Hatrack River Forum: A book. (Or a paper, depending on how you want to look at it...)

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Posted by IrishAphrodite19 (Member # 1880) on :

So I have this paper to write. And before you all yell at me to do my own work, I'm gonna write the paper on my own, I just need help deciding what to write the paper on.
It has to be Brit/European Lit and I have to be able to find at least 4 critics, in real books not the internet.
So yeah. Anything not boring or Shakespeare would be wonderful, maybe... Thanks for any help!

~~Irish~~

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

I did one on Rudyard Kipling. He's pretty interesting, and incredibly prolific with Novels, poems, and short stories.

Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :

Dumas--The Count of Monte Cristo (French)
C. Bronte--Jane Eyre (British)
K. Mann--Mephisto (German) (could be too recent; I don't know the details of your assignment, but this is post WWII. It's my new favorite book.)
You probably think Dickens is boring . . . but I like him, so Great Expectations or A Tale of Two Cities (British).

I know I have many others to recommend, I just can't think of them right now.

Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :

Jane Austen

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Jane Austen Jane Austen Jane Austen.

And while you're at it:

take the quiz!

Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :

Conrad, because the critics have changed in their view of him so dramatically over the last 50 years. Would be really interesting to see what was written in 1950 vs the last ten years about, say, Heart of Darkness.

Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :

And I'm Elizabeth Bennet, apparently. [Blushing]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Come on... Douglas Adams!

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Elizabeth Bennet, also.

"How do you love?"
"Passionately- almost to death."

And what a way to die!

Posted by IrishAphrodite19 (Member # 1880) on :

My dad suggested Adams, and I think I may do one of his books. I was just worried that I might not be able to find enough sources in a local library.

~~Irish~~

Posted by DanielW (Member # 5395) on :

Ravenheart - David Gemmell
White Wolf -David Gemmell
Wolf in Shadow - David Gemmell

Sense a theme here ? [Big Grin]

Edit to add that these are my favourites, but anything by David Gemmell is pretty fantastic.

[ September 16, 2003, 06:19 AM: Message edited by: DanielW ]

Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :

I did A.A. Milne once for a research paper. Granted, it was a biographical research paper, but still. There should be lots about him in the library, and he did more than the Pooh books.

Posted by IrishAphrodite19 (Member # 1880) on :

Ok, I think I have decided on The Hobbit, but Tolkin...I found a lot of critics about the book and hey, its The Hobbit.
This is a good idea, yes??

~~Irish~~

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

Tolkien! Tolkien! Tolkien! Need I say more?
More good british authors (I did this in school last year!): Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen R. Lawhead, Bronte(the one that didn't write Wuthering Heights)...I'll let you know if I think of more...