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MO
Hello everyone!
I am now learning English as my second language, and I really like it. I took all the english courses at my school (I am from Spain) and now I want to start reading typical american literature :).
Are the books A Streetcar Named Desire and The Catcher in the Rye really difficult? My friend recommends them.
I read one book by Ernest Hemingway already, and it was an okay level for me, but my teacher tells me that his writing is very basic. Will the writing style and vocabulary in those books be much more complicated?
Thank you!
Answer
Imho, you have a good command of the written English language. As you probably know, a given book with more than a single level can be read for a single level, usually the more basic, and reread at a later time and understood in another perspective. You would likely benefit from reading any of these, as their plots are clear.
(Alas, typical American literature has been typical, in any given style, for briefer and briefer periods of time.)
In terms of classic English novels, mostly U.S., suggesting these in their chronological order:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Christmas Carol, and also The Pickwick Papers (British)
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (British)
The Ambassadors
The Age of Innocence
Sense and Sensibility (British)
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm (British)
The Great Divorce (British)
West with the Night (nonfiction, British)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
And several more recent, populist, young adult novels:
Paper Towns
Tree Shepherd's Daughter (trilogy)
Also worthwhile: The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art
Creation: Artistic and Spiritual
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Imho, you have a good command of the written English language. As you probably know, a given book with more than a single level can be read for a single level, usually the more basic, and reread at a later time and understood in another perspective. You would likely benefit from reading any of these, as their plots are clear.
(Alas, typical American literature has been typical, in any given style, for briefer and briefer periods of time.)
In terms of classic English novels, mostly U.S., suggesting these in their chronological order:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Christmas Carol, and also The Pickwick Papers (British)
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (British)
The Ambassadors
The Age of Innocence
Sense and Sensibility (British)
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm (British)
The Great Divorce (British)
West with the Night (nonfiction, British)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
And several more recent, populist, young adult novels:
Paper Towns
Tree Shepherd's Daughter (trilogy)
Also worthwhile: The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art
Creation: Artistic and Spiritual
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Help choosing a book to read for American Literature?
Jocelyn
I have to choose an independent reading book for American Lit Acc at school and I have narrowed it down to three choices; The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Looking for Alaska, and Thirteen Reasons Why. I am 16 years old. Also,
i need to be able to find American themes in the book I choose such as Destiny, the American Dream, Independence, Defiance, ect. So please give me your opinions on which book you think would be best suited for this.
Answer
The Perks of Being a Wallflower...it's all about destiny vs free will, and asserting your independence and defying convention.
But, really, I'd highly recommend The Great Gatsby.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower...it's all about destiny vs free will, and asserting your independence and defying convention.
But, really, I'd highly recommend The Great Gatsby.
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