Bilkent ELIT: 2015

Today (...) was born - March 8,9 th

1702 - Anne Bonny, Kinsale Ireland, Irish pirate

1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)

1720 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)

1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)

1763 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)

1892 - David Garnett, English novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)

1892 - Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener (Sissinghurst)

1905 - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)

1905 - Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)

1996 - Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress

Essential Reading List

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
A Woman of Thirty by Balzac
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambroce Bierce
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Apology by Plato
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bleak House by Charkes Dickens
Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber
Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daisy Miller by Henry James
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung
Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde
Essays of Francis Bacon by Sir Francis Bacon
Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Othello, Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Pandora by Henry James
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tess of te d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Categories by Aristotle
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Four Million by O. Henry
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The History of Trolius and Cressida by William Shakespeare
The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Hunting of Snark by Lewis Carroll
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Iliad by Homer
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollo by Washington Irving
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Life and Death of King Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Life of King Henry V by William Shakespeare
The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burrougs
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
The Man with Two Left Feet by P. G. Wodehouse
The Man Wo Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Moon and Sixpense by W. Somerset Maugham
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
The Odyssey by Homer
The Origin of Species means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Republic by Plato
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Typee by Herman Melville
Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
White Fang by Jack London

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