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Description: This is a literature-in-English textbook for high school and university students in three volumes. It aims to guide students to a well-informed appreciation of literary texts in English and encourages them to relate works of literature to their own world. Ample historical, biographical and critical material is provided: with historical, social and literary context sections for each chapter, and a series of critical texts, often presenting the author in his/her own words. However, the core of the book is the large number and wide range of literary extracts: each text is fully annotated to help students in the difficult task of deciphering the literary code. The exercises include focusing and contextualisation (pre-reading), comprehension of what is being said, as well as textual analysis of how this is achieved and scope for personal response to the text or the ideas underlying it.