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20th Century Must-Reads for English Majors

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Literary works from the 20th century which any self-respecting English majors should know intimately.

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Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

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The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

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Collected Poems – e. e. cummings

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Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

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Animal Farm – George Orwell

This novel provides a scathing critique of pre-World War II society.

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Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

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Ariel – Sylvia Plath

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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

This novel is the ultimate American saga, following the Joad family out of the Great Dust Bowl and toward the promises of California.

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Dubliners – James Joyce

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Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill

O’Neill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

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The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

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Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein

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The Color Purple – Alice Walker

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