Saturday, April 5, 2008

I love you but I am not in love with you

I love you but I am not in love with you.
I love Jane Austen. Love her literary works more so.


Gothic novels
Coming-of-age tales
Satirical (mocking of society)
Bildungsroman style of writing


You name it, she has it.

While reading, chanced upon the Top 20 Classics, which is being generated in a poll by one of the top publishers in USA.

1984, George Orwell
Animal Farm, George Orwell
A Streetcar named Desire, Tennessee Williams
The Inferno, Dante
The Odyssey, Homer
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
The Illiad, Homer
Beowulf, Burton Raffel
Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Heart of the Darkness & The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ur header sounds very familiar lei, teacher.

=p

about height, if u dun mind it doesn't matter.

but again, there are 2 types of height, one vertical when u are standing and one horizontal when u are lying down in bed, so does it matter?

Never mind if it does coz u can always have a stick!! LOL.....