BRITISH LITERATURE
Old English Literature ( 7th – 12th century )
| Beowulf |
Middle English Literature ( 1100 – 1500)
| Geoffrey Chaucer: | Canterbury Tales |
The renaissance (1485 – 1603)
| William Shakespeare: | Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Aa You Like It |
The Civil War Period
| John Milton: | Paradise Lost ( 1667) |
18th century
| Jonathan Swift: | Gulliver‘ s Travels |
| Henry Fielding: | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| William Blake: | The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) |
| William Wordsworth: | Lyrical Ballads |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge: | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley: | Prometheus Unbound |
| George Gordon Byron: | Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage |
| Jane Austen: | Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma |
| Daniel Defoe: | Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders |
19th century
| Charlotte Brontë: | Jane Eyre |
| Emily Brontë: | Wuthreing Heights |
| Walter Scott: | Ivanhoe, Waverley |
| Charles Dickens: | Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club |
| William M. Thackeray: | Vanity Fair, The Book of Snobs |
| George Eliot (F): | Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss |
| Thomas Hardy: | The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbevilles |
| Oscar Wilde: | The Picture of Dorian Gray, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: | Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World |
| Mary Shelley (F): | Frankenstein |
| Abraham Stoker (Irish): | Dracula |
| L.Carroll: | Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass |
| Robert Luis Stevenson: | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island |
| H.G. Wells: | The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau |
20th century
| George Bernard Shaw: | Pygmalion |
| James Joyce: | The Dubliners |
| Virginia Woolf (F): | Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse |
| D.H. Lawrence: | Lady Chatterley´s Lover |
| T.S.Eliot: | The Waste Land |
| Agatha Christie (F): | Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, Ten Little Niggers, Mousetrap |
| John R.R.Tolkien: | The Lord of the Rings, Hobit |
| J.R.Kipling: | The Jungle Books, Just So Stories |
| George Orwell: | Animal Farm, 1984 |
| Kingsley Amis: | Lucky Jim |
| Roald Dahl: | The Big Friendly Giant, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Ted Hughes: | The Iron Man, The Trunk |
| Sue Townsend: | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole |
| J.K.Rowling: | Harry Potter |
| D.Lessing: | The Grass is Singing |
| Graham Greene: | The Quiet American |
| John Osborne: | Look Back in Anger |
| David Lodge: | Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses |
| Aldous Huxley: | Brave New World |
| Muriel Spark (F): | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
AMERICAN LITERATURE
19th century
| Nathaniel Hawthorne: | The Scarlet Letter, The House of The Seven Gables |
| Edgar Alan Poe: | The Raven |
| Herman Melville: | Moby-Dick |
| Luisa May Alcott (F): | Little Women, Little Men |
| Walt Whitman: | Leaves of Grass |
| Washington Irving: | Rip van Vinkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Mark Twain: | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper |
20th century
| Jack London: | The White Fang, The Call of the Wild |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald: | The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| William Faulkner: | As I lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury |
| Ernest Hemingway: | The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom The Bell Tolls |
| John Steinbeck: | Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath |
| Tennessee Williams: | A Streetcar named Desire, Orpheus Descending, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| J.D. Salinger: | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Stephen King: | Misery, The Green Mile |
| Jack Kerouac: | On the Road |
| George R.R. Martin: | A Song of Ice and Fire |
| Stephanie Meyer (F): | The Twilight Saga |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery (F): | Anne of Green Gables |
| Alan Jay Lerner: | My Fair Lady (lyrics, musical based on Pygmalion) |
| Leonore Fleischer (F): | Rain Man, The Kingfisher |