Literary Connections: texts for AQA LTA3 AS Level Literature

Hardy's poems

AQA LTA3 AS Level Literature: Texts in Context (legacy: until 2009)

These are editions of the set texts for Unit 3 of the AQA AS Level Specification A English Literature course. The last examination for this course will take place in 2009, which will be final resit opportunity; candidates beginning courses in September 2008 should use the new Specification, which has its first AS papers in 2009. Remember that it is essential to check from the AQA specification that you are reading the right text and edition for the right year! There were changes in set texts in 2006 - please check the AQA website yourself to be sure you have prepared the correct texts.

Also on the AQA site you will find:

Unit 3 Support Booklet - valuable advice and examples of candidates' responses
Unit 3 Past Questions by Text - all the questions on texts set from 2001 to January 2004

Candidates must answer on a poetry and a drama text. One of the drama or poetry texts offered must have been written before 1900 and the second text should have been written in the twentieth century. All pre-twentieth century texts are shown here like this: ^{pre-20th century}.

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Section A Drama

See also the
Faber Critical
Guide on Friel

School for Scandal - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (New Mermaids) ^{pre-20th century}
- See also the Sheridan page, which details of study guides, useful websites, etc.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford (New Mermaids, ed. Morris) ^{pre-20th century}
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde (New Mermaid edition) ^{pre-20th century}
- The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde is part of a very useful series, though I haven't seen this work myself.
- See also the Oscar Wilde page on this site.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller; this is the recommended Penguin Modern Classics edition (combined with A View from the Bridge). There are other editions, eg in the Hereford Plays series.
- See also the Miller page on this site.
Comedians - Trevor Griffiths (Faber)
Making History - Brian Friel (Faber)

Section B Poetry

The Miller's Prologue and Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer (Cambridge, edited Winny) ^{pre-20th century}
Selected Poems - Thomas Hardy (Everyman, edited Norman Page): the whole collection is set for study ^{pre-20th century}
- See also the Literary Drinkers page on Hardy.
Selected Poems of the Brontës (Everyman, edited Pamela Norris) ^{pre-20th century}
High Windows - Philip Larkin (Faber).
- See also the Larkin page on this site.
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney (Faber) - also available as an audiobook.
The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy (Picador) - also available as an audiobook.
- See also the Duffy page on this site.