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What You'd Have To Read If I Was Your British Literature Teacher Pt I
By an Amazon.com customer
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Single-Volume 8th Edition)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
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short IntroductionThe 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)
Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)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
Eight Old English PoemsEight 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.
Medieval Britain: A Very Short IntroductionMedieval 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)
The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics)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.
The Tudors (Very Short Introductions)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)
Utopia (Norton Critical Editions)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
Holy Bible: King James Version, Bonded Leather, 1611 EditionHoly 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.
The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd EditionThe Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $90.36 / Used from: $38.40
Do I really need to comment on Shakespeare?