The Classic of British literature. Illustrated : The Canterbury Tales, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Daughter of Time

British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.

Contents:

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales

John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress

William Shakespeare. Sonnets

Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis

John Milton. Paradise Lost

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels

Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities

Walter Scott. Ivanhoe

Mary W. Shelley. Frankenstein

Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre

Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles

Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

H. G. Wells. Time Machine

Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out

George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four

Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time

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