Have you ever nodded and smiled when someone mentions a classic book at a party?! Let's talk literature, snobbery and what I really thought of all of the 'masterpieces' I have read so far.
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00:00 intro
04:38 the books
12:38 closing thoughts on 'canon'
Books mentioned:
Pamela
Heart of Darkness
Pride and Prejudice
Margery Kemp
Great Gatsby
1984
Catcher in the Rye
Mrs. Dalloway
Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Howard’s End
Beloved
Jane Eyre
Paradise Lost
The Lonely Londoners
Emma
A Room of One’s Own
Treasure Island
Swallows & Amazons
Maus
The Hobbit
The Bible
Remains of the Day
Persuasion
Turn of the Shrew
Stone Butch Blues
Catch 22
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Drowned World
A Christmas Carol
Leaves of Grass
Villette
The Communist Manifesto
Bleak House
Hard Times
Love Letters between Virginia Woolf & Vita
The Master and Margarita
The Bloody Chamber
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Rape of the Lock
The Souls of Black Folk
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Alice in Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz
The Handmaid's Tale
She
The Good Terrorist
Sir Gawain and the green knight
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