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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Homecoming
Premiering in 1965, Harold Pinter's two-act play "The Homecoming" is one of the playwright's most unnerving works. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and manuscripts.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Read an overview of "The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Ulysses
"Ulysses", a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, is a key text of literary modernism. It follows the structure of Homer's Odyssey. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Top Girls
Written by Caryl Churchill in 1982, "Top Girls" was one of the first plays to engage directly with Thatcherism. Read an overview of "Top Girls" and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and videos.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Shield of Achilles
Read an overview of the poem 'The Shield of Achilles' by W.H. Auden and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Read an overview of the poem 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: To the Lighthouse
Read an overview of "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Wolff and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Their Lonely Betters
'Their Lonely Betters' is a short, four-stanza lyric poem by W.H. Auden. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Waste Land
'The Waste Land' is a long poem by the American writer T.S Eliot. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Birthday Party
Read an overview of the play "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath's only published novel, "The Bell Jar, " explores mental illness and the pressure of social expectations on women in 1950s America. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Stop All the Clocks
Read an overview of the poem "Stop all the Clocks" by W.H. Auden and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Rebecca
"Rebecca" is the most famous of Daphne du Maurier's novels. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Pygmalion
Read an overview of the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Buddha of Suburbia
"The Buddha of Suburbia" is a bestselling novel by the British writer Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Read an overview of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James explores the subject of the Haitian Revolution in the play "The Black Jacobins". Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Black Album
Read an overview of "The Black Album" by Hanif Kureishi and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem (12 books, totaling more than 10,500 lines) written in blank verse, telling the biblical tale of the Fall of Mankind. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Our Country's Good
Read an overview of the play "Our Country's Good" by Timberlake Wertenbaker and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is a book of comic verse by the American modernist poet T.S. Eliot. Read an overview of these poems and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Oh What a Lovely War
Read an overview of the play "Oh What a Lovely War" directed by Joan Littlewood and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Nineteen Eighty Four
"Nineteen-Eighty-Four" is a novel published by George Orwell in 1949. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Nights at the Circus
Read an overview of "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.