Never knew this, and it should be discussed. U of Penn Eng department took down Shakespeare picture.

[blackhawk]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

 

[Divine Wind]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

 

[blackhawk]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

 

[OldLady]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

Must be a pretty short stairway if there wasn't room for both portraits.

 

[OldLady]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

 

[Divine Wind]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

My dad certainly never did, but my mom may have.

 

[TNHarley]

When it comes to hiring, there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them.

Link?


Yeah guess not.

Dufus needs a link that college graduates are not getting hired.

The left just get stupider and stupider.

"Stupider" enough to have no clue what "burden of proof" is?

Dumbasssssssss

I would normally agree with your opinion on this. HOWEVER, the OP cites "diversity" not "extended learning". Just another racial thing..

 

[Divine Wind]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

 

[Yarddog]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

How many in the general population have ever heard of William Shakespeare? Write that number down.
Now how many have ever heard of Audre Lorde?

Do da math, let us know what you come up with. And be sure to add the increase for those who now know her because you posted this thread.

Dafuck does any of this have to do with political parties, "socialism" or "anti-Amiericanism"? Which one of the two was actually American? Did Shakespeare live in New Jersey?

Always think before posting.

The building was housing the ENGLISH department. Were not talking about the general population, were talking about a University. They should all know who Shakespeare is if they are studying English and writing. But yes it is understood there are forces within academia that want to remove and replace well known symbols. Of course it's just one more little thing.

 

[OldLady]

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

 

[Theowl32]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

No one really knows what they are doing until they have actually done it. That has been my experience.

Meaning, you could probably write a book, and I am sure there are things you did that contradicted what Dr Spock said to do and it worked.

 

[bodecea]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

I believe I was replying to one of your posts that said, and I quote: "It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college." And my reply was, and I quote: "Just like every other person who ever went to college."

And suddenly, you now interject something totally unmentioned before?

 

[bodecea]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

Wadda bunch of maroons.

College, High School, Middle School is SOOOOO overrated, right Allie?

 

[Divine Wind]

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

 

[koshergrl]

American kids are snowflakes and have been ever since Dr. Spock's child-rearing methods became popular in the 1960s.

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

Shakespeare pretty much created English literature.

Replacing him with anybody in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pure stupidity.

 

[blackhawk]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

I believe I was replying to one of your posts that said, and I quote: "It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college." And my reply was, and I quote: "Just like every other person who ever went to college."

And suddenly, you now interject something totally unmentioned before?

And you act like you know how every other person who went to college reacted to the real world when they left. Shocking as you might find this there was a time when college prepared people for the real world instead of shielding from it.

 

[koshergrl]

It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college.

Just like every other person who ever went to college.

So every other person who went to college was led to believe that everyone was supposed to cater to their every whim and never say or do anything that might upset them? Interesting.

I believe I was replying to one of your posts that said, and I quote: "It's going to be funny when a lot of these kids leave college and discover the real world is nothing like college." And my reply was, and I quote: "Just like every other person who ever went to college."

And suddenly, you now interject something totally unmentioned before?

And you act like you know how every other person who went to college reacted to the real world when they left. Shocking as you might find this there was a time when college prepared people for the real world instead of shielding from it.

It's not supposed to prepare anybody for "the real world". It's supposed to EDUCATE people. Expand their minds.

 

[Divine Wind]

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

Shakespeare pretty much created English literature.

Replacing him with anybody in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pure stupidity.

What books did he write?

