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Edexcel GCSE English Literature Syllabus
The complete Edexcel GCSE English Literature specification mapped to 82 topics. Click any topic for free revision notes and practice questions.
19th-century novel
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
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19th-Century Novel
A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
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Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Silas Marner (George Eliot)
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (R.L. Stevenson)
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The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (R.L. Stevenson)
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The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
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Contemporary poetry
Poems of the Decade anthology (Forward Poems of the Decade)
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Contemporary Poetry Anthology
Belonging cluster (Pearson Edexcel Poetry Anthology)
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Conflict cluster (Pearson Edexcel Poetry Anthology)
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Relationships cluster (Pearson Edexcel Poetry Anthology)
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Time and Place cluster (Pearson Edexcel Poetry Anthology)
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Literary heritage poetry
Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge University Press anthology)
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Poetry Anthology
Conflict cluster — named poems and collection as a whole
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Living and Learning cluster — named poems and collection as a whole
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Love and Relationships cluster
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Relationships cluster — named poems and collection as a whole
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Time and Place cluster
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Time and Place cluster — named poems and collection as a whole
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Post-1914 British and Irish Drama or Prose
An Inspector Calls
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Anita and Me
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DNA
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Hobson's Choice
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Lord of the Flies
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Pigeon English
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The History Boys
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Post-1914 British Novel
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Anita and Me (Meera Syal)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Pigeon English (Stephen Kelman)
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Post-1914 British play
Leave Taking (Winsome Pinnock)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Simon Stephens)
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Post-1914 British Play
A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney)
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An Inspector Calls (J.B. Priestley)
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Blood Brothers (Willy Russell)
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DNA (Dennis Kelly)
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Government Inspector adapted by David Harrower
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Hobson's Choice (Harold Brighouse)
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Journey's End (R.C. Sherriff)
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Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey
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The History Boys (Alan Bennett)
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Post-1914 prose/novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
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Anita and Me (Meera Syal)
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Heroes (Robert Cormier)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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Pigeon English (Stephen Kelman)
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Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Julius Caesar
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Macbeth
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Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
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Richard III
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Tempest
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The Winter's Tale
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Unseen Poetry
analysing a single unseen poem
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analysis of a single unseen poem
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Comparing two unseen poems
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comparison of two unseen poems
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Reading and responding to an unseen poem
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All topics
19th Century Novel
19th-Century Novel
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Modern Prose or Drama
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Poetry
Poetry Anthology
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Post-1914 Literature
Shakespeare
Unseen Poetry
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