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Bleak House and Old Curiousity Shop were the two I was thinking of. Bleak House is that good, eh? I never hear it classed with Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or Tale of Two Cities.

By the way.....what are you planning on concentrating on for Grad school? Are you doing a specific period or style of literature or anything?

As for Piers....I'll have to dig up a sample online or something and see if the language is beyond me. I've read Spenser, Chaucer and Malory (well, working on Malory), but Piers is older than all of those. I suppose with a good dictionary/glossary/footnotes I could get it done.

I look forward to Pilgrim's Progress. I absolutely loved The Scarlet Letter. The heavy-handed morality is entertaining to me. I imagine I'll enjoy Bunyan.

How can you eat Spam and Ramen? And, come on, Reduced Fat peanut butter? If you're going to eat peanut butter, you may as well do it right!

For some reason I was thinking Piers was a century or two earlier than that. Any recommendations between the A, B, and C-texts? I was just looking on Amazon and there's a translation from Penguin Classics. There's also a Norton Critical. And I saw editions of each of the different texts. I like the Penguin books, but the Milton I have of theirs has endnotes with no notification within the text that there is an endnote. Norton tends to have too many footnotes for me, distractingly too many. But the scholarly essays that accompany the text are usually pretty good stuff. I'd be tempted to go with one of those. Which version are you reading?

I like Dickens' long works too. Oliver and Copperfield are my favorites so far. I'll have to hit up the used bookstore and see if I can fish out a copy of Bleak House.