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Dear Student Welcome to Literature for Life! This book was written with you in mind it hopes to be easy and pleasant to use, to move gradually from easier texts and exercises to more complex ones, to help you prepare as well as possible for your tests and final exams. As the title says, it will give you skills for reading, writing about and contextualising literature in English which will last you a lifetime. Many teachers, writers and editing staff have collaborated on its production to ensure it is the best possible tool for you, your classmates and your teacher. Here s how it has been structured: Volume One this volume teaches you how to read, understand and analyse literary texts and how to express yourself correctly about them using the appropriate language. The texts are organised according to their themes and have been chosen for their quality, variety and ease of understanding. You will also learn how to start comparing and contrasting literary texts in English with well-known Italian texts and works of art. Volume Two this volume will make use of and develop further the skills you have already learnt and help you to become 'expert' in the field. The texts are classic, modern and contemporary texts from the English literary canon and from other cultures, and they have been organised chronologically into the main literary periods. In addition to the literary texts and exercises, there are a number of interesting tools which have been designed to help you master and enjoy your study of literature. Here are some of them: Inside Volumes One and Two Study Skills and Exam Preparation Booklet Student s CD ROM Website Students Room : exercises which regularly check your knowledge and check you know how to express yourself correctly and appropriately. Investigating: research tasks and documents which will give you fascinating insights into context. Reference Section: it forms your own personal mini-research library to help with contextualisation. A Booklet in two parts: Part One teaches reading and writing skills for literature learning including How to Write a Summary, How to Write an Essay and How to Organise Notes. Part Two helps you to prepare for the Esame di Stato and has tasks on the seconda prova, terza prova and oral exam. On the CD ROM you can find: extra materials: texts, authors and documents in printable PDF; all the listening material in Mp3 format. On the Website you can find: interactive Test Yourself materials; new, unseen texts with full key to check your competencies; video revision lessons on some texts. I hope you enjoy using the books and tools and buon lavoro! Deborah J. Ellis

section 1 From the Beginnings to the 1700s 7th century - 1780 In Brief 2 Warm Up 4 An Old English Epic Beowulf (c. 1000-25) T 1 (lines 64-91) 6 T 2 (lines 99-107 and 115-125) 7 T 3 (lines 2688-2708) 9 T 4 (lines 3131-3174) 10 13 17 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales (1386?-95?) T 5 (from The General Prologue, lines 1-27) 19 T 6 (from The General Prologue, lines 446-478 The Wife of Bath) 20 T 7 (from The Wife of Bath s Prologue, lines 199-214) 22 T 8 (from The Wife of Bath s Tale, lines 1029-1051) 24 T 9 (from The General Prologue, lines 118-162 The Prioress) 27 31 Richard III (1593) T 17 (from Act I, scene 2) Julius Caesar (1599-1600) T 18 (from Act III, scene 2) T 19 Sonnet XVIII (1609) 55 57 61 John Donne T 20 The Flea (1633) 63 T 21 Sonnet X (1633) 66 68 72 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719) T 22 (from Chapter 7, I Build My Fortress) 74 T 23 (from Chapter 8, Part 1, The Journal) 76 T 24 (from Chapter 25, We March Out Against the Cannibals) 78 T 25 (from Chapter 19, I Call Him Friday) 80 83 William Shakespeare Macbeth (1606) T 10 (from Act II, scene 2) 33 T 11 (from Act V, scene 1) 37 T 12 (from Act V, scene 5) 40 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1599-1600?) T 13 (from Act I, scene 2, lines 129-159) 45 T 14 (from Act I, scene 5, lines 1-40) 47 T 15 (from Act III, scene 1, lines 56-88) 49 T 16 (from Act III, scene 4, lines 53-71 and 88-110) 51

