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British Library: Using Discovering Literature in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and...
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: Twentieth Century Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Andrea Levy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Andrea Levy's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Hanif Kureishi

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Hanif Kureishi's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Beryl Gilroy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Beryl Gilroy's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century People: e.r. Braithwaite

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of E.R. Braithwaite's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Buddha of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Buddha of Suburbia" is a bestselling novel by the British writer Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Empire of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
"Empire of the Sun" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Wise Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "Wise Children" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1900 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Gender and Sex

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of articles that research how gender roles were defined in the 19th century, and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...
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Bartleby.com: John Donne: His Position and Influence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature," this site places Donne amidst Elizabethan poets of his era and defines Donne apart from them.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Days With Sir Roger De Coverly by J. Addison and R. Steele

For Students 9th - 10th
This famous British duo recount their stay with the fictional Sir Roger and his acquaintances in this e-book. Multiple formats are available for download or reading online.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...
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British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
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British Library: 20th Century People: Katherine Mansfield

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Katherine Mansfield's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century People: James Joyce

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Jame Joyce's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Daphne Du Maurier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Daphne du Maurier's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Sylvia Plath

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a summary of Sylvia Plath's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Cal Poly Univ.: Metaphysical Poetry & English Composition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful essay by Steven Marx of Cal Poly University about teaching metaphysical poetry. Gives insight to the literary style and the poets Donne, Herbert, and Marvell.
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Leaving Home: e.m. Forster and the Pursuit of Higher Values

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth, insightful article from "Western Buddist Review" examines the theme of leaving home as it relates to several of Forster's works (e.g., "The Road to Colonus," "The Machine Stops," and "Howards End.")
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British Library: 20th Century Works: High Rise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"High-Rise" is the final book in a quartet of novels by J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.

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