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B I S H O P R a M S B I S H O P R A M S E Y Church of England School Headteacher: Mr A J Wilcock MA (Cantab) 12th July 2018 Dear Parent/Carer, Summer preparation work for Students of AQA English Literature B Please find below the list of primary and secondary reading for the AQA English Literature course at Year 12. The primary reading needs to be pre-read before the start of the new term in September, so that rigorous critical discussions may take place in class. Students should not assume that the full text will be read in class, as time constraints make this impossible. In addition, all students will need a file for each text they study, to store chapter notes and their own notes on critical and wider reading. I strongly recommend the purchase of the English Literature B A/AS Level for AQA Student Book, as it models the correct level of response and writing and clarifies the level of work and effort needed for A Level study. We look forward to meeting you in September. Yours faithfully, Ms H Mackay Head of KS5 English Address: Hume Way, Ruislip, Middlesex. HA4 8EE ∞ Telephone: 01895 639227 ∞ Facsimile: 01895 622429 Email: [email protected] ∞ Website: www.bishopramseyschool.org Veritas Educational Trust is a Company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. Reg no: 7724916 A LEVEL LITERATURE YEAR 12 AQA LITERATURE B 7716 Primary Book List Buy your own copy of the primary texts. They can be new or second hand. Amazon sells good quality second hand books online. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Oxford School Shakespeare Paperback – 2010; ISBN-978-0198328711 approx. £6 Twelfth Night: York Notes Advanced Paperback –2001; ISBN-10: 0582431506 ISBN approx. £6.39 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest New Mermaid edition 2015, Bloomsbury Methuen, ISBN 978-1-4725-8520-2 approx. £5 The Importance of Being Earnest York Notes Advanced June 2005 ISBN-10: 1405801735 Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004 Tinder Press), ISBN-10: 075530750X approx. £8 AQA Poetry Anthology: Tragedy and Comedy, section B, Comedy (supplied by BR School). Optional ENGLISH Literature B A/AS Level for AQA Student Book, by Carol Atherton, Andrew Green and Gary Snapper Series editor: Marcello Giovanelli, Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-1-107-46802-3 £25 new or £16 used. The Art of writing English Literature essays for A level [and beyond] 2015 Perepeteia Press Jeanette Baxter and David James [ed] Andrea Levy in the series Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2014 Bloomsbury In addition, you should read as widely as possible, especially texts that have thematic links to those you are studying. Critical texts are also good sources of wider reading. If you want to do English Literature at A Level, you should read several of these books, or others by the same writers, by next September, to make a start on the wider reading required: Enduring Love Ian McEwan One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad A Grain of Wheat Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Brighton Rock Graham Greene The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon A Way in the World V.S. Naipaul Jamaican Migrant Wallace Collins The Pleasures of Exile George Lamming Black Skins, White Masks Franz Fanon Empire Windrush: fifty years of writing about Black Britain Onyekachi Wambu Windrush: The Irresistable Rise Of Multi-Racial Britain: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain Mike Phillips and Travor Phillips Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier A Room with a View E.M. Forster A Passage to India E.M. Forster Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Postcards Annie Proulx Funeral Raymond Carver The Magus John Fowles Birdsong Sebastian Faulks The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Cold Blood Truman Capote Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee Life of Pi Yann Martel The Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard The Awakening Kate Chopin The Go Between L.P. Hartley Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence Lolita Nabokov Mary Eagleton, [ed] Feminist Literary Theory - A reader 1999, Blackwell Magda Romanska, Alan Akerman [ed] Reader in Comedy, An Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2016 Methuen, Drama Any poetry by: Rossetti, Tennyson, Carol Duffy, Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, Sam Wagan-Watson and Oodgeroo-Noonuccal. SECONDARY READING- WIDER READING LIST PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY NOVELS Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion Mansfield Park Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Villette Shirley Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress Wilkie Collins The Woman in White The Moonstone Arthur Conan Doyle All the Sherlock Holmes stories: ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, ‘The Sign of Four’, ‘The Speckled Band’, ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ‘The Professor Challenger Stories’ Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Journal of the Plague Year Moll Flanders Charles Dickens Great Expectations Oliver Twist David Copperfield Little Dorrit Hard Times The Old Curiosity Shop Our Mutual Friend Nicholas Nickleby A Tale of Two Cities Dombey and Son Martin Chuzzlewit A Christmas Carol The Pickwick Papers Foydor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers The Man in the Iron Mask George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Adam Bede Middlemarch Felix Holt Daniel Deronda Gustave Flaubert Madam Bovary EM Forster Howard’s End A Room with a View Passage to India Maurice Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton North and South Cranford Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree Far from the Madding Crowd Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge The Return of the Native Jude the Obscure The Trumpet Major Henry James Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians The Golden Bowl DH Lawrence Sons and Lovers Women in Love Lady Chatterley’s Lover The Rainbow Short stories Herman Melville Moby Dick Samuel Richardson Pamela Walter Scott Ivanhoe Rob Roy Mary Shelley Frankenstein Antony Smollett Clarissa Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Kidnapped Catriona The Master of Balantrae Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Tales A Tale of a Tub William Thackeray Vanity Fair Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina War and Peace Anthony Trollope The Warden Barchester Towers Barchester Chronicles EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY NOVELS RD Blackmore Lorna Doone Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffanys Kate Chopin The Awakening Daphne du Maurier Rebecca The Glass Blowers Jamaica Inn Henry Fielding Tom Jones Joseph Andrews F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night Graham Greene Brighton Rock Ernest Hemmingway For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Franz Kafka The Trial Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm JD Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited A Handful of Dust Decline and Fall Vile Bodies HG Wells The War of the Worlds The Time Machine Kipps The History of Mr Polly The Shape of Things to Come The Invisible Man Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Mrs Dalloway Orlando The Waves MODERN NOVELS Martin Amis London Fields Money Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Pat Barker Regeneration A S Byatt Possession Jung Chan Wild Swans Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill JM Coetzee Disgrace Waiting for Barbarians Jim Crace Quarantine Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark Louis de Bernières Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha William Faulkner As I Lay Dying Sebastian Faulks Birdsong John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman A Maggot The Collector Romesh Gunesekera Reef David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars Nick Hornby High Fidelity About a Boy Juliet, Naked Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ian McEwan Atonement Toni Morrison Beloved Michael Ondaattje In the Skin of a Lion The English Patient Charles T Powers In the Memory of the Forest Annie Proulx Shipping News Arundhai Roy The God of Small Things Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Two Lives Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres Zadie Smith White Teeth Dava Sobel Longitude Graham Swift Waterland Meera Syal Anita and Me Alice Walker The Colour Purple Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the Only Fruit Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities .
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