Tuesday, November 11, 2008

SPM English Literature materials:where to find them

This subject really made me exercise as i had to shuffle between 4 bookstore and library:) neverles, i have written the complete curriculum of english literature in SPM for students who is wondering what books to buy.in brackets are the bookstores that sells the book. Please note that the bookstores stated is not the only place to get the book, but some of the place the book is found.

Drama
1. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare(MPH)
2. The Lion and the Jewel - Wole Soyinka
3. An Inspector Calls - JB Priestley (Universitu Book Stores Malaysia)

Novels
1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury(MPH, Borders)
2. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai(MPH, Borders
3. Holes - Louis Sachar(University Book Stores Malaysia, MPH, Borders)

Poems
Theme: Relationships
1.Tonight I Can Write - Pablo Neruda
2. Ways of Love - Chung Yee Chong
3. A Prayer for My Daughter - Yeats
4. The Way Things Are - Roger McGough
5. For My Old Amah - Wong Phui Nam9 (can be found in the book In Sights)
6. How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Theme: Perception of Life
1. Birches- Robert Frost
2. I Am - John Clare
3. This Is A Photograph of Me - Margaret Atwood
4. Waiting to Go On - Hugo Williams
5. Daring Tears - Craig Romkema
6.The Traveller - Muhammad hj Salleh(can be found in the book In Sights)

Theme: Conflicts
1. Dulce et Decorum Est- Wilfred Owen
2. The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
3. Death of A Rainforest - Cecil Rajendra(can be found in the book In Sights)
4. The War Against the Trees - Stanley Kunitz
5. A Quarrel Between Night and Day- Omar Mohd Noor(can be found in the book In Sights)
6. "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together"- Shakespeare (from Sonnet XII - The Passionate Pilgrim)

Short Stories1. Naukar - Anya Sitaram
2. Cinderella Girl - Vivien Alcock
3. The Landlady - Roald Dahl
4. Neighbours - Robert Raymer
5. Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

1 comment:

  1. hi. i will be in form 4 as of 2011 and i'm really interested in taking this subject as an extra. does this list still apply in 2011-2012? i heard that the format changes every 3 years. what is the complete list of english literature for 2011-2012? pls help

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