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English Literature & Translation Course

Theme 2025/26: The Last Novels of Six Twentieth-Century Female Writers

Of the six writers chosen - Nancy Mitford, Daphne Du Maurier, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Wesley and Muriel Spark - some are almost forgotten, some certainly underrated.

During this six-month course, we shall be reading and discussing not their best-known novels, but their final, often neglected, works. Who has not read Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’?  But who has read ‘Rule  Britannia’, her last novel, which predicted Brexit and its consequences some seventy years before Britain’s actual exit from Europe? 

Last novels rarely enjoy the limelight of their predecessors, but this does not mean they are inferior.  They have, above all, been written with an intensity and an urgency only to be found in a writer’s final work.  

Participants are asked to read the following novels, which will be discussed in order:

  1. Nancy Mitford - Don’t Tell Alfred 
  2. Daphne Du Maurier -Rule Britannia  
  3. Elizabeth Taylor - Blaming  
  4. Elizabeth Bowen - Eva Trout  
  5. Mary Wesley - Part of the Furniture
  6. Muriel Spark -The Finishing School

The books can be purchased at our front desk. Your course-leader – Philip Moore


We kindly invite you to attend our "English Literature & Translation“ course.

We kindly invite you to attend our "English Literature & Translation“ course.

To benefit fully from this discussion-based course, your current passive level of English should be equivalent to approximately that of the C1 Advanced (CAE) C1 (CEFR). If you are unsure of your present level, it can be determined by a free placement test service which Cambridge Institut provides. Please feel free to contact us.

If you would like to read about the past years' themes, please use the links: Course 2024/25, Course 2023/24, Course 2022/23, Course 2021/22

Course Details

WHERE

Cambridge Institut Munich

WHEN

1 x per Week Tue 3.15pm - 5.15pm or Fri 4.15pm - 6.15pm Teaching Unit = 50 Min.

GROUP SIZE

6 - 12 Participants

FEE

Course bookable in 2 blocks Fee per block 390€ (total fee: 780€) Additional: 6 books per student (fee per book: 15€)

LEVELS

COMPLETION

Optional: Cambridge University Certificate C2 | C1

DATES

04.11.25 - 24.02.26
Block I - Tuesday group
03.03.26 - 23.06.26
Block II - Tuesday group
07.11.25 - 27.02.26
Block I - Friday group
06.03.26 - 26.06.26
Block II - Friday group
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