I am in the UK and we read: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, The Tempest, Animal Farm and various Romantic poets. I can’t remember whether I read The Catcher in the Rye at school or later, at University. There wasn’t much emphasis on modern literature or American literature at my secondary school.
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@Ruth_A I think that might have been my problem. I read all those novels & plays on my own, and just never really warmed up to 20th century American lit (I did like some of the older novels, though, like The Scarlet Letter). Guess I was born in the wrong country and the wrong century!
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That was a long, long time ago. I’m not sure I remember any titles we were assigned…possibly Romeo and Juliet…something by Charles Dickens. The Old Man and the Sea put me off Hemingway for the rest of my life. I also remember trying to read an abbreviated version of A Tale of Two Cities in French. I understood a fraction of it. However, there was a whole world of good reading outside the classroom.
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Alas,Babylon; 1984; The Scarlet Letter; Red Sky at Morning; The Great Gatsby; Black Like Me, Brave New World; Romeo and Juliet; Animal Farm; Black Boy; Moby Dick; Flowers for Algernon; Hamlet; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Death of a Salesman… and many more.
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