CIE IGCSE
English - Literature in English (9-1) Set Texts
Every novel and play on the syllabus, with a summary of each. Open one for the full study guide.
Pride and Prejudice
Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0992) set text - complete study and revision guide
Pride and Prejudice (1813) is Jane Austen's most celebrated novel: a sharply ironic comedy of manners that follows the courtship of Elizabeth Bennet, the quick-witted second of five sisters, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy and proud landowner. Beneath its love story the novel is a serious study of marriage, money,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (written about 1595-96) is Shakespeare's best-loved romantic comedy. It weaves together four worlds: the court of Duke Theseus of Athens, who is preparing to marry Hippolyta; four young Athenian lovers (Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius) whose tangled affections are thrown into chaos in the...
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Antony and Cleopatra (written about 1606-07) is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, a sweeping drama of love and empire. The Roman triumvir Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, is torn between his political duty in Rome and his consuming passion for Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. Their love,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) is Tennessee Williams's most famous play, a modern American tragedy of desire, illusion and cruelty. The fragile, fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless and haunted, at the cramped New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella and Stella's powerful, brutal husband...
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A Taste of Honey
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A Taste of Honey (1958) is Shelagh Delaney's landmark 'kitchen sink' drama, written when she was only eighteen. Set in working-class Salford, it follows Jo, a sharp, lonely teenage girl, and her feckless, pleasure-seeking mother Helen. When Helen marries her younger lover Peter and leaves, the pregnant Jo is cared for...
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Blues for an Alabama Sky
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Blues for an Alabama Sky (1995) by the African-American playwright Pearl Cleage is a moving tragedy set in Harlem in the summer of 1930, as the brilliant Harlem Renaissance is collapsing into the Great Depression. It follows a tight circle of friends: the jobless blues singer Angel Allen; her devoted gay friend, the...
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I'm the King of the Castle
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I'm the King of the Castle (1970) by Susan Hill is a bleak, intense psychological novel about the systematic cruelty of one child to another. When the widowed Mrs Helena Kingshaw becomes housekeeper-companion to the widowed Mr Joseph Hooper at his gloomy country house, her son Charles Kingshaw is thrown together with...
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When We Were Birds
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When We Were Birds (2022) by the Trinidadian writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a lyrical, magical-realist novel about death, love and inheritance, set in a fictional Caribbean city. It interweaves two lives: Yejide St Bernard, the latest in a line of women who can commune with and guide the dead, and who are bound to the...
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn (2009) by the Irish writer Colm Toibin is a quiet, deeply moving novel about emigration, homesickness and divided loyalty. In the early 1950s, the young Eilis Lacey leaves her small Irish home town of Enniscorthy for Brooklyn, New York, an emigration arranged by the priest Father Flood because there is no work...
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (2017) is a prize-winning debut collection of twelve short stories by the Nigerian-born writer Lesley Nneka Arimah. Ranging from sharp realism to fable and speculative science fiction, the stories are linked by their fierce focus on women and girls, on mothers and daughters,...
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Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 (set poems)
Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0992) set poetry - complete study and revision guide
This is the Cambridge IGCSE set selection of 15 poems from Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, the prescribed poetry for 0992 Paper 1, Section A. The poems range across four centuries, from Shakespeare and the seventeenth-century writers Behn, Philips and Pope, through Blake, to modern and contemporary voices such as Rumens,...
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Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 (set poems)
Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0992) 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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Kumukanda
Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0992) set poetry - complete study and revision guide
Kumukanda (2017) is the award-winning debut collection by Kayo Chingonyi, a poet born in Zambia in 1987 who moved to the United Kingdom as a child after the death of his parents. The Cambridge IGCSE set selection is 15 poems from the collection, prescribed for 0992 Paper 1, Section A. The poems explore black British...
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Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3 (set stories)
Ten short stories prescribed for CIE IGCSE Literature in English (9-1) 0992
For Paper 1 of CIE IGCSE Literature in English (9-1) (0992), candidates study ten short stories from Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3: Thomas Hardy's comic Wessex tale 'Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver'; Kate Chopin's poignant 'A Pair of Silk Stockings'; Herman Charles Bosman's 'Excursion'; Ray Bradbury's moral fable 'The...
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai's comic satire of a reluctant holy man in the guava tree
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), the debut novel of Kiran Desai, is a comic, magical-realist satire set in the small north-Indian town of Shahkot. Sampath Chawla, a dreamy, impractical young misfit, fails at life and work and, after disgracing himself publicly, flees and climbs into a guava tree in an orchard...
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