Required reading list of texts which students should read before arrival:

The editions listed are preferred but otherwise any edition is acceptable.

L. Carroll, Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (1865; ed. M. Gardner as The annotated Alice, 1982)

G. MacDonald, Phantastes: a faerie romance for men and women (1858; with

introduction by C.S. Lewis, 2000)

J.R.R. Tolkien, The hobbit (1937; London, 2000)

Recommended reading list of additional texts which students should read when in Oxford:

O. Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray (1890; ed. N. Page, 1998)

—— ‘The selfish giant’; ‘The happy prince’; ‘The star child’; ‘The fisherman and his soul’, in The complete shorter fiction, ed. I. Murray (1998)

C.S. Lewis, The Narnia chronicles (1950–56) [any edn acceptable]

J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘On fairy stories’ (1939; in Tree and Leaf, 1964)

P. Pullman, Northern lights (1995) [any edn acceptable; pubd in USA as The Amber Spy Glass]

Fairy tales: Puss in boots; Rumplestiltskin; The little mermaid: any edn acceptable

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