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• PoetrySir Gawain and the Green KnightPearl Poet (Gawain Poet) · 1390A pact: one blow of an axe now, the same one in a year.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · 1400Thirty strangers on the same road tell each other stories to win a dinner.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelLe Morte d'ArthurThomas Malory · 1485The tales of Arthur and his knights, gathered into a single book by a man in prison.LiteraturePublic domain
• EssayUtopiaThomas More · 1516A traveller tells an English lawyer what he saw on an island where money has no currency.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe · 1589A scholar obtains everything he has asked for and sees the day approach when he will have to pay.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Faerie QueeneEdmund Spenser · 1590Knights, each embodying a virtue, travel through a land of faerie, and the queen of England is everywhere without being named.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreRomeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · 1595Two children from two enemy houses bind themselves for life the day after they first see each other.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreVolponeBen Jonson · 1606A rich Venetian pretends to be dying, and those who hope to inherit come rushing in.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryPoemsJohn Donne · 1633Poems of love and devotion, in which the poet reasons in verse about the woman he loves as about God.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryParadise LostJohn Milton · 1667A rebel cast out of heaven returns to take revenge on the new creature.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Country WifeWilliam Wycherley · 1675A reputation for impotence opens all the doors of London to its owner.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeThe Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan · 1678A man leaves his town with a burden on his back and walks towards a city he has never seen.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryTo His Coy MistressAndrew Marvell · 1681A lover explains to a lady, with proofs, that they do not have time to wait.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryEloisa to AbelardAlexander Pope · 1717A cloistered nun says what the rule has failed to extinguish in her.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelRobinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1719A man alone on an island learns to make, from nothing, everything he used to consume without a thought.Literature
• TheatreThe Beggar's OperaJohn Gay · 1728Thieves and fences sing tunes that all London knew, in place of the gods of opera.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelPamela; or, Virtue RewardedSamuel Richardson · 1740A fifteen-year-old servant writes down each day what her master tries to do to her.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding · 1749A foundling is driven out of the house that had taken him in and takes to the road.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne · 1759A man sets out to tell his life and takes three volumes to be born.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelEvelinaFanny Burney · 1778A young girl raised in seclusion discovers London and its customs, and tells of her missteps in letters.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetrySongs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake · 1794Songs of childhood, then their reverse: the lamb first, the tiger afterwards.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryLyrical BalladsWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Two friends publish together, anonymously, poems written in the language of everyday speech.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelPride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813A house full of sisters, and almost nothing coming to them.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryManfredLord Byron · 1817A man alone in the mountains demands from the powers he has summoned something they cannot give.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelFrankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusMary Shelley · 1818What does a creator owe to what he has made, and by what right does he turn away from it?LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryOzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley · 1818Two legs of stone standing in the sand, and at their feet a shattered face.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelNightmare AbbeyThomas Love Peacock · 1818A young man dreams of secret societies, and each of his father's guests defends his doctrine at table.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryOde to a NightingaleJohn Keats · 1819The song of a nightingale, on a spring night, set against human suffering and death.LiteraturePublic domain
