Must-Read Texts for the Successful Undergrad English Major

Discover the essential must-read texts for every successful undergrad English major. Explore our curated list of classic and influential books to excel in your studies and literary analysis.

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Jane Eyre 3/e

by Charlotte Brontë

The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author.
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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

"Previous editions edited by Robert Kimbrough."
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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'ASimple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.
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The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

A tormented, alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in Mexico.
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The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This all-new edition of Hawthorne s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne."
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The Elements of Technical Writing

by Thomas E. Pearsall

One-quarter the length and price of "conventional" textbooks, this popular introduction to technical writing teaches the essentials with remarkable economy, clarity, and authority. The book is divided into two parts. Part One focuses on the seven fundamental principles of good technical writing, such as knowing one's purpose and audience, thinking visually, and writing ethically. Part Two covers the formats of reports and correspondence. Four appendices contain three sample reports and a student proposal. The Elements of Technical Writing concentrates on the essentials, providing students with precisely the information needed to produce effective technical documents and no more.
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Oxford Annotated Bible

by MICHAEL D. COOGAN

The new edition includes a full index to all of the study material (not just to the annotations), and one that is keyed to page numbers, not to citations. And, to make certain points in the text clearer for the reader, there are approximately 40 in text, line drawing maps and diagrams.