Text Help? Suggestions based upon list...?

Question

okay so, i have to write a text transformation for next years coursework. the hard part is i cant find a text on the list i like, can you make any suggestions? I like a variety of texts, mainly stuff like Jill Mansell & Darren Shan type stuff :) Romantic or Demon like, full of interesting gossip lol :) thanks.

Here are the list of authors.

Prose
Jonathon Swift
Jane Austen
The Brontes
Thomas Hardy
R.L. Stevenson
Kate Chopin
P.G Wodehouse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Trevor
Margaret Atwood
Angela Carter
Hanif Kureishi

Poetry
Chaucer’s
john Donne
Robert Browning
Christina Rossetti
Emily Dickinson
Edward Lear
Wilfred Owen
John Betjeman
Grace Nicholls
Seamus Heaney
U A Fanthorpe
Benjamin Zephaniah

Drama
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Aphra Behn
Henrik Ibsen
Tennessee Williams
Alan Bennett
Caryl Churchill
David Mahmet
Harold Pinter
Brian Friel
Alan Ayckbourn
Tom Stoppard

Answer 1

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Prose:

Go for Jane Austen every time - her work is witty and very readable and understandable - and loads of gossip! If you like the darker side, try Northanger Abbey - very gothic! Thomas Hardy is readable but seldom has time for a happy ending! Wodehouse is a giggle!

Poetry

My choice is Edward Lear - his nonsense poems are a delight! Wilfred Owen wrote very powerful poetry from the trenches in WWI. Betjeman is light and easy to cope with.

Drama:

Shakespeare is the classic, but it would depend on the play if you have trouble with the language. Ayckbourn and Stoppard provide shades of light and dark in a modern setting. Caryl Churchill writes great modern feminist drama.

Enjoy the course - lots to choose from there!

Source(s):

Years of avid reading! And amateur drama.

Answer 2

well I'd do Margaret Attwood - The Handmaid's Tale because it's one of my favourites anyway, lol

Swift and Austen are quite good, Angel Carter - interesting, if not really my type of thing. Gothic reinterpretations of fairytales mostly, quite dark.

*doesn't really like any of the rest*