Spotlight on our Class Novels

JL Mann Course Book  Lists 21-22

Macbeth a Renaissance play by William Shakespeare

• Inspired by witch-told prophecies, General Macbeth and his power-driven wife plot the murder of King Duncan and ascend to a stolen throne, throwing Elizabethan Era Scotland into chaos.

And Then There Were None a mystery novel by Agatha Christie

• Ten strangers invited to a remote island are murdered one by one. The killer is among them, but will they figure out who before it is too late?

The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil a graphic novel by Stephen Collins

• Set on the orderly island of Here, this witty fable portrays the tailspin of a tidy society menaced by the otherness of a man's beard that mysteriously would not stop growing.  

Pygmalion a modern play by George Bernard Shaw

• Set in Victorian London, Pygmalion tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl with a rough cockney dialect who becomes part of a bet between two gentleman: a professor who swears he can turn her into a princess just by changing how she speaks and one who says he cannot.

Pride and Prejudice a Victorian novel by Jane Austen

• None of Mr. Bennet's five daughters can inherit his estate, so they are pressured into finding security in "good" marriages. Will they successfully navigate the social order of Victorian England and save their family from financial ruin or will pride and prejudice prevail?

• JL Mann Course Book  Lists 21-22