works of renowned novelists like Dickens,, Hardy, and, including David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, and others. Representative works of the "angry young generation" in the mid-20th century, such as Osborne, and the absurdist drama representatives in the late 1950s, such as Beckett, are also included. The selected readings aim to help readers gain a certain understanding of the development of literature in these three periods, various genres, and the styles of different authors. The annotations for the selected readings are clear, detailed, and accurate, striving to cultivate readers' appreciation of literature. Suitable for English majors and enthusiasts.