OxfordAQA IGCSE
English Literature Set Texts
Every novel and play on the syllabus, with a summary of each. Open one for the full study guide.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
OxfordAQA International GCSE English Literature (9275) set text - complete study and revision guide
A Midsummer Night's Dream (written about 1595-96) is Shakespeare's best-loved romantic comedy. It weaves together four groups of characters: Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, preparing for their wedding; four young Athenian lovers - Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius - whose tangled affections are thrown into...
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A Raisin in the Sun
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A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is Lorraine Hansberry's landmark drama about the Younger family, an African American household living in a cramped apartment on Chicago's South Side. The title comes from Langston Hughes's poem 'Harlem', which asks 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the...
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An Inspector Calls
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An Inspector Calls (written 1945, set in 1912) is a three-act drama by J.B. Priestley. The entire play takes place in the dining room of the Birling family home in the fictional industrial city of Brumley, in the North Midlands, on a single evening in spring 1912. The prosperous manufacturer Arthur Birling is...
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DNA
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DNA (2008) is a four-act play by Dennis Kelly, originally commissioned by the National Theatre for its Connections programme for young performers. The play follows a group of teenagers who accidentally cause the apparent death of a boy called Adam by throwing stones at him while he walks on a grille over a deep shaft....
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel, first serialised weekly in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. It is a first-person Bildungsroman - the story of the orphan Pip, who grows from a frightened child on the Kent marshes into a young gentleman in London, only to discover that his...
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Julius Caesar
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Julius Caesar (written about 1599) is Shakespeare's political tragedy about the assassination of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar and its catastrophic aftermath. The play centres not on Caesar himself but on Brutus, a senator who loves Rome and is persuaded by Cassius that Caesar's ambition threatens the Republic. The...
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Klara and the Sun
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Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning novel narrated by Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF) - a solar-powered robot designed to be a companion for children. Set in a near-future America where genetic editing ('lifting') divides society, Klara is chosen by Josie, a sickly teenager whose illness stems...
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Macbeth
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Macbeth (written about 1606) is Shakespeare's shortest and most intense tragedy. It tells the story of a brave Scottish general, Macbeth, who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and urged on by his wife, Lady Macbeth, he murders King Duncan and seizes the...
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Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go is Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, published in 2005. It is a quietly devastating work of speculative fiction set in an alternate-history England in the late 1990s, narrated by Kathy H., a thirty-one-year-old carer looking back on her life at Hailsham, an apparently idyllic English boarding school that...
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People and Places (set poems)
OxfordAQA International GCSE English Literature (9275) set poetry - complete study and revision guide
People and Places is the set poetry anthology for the OxfordAQA International GCSE English Literature (9275) qualification. It contains 26 poems spanning over two centuries, from William Blake's 'London' (1794) to contemporary voices such as Mosab Abu Toha and Amelia Loulli. This study guide covers 24 of the 26 poems...
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Purple Hibiscus
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Purple Hibiscus is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut novel, published in 2003. It is a first-person coming-of-age narrative told by fifteen-year-old Kambili Achike, who grows up in the wealthy, devoutly Catholic household of her father, Eugene (Papa), in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria. Beneath the family's outward...
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Short Stories Anthology (set stories)
OxfordAQA International GCSE English Literature (9275) set short stories - complete study and revision guide
The OxfordAQA International GCSE English Literature (9275) Short Stories Anthology is a curated selection of seven short stories from across the twentieth century, examined in Paper 2, Section B: Prose. The anthology brings together writers from Britain, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, offering a rich variety...
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The Book Thief
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The Book Thief is Markus Zusak's fifth novel, first published in Australia in 2005 and in the United States in 2006. It is narrated by Death, who tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl growing up in the fictional town of Molching, near Munich, during the Second World War. The novel is divided into ten...
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The Crucible
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The Crucible (1953) is Arthur Miller's four-act drama set during the Salem witch trials of 1692, written as an allegory for the anti-communist investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1950s America. The play explores how fear, hysteria and the abuse of power can...
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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's 1983 gothic ghost story, told as the written memoir of Arthur Kipps, an elderly solicitor who recounts a terrifying experience from his youth. Sent by his employer, Mr Bentley, to attend the funeral of the reclusive Mrs Alice Drablow and sort her papers at the isolated Eel Marsh...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is Harper Lee's only published novel during her lifetime and one of the most widely read American novels of the twentieth century. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, it is narrated by Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch, who looks back on three formative years...
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