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SISTER ARTS Painting The Epic of the Sea
• W. Homer, The Fog Warning 70
Walt Whitman 71
DICTATION Transcendentalism 71
e9 I Hear America Singing 72
Emily Dickinson 74
e10 The Saddest Noise 75
e11 Hope Is the Thing 77
Robert Louis Stevenson 78
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde 79
e12 Jekyll Turns Into Hyde 81
e13 Jekyll Can No Longer
Control Hyde 83
Thomas Hardy 85
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 86
e14 The Woman Pays 88
➤HOW TO write a descriptive essay 92
COMPARING CULTURES The Realistic Novel 93
Oscar Wilde 95
The Picture of Dorian Gray 96
e15 Life as the Greatest of the Arts 98
COMPARING CULTURES Decadent Art
and Aestheticism 101
The Importance of Being Earnest 102
e16 When the Girls Realise They Are
Both Engaged to Ernest 104
➤HOW TO write an argumentative essay 107
The Ballad of Reading Gaol 108
e17 For Each Man Kills the Thing
He Loves 109
Rudyard Kipling 112
Kim 113
e18 The Serai of Lahore 114
➤HOW TO write a descriptive essay 116
COMPARING CULTURES The British Empire:
India in the Victorian Age 117
✬ MILLENNIUM OVERVIEW
The first tour operator:
Thomas Cook 118
TEXT STORE
The Victorian novel
t51 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Women Feel just as Men Feel
t52 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Final
Disillusion: “It’s Too Late”.
t53 George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Slow Boys Need
Good Schooling, Bright Girls Don’t
t54 George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, A Brother’s Hate
t55 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Preface
t56 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Kills
the Portrait and Himself
t57 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Playing with
Words: Who Is Going to Be Master?
t58 Bram Stoker, Dracula, Killing the Vampire
Victorian poetry
t59 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, If Thou Must Love Me, Let
It Be for Naught
t60 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Woodspurge
t61 Christina Georgina Rossetti , Echo
t62 GerardManley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
Victorian drama
t63 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Neither
Jack nor Algernon Is Ernest
t64 George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Liza Learns How to
Say Her Alphabet
t65 George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Higgings Gets Angry
with Liza
t66 George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, When the
Good Go to Hell
American novelists
t67 Mark Twain , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Down
the Mississippi River
t68 HermanMelville, Moby Dick, Ahab’s Rage at the White
Whale
t69 HermanMelville, Billy Budd, Billy Kills Claggart
Victorian prose
t70 Herbert Spencer, Education, Intellectual, Moral and
Physical, The Supremacy of Science
t71 Harriet Martineau , Autobiography, A Woman’s Life
t72 James Nasmyth, An Autobiography, The Bright and Dark
Sides of the Industrial Revolution
t73 Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in
England, Urban Slums
t74 John Ruskin, The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century,
The Sky Is Covered with Grey Cloud
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