• DiaryThe Diary of Samuel PepysSamuel Pepys · 1825A naval official writes down everything he does, including what he would never have said aloud.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Last Days of PompeiiEdward Bulwer-Lytton · 1834A few days in the life of a Roman city, and the volcano nobody is watching.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelOliver TwistCharles Dickens · 1838London, its workhouses and its gangs of child thieves, through the fate of an orphan.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelJack SheppardWilliam Harrison Ainsworth · 1839Two apprentices grow up in the household of the same London carpenter, and one of them is pushed towards theft by Jonathan Wild.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelSybil; or, The Two NationsBenjamin Disraeli · 1845A young member of parliament from a great family discovers, under a false name, the workers of a mill town.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelWuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 1847A servant tells a passing tenant the story of the house next door, and of those who have lived in it.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelJane EyreCharlotte Brontë · 1847A poor orphan without beauty tells her own life, from childhood to her position as a governess.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAgnes GreyAnne Brontë · 1847A clergyman's daughter takes a post as a governess to help her family, and learns what it entails.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelVanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 1848Two friends enter the world together, one with a dowry, the other with nothing but her intelligence.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryIn Memoriam A. H. H.Alfred Tennyson · 1850A poet mourns the friend of his youth, and his grief becomes a questioning of faith.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Adventures of Mr. Verdant GreenCuthbert Bede · 1853The first steps of a naive student at Oxford, the target of his fellow students' pranks.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryMen and WomenRobert Browning · 1855Fifty-one poems in which painters, bishops, lovers and knights speak.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe WardenAnthony Trollope · 1855A man learns from the newspaper that the income he lives on is regarded as theft.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAlice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · 1865A little girl follows a white rabbit underground and meets creatures that talk, reason and quarrel.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelWives and DaughtersElizabeth Gaskell · 1866A doctor's daughter sees a stepmother and a stepsister she did not choose come into the house.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe MoonstoneWilkie Collins · 1868An Indian diamond disappears on the night of a young girl's birthday, in a house full of guests.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 1871A town in the Midlands on the eve of a reform, and a few ambitions rubbing against one another.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelErewhonSamuel Butler · 1872A country behind the mountains where thieves are treated and the sick are condemned.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe EgoistGeorge Meredith · 1879A man perfectly pleased with himself cannot understand why his fiancée wants to leave him.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThree Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome · 1889Three friends set out on the river to cure imaginary ailments, with a dog.LiteraturePublic domain
• TaleEnglish Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs · 1890Forty-three tales gathered in a country said to have none.Literature
• NovelTess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · 1891A pedlar's daughter sent to claim kinship with rich relatives who are not her kin.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelNew Grub StreetGeorge Gissing · 1891To write for a living or to live for writing: two men of letters make opposite choices.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesThe Jungle BookRudyard Kipling · 1894A child taken in by wolves grows up among the beasts, under the threat of a tiger.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryA Shropshire LadAlfred Edward Housman · 1896An English countryside that one leaves behind, and young men who do not come back from it.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · 1898Cylinders fall on the outskirts of London, and what emerges from them does not negotiate.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHeart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1902One evening on the Thames, four men listen to what one of their number went to look for at the far end of a river.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHadrian the SeventhFrederick Rolfe · 1904A man whom the Church had refused to ordain is suddenly offered the throne of Saint Peter.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Forsyte SagaJohn Galsworthy · 1906A family that counts people among its possessions, over three generations.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Man Who Was ThursdayG. K. Chesterton · 1908A suburban quarrel over order and revolt, and a cellar where one of the two proves that he was not joking.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Old Wives' TaleArnold Bennett · 1908Two sisters born in the same provincial shop, one who stayed and one who left, followed into old age.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHowards EndE. M. Forster · 1910Three families, a country house, and the question of who will inherit it.Literature
• NovelZuleika DobsonMax Beerbohm · 1911A young woman arrives in Oxford, and the entire university falls in love with her.Literature
