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Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
2
To the student
xi
3
To the teacher
xiv
PART I
3
50
Section 1--Poetry
3
9
Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim
The Wall
3
1
Mutabaruka (Allan Hope)
You Ask Me
4
1
William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say
4
2
Hilary Tham
Offerings
6
1
Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim
Hello
7
1
Arthur Gorges
Her Face
7
1
Chinweizu
Colonizer's Logic
8
1
J.R.D.A. Dubreka
Goodbye, Europeans
8
1
Lord Byron
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
9
1
Fadzillah Amin
Dance
9
3
Section 2--Short Stories
12
16
Ambrose Bierce
The Disinterested Arbiter
13
1
Ernest Hemingway
In Our Times
14
1
Samuel Clemens
A Fable
15
2
Fredric Brown
The Weapon
17
5
Grace Paley
Mother
22
1
Catherine Lim
The Journey
23
3
Laurie Clancy
Reading the Signs
26
2
Section 3--Plays
28
11
Edward Bond
Bingo
28
2
Five Snippets
30
2
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
32
1
Harold Pinter
Silence
33
2
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
35
1
Anton Chekhov
The Bear
35
4
Section 4--Novels
39
14
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
39
1
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
40
2
George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
42
3
Shahnon Ahmad
No Harvest But a Thorn
45
2
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
47
1
Lloyd Fernando
Scorpion Orchid
48
1
Anita Desai
A Village by the Sea
49
4
PART II
53
78
Section 5--Poetry
53
27
Pitika Ntuli
In My Country
53
1
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Mandela's Sermon
53
1
Mabel Segun
Bride Price
54
1
Bini
Bride's Complaint
55
1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
55
5
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci
60
3
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
63
2
William Wordsworth
Daffodils
65
2
John Agard
Rainbow
67
1
Shirley Lim
The Dulang-Washer
68
1
Maya Angelou
Woman Work
69
2
The Joeys
Men Are
71
2
Emily Dickinson
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
73
1
Muhammad Haji Salleh
Three Beserah Fishermen
74
3
Thomas Hardy
The Convergence of the Twain
77
3
Section 6--Short Stories
80
25
Three Points of Entry
80
9
W. Somerset Maugham
The Force of Circumstance
89
2
Issac Asimov
True Love
91
4
Nick Joaquin
May Day Eve
95
2
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party
97
1
Janet Frame
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart
98
7
Section 7--Plays
105
8
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
105
2
Harold Pinter
A Night Out
107
2
Mahesh Dattani
Dance Like a Man
109
2
Ramli Ibrahim
In the Name of Love
111
2
Section 8--Novels
113
18
George Orwell
Animal Farm
113
1
Jack Schaefer
Shane
114
2
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
116
5
James Vance
Marshall Walkabout
121
10
PART III
131
75
Section 9--Poetry
131
13
Kojo Gyinage
Kyei Time
131
1
W.H. Auden
Stop All the Clocks
132
1
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
133
1
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility
134, 135
2
Edwin Brock
Song of the Battery Hen
136
1
James Berry
Fantasy of an African Boy
137
1
Sudeep Sen
New York Times
138
1
John Keats
When I Have Fears, To Autumn
139, 141
2
Section 10--Short Stories
144
18
Steven Schutzman
The Bank Robbery
144
3
Simon Tay
Drive
147
2
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
149
4
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Like Birds, Like Fishes
153
1
Siew Yue Killingley
Everything's Arranged
154
2
Pira Sudham
Rains
156
1
Saki (H.H. Munro)
The Open Window
157
5
Section 11--Plays
162
24
George Bernard
Shaw Pygmalion
162
5
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
167
5
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar
172, 174, 176
3
Wole Soyinka
The Swamp Dwellers
177
3
Athol Fugard
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
180
6
Section 12--Novels
186
20
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
186
4
K.S. Maniam
The Return
190
4
R.K. Narayan
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
194
6
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
200
6
Examination strategies
206
3
Text appendix
209
12
Index of authors
221