A Level English Literature

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Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. Beowulf and Captain America are perfect examples of the Hero archetype. This is a story about a family of children who find themselves orphaned while living in a house surrounded by a wasteland, an image that perfectly reflects the emptiness of their days.

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list

Dear All Please find below the selection of novels you may choose from for your A2 Literature coursework. They have all been picked by members of the English department, so no matter what you choose someone should be able to help you with it. The Cement Garden — Ian McEwan A perverse but enchanting book; beautifully written and perfectly constructed. This is a story about a family of children who find themselves orphaned while living in a house surrounded by a wasteland, an image that perfectly reflects the emptiness of their days. Finding themselves without adult guidance, it shows how they slide into sloth and then perversity. Being a writer of consumate skill and a gifted story-teller, McEwan describes this without purple prose but with a sharp eye on human nature. A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of sheet lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness. Theirs is the expected and typical Victorian pairing, but as the action progresses, Charles finds his initial curiosity towards the enigmatic Sarah developing into attraction and eventual a level english literature books. All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy This is an astonishing and spellbinding book, a triumph of writing and storytelling. But the time could be the a level english literature books with its drab towns, unemployment and men either too a level english literature books or too stupid for the lives they are trapped in. The author can describe the American landscape with an honesty and lyricism that echoes the finest ancient literature. He does this in a unique style that sounds like the voice of a hardened cowboy who understands deeply his horses and his land. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca is a timeless classic in the gothic literature genre. Max de Winter brings his new bride to Manderley, the home he shared with his beautiful first wife Rebecca, before her untimely death widowed him. When whispers of murder start to be heard, Mrs de Winter starts to doubt her new husband as well as her own sanity. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. Neither of these coming-of-age stories quite explains how the grown-up Oscar and Lucinda each develop a guilty passion for gambling. Oscar plays the horses while at school, and Lucinda, now an orphaned heiress, finds comfort in a game of cards with an odd collection of acquaintances. When the two finally meet, on board a ship bound for New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for risk, their loneliness and their awkwardly blossoming but unexpressed mutual affection. A Room with a View — E M Forster A a level english literature books of English tourists are gathered in a small Italian pensione in Florence when Lucy and Charlotte arrive. Both women had asked for and been promised rooms with a view. Upon arrival, they got just the opposite. Complaining over dinner about this, two men, a father and his son, immediately offer to exchange rooms. This offer breaks most rules of good manners at the time, and the women turn down the kind, well-intentioned offer. A level english literature books their time in Florence, the women find themselves confounded and redirected by the honest helpfulness of the Emerson men. But the familiarity raises dangerous challenges for Lucy, and she flees their company. Where angels fear to tread — E M Forster When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. But when they are confronted by the beauty of Italy and the charm and vitality of the disreputable Gino, they are forced to examine their own narrow lives, and their reactions are emotional, violent and unexpected. Sons and Lovers — D H Lawrence It is full of deep psychological insight and it helps if you have a smattering of the ideas of Freud and Jung. Add to the already explosive mix a drunken and physically abusive father then there is no escape for Paul the Lawrence figure in this highly autobiographical story. After such a brutal upbringing, there is surprisingly, a positive ending, where the young man chooses life over death. Atonement — Ian McEwan We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. The whole grisly thing is caught on camera and shown around the world. The mysterious painkiller a level english literature books he is given in India opens unexpected vistas in the mind of the unfortunate main character. In a career that spans the second world war, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him—oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. My Antonia — Willa Cather Burden, a successful and cultured East-coast lawyer, is returning to his childhood home in Blackhawk, Nebraska for a visit. At almost the same time that Jim arrived, the Shimerda family settled on their land. Shimerda had argued effectively for a move to America so that the children, especially Ambrosch, the eldest son, would have the chance to make a better life for themselves, with more possibilities of moving up in the social hierarchy and of acquiring wealth. He was immediately drawn to her warmth and friendliness. Together the two young people worked the land and explored the glorious prairie. And Antonia began to learn English. It is also written before Lawrence became embittered with society, which shows in his later works. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches. Portrait of a Marriage — Nigel Nicholson The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. This account of their love story is now a modern classic. Wrayford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according to plan. Wraysford is haunted by this doomed affair and carries it with him into the trenches of the war. Nevertheless, Birdsong is a rewarding read, an unflinching war story and a touching romance. