“I chose English because I love feeling connected with people and understanding how they think. Studying English taught me to interact with the thoughts and beliefs of people very different from me, or who lived hundreds of years ago, and people from all over the world.“
- Emily Dixon, English Language and Literature

If you want to find out more about dangerous, forbidden and unrequited love, Emily recommends:

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Set on a Caribbean Island, this love story tells the tale of Florentine Ariza, a man who waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for the love of his life to return to him.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

A story of unspoken love told through the memories of a 1950’s butler who allowed the love of his life to slip through his fingers.

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (short story, part of the short story collection Close Range)

This short story tells of two cowboys in America whose companionship develops into forbidden love.

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