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IGCSE

London Examinations IGCSE Anthology for English Language (4355) For examination in May and November 2005, 2006, 2007 April 2003, Issue 1
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Anthology

Anthology for English Language (4355)

London Examinations IGCSE

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Contents
Section A
From Touching the Void – Joe Simpson Harriet Tubman – a magazine article by Jone Johnson Lewis I Never Thought I could be this Lucky – Lisa Laws (Woman magazine) Impact Alert – Asteroids (adapted from an article by Stuart Clark in Focus magazine) Shopping for Romanian Babies – Sue Lloyd Roberts Explorers, or Boys Messing About? Steven Morris (The Guardian) From Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah From Taking on the World – Ellen MacArthur From A Foreign Field – Ben MacIntyre 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

Section B
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost Refugee Blues – W. H. Auden The Country at my Shoulder – Moniza Alvi Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom – Marcia Douglas The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) – Sebastian Faulks King Schahriar and his brother (extract from The Arabian Nights) The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant A Hero – R.K. Narayan 23 24 25 26 28 29 31 34 40

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