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell Structured rather akin to a Chinese puzzle or a set of Matrioshka dolls, there are dazzling shifts in genre and voice and the stories leak into each other with incidents and people being passed on like batons in a relay race. In the waning months of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate veteran named Inman gets up from his hospital bed and begins the long journey back to his home in the remote hills of North Carolina. The object of his affection, meanwhile, has problems of her own. Raised in the rarified air of Charleston society, Ada was brought to the backwoods of Cold Mountain by her father, a preacher who came to the country for his health. It describes in dramatic detail, their unusual meeting, and their lives together and not. Their story is full of up and downs — Clare can never be sure when Henry will disappear next, where to, or when he will come back. This adds a certain fleetingness and intensity to their relationship, particularily the earlier parts. As the book continues, it adds more flesh and detail to the two central characters; their friends, family, and relationships before and after they met each other. This ensures that the characters are well developed and described — not just reflections of each other. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction — it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author. Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham A level english literature books, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. Beloved — Toni Morrison Beloved is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. Beloved may well be the defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by. Khaled Hosseini has succeeded in capturing many important historical and contemporary themes in a way that will make your heart ache again and again. Why will your reaction be so strong. Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism and abject poverty. Strange Meeting — Susan Hill John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England, finds his battalion tragically altered. But there is David Barton. As yet untouched and unsullied by war, radiating charm and common sense, forever writing long letters to his family. Theirs is a strange meeting and a strange relationship: a level english literature books coming together of opposites in the summer lull before the inevitable storm. Regeneration — Pat Barker Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent — even in the mind. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks. And that is Small Island in a sentence. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley This is a vision of the future where the population is controlled by subtlety and manipulation, the basic premise being a level english literature books if people are too doped up to realise that they have been conned by a tiny minority who have everything then that elite can remain in charge for ever. The morality of this is questioned through the introduction of an outsider to the society and his actions form the basis of the plot. Charles Ryder and his troops, looking for a billet, have just arrived at Brideshead, the now-dilapidated family castle belonging to Lord Marchmain, a place where Charles Ryder stayed for an extended period just after World War I, the home of his best friend from Oxford, Lord Sebastian Flyte. The story of his relationship with Sebastian, a man who has rejected the Catholicism imposed on him by his devout mother, occupies the first part of the book. Sebastian, an odd person who carries his teddy bear Aloysius everywhere he goes, tries to escape his upbringing and religious obligations through alcohol. Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy plagued by doubts and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup or just plain drunk. Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Notes on a Scandal — Zoe Heller When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies a level english literature books the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. His mind moves backwards and forwards through time, from an agonising trawl through memory to relive the events that led up a level english literature books sudden catastrophe most significantly the disappearance of his mother and the arrival of his mysterious childhood companions Oryx and Crake, symbols of the fractured society in which Snowman now finds himself, to the horrifying present of genetic engineering run amok. Gradually the reasons behind the disaster begin to unfold as Snowman undertakes a perilous journey to the remains of the bubble-dome complex where the sinister Paradice Project collapsed and near-global devastation began. Their personal dilemmas cast increasingly foreshortened shadows against the rising concerns of the emancipated community, and become a subtle metaphor for the historical unaccountability of one culture to another. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience. In the first section of the book Esther is an intern in New York working for a prestigious fashion magazine. Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the a level english literature books in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm 1932 is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. The Bell — Iris Murdoch After a brief separation from her husband Dora Greenfield reunites with Paul Greenfield in a lay community set at Imber Court just outside Imber Abbey where a community of nuns live. This setting provides the backdrop for a story whose plot borders on the farcical — briefly the purchase of a new bell for the Abbey and the foolish scheme of two characters to replace the new bell with one discovered in the lake at Imber Court. However, more importantly the setting allows Murdoch to explore the lives of a number of characters in particular Dora Greenfield and Michael Meade. It is the exploration of these two characters that makes The Bell a very good novel and read.

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