Put These Notes into Practice
Reading the notes is a great start. Now practise with unlimited AI-generated questions and get instant feedback. 100,000+ students are already improving their grades.
English Literature (XET01)
6 sections available · 35 chapters available
Free English Literature (XET01) revision notes for Pearson Edexcel International AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Prescribed poems listed from Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011
Prose
Pre-1900 and post-1900 Drama
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Rover, Aphra Behn
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Prose fiction
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
What Maisie Knew, Henry James
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Pre-1900 poems
Metaphysical Poets: prescribed poems from Metaphysical Poetry, Editor Colin Burrow, (Penguin, 2006)
The Victorians: prescribed poems from The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, Editor Christopher Ricks, (OUP, 2008)
The Romantics: prescribed poems from English Romantic Verse, Editor David Wright, (Penguin Classics, 1973)
Done reading? Test yourself with AI practice questions 🚀
Practice This Topic Now