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What book did you read for O Level, A Level, GCSE, etc?

I took my English O Level a year early and we had to read ...

1984 - George Orwell. I wouldn't say I exactly enjoyed it at the age of 15 but it was ceratinly interesting and was the main reason I was interested in Big Brother from the start.

Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. A classic so am gald i have read it by again didn't blow my socks off at the time. We were allowed to watch the film too.

MacBeth - Shakespeare. This funnily was the one of the 3 that i probably enjoyed the most and it inspired me to read Hamlet, The Tempest, Mid Summer Nights dream (not to be mixed up with Mid Sommer murders), The Taming of the Shrew and Comedy of Errors...mind you was a while again now.

We aslo have to do a piece of poetry by Rupert Brook about the 1st world war...

If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England

...can't remember anymore ...was over 20 years ago

Rupert Brooke was stunning...

I took my standard grade a year early CC so I was like you in that respect cool.

I did

Animal Farm - George Orwell

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

poems we did...

Dulce et Decorum Est - Wildred Owen

Gunpowder Plot - Norman MacCaig

Visiting Hour - Norman MacCaig

and a few others we never looked at in detail

I was given Animal Farm to read by my next door neighbour (who was a teacher) when i was about 11..I may have missed a lot of the symbolism at the time.

I think Animal Farm is great Most of the people in my class really hated it, I don't know why

Standard Grade we did;

Lord of The Flies

Othello

Midsummer Nights Dream

which were all distinctly average

And at Higher we did;

The Great Gatsby- which i thoroughly enjoyed

The Glass Menagerie- also enjoyed

and some random poems by Seamus Heany. which sucked

I read Animal Farm
1984
Tess of the D'urbervilles
to Kill a Mocking Bird
Hamlet
Measure for Measure

can't remeber any others. Loved them all in different ways though

for my GCSE we had to do different poems and stories and this 1 called Salt on the Snow
For my AS level we did different poems and Emma for Jane Austen
For My A level im doing 1984 by George Orwell and Othello by William Shakespeare