A Course in English Language and Literature

     Contents
    Tothestudent
   UNIT 1
    Kurtz's last disciple
    from Heart ofDarkness (1902), by Joseph Conrad
    Language study: sentence construction; error analysis
   UNIT 2
    Raju and his father's shop
    from The Guide (1958), by R.K. Narayan
    Language study: simple past and simple present
   UNIT 3
    Father William
    from Poems by Robert Southey, and Alice's Advenlures
    in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
    Language study: verse structure; linking words and
    phrases; parody
   UNIT 4
    The Lover's Journey
    from Tales (1812), by George Crabbe
    Language study: word sets; word order; rhyme and
    stress
   UNIT 5
    Igwezu retums to his parents (first part)
    from The Swamp Dwellers (1964), by Wole Soyinka
    Language study: forming questions
   UNIT 6
    Igwezu retums to his parents (second part)
    Language study: forming questions
   UNIT 7
    If-
    (1910), by Rudyard Kipling
    Language study: first conditional; clause relationships
   UNIT 8
    Buried treasure
    from Samuel Pepys's Diary (1660-69)
    Language study: sentence construction
   UNIT 9
    Motber and Daughter
    (1929) from The Princess-and other stories, by
    D.H. Lawrence
    Language study: synonyms and pro-forms
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   UNIT 10
    Shertock Holmes and Dr Watson
    from The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' in
    His Last Bow (1917), by Arthur Conan Doyle
    Language study: reported speech and direct speech
   UNIT 11
    Max and his sons
    from The Homecoming (1965), by Harold Pinter
    Language study: changes of grammatical person;
    personal pronouns
   UNIT 12
    The monster becomes a person
    from Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Language study: word sets; phrase sets; imagery
   UNIT 13
    Newspeak
    from Nineteen eighty-four (1948), by George Orwell
    (Eric Arthur Blair)
    Language study: jargon
   UNIT 14
    Jekyll and Hyde
    from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), by Robert
    Louis Stevenson
    Language study: changes of grammatical person;
    word sets
   UNIT 15
    Wordsworth as a young man
    from The Prelude (published 1850) by William
    Wordsworth, and other sources
    Language study: passive voice; rhythm and stress;
    poetry and prpse
   UNIT 16
    Hunting the whale (first part)
    from Moby Dick or The White Whale (1851)
    by Herman Melville
    Language study: sound identification; rhythm;
    imperative mood
   UNIT 17
    Hunting the whale (second part)
    Language study: imperative mood;
    has to/have to; imagery
   UNIT 18
    Alockofhair
    from The Rape ofthe Lock (1714), by Alexander Pope
    Language study: word order; vocabulary and
    connotations; similes and
    metaphors; mock-heroic style
   UNIT 19
    The Calmative (1945-6)
    from No's Knife; Collecfed Shorter Prose
    1945-1966 (1967), by Samuel Beckett
    Language study: prepositional phrases
   UNIT 20
    MrCasaubon
    from Middlemarch. a Study ofProvincial Life (1872)
    by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
    Language study: words and connotations
   Notes on the writers studied
   Iadexofwrilers
   Index of language features dealt with io the exercises
   Glossary of linguistic and literary terms