About this site

This site is the course text for The English Nobel, a three-year course in English at an upper secondary school in Gothenburg. It is written and run by Timothy Kääriä, who teaches English and religion there. The texts are written for the students who read them in class. Anyone else is welcome to read along.

How it is made

This is not a published textbook. It is an open project, and it changes as the classes use it. The texts may be reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The texts are written with Claude Code, an AI tool made by Anthropic. I decide what each part of the course should do and which texts we read. Claude drafts and revises, and I edit, cut and rewrite until I can stand behind every sentence. The mistakes are mine. If you find one, tell me.

What the site records

There are no accounts, no log-ins and no cookies, and nothing a student writes is ever sent to the site.

Visits are counted with Umami, which runs on the same server as the site, in Sweden. It records which pages are read, how far down, for how long, which links are followed, and which words are searched for or looked up. It also records the browser, the type of device and a rough location (country and city). It does not store IP addresses, and it cannot tell one reader from another. I can see that a page was read. I cannot see who read it.

The numbers are used for one thing: to see which parts of the course are actually read, so that the parts that are not can be rewritten. They are not shared with anyone and not sold.

When you select a word and look it up, you leave this site for Wiktionary. The same goes for the links to NobelPrize.org, Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. Those sites have their own rules.

The texts

Rudyard Kipling died in 1936, so his work is free to publish, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and If— are on this site in full. Pearl S. Buck and John Steinbeck are still in copyright. Their stories are handed out on paper in class under the school's licence with Bonus Copyright Access, and they are never published here. Quotations from other writers are short and say whose they are.

Questions

Students and parents can reach me through Vklass.