Samuel Richardson Pamela (1740) T 26 (Letter XI) Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67) T 27 (from Volume IV, Chapter XIV) T 28 (from Volume VI, Chapter XL) section Round Up from the Beginnings to the 1700s 84 Extension Language in Literature Describing Setting Extension Linking Literatures The Influence of Petrarch 1330-1650 86 T 29 William Shakespeare Sonnet LXXIII (1609) 88 Extension Beyond the Page Creative Writing - From Writing to Speaking 94 2 The Romantic Age 1780-1830 In Brief 96 Warm Up 98 Thomas Gray T 30 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) William Blake T 31 The Ecchoing Green (1789) 99 T 32 The Chimney Sweeper (1789) T 33 The Garden of Love (1794) 101 T 34 London (1794) 102 104 107 William Wordsworth T 35 Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1802) 108 T 36 I wandered lonely as a cloud (1804) 110 T 37 I travelled among unknown men (1801) 112 114 118 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) T 38 (from Part I) 119 T 39 (from Part II, Part IV and Part VII) Christabel (pub. 1816) T 40 (from Part I) 124 127 130 Percy Bysshe Shelley T 41 Ozymandias (1818) 131 T 42 A Song: Men of England (1820) 133 136 140 John Keats T 43 Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) 141 T 44 When I have fears that I may cease to be (1818) 144 T 45 To Autumn (1819) T 46 La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1820) 146 150 Lord George Byron Childe Harold s Pilgrimage (1812-17) T 47 (from Canto I)

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813) T 48 (from Chapter One) 152 T 49 (from Chapter Thirty-Four) 155 Northanger Abbey (1818) T 50 (from Chapter VI and VII) 158 162 Mary Shelley Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818) T 51 (from Chapter XVI) Round Up to the Romantic Age 163 Extension Language in Literature Using Figurative Language Extension Linking Literatures European Romanticism 165 T 52 William Wordsworth Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high (1846) 167 Extension Beyond the Page Updating Romantic Themes 170 section 3 The 1800s 1830-1900 In Brief 172 Warm Up 174 Lord Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shalott (1832, 1842) T 53 (from Parts 2-4) 176 In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) T 54 (Section 54) 181 183 187 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847) T 55 (from Volume 1, Chapter 5) 189 T 56 (from Volume 1, Chapter 11) 192 T 57 (from Volume 2, Chapter 12) 194 T 58 (from Volume 2, Chapter 10) Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847) T 59 (from Chapter X) 197 T 60 (from Chapter IX) Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) T 61 (from Chapter 2) 203 204 208 Charles Dickens David Copperfield (1849-50) T 62 (from Chapter 11) 210 Dombey and Son (1846-48) T 63 (from Chapter One) 214 Hard Times (1854) T 64 (from Chapter One) 218 T 65 (from Chapter Five) 223 Oliver Twist (1837-38) T 66 (from Chapter 2) Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) T 67 (from Chapter 9) 225 229 VIII Section 3 In More Detail

Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) T 68 (from Chapter 10) 231 Kidnapped (1886) T 69 (from Chapter XXII: The Flight in the Heather: the Moor) 234 237 Thomas Hardy The Whithered Arm (1888) T 70 (from Part I: A Lorn Milkmaid) 238 T 71 (from Part II: The Young Wife) 241 T 72 (from Part III: A Vision) 242 T 73 (from Part IV: A Suggestion) 243 T 74 (from Part V: Conjuror Trendle) 245 T 75 (from Part VI: A Second Attempt) 246 T 76 (from Part IX: A Rencounter) 247 Tess of the D Urbervilles (1891) T 77 (from Chapter XXXIII) T 78 (from Chapter LVIII) 251 T 79 Thomas Hardy The Voice (1912) 251 254 Emily Dickinson T 87 The Lilac is an Ancient Shrub (1872) 274 T 88 To Pile like Thunder (1873) 276 277 281 Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) T 89 (from Chapter 1) 283 285 289 Round Up to the 1800s 290 Extension Language in Literature Translating Descriptive Language Extension Linking Literatures Symbolism 292 Extension Beyond the Page Dramatisation 298 Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn to Prosperine (1866) T 80 (lines 1-22) Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) T 81 (from Chapter II) 255 T 82 (from Chapter X) 258 T 83 (from Chapter XX) 260 T 84 (from Chapter XIII) 262 267 Walt Whitman T 85 I Hear America Singing (1855) 268 T 86 Mannahatta (1860) 270 273 Learning about Poetry IX