The 100 greatest British novels
100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938)
99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011)
98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947)
97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954)
96. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris Lessing, 1974)
95. The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi, 1990)
94. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg, 1824)
93. Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
92. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932)
91. The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy, 1922)
90. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1859)
89. The Horse’s Mouth (Joyce Cary, 1944)
88. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)
87. The Old Wives’ Tale (Arnold Bennett,1908)
86. A Legacy (Sybille Bedford, 1956)
85. Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker, 1991-1995)
84. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938)
83. Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope, 1857)
82. The Patrick Melrose Novels (Edward St Aubyn, 1992-2012)
81. The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott, 1966)
80. Excellent Women (Barbara Pym, 1952)
79. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, 1995-2000)
78. A House for Mr Biswas (VS Naipaul, 1961)
77. Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham, 1915)
76. Small Island (Andrea Levy, 2004)
75. Women in Love (DH Lawrence, 1920)
74. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy, 1886)
73. The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1995)
72. The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene, 1948)
71. Old Filth (Jane Gardam, 2004)
70. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)
69. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
68. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962)
67. Crash (JG Ballard 1973)
66. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)
65. Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928)
64. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
63. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1961)
62. Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
61. The Sea, The Sea (Iris Murdoch, 1978)
60. Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence, 1913)
59. The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004)
58. Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
57. Parade’s End (Ford Madox Ford, 1924-1928)
56. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)
55. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
54. NW (Zadie Smith, 2012)
53. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)
52. New Grub Street (George Gissing, 1891)
51. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
50. A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)
49. Possession (AS Byatt, 1990)
48. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis, 1954)
47. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759)
46. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
45. The Little Stranger (Sarah Waters, 2009)
44. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel, 2009)
43. The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst, 1988)
42. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
41. Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens, 1848)
40. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
39. The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, 2011)
38. The Passion (Jeanette Winterson, 1987)
37. Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh, 1928)
36. A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell, 1951-1975)
35. Remainder (Tom McCarthy, 2005)
34. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)
33. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
32. A Room with a View (EM Forster, 1908)
31. The End of the Affair (Graham Greene, 1951)
30. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)
29. Brick Lane (Monica Ali, 2003)
28. Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
27. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
26. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)
25. White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)
24. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing, 1962)
23. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)
22. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding, 1749)
21. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
20. Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)
19. Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
18. Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)
17. Howards End (EM Forster, 1910)
16. The Waves (Virginia Woolf, 1931)
15. Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001)
14. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson,1748)
13. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
10. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848)
9. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
8. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
7. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
6. Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)
5. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
4. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
3. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
2. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
1. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)

 

[koshergrl]

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

Shakespeare pretty much created English literature.

Replacing him with anybody in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pure stupidity.

What books did he write?

The 100 greatest British novels
100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938)
99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011)
98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947)
97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954)
96. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris Lessing, 1974)
95. The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi, 1990)
94. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg, 1824)
93. Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
92. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932)
91. The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy, 1922)
90. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1859)
89. The Horse’s Mouth (Joyce Cary, 1944)
88. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)
87. The Old Wives’ Tale (Arnold Bennett,1908)
86. A Legacy (Sybille Bedford, 1956)
85. Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker, 1991-1995)
84. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938)
83. Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope, 1857)
82. The Patrick Melrose Novels (Edward St Aubyn, 1992-2012)
81. The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott, 1966)
80. Excellent Women (Barbara Pym, 1952)
79. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, 1995-2000)
78. A House for Mr Biswas (VS Naipaul, 1961)
77. Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham, 1915)
76. Small Island (Andrea Levy, 2004)
75. Women in Love (DH Lawrence, 1920)
74. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy, 1886)
73. The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1995)
72. The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene, 1948)
71. Old Filth (Jane Gardam, 2004)
70. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)
69. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
68. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962)
67. Crash (JG Ballard 1973)
66. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)
65. Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928)
64. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
63. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1961)
62. Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
61. The Sea, The Sea (Iris Murdoch, 1978)
60. Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence, 1913)
59. The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004)
58. Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
57. Parade’s End (Ford Madox Ford, 1924-1928)
56. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)
55. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
54. NW (Zadie Smith, 2012)
53. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)
52. New Grub Street (George Gissing, 1891)
51. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
50. A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)
49. Possession (AS Byatt, 1990)
48. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis, 1954)
47. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759)
46. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
45. The Little Stranger (Sarah Waters, 2009)
44. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel, 2009)
43. The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst, 1988)
42. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
41. Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens, 1848)
40. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
39. The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, 2011)
38. The Passion (Jeanette Winterson, 1987)
37. Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh, 1928)
36. A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell, 1951-1975)
35. Remainder (Tom McCarthy, 2005)
34. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)
33. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
32. A Room with a View (EM Forster, 1908)
31. The End of the Affair (Graham Greene, 1951)
30. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)
29. Brick Lane (Monica Ali, 2003)
28. Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
27. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
26. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)
25. White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)
24. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing, 1962)
23. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)
22. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding, 1749)
21. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
20. Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)
19. Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
18. Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)
17. Howards End (EM Forster, 1910)
16. The Waves (Virginia Woolf, 1931)
15. Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001)
14. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson,1748)
13. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
10. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848)
9. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
8. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
7. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
6. Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)
5. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
4. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
3. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
2. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
1. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)

Omg, give me a break.

 

[koshergrl]

You cannot have an understanding of any of those works of literature without a solid understanding of Shakespeare.