• Poetry1914 & Other PoemsRupert Brooke · 1915Five sonnets from the autumn of 1914 on the soldier who leaves and the death that awaits him.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Wreck of the DeutschlandGerard Manley Hopkins · 1918A shipwreck of 1875 in which five exiled nuns died becomes a meditation on God.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Moon and SixpenceWilliam Somerset Maugham · 1919A stockbroker disappears one morning, and it is not a question of a woman.Literature
• PoetryCollected PoemsEdward Thomas · 1920The poems of a prose writer who came late to verse, written over two years, before his death at the front.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryPoemsWilfred Owen · 1920Twenty-three poems gathered by a friend, two years after the death of the man who had written them.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryPoemsIsaac Rosenberg · 1922The poems of a private soldier and those of his youth, gathered four years after his death.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMrs DallowayVirginia Woolf · 1925A single summer day, and two lives that never cross.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeSeven Pillars of WisdomT. E. Lawrence · 1926A liaison officer tells the story of a revolt in which he took part, carrying promises that would not be kept.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelLolly WillowesSylvia Townsend Warner · 1926A forty-seven-year-old spinster leaves her family for the countryside.Literature
• NovelLady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence · 1928A crippled husband allows his wife to seek elsewhere the heir he cannot give her.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelDecline and FallEvelyn Waugh · 1928Expelled for a fault he did not commit, a student goes down every rung of the ladder.Literature
• NovelMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting ManSiegfried Sassoon · 1928Horses, village matches and years that seem like nothing.Literature
• CinemaBlackmailAlfred Hitchcock · 1929A woman kills in self-defence, and the man in charge of the investigation is her friend.Cinema
• CinemaA Cottage on DartmoorAnthony Asquith · 1929A man watches, in a dark cinema, the woman who did not choose him.Cinema
• CinemaPiccadillyE. A. Dupont · 1929A customer's complaint brings the owner of a cabaret down to its basement.Cinema
• PoetryPoemsW. H. Auden · 1930The first published book of a twenty-three-year-old poet, with T. S. Eliot's publisher.Literature
• NovelBrave New WorldAldous Huxley · 1932A society that manufactures its citizens in bottles and makes them happy by prescription.Literature
• NovelCold Comfort FarmStella Gibbons · 1932A penniless young woman moves in with gloomy cousins and sets about putting them right.Literature
• CinemaThe Private Life of Henry VIIIAlexander Korda · 1933On the morning of a royal execution, the court is already thinking of the next queen.Cinema
• NovelThe Code of the WoostersP. G. Wodehouse · 1938A piece of silverware to be retrieved, and a country house full of enemies.Literature
• CinemaGoodbye, Mr. ChipsSam Wood · 1939A cold keeps the school's oldest master at home on the first day of term.Cinema
• CinemaGaslightThorold Dickinson · 1940Twenty years after a murder that was never solved, a couple move into the house.Cinema
• CinemaWent the Day Well?Alberto Cavalcanti · 1942A village welcomes soldiers who have come for exercises, on a Whitsun weekend.Cinema
• CinemaFires Were StartedHumphrey Jennings · 1943A station of volunteer firefighters kills time until evening, then goes down to the river.Cinema
• CinemaHenry VLaurence Olivier · 1944In 1600, a company sets out to stage a battle that its stage cannot contain.Cinema
• CinemaThe Way We LiveJill Craigie · 1946A city razed by bombs discusses what it will become, and its inhabitants join in.Cinema
• CinemaBrighton RockJohn Boulting · 1947A journalist must spend a day letting himself be recognised, in a town where he is expected.Cinema
• CinemaThe Red ShoesEmeric Pressburger · 1948A dancer must choose between the man she loves and the man who made her an artist.Cinema
• NovelNineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell · 1949A man whose job is to remake the past begins to keep a notebook.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaKind Hearts and CoronetsRobert Hamer · 1949A man without fortune learns that he is ninth in line of succession to a dukedom, and starts counting.Cinema
• CinemaThe Third ManCarol Reed · 1949A man arrives in a ruined city to find a friend who has just been buried.Cinema
• CinemaPassport to PimlicoHenry Cornelius · 1949A wartime bomb finally goes off, and brings to light a parchment that nobody was expecting.Cinema
• CinemaThe Lavender Hill MobCharles Crichton · 1951A man tells in Rio how he left a bank job he had held for twenty years.Cinema
• CinemaThe Cruel SeaCharles Frend · 1953A new corvette sets out to escort convoys, with officers who have no experience of the sea.Cinema
• NovelLord of the FliesWilliam Golding · 1954Schoolboys alone on an island give themselves rules, and discover that they can do without them.Literature
• NovelThe Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien · 1954An object that must be destroyed, and no one who can carry it without danger.Literature
• CinemaThe Belles of St Trinian'sFrank Launder · 1954An English town barricades itself because the boarders are coming home.Cinema
• NovelThe Quiet AmericanGraham Greene · 1955A British correspondent, a young American convinced he is doing good, and a woman between them.Literature