The Context From the Beginnings to the 1700s (7th century - 1780) The Historical Context 306 Europe 306 Britain 308 The Social Context 316 The Cultural Context 320 The Development of British Literature 330 Poetry 331 Drama 335 Fiction 341 The Romantic Age (1780-1830) The Historical Context 344 Europe 344 Britain 346 America 347 The 1800s (1830-1900) The Historical Context 358 Europe 358 Britain 360 America 363 The Social Context 367 The Cultural Context 371 The Development of British Literature 374 Fiction 374 Poetry 378 Drama 380 Culture and Literature in America 381 Fiction 381 Poetry 383 Drama 384 The Social Context 348 The Cultural Context 350 The Development of British Literature 352 Fiction 352 Poetry 354 Drama 356 Culture and Literature in America 356

section 4 The First Part of the 20th Century 1901-1945 In Brief 386 Warm Up 388 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1912) T 90 (from Act II) 390 393 397 David Herbert Lawrence Sons and Lovers (1913) T 91 (from Part II, Chapter 7 first extract) 399 T 92 (from Part II, Chapter 7 second extract) 405 408 Rupert Brooke T 93 V. The Soldier (w. 1914, pub. 1915) 410 T 94 Fragment (w. 1915, pub. 1918) 412 414 417 Wilfred Owen T 95 Dulce et Decorum Est (w. 1917, pub. 1918) 418 421 T 96 Jessie Pope The Call (1915) 423 425 Siegfried Sassoon T 97 Suicide in the Trenches (w. 1917, pub. 1918) 426 T 98 Survivors (w. 1917, pub. 1918) 428 429 433 Vera Brittain Testament of Youth (1933) T 99 (from Part II, Chapter VIII: Between the Sandhills and the Sea, passim) 434 437 441 William Butler Yeats T 100 The Wild Swans at Coole (w. 1916, pub. 1917) 442 T 101 Sailing to Byzantium (w. 1926, pub. 1927) 445 448 452 James Joyce Dubliners (1914) T 102 (from The Dead first extract) 453 T 103 (from The Dead second extract) 456 Ulysses (1921) T 104 (from episode 11, The Sirens) 463 T 105 (from the final episode, Penelope) 466 T 106 (from episode 13, Nausicaa) 469 474 Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) T 107 (lines 1-69, 111-131) 476 The Waste Land (1922) T 108 (from Part I: The Burial of the Dead, lines 60-75) 483 485 488 Edward Morgan Forster A Passage to India (1924) T 109 (from Mosque) 491 496 499

Ezra Pound T 121 The Garret (1916) 547 T 122 Alba (1916) 548 549 553 Eugene O Neill Desire Under the Elms (1924) T 123 (from Part One, scene 1 first extract) T 124 (from Part One, scene 1 second extract) T 125 (from Part One, scene 4) T 126 (from Part Three, scene 3) Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (1925) T 110 (from the first part of the novel) 501 To the Lighthouse (1927) T 111 (from the first part of the novel) A Room of One s Own (1929) T 112 (from Chapter One first extract) 505 T 113 (from Chapter One second extract) 507 511 515 Wystan Hugh Auden T 114 Spain 1937 (1937) 516 T 115 Refugee Blues (1939) 520 523 529 George Orwell Animal Farm (1945) T 116 (from Chapter One) 531 T 117 (from Chapter Two) 536 T 118 (from Chapter Ten) 538 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) T 119 (from Part I, Chapter 1) T 120 (from Part III, Chapter 2) 541 545 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) T 127 (from Chapter Five) 555 T 128 (from Chapter Twenty-Five) 557 559 563 Richard Wright Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) T 129 (from Chapter 9) 565 570 574 Round Up to the First Part of the 20th Century 575 Extension Language in Literature Translating Formal and Informal Styles T 130 Siegfried Sassoon They (1916) Extension Linking Literatures World War I 578 T 131 Wilfred Owen Futility (1918) 580 Extension Beyond the Page War Songs 585 T 132 Ivor Novello and Lena Ford Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914) 585 T 133 Bombed Last Night (war song from the trenches, c. 1917) 585 T 134 Tom Waits Day After Tomorrow (2004) 586

