Objective : To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits
E.V. Lucas
A Funeral
On Finding Things
V.S. Pritchett
The Dean
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant
Inside the Whale
Somerset Maugham
The Mother
James Thurber
The Night the Ghost Got In
Colin Howard
Post Haste
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
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Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. Of English and M.E.L.Lucknow: OUP. Print.
Orwell, G. Inside the Whale and Other Essays. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984. Print.
Booth, W. Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1961. Print.
Brander, Lawrence. George Orwell .London: Longman, 1904. Print.
Ford, Boris, Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. Print.
Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World. New York : Criterion Books, 1953. Print.
Hollis, Christopher: A Study of George Orwell. London: Hollis and Carter, 1956. Print.
Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1921. Print.