COMMON CORE SYLLABUS OF GENERAL ENGLISH FOR   B.A.,/B.SC.,/B.Com., I st YEAR ENGLISH

B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., I ^st Year

1. PROSE

"Selections from English Prose"          O.U.P.

The following Lessons are prescribed for study :

1.   A Chat with Mrs. Smiles                                       W.R. Lee

2.   Lovers' Reunion                                                    D.H. Spencer.

3.   Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat                                Sir Winston Churchill

4.   A Snake in the Grass                                            R.K. Narayan.

5.   The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery                                James Thurber

6.   Letter to Indu                                                       Jawaharlal Nehru.

7.   Dolly at the Dentists                                             George Bernard Shaw

8.   A Sense of the Future                                           J. Bronowski

9.   The Thiefs Story                                                   Ruskin Bond

2.  POETRY

       "Poetry for Pleasure"                                            Maruthi

 The following Poems are prescribed for Study :

1.   On His Having Arrived at the                                 John Milton

       Age of Twenty-Three

2.   Go, Lovely Rose                                                   Edmund Waller

3.   The Tables Turned                                                William Wordsworth

4.   Sonnet to Science                                                 Edgar Allan Poe

5.   The Express                                                         Stephen Spender

6.   Laugh and Be Merry                                            John Masefield

7.   On Killing a Tree                                                  Gieve Patel

8.   Piano and Drums                                                  Gabriel Okara.

3.  Non-Detailed Text

"Best Loved Stories"                                                    Anu Chita.

The following short stories are prescribed for Study :

1.      The Refugee                                                       Pearl S. Buck.

2.      The Gold Watch                                                 Mulk Raj Anand

3.      The Open Window                                             Saki

4.      Lemon Yellow and Fig.                                       Manohar Malgonkar

5.      The Fortune Teller                                               Karel Capak

6.      God Sees the Truth but Waits                              Leo Tolstoy

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