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    Cambridge O level Literature in English (2010)

    Syllabus for 2023


    Set texts for examination in 2025 – Paper 1
    Section A: Poetry

    From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4, the following 15 poems:

    Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’


    Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’
    Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’
    Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’
    Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’
    Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’
    Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’
    W H Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’
    Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’
    Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’
    Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’
    Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’
    Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’
    Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy’

    From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3, the following 15 poems:

    Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’


    Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’
    Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’
    Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’
    Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’
    Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’
    Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’
    W H Auden, ‘The Capital’
    Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’
    Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’
    Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’
    Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’
    Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’
    Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’
    George Szirtes, ‘Song’

    Ted Hughes, the following 15 poems:

    ‘The Thought-Fox’ ‘The Harvest Moon’


    ‘The Jaguar’ ‘Football at Slack’
    ‘The Horses’ ‘Roe-Deer’
    ‘Wind’ ‘A Memory’
    ‘Relic’ ‘Telegraph Wires’
    ‘Hawk Roosting’ ‘Anniversary’
    ‘Cat and Mouse’ ‘The Other’
    ‘Snowdrop’

    Set texts for examination in 2025


    Section B: Prose

    Novels:
    Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
    Anita Desai Fire on the Mountain
    Charles Dickens Great Expectations
    Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
    Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
    Joan Lindsay Picnic at Hanging Rock
    H G Wells The War of the Worlds

    Short Stories:
    From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:

    no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’


    no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
    no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
    no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
    no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
    no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
    no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
    no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
    no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
    no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’

    Set texts for examination in 2025 – Paper 2


    Drama:

    Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey


    Wole Soyinka Death and the King’s Horseman
    Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
    William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

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