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We are concerned with teaching great literature that will stay with people and concerns itself with the human condition, and exposure to genres. Children will happily read light entertainment like Tolkein and JK Rowling on their own without school needing to be involved.

We will aim to cover great literature without favour towards British writers. There are many great writers outside of the UK. We will teach various genres to children.

Plays

  • Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, King Lear
  • Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Anton Chekhov: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard
  • Arthur Miller: The Crucible
  • Christopher Hampton: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  • George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
  • Sophoclese: Oedipus Rex

Books

Young Children

  • Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
  • Burnett: The Secret Garden
  • White: Charlotte's Web
  • Norton: The Borrowers
  • Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Horror

  • Stoker: Dracula
  • Shelley: Frankenstein
  • Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde

Classic Stories

  • Homer: Odyssey and The Iliad
  • James: The Wings of a Dove
  • Wharton: The House of Mirth
  • Austen: Pride and Prejudice
  • Smith: I Capture the Castle
  • Bronte: Jane Eyre
  • Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
  • Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Sci-fi

  • Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm
  • Kafka: The Trial
  • Huxley: Brave New World
  • Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  • Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Crime/Espionage

  • Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • Le Carre: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Philosophy

  • Sun Tzu: The art of War
  • von Clausewitz: On War
  • Machiavelli: The Prince
  • Hume
  • Locke
  • Voltaire
  • Hobbes
  • Aristotle
  • Plato
  • Socrates
  • Kant
  • Heiddiger
  • Descartes
  • Derrida
  • Marshall McLuhan