section 5 From 1946 to the Present Day 1946-2010 In Brief 588 Warm Up 590 Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (1952; 1954) T 135 (from Act II) 593 Endgame (1957) T 136 (from Act I) 598 601 John Osborne Look Back in Anger (1956) T 137 (from Act II) 603 609 611 Ted Hughes T 146 Pike (1959) 634 T 147 Perfect Light (1998) 637 639 643 Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) T 148 (from Chapter One Genesis) Ian McEwan Atonement (2001) T 149 (from Part One, Chapter 13) 645 T 150 (from Part Three) 648 T 151 (from London 1999) 650 653 656 Graham Greene Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party (1980) T 138 (from Chapter 16) Philip Larkin T 139 An Arundel Tomb (w. 1956, pub. 1964) 613 T 140 Sad Steps (w. 1968, pub. 1974) 616 T 141 This Be the Verse (1974) 618 621 Harold Pinter The Dumb Waiter (1957) T 142 (first extract) 623 T 143 (second extract) 625 The Caretaker (1960) T 144 (Act 1) 629 T 145 Harold Pinter The Bombs (2003) 630 632

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart (1958) T 152 (from Chapter 15) 658 T 153 (from Chapter 25) 661 Marriage is a Private Affair (1972) T 154 (first extract) T 155 (second extract) T 156 (third extract) T 157 (fourth extract) 663 667 Ben Okri The Famished Road (1991) T 158 (from Chapters One and Two) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) T 159 (from Chapter 12) 670 674 678 Niyi Osundare T 160 Not My Business (1999) Ben Zephaniah T 161 Who s Who (1994) 679 T 162 The British (serves 60 million) (2000) 681 683 687 Monica Ali Brick Lane (2003) T 163 (from Chapter Two) 689 693 696 Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman (1949) T 164 (from Act One) 698 T 165 (from Act Two) 700 703 706 Jack Kerouac On the Road (pub. 1957) T 166 (from Chapter 5) 708 711 714 Sylvia Plath T 167 Morning Song (1961, 1965) 715 717 T 168 Anne Sexton The Truth the Dead Know (1962) 718 T 169 Sylvia Plath Poppies in July (1962) 718 720 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner (2003) T 170 (Chapter Eleven) Round Up from 1946 to the Present Day 721 Extension Language in Literature Translating the Untranslatable Extension Linking Literatures Multiculturalism in the Western World 724 T 171 Grace Nichols Island Man (1984) 726 Extension Beyond the Page A Class Prize for Literature 732

The Context The First Part of the 20th Century (1901-1945) The Historical Context 734 Europe 734 Britain 737 America 739 The Social Context 742 The Cultural Context 743 The Development of British and Irish Literature 747 Fiction 748 Poetry 750 Drama 752 Culture and Literature in America 754 Fiction 754 Poetry 756 Drama 757 From 1946 to the Present Day (1946-2010) The Historical Context 758 Europe and the World 758 Britain 763 America 766 The Social Context 772 The Cultural Context 774 The Development of British Literature 779 Fiction 780 Poetry 784 Drama 786 Culture and Literature in America 789 Fiction 789 Poetry 791 Drama 794 New Literatures in English 795 Australian and Canadian National Literatures 797 The Literature of India and Pakistan 799 African Literatures 799 The Literature of the West Indies 800 Glossary of Literary Terms Keys to Language in Literature XVII -2B CD 2A TRACK 01 MP3 01 This indicates the audio location(s) and track number(s) of the text/exercise.