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Pamela;  or, Virtue Rewarded
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson | 1740 | Fiction & Poetry
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This novel is commonly known as the first true English novel, as well as the first epistolary novel. I've taken numerous British and English Literature classes, but had not been introduced to this novel until I studied in England and took an English novel class taught by a German professor who learned English solely so he could read Shakespeare in the vernacular. I'm glad that this prof included this wonderful novel. It was a nice change from just assigning Jane Eyre and Great Expectations.
It's an interesting study on Pamela, and spawned so many great, satirical novels. This is definitely a must read if you like classic literature and enjoy reading the novels that shaped the literature of today.
  
The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:


The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...

     
     
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High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
1952 | Western
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"The greatest work of modern English literature. It’s known for being complex and difficult, but in a way it’s very democratic: a story about what it is to be human as one middle-class guy goes about one day of his life in Dublin."

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