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Heart of Darkness

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now." It has been edited only to the extent that the web publisher has separated each chapter into five sections to fit his "Chapter a Day,"...
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University of Nottingham: d.h. Lawrence Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th
This selected bibliography lists the novels of D. H. Lawrence, including poems, short stories, plays, travel writings, fiction, translations, essays and more.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Deep Blue Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "The Deep Blue Sea" by Terence Rattigan and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Top Girls

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Written by Caryl Churchill in 1982, "Top Girls" was one of the first plays to engage directly with Thatcherism. Read an overview of "Top Girls" and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and videos.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Black Album

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "The Black Album" by Hanif Kureishi and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Nights at the Circus

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: My Beautiful Laundrette

For Students 9th - 10th
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) was the first screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: In Praise of Love and Children

For Students 9th - 10th
"In Praise of Love and Children" by Beryl Gilroy is a novel that tells of the experiences of Caribbean migration and celebrates community. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher...
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British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948: Thomas Stearns Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel Prize site provides hyperlinks (on the far right) to the press release announcing the award to T.S. Eliot (1888-1965 CE), a short biography of his life, the introduction of Eliot to the Academy, and Eliot's acceptance speech....
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Waiting for Godot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: To the Lighthouse

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Wolff and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Their Lonely Betters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
'Their Lonely Betters' is a short, four-stanza lyric poem by W.H. Auden. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Waste Land

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
'The Waste Land' is a long poem by the American writer T.S Eliot. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Howards End

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "Howards End" by E.M. Forster and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: Teaching Resources: Romeo and Juliet: Words, Poetry & Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will conduct a close linguistic exploration of the Romeo and Juliet text, which considers the central and deadly role that words play in the lovers' fate. They will also engage in broader tasks that...
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British Library: Teaching Resources: Othello: The Challenges of Staging the Play

For Students 9th - 10th
These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...
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University of Oxford (UK)

U. Oxford: Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Seminars, lesson plans, publications, pictures, and poetry make this a very useful resource for language arts or social studies lessons involving World War I and its poetry.
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British Library: Daniel Defoe's 'Moll Flanders'

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical sketch of Daniel Defoe, author of "Moll Flanders". Click on an image of a landscape that relates to the book for further details and exploration.
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British Library: Jane Austen's Bath

For Students 9th - 10th
View images of Bath that provided the landscape settings for many of Jane Austen's novels. Click on an image for artist information and further details.
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National Gallery of Art: British and American History Paintings of the 1700s

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a nice exhibit of history paintings from the 1700s. There are eight paintings discussed depicting various historical events including religious and mythological stories.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Oroonoko: Historical and Political Contexts

For Students 9th - 10th
As a young woman, Aphra Behn was a spy for Charles II's government in Antwerp and probably in South America. Two decades later, she used these experiences to write Oroonoko, the story of a prince kidnapped from West Africa, enslaved, and...

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