• CinemaThe LadykillersAlexander Mackendrick · 1955Five criminals move in with an old lady and make her believe they are rehearsing chamber music.Cinema
• CinemaThe Dam BustersMichael Anderson · 1955An engineer, in his garden, searches for a bomb able to bounce across the surface of a lake as far as a dam.Cinema
• CinemaNight of the DemonJacques Tourneur · 1957A man begs for a curse to be lifted, one he had not believed possible.Cinema
• CinemaDraculaTerence Fisher · 1958A librarian arrives at a count's castle with the secret intention of destroying him.Cinema
• CinemaPeeping TomMichael Powell · 1960A man films everything he sees and never leaves his camera.Cinema
• CinemaSaturday Night and Sunday MorningKarel Reisz · 1960A lathe operator works all week and spends everything on Saturday night.Cinema
• CinemaThe InnocentsJack Clayton · 1961A governess takes charge of two orphans in a country house.Cinema
• NovelA Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess · 1962A teenager tells of his own nights, in a language that has to be learned as one reads him.Literature
• CinemaLawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean · 1962An English officer crosses a desert that no one crosses, and the country he rouses is not his own.Cinema
• CinemaThe ServantJoseph Losey · 1963A servant turns up at an empty house, at the home of a master who expects everything of him.Cinema
• CinemaTom JonesTony Richardson · 1963A man returns from a journey and discovers that a child has been left at his home.Cinema
• NovelA Single ManChristopher Isherwood · 1964Twenty-four hours in the life of a man who gives his lectures as if nothing had happened.Literature
• CinemaZuluCy Endfield · 1964In the aftermath of an English disaster, a missionary and his daughter understand that they must flee.Cinema
• CinemaA Hard Day's NightRichard Lester · 1964Four musicians board a train for a broadcast, accompanied by a grandfather who has to be looked after.Cinema
• CinemaCullodenPeter Watkins · 1964An eighteenth-century battle filmed as a news report, witnesses interviewed included.Cinema
• CinemaThe Ipcress FileSidney J. Furie · 1965An intelligence office clerk is transferred to a case of scientists who disappear.Cinema
• CinemaAlfieLewis Gilbert · 1966A man tells the viewer about his way of living with women.Cinema
• CinemaA Man for All SeasonsFred Zinnemann · 1966A cardinal sends for the one man on the council who refuses to follow him, in the middle of the night.Cinema
• CinemaIf….Lindsay Anderson · 1968An English boarding school, an autumn return to term, and three pupils who stop obeying.Cinema
• CinemaWitchfinder GeneralMichael Reeves · 1968In an England torn apart by war, a man grows rich by having witches hanged.Cinema
• CinemaKesKen Loach · 1969A boy from mining Yorkshire finds a kestrel and sets about taming it.Cinema
• CinemaThe Italian JobPeter Collinson · 1969A widow hands a former convict the plans that cost her husband his life.Cinema
• CinemaWomen in LoveKen Russell · 1969Two sisters go to see a wedding and talk on the way about what they expect of a husband.Cinema
• CinemaThe Railway ChildrenLionel Jeffries · 1970A father is taken away, and his family goes to live beside a railway line in Yorkshire.Cinema
• NovelMrs Palfrey at the ClaremontElizabeth Taylor · 1971In a hotel where residents wait for visits, a woman invents one for herself.Literature
• CinemaGet CarterMike Hodges · 1971A hired thug returns home to bury his brother, and does not accept the version of the accident.Cinema
• CinemaSunday Bloody SundayJohn Schlesinger · 1971Two people share the same man, each knowing that the other exists.Cinema
• CinemaA Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick · 1971Four boys in white look for something to fill the rest of the night.Cinema
• CinemaThe OffenceSidney Lumet · 1973A policeman worn down by twenty years on the job interrogates the man who has just been brought to him.Cinema
• CinemaDon't Look NowNicolas Roeg · 1973A couple who have lost their child go to Venice, and one of them begins to see in the city what the other does not see.Cinema
• CinemaThe Wicker ManRobin Hardy · 1973A policeman lands on an island to investigate a disappearance that no one there acknowledges.Cinema
• CinemaTheatre of BloodDouglas Hickox · 1973An actor believed dead returns to settle scores with those who had panned him.Cinema
• NovelHigh-RiseJ. G. Ballard · 1975Forty floors that are entirely self-sufficient, and no one who thinks of leaving.Literature
• NovelHeat and DustRuth Prawer Jhabvala · 1975A young Englishwoman goes to India to reconstruct what was hidden in her family.Literature
• CinemaPressureHorace Ové · 1975A boy born in England to Trinidadian parents looks for his place between his family and a militant brother.Cinema
• NovelThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · 1979The Earth razed for an interstellar construction project, and two hitchhikers who escape by the skin of their teeth.Literature
• CinemaMonty Python's Life of BrianTerry Jones · 1979Born in the stable next to Jesus's, an ordinary man grows up in Roman Judea.Cinema
• CinemaRadio OnChristopher Petit · 1979A London disc jockey sets off for Bristol to try to understand his brother's death.Cinema
• CinemaChariots of FireHugh Hudson · 1981Two runners, one Jewish, the other a fervent Christian, do not run for the same reason.Cinema
• CinemaBrazilTerry Gilliam · 1985An insect distorts a warrant, and a man whose name differs by one consonant is arrested.Cinema

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