Must-Read Texts for the Successful Undergrad English Major
Discover the must-read books for a successful undergrad English major, from Hawthorne's *The House of the Seven Gables* and Brontë’s *Jane Eyre* to Conrad’s *Heart of Darkness*. This curated list of essential fiction and critical texts builds literary analysis skills, deepens genre knowledge, and prepares you for academic excellence.
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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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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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Modern Classics Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joyce, James
No summary available.
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
No summary available.
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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.