Hey /lit/, my next English class requires that I come in having read two novels from the following list:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Beloved
Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein
A Farewell to Arms
All the Pretty Horses
I'm leaning toward Beloved for one of them (I think I have a copy lying around.) Any recs for the second book?
picture of dorian gray
>>8036936
C&p or brothers k
thats a random list... Dorian Gray is the shortest if you are just trying to quickly bang em out. But do yourself a favor and read one of the Dostos
>english class
>Dostoevsky
what the fuck
>>8036949
An english class is just a class about literature, it's not necessarily english literature
>>8036936
Dostoevsky and Dorian Gray. easy.
Read Bros. K and A Farewell to Arms or forever be a pussified ladyboy
>>8036936
Dorian Gray and Frankenstein are the sensible choices, since they're both short, focused, and synergise well, making it easy to write excellent essays with plenty of literary and social context.
All the books are fantastic but if there is one i absolutely would deter you from reading it's Brothers Karamazov. Despite being one of the better books on the list it is just too thematically dense and varied for you to write about in an essay, as many of the ideas explored require this huge grasp of context and philosophy that would take over half of the essay to just establish. Similar with Crime and Punishment.
If you're analyzing the books separately go ahead and choose beloved because you can get those juicy postcolonial/race readings in that will have the examiner shitting marks onto your awaiting head.
