 | The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Single-Volume 8th Edition)
Buy new: $60.07 / Used from: $36.65 I'd probably rather have you get the two-volume edition, but I'm being nice
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 | The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $4.19 Optional but Recommended-British History Volume on Anglo-Saxon England (as the title implies, a very short book)
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 | Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $4.30 Beowulf-This prose translation, along with a collection of contextual pieces and critism of the poem, is presented as an alternative to the Seamus Heaney verse translation avalible in the Norton Anthology
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 | Eight Old English Poems
Buy new: $20.63 / Used from: $9.47 Optional-collection of eight key Old English works, untranslated. Recommended only for series Literature and Language students.
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 | Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gillingham
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $3.14 Optional but Recommended-British History Volume on The Middle Ages (again, a very short book)
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 | The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.70 Alas, my first pick, The Riverside Chaucer, is out of print. I have no experiance with this volume, but it has the complete Tales in Middle English, so I'm going with it.
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 | The Tudors (Very Short Introductions) by John Guy
Buy new: $13.09 / Used from: $6.00 Optional but Recommended-British History Volume on England under the Tutor family (as you can guess, a very short book)
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 | Utopia (Norton Critical Editions) by Thomas More
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.73 Sir Thomas More's classic work of social philosophy, presented here with background reading and works of critisism
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 | Holy Bible: King James Version, Bonded Leather, 1611 Edition
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $24.96 The classic English langauage version of the Bible. For the non-Christians reading this list, don't think of it as a religious text, this is an important literary text.
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 | The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $90.36 / Used from: $38.40 Do I really need to comment on Shakespeare?
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