British Literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels ...more

The Midnight Train (The Midnight World, #2)
The One Day You Were My Husband
John of John
Five
Honey
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
Hunger and Thirst
A Perfect Hand
The Last Lady B
Five-Star Summer
The Inklings Detective Agency
Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
Death in the New Forest (New Forest Murder Mysteries #1)
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Love by the Book
Lift Me Up
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
Five
In Her Defense
The Violin Maker's Secret
It's Not What You Think
How to Cheat Your Own Death (Castle Knoll Files, #3)
The Name Game
Our Dream Home
Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block
Slags
The New Neighbours
We Live Here Now
Look What You Made Me Do
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughHowards End by E.M. ForsterA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Wuthering Heights
1984
Animal Farm
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Sense and Sensibility

David Graeber
In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king. In return they received a royal monopoly on the issuance of banknotes. What this meant in practice was they had the right to advance IOUs for a portion of the money the king now owed them to any inhabitant of the kingdom willing to borrow from them, or willing to deposit their own money in ...more
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Quentin Crisp
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

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