sharp_young_lady's "Texts read for International Baccalaureate"

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Although certainly not comprehensive of all world literature, certainly not even for the IB program, here are some texts common to the study of IB students in Higher Level English, History (of the Americas), Theatre, and other areas of study, for students in the United States.

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    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  3. 3.
    Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffs Complete)
    by William Shakespeare
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    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok
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    An American Childhood
    by Annie Dillard
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    Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
    by Kamala Markandaya
  7. 7.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  8. 8.
    Leviathan
    by Thomas Hobbes
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    Arcadia: A Play
    by Tom Stoppard
  10. 10.
    A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Henrik Ibsen
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    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde
  13. 13.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller
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    Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Plays, Penguin)
    by Athol Fugard
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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury
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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    Bless Me, Ultima
    by Rudolfo Anaya
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    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire
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    Inherit the Wind
    by Robert E. Lee Jerome Lawrence
  25. 25.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
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    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand
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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
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    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
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    Woza Albert (Methuen Drama)
    by Barney Simon
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    The Threepenny Opera
    by Bertolt Brecht
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    The Communist Manifesto
    by Karl Marx
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    The Lion and the Jewel (Three Crowns Book)
    by Wole Soyinka
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    Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
    by Leonard Baskin
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    Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard
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    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  43. 43.
    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger
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    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
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    The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)
    by Joseph Campbell
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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
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Created by sharp_young_lady on May 31, 2006.
 

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