Other CIE Set Texts
This list consists of texts set by CIE in recent years for possible and not chosen by our
school. They form a list of works of equivalent standard to those chosen, and therefore
have particular literary merit for both Year 10 and 11 students.
Prose
Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey
Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
Helen Dunmore, The Siege
R K Narayan, The English Teacher
Short stories:
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Thomas Hardy, ‘The Son’s Veto’
Katherine Mansfield, ‘Her First Ball
V.S. Pritchett, ‘The Fly in the Ointment’
P.G. Wodehouse, ‘The Custody of the Pumpkin’
Graham Greene, ‘The Destructors’
R.K. Narayan, ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
Ted Hughes, ‘The Rain Horse’
Morris Lurie, ‘My Greatest Ambition’
Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Sandpiper’
Penelope Fitzgerald, ‘At Hiruhamara’
Poetry
Selections of poems by:
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Thomas Hardy
Alfred Tennyson
Drama
Arthur Miller, All My Sons and A View from the Bridge
J.B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
J Lawrence/R Lee, Inherit The Wind
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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