1、A Basic Reading List of English Novels (43),John Bunyan(1628-88): not strictly a novelist, but The Pilgrims Progress has many of the qualities of the novel. Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride Adam Bede,Charles Dickens (1812-70): Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations T
2、homas Hardy (1840-1928): Under the Greenwood Tree; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet Major Henry James (1843-1916): Portrait of a Lady,Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94): Kidnapped is one of several adventure stories in which Stevenson set a pattern followed by many late
3、r writers. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Youth; Heart of Darkness, A Polish master mariner who learned English well enough to be a major English novelists.,Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) :The Time Machine; A Master of science fiction W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965): Cakes and Ale; The Moon and the Si
4、x Pence. His short stories are entertaining. E. M. Forster (1879-1970): The Longest Journey; A Room with a View David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930): Sons The Virgin & the Gipsy,J. B. Priestley (1894-1984): The Good Companions Evelyn Waugh (1930-66): Decline and Fall; Vile Bodies Graham Greene (1904-1991): Stamboul Train; Our Man in Havana; The Heart of the Matter H. E. Bates (1905-1980): The Masters; The New Men; The Affair William Golding (1911-1-93): Lord of the Flies Irish Murdoch (1974-99): The Bell Kingsley Amis (1922-95): Lucky Jim,
