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Index
Cover Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Welcome to the World of Classic Books
Introduction
What Makes a Classic?
Chapter Two: The Literary Giants
The World of Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
The World of The Brontë Sisters
The World of Charles Dickens 1775 – 1817
Chapter Three: Looking for Information
Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation – George Washington
Geoffrey Chaucer c1342/3 – 1400
The Fifteenth Century
The Sixteenth Century
The Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF SELECTED WRITERS
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
Wilkie Collins 1824-1889
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930
Thomas Hardy 1840-1928
Henry James 1843-1916
James Joyce 1882-1941
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930
John Le Carré 1931-
C.S. Lewis 1898-1963
George Orwell 1903-1950
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Mark Twain 1835-1910
H.G. Wells 1866-1946
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF POPULAR CLASSIC BOOKS
THE OPENING LINES FROM CLASSIC BOOKS
OTHER WELL KNOWN LINES FROM CLASSIC BOOKS
SOME OF THE WELL KNOWN CHARACTERS FOUND IN CLASSIC BOOKS
LITERARY TERMS
POETS’ CORNER
Chapter Four: Classic Books for Children
Hans Christian Anderson 1805-1875
J. M. Barrie 1860-1937
Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
Roald Dahl 1916-1990
Brothers Grimm Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm 1785-1863 Wilhelm Carl Grimm 1786-1859
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943
J.K. Rowling 1965 –
Johanna Spyri 1827-1901
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1973
Chapter Five: Prizes Awarded for Literary Achievement
The Nobel Prize
The Pulitzer Prize
The Man Booker Prize established 1968
Chapter Six: Well I Never Knew That!
Bibliography
Index
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