Details of the National Curriculum for key Stage 3 and 4 can
be found at the DfEE
site. The set texts are supported here.
In the course of Key Stages 3 and 4, pupils' reading should
include:
Two Plays by Shakespeare
So head off to
Mr. William Shakespeare and
the Internet
for
all the resources you will need (Why this is very midsummer madness!).
Drama by Major Playwrights - take your pick from
Christopher Marlowe
J. B. Priestley
George Bernard Shaw
R. B. Sheridan
Two works of fiction of high quality by
major writers, published before 1900. Drawn from those by:
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
John Bunyan
Wilkie Collins
Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Henry Fielding
Elizabeth Gaskell
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
Anthony Trollope
H. G. Wells
two works of fiction of high quality by major
writers with well established critical reputations, whose works were published after
1900. Examples are:
William Golding
Graham Greene
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
Muriel Spark
poems of high quality by four major poets,
whose works were published before 1900. Drawn from those
by
Matthew
Arnold
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Blake
Emily Bronte
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Clare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Donne
John Dryden
Thomas Gray
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Keats
Andrew Marvell
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Christina Rossetti
Shakespeare (sonnets)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edmund Spenser
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Henry Vaughan
William Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Wyatt
poems of high quality by four major poets
with well established critical reputations, whose works were published after 1900.
Examples:
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
R. S. Thomas
W. B. Yeats
Further resources:
Gutenberg Literature
-
Many excellent books on-line
Children's
Literature Web Guide
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A guide to all of the books and poetry that you can find on the web
The On-Line
Books Page
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Thousands of books on-line
The
Great Books Homepage
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Smart site but takes some time to load.
The Literary Web
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A wonderful collection of literature for readers of poetry and fiction
Electronic Texts
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Here you can't get too much of a good thing. Bullfinch does it again with his
mythology.
Literature
on the Web
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Some Excellent web literature some of it is even aimed at students.
The Internet Public Library
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You don't even need a library card and there are no fines for forgetting to
return the books.
Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
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a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English
literature, American literature, and Western philosophy
The BookWire Reading Room
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Good selection of fiction, non-fiction and children's books
Brothers Grimm
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Download various myths, fables and fairy tales.
Check-out
the 
