English

Recommended Reading

Please see below for a selection of some of the best texts from the genres of Tragedy and Crime. They will introduce you to some of the key genre conventions you will explore as part of your A Level English Literature course.

Elements of Tragedy

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Elements of Crime

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
He Kills Coppers - Jake Arnott
Right as Rain - George Pelacanos
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Clockers - Richard Price
Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard

Course Texts

Title of Text	Edition
Tragedy
Death of a Salesman	Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Modern Classics)
The Great Gatsby	The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
Othello	Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare The Moor of Venice (Oxford World's Classics)
Keats’ Poetry	Booklet provided
Elements of Crime
Brighton Rock	Vintage Classics; Centenary Ed edition
Atonement	Vintage; New e. edition
Victorian Crime Poetry	Booklet provided

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