English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1638 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Matching Post-1930 Works and Authors
The idea
Sort by author. Auden wrote "Musée des Beaux Arts" and "September 1, 1939"; Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night" and Under Milk Wood; Stevie Smith "Not Waving but Drowning." Orwell wrote Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four and "Shooting an Elephant"; Huxley Brave New World; Waugh Brideshead Revisited; Greene The Power and the Glory; Golding Lord of the Flies. Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot; Osborne Look Back in Anger; Pinter The Birthday Party; Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Churchill Top Girls. Larkin wrote The Whitsun Weddings; Hughes Crow; Plath Ariel; Heaney Death of a Naturalist and North. Lessing wrote The Golden Notebook; Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Burgess A Clockwork Orange; Carter The Bloody Chamber; Ishiguro The Remains of the Day; McEwan Atonement.
In practice
Author by author.
Where people slip
Two dystopias, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are often swapped. Huxley rules by pleasure; Orwell by fear.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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