Target all areas of lanugage A1 using example texts from World Literature that are popular in IB schools around the world - and realy spark discussion in students

Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war.

Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation.

Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality.

Strinberg, August

Euripides

Blending comedy and tragedy disconcertingly together, Ibsen probes the thwarted aspirations and hidden anxieties of his characters against a background of contemporary social conditions and attitudes.

Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.

Shakespeare

Angelou, Maya

Roy Arundhati

Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922.

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before.

The Stories in East, West show the extraordinary range and power of Salman Rushdie's writing.

Mishima, Yukio

This anthology attempts to capture the dynamic interplay between people and places caught in the throes of a new urban reality, wrought within one generation of independence.

The Art of Travel

On Course with English A1 summarises the International Baccalaureate Organization Diploma English A1 Higher Level and Standard Level courses.

Commentary Writing is a step-by-step guide to the challenging task of writing a commentary on an ‘unseen’ passage for the International Baccalaureate Diploma English A1 Examination.

Written specifically for use with the IB Diploma Programme English B Higher and Standard Level courses.

This is a 41 page resource aimed at helping students prepare for the English B oral.

This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.

This new translation has been acclaimed as the definitive version of Tolstoy’s masterpiece. It also contains an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley.

'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!'

Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream.

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text.

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century.

'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne'

Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

This translation by Don Taylor, accurate yet poetic, was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986, which he also directed. Commentary and notes by Angie Varakis.

The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess’s secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries.

Selected as one of Time Out’s 1,000 Books to Change Your Life

Selected by Michael Foley in The Guardian as one of the top 10 absurd classics—books that best express the absurdity of the human condition (21 April 2010)

Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world. This critical edition offers a wealth of authoritative and helpful commentary by one of the leading international Miller scholars. Prepared in consultation with the author's estate, it is the definitive edition of the work.

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe.

The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz.

This new book has been specifically developed for the 2011 English A: Language and Literature syllabus at both SL and HL

Thorough and engaging, this new book has been specifically developed for the 2011 English A: Literature syllabus at both SL and HL.

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One in a series of Grammar books for Key Stages 3 and 4, this essential Spanish resource provides all the grammar needed to take students through to GCSE examinations.

Practice in Spanish Grammar provides an introduction to the more formal grammatical knowledge required for advanced examinations in Spanish, bridging the gap from the informal learning styles of the first years of Spanish.

How Plays Tell Stories has been especially written for Language A1 students of the International Baccalaureate.

This International Baccalaureate (IB) Revision Guide focuses on the building of skills in all four assessed areas - World Literature, Internal Assessment, the Exam Commentary and the Exam Essay. Sample student work and vital examiner's hints help you to prepare effectively. Further resources are also suggested.

Study Skills for the International Baccalaureate has been especially commissioned to help students cope with the particular demands of the IB course.

For students studying the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus for the IB Diploma.

For students studying the revised Language A Literature syllabus in English for the IB Diploma.

An exciting new textbook with integrated online resources, which comprehensively covers the 2011 English: Literature syllabus.

The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement.

This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time.

In this most memorable of existential novels, Camus pits the lone and courageous individual against the benign indifference of the universe. Meursault's deception perfectly reflects the absurdity of life.