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Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy
_____. "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" 鈥淟iterature and Science,鈥� "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gypsy," "To Marguerite," Empedocles on Etna, "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse," "The Buried Life"
Austen, Jane. Emma, Mansfield Park
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley's Secret
Bront毛, Ann. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bront毛, Charlotte. Jane Eyre, Villette
Bront毛, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh
_____. Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Robert. "Porphyria's Lover," "My Last Duchess," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church," "Love among the Ruins," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto"
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland
Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus
_____. Past and Present
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White
_____. The Moonstone
_____. No Name
_____. Armandale
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Olive,
_____. John Halifax, Gentleman
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House
_____. Great Expectations
_____. David Copperfield
_____. Oliver Twist
_____. Hard Times
_____. Little Dorrit
Disraeli, Benjamin. Coningsby
_____. Sybil, or the Two Nations,
Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet
_____. The Sign of Four
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
_____. The Mill on the Floss
_____. Adam Bede
_____. Daniel Deronda
Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton
_____. North and South
_____. Life of Charlotte Bront毛
Gissing, George. The Odd Women
_____. New Grub Street
Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon鈥檚 Mines, She
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
_____. Return of the Native
_____. The Mayor of Casterbridge
_____. Jude the Obscure
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover" "God's Grandeur," "Pied Beauty," "Spring and Fall"
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Half-Sisters
Kingsley, Charles. Hereward the Wake
_____. The Water-Babies
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills
_____. Barrack-Room Ballads
_____. The Jungle Books
_____. Kim
_____. 鈥淭he Man Who Would Be King鈥�
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "'Minute' on Indian Education"
Martineau, Harriet. Deerbrook
Meredith, George. The Egoist
Malthus, Thomas. Essay on Population
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty
_____. The Subjection of Women
_____. Autobiography
Morris, William. "The Defence of Guenevere," News from Nowhere
Newman, John Henry. Apologia pro vita sua
_____. The Idea of a University
Nightingale, Florence. Casssandra
Oliphant, Margaret. Miss Marjoribanks
_____. Phoebe Junior
Pater, Walter. The Renaissance
_____. Imaginary Portraits
_____. Marius the Epicurean
Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market," "In an Artist's Studio"
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. "Jenny," "The Blessed Damozel" 鈥淢y Sister Sleeps鈥�
Ruskin, John. "Of Queens' Gardens," "Of King's Treasuries" (in Sesame and Lilies), "Of Ideas of Beauty," (in Part III in Volume II of Modern Painters), "Of Pathetic Fallacy" (in chapter XII of Part IV in Volume III of Modern Painters) 鈥淭he Nature of Gothic鈥� (Stones of Venice)
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"; Treasure Island, Kidnapped, 鈥淭he Beach of Falesa鈥�
Stoker, Bram. Dracula, The Jewel of the Seven Stars
Swinburne, Algernon Charles."Faustine," "Dolores," "Hymn to Prosperpine," "Laus Veneris," "Hermaphroditus," "Anactoria"
Tennyson, Alfred. "The Lady of Shalott," "Tithonus," "The Lotus-Eaters," "Ulysses,"
_____. In Memoriam
_____. Maud. A Monodrama
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
_____. Henry Esmond
Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers
_____. The Way We Live Now
_____. The Warden
_____. The Way We Live Now
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest
_____. The Picture of Dorian Gray
_____. "The Critic as Artist"
_____. "The Decay of Lying"
_____. 鈥淎 Portrait of Mr W.H.鈥�
_____. Salome
_____. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Wood, Ellen. East Lynne