Scholarship is where you can talk about books and literature and other bits and pieces like LIFE :)
Advice to current Scholarship students and anyone thinking of doing Scholarship in years to come -- READ READ READ - It is such fun and so interesting!
Some classics you may have read and or may put on your list - some of these are children's classics, but a well educated person needs to have some knowledge of these because they are referenced everywhere in our lives . They are part of our culture.
A book list - not 'the all-time' book list but it's a start
These are classics, old, and newer, some more for children, others part of the heritage of English literature and they may be “good” or “bad’ according to a variety of people. Useful to at least know what they are about and to have experienced them in some form – film or print – but basically they are wonderful to read if you can slow your life down to the luxury of the experience of the other worlds they offer. There are hundreds of worthy books out there and I am sure I have left off so many good ones.
Please post your own favourite books – doesn’t matter if they are ‘classics’ or not
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Sense and sensibility, Emma plus three more
Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Little men (10- 12 year reading level)
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin ( about slavery in the southern states of America)
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two cities plus many others
Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
William Golding Lord of the Flies
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows ( children's literature but wonderful!)
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'urbervilles
H Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines kids books about Africa
Aldous Huxley Brave new world - a dystopian novel written in the 1930s
Ernest Hemingway The Old man and the Sea, For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway is a much celebrated American
writer
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Richard Llewellyn How Green was my Valley -a family saga set in Wales and coal mining town
C.S. Lewis The Narnia series –The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe etc
Jack London White Fang (children's books set in Alaska - man and his wolf friend)
A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh ( children's books - should have read)
L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables - wonderful - read quickly before you get too old)
George Orwell Animal Farm (satire on Communism) 1984 -( dystopia about Big Brother)
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Treasure island (kids adventure stories - ships and islands and pirates)
but also Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - a kind of allegory of schizophrenia/horror story
Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (My Fair lady) St Joan (These are plays)
Antoine de Saint Expurey The Little Prince a little story - children's book?? actually philosophy
Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit Lord of the Rings
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the centre of the earth
H.G. Wells The Time Machine War of the Worlds
J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck Of Mice and men; The grapes of wrath
I remember the ones like Winnie the Pooh because they are so funny. I was swept away on romanticism when I read Lord of the Rings and still re-read it about once every two or three years. I love the Jane Austen books and can still read those. In fact, I still re-read and remember lots of these because they are so powerful.
This list does not have any modern writers on it. I will research some and put them up but off the top of my head, people you could read whose writing I have found appealing. These are not necessarily classics of the future but I found the books interesting:
Annie Proulx; Margaret Atwell; Tobias Wolff; Kate Atkinson; Ayn Rand; Khaled Hosseini
CRASH COURSES (in all sorts of things including literature)
This guy, John Green, is the same man who wrote the popular novels everyone is reading currently :
Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns and others
He has also made a number of other videos on history and other stuff - all called "Crash course on.......:"
How many of these famous poets have you read?
Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Yeats, Coleridge, Blake, Alexander Pope, Eliot, DH Lawrence, Dryden, Hopkins, Plath, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney
IDEAS
Turns out the latest 2013 Superman movie has links to ancient Greek philosophy. Read this article from the Big Think website and tell me what you think.
The more you know - the further you'll go - or something like that - Dr Seuss I believe.
Read up about Plato's views on the dangers of literature, Aristotle's writing on Drama. Find out about the history of theatre from the days of Ancient Greece to today.
Do you know
Advice to current Scholarship students and anyone thinking of doing Scholarship in years to come -- READ READ READ - It is such fun and so interesting!
Some classics you may have read and or may put on your list - some of these are children's classics, but a well educated person needs to have some knowledge of these because they are referenced everywhere in our lives . They are part of our culture.
A book list - not 'the all-time' book list but it's a start
These are classics, old, and newer, some more for children, others part of the heritage of English literature and they may be “good” or “bad’ according to a variety of people. Useful to at least know what they are about and to have experienced them in some form – film or print – but basically they are wonderful to read if you can slow your life down to the luxury of the experience of the other worlds they offer. There are hundreds of worthy books out there and I am sure I have left off so many good ones.Please post your own favourite books – doesn’t matter if they are ‘classics’ or not
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Sense and sensibility, Emma plus three more
Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Little men (10- 12 year reading level)
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin ( about slavery in the southern states of America)
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two cities plus many others
Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
William Golding Lord of the Flies
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows ( children's literature but wonderful!)
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'urbervilles
H Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines kids books about Africa
Aldous Huxley Brave new world - a dystopian novel written in the 1930s
Ernest Hemingway The Old man and the Sea, For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway is a much celebrated American
writer
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Richard Llewellyn How Green was my Valley -a family saga set in Wales and coal mining town
C.S. Lewis The Narnia series –The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe etc
Jack London White Fang (children's books set in Alaska - man and his wolf friend)
A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh ( children's books - should have read)
L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables - wonderful - read quickly before you get too old)
George Orwell Animal Farm (satire on Communism) 1984 -( dystopia about Big Brother)
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Treasure island (kids adventure stories - ships and islands and pirates)
but also Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - a kind of allegory of schizophrenia/horror story
Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (My Fair lady) St Joan (These are plays)
Antoine de Saint Expurey The Little Prince a little story - children's book?? actually philosophy
Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit Lord of the Rings
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the centre of the earth
H.G. Wells The Time Machine War of the Worlds
J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck Of Mice and men; The grapes of wrath
I remember the ones like Winnie the Pooh because they are so funny. I was swept away on romanticism when I read Lord of the Rings and still re-read it about once every two or three years. I love the Jane Austen books and can still read those. In fact, I still re-read and remember lots of these because they are so powerful.
This list does not have any modern writers on it. I will research some and put them up but off the top of my head, people you could read whose writing I have found appealing. These are not necessarily classics of the future but I found the books interesting:
Annie Proulx; Margaret Atwell; Tobias Wolff; Kate Atkinson; Ayn Rand; Khaled Hosseini
Here's another list - some duplication
WHAT IS LITERARY CRITICISM?
CRASH COURSES (in all sorts of things including literature)
This guy, John Green, is the same man who wrote the popular novels everyone is reading currently :
Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns and others
He has also made a number of other videos on history and other stuff - all called "Crash course on.......:"
John Green - an example of his videos
Crash courses in literature: Romeo and Juliet in a nutshell - plus this is a good example of a visual essay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4kz-C7GryY
POETRY - emotion distilled - or "recollected in tranquillity" says Wordsworth
Try this link: Billy Collins has created a website with a poem a day. Try reading through these for fun.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Find some actual books in a library and dip in - serendipity is a wonderful thing.
How many of these famous poets have you read?
Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Yeats, Coleridge, Blake, Alexander Pope, Eliot, DH Lawrence, Dryden, Hopkins, Plath, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney
IDEAS
Turns out the latest 2013 Superman movie has links to ancient Greek philosophy. Read this article from the Big Think website and tell me what you think.BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
The more you know - the further you'll go - or something like that - Dr Seuss I believe.Read up about Plato's views on the dangers of literature, Aristotle's writing on Drama. Find out about the history of theatre from the days of Ancient Greece to today.
Do you know