CIE IGCSE
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Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 (set poems)
Cambridge IGCSE World Literature (0408) set poetry - complete study and revision guide
This is the Cambridge IGCSE set selection of 15 poems from Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3, prescribed poetry for 0992 (and shared with 0408 World Literature) on Paper 1, Section A. The poems span from the seventeenth century (Shakespeare, Chudleigh) and the Romantic and Victorian periods (Clare, Wordsworth, Elizabeth...
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A Man of the People
Cambridge IGCSE World Literature (0408) set text - complete study and revision guide
A Man of the People (1966) by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is a sharp political satire of corruption in a newly independent African nation. Narrated by the young, idealistic schoolteacher Odili Samalu, it traces his entanglement with his former teacher Chief Nanga, a charismatic, utterly corrupt government...
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Convenience Store Woman
Cambridge IGCSE World Literature (0408) set text - complete study and revision guide
Convenience Store Woman (2016; English translation 2018) by the Japanese writer Sayaka Murata is a sharp, deadpan novel about conformity and difference. Its narrator, Keiko Furukura, is a thirty-six-year-old woman who has worked part-time in the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years. Unable to grasp the...
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Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 (set stories)
Ten short stories prescribed for CIE IGCSE World Literature 0408
For Paper 1 of CIE IGCSE World Literature (0408), candidates study ten short stories from Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2, the Cambridge anthology of stories in English. The set stories range across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and many moods: Walter Scott's grim Border tale of pride and grief ('The Death of...
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