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IGCSE English Literature

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Modern prose - you study ONE of these (Paper 1 Section C)

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

5 sections

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

4 sections

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

4 sections

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954)

Guide in progress

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan (b. 1952)

Guide in progress

The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera (b. 1944)

Guide in progress

Western Lane

Chetna Maroo

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Modern drama - you study ONE of these (Paper 2 Section A, or Component 3 coursework)

A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

5 sections

An Inspector Calls

J.B. Priestley

7 sections

Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)

Guide in progress

Kindertransport

Diane Samuels (b. 1960)

Guide in progress

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon, adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens

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Literary heritage - you study ONE of these (Paper 2 Section B, or Component 3 coursework)

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

6 sectionsFull text included

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

8 sectionsFull text included

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

3 sectionsFull text included

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

8 sectionsFull text included

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Guide in progressFull text included

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) · 1850

Guide in progressFull text included

Anthology poetry - all 16 Part 3 poems (Paper 1 Section B)

Blessing

Imtiaz Dharker (b. 1954)

Guide in progress

Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) · 1951

Guide in progressFull text included

Half-caste

John Agard (b. 1949) · 1996

Guide in progress

Half-past Two

U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) · 1992

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Hide and Seek

Vernon Scannell (1922-2007) · 1965

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If-

Rudyard Kipling · 1910

Guide in progressFull text included

La Belle Dame sans Merci

John Keats (1795-1821) · 1819

Guide in progressFull text included

My Last Duchess

Robert Browning · 1842

Guide in progressFull text included

Piano

D.H. Lawrence · 1918

Guide in progressFull text included

Poem at Thirty-Nine

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Guide in progress

Prayer Before Birth

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) · 1944

Guide in progress

Remember

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) · 1862

Guide in progressFull text included

Search For My Tongue

Sujata Bhatt (b. 1956)

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Sonnet 116

William Shakespeare · 1609

Guide in progressFull text included

The Tyger

William Blake (1757-1827) · 1794

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War Photographer

Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) · 1985

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