3 CONTENTS By Way of Introduction ..............................................................................................................5 ROMANTIC PERIOD William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads .......................................................................7 Slumber Did My Spirit ..........................................................................8 I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud ...............................................................8 Dorothy Wordsworth: Grasmere Journals...................................................................................9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner ..............................................................................9 Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias..........................................................................................12 Ode to the West Wind...........................................................................12 Defence of Poetry ...................................................................................15 George Gordon Byron: She Walks in Beauty ............................................................................16 Don Juan..............................................................................................16 John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci...................................................................18 Ode on Melancholy................................................................................20 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice................................................................................21 Sense and Sensibility..............................................................................27 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.........................................................................................29 Walter Scott: Ivanhoe .................................................................................................34 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia.......................................................................................38 VICTORIAN ERA Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights................................................................................40 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre..............................................................................................44 Anne Brontë: The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall............................................................52 Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers.............................................................................55 Christmas Carol....................................................................................60 The Great Expectations .....................................................................109 W. Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair .......................................................................................112 Anthony Trollope: Barchester Towers ...............................................................................115 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud .................................................................................................116 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ............................................................116 George Eliot: Middlemarch...................................................................................... 117 Robert Browning: My Last Duchess ...............................................................................119 Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43. .........................................................................................121 Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market ..................................................................................122 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Sonnet ................................................................................................125 Gerald Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty ........................................................................................125 Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach .......................................................................................126 Edward Lear: The Owl and a Pussycat .....................................................................127 Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There .................128 Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .....................................131 4 William Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White ........................................................................136 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray ...............................................................142 The Importance of Being Earnest ........................................................144 Rudyard Kipling: If ........................................................................................................153 The Law of the Jungle .........................................................................154 E. A. Housman: The Lads in Their Hundreds .............................................................156 Arthur Conan Doyle: The Study in Scarlet ...........................................................................157 Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d´Urbervilles .....................................................................160 George Meredith: The Egoist .........................................................................................164 George Gissing: New Grub Street ...............................................................................166 W. Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth ................................................................................171 George Herbert Wells: The War of the Worlds ......................................................................173 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness .............................................................................174