le-ciel

hi everyone, I've just registered here. I'm a MA student in English Lit. and wish to continue my studies in PhD in USA. so, as a matter of fact, gotta take the GRE subject exam. and as you all know it's terribly difficult! it naturally takes a couple of years to study the contemporary era, let alone the past ones! anyway, I wanna know how should I start? I mean dunno even a single book for starting studying ... are the Norton Anthologies enough? I mean beside all other plays, novels, poems...