English Language and Literature (9EL0)

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Free English Language and Literature (9EL0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel A Level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Theme: Society and the Individual

  • The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

  • The Bone People, Keri Hulme

  • Othello, William Shakespeare

  • A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer

  • The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin

Theme: Love and Loss

  • A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

  • Enduring Love, Ian McEwan

  • Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

  • Betrayal, Harold Pinter

  • Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow

  • Sylvia Plath Selected Poems, Sylvia Plath

Theme: Encounters

  • A Room with a View, E M Forster

  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

  • The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare

  • Rock ‘N’ Roll, Tom Stoppard

  • The Waste Land and Other Poems, T S Eliot

  • The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry, editor Jonathan Wordsworth

Theme: Crossing Boundaries

  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

  • Dracula, Bram Stoker

  • The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

  • Oleanna, David Mamet

  • Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti

  • North, Seamus Heaney

Component 1: Voices in Speech and Writing

  • Voices in Speech and Writing: An Anthology (Comparing Voices)

  • All My Sons, Arthur Miller

  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

  • Elmina's Kitchen, Kwame Kwei-Armah

  • Equus, Peter Shaffer

  • The History Boys, Alan Bennett

  • Top Girls, Caryl Churchill

  • Translations, Brian Friel

Component 2: Unseen prose non-fiction

  • Unseen Prose Non-fiction Texts

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