Original Bookmark Series
The Original Bookmark series is intended to supplement the enthusiasm of the literature teacher and student in secondary school and to provide additional independent resources for readers wanting to broaden their engagement with literature.
Each Bookmark deals in about 3000 words with three or four readily accessible texts, and suggests approaches to them, challenging the non-specialist reader of 16+ with suggestions for further exploration in plays, novels, poetry or criticism. Bookmarks are written by both teachers and students of literature.
- The Modern Short Story: Peter Banham
Texts covered: The Penguin Book of Short Stories - No longer available
- Modern Drama: Victor Hext
Texts covered: Pinter - The Caretaker; Brecht - The Life of Galileo; Shaffer - Amadeus - Three Renaissance Writers: Roy Booth
Texts covered: Marlowe - Dr Faustus; Webster - The Duchess of Malfi; Donne - Songs and Sonets - The Victorian Novel: Martin Blocksidge
Texts covered: Dickens - Great Expectations; Bronte - Jane Eyre; Eliot - The Mill on the Floss; Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Download now (PDF, 104KB) - Novels Set in India: John Tough
Texts covered: Kaye - The Far Pavilions; Masters - Bhowani Junction; Forster - A Passage to India - Emily Dickinson: Peter Cash
A close reading of thirteen poems
Download now (PDF, 253KB) - Novels Set in Africa: Grahame Addecott
Texts covered: Elaversi - Burning Grass; Achebe - Things Fall Apart; Lessing - The Grass is Singing; Thiong'o - Weep Not Child
Download now (PDF, 98KB) - Three Northern Irish Poets: Charles Bennett
Authors covered: Mahon; Heaney; Longley
Download now (PDF, 99KB) - Novels Set in Ancient Greece and Rome: Grahame Addecott
Texts covered: Renault - The King Must Die; Graves - I, Claudius; Massie - Augustus
Download now (PDF, 95KB) - Post War British Theatre: James Hansford
Texts covered: Beckett - Waiting for Godot; Bond - Saved; Churchill - Top Girls
Download now (PDF, 110KB) - Some First World War Poets: Lisa Broadway
Poets covered: Rupert Brooke; Wilfred Owen; Siegfried Sassoon; Isaac Rosenberg; Robert Graves
Download now (PDF. 99KB) - Aspects of the French Novel: David Taylor
Texts covered: Madame de Lafayette - The Princesse de Cleves; Gide - Strait is the Gate, The Immoralist; Perec - W, or the Memory of Childhood
Download now (PDF, 96KB) - Some Novels from South Africa: Grahame Addecott
Texts covered: Gordimer - A World of Strangers; Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country; Coetzee - Age of Iron
Download now (PDF, 99KB) - Biography and Autobiography: David Bradshaw
Texts covered: White and Gribbin - Stephen Hawking; Cadogan - The Woman Behind William: Richmal Crompton; Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Download now (PDF, 107KB) - The Poems of Thomas Hardy: Peter Cash
A close reading of twenty-six poems
Download now (PDF, 297KB) - Philip Larkin: Andrew Swarbrick
Download now (PDF, 104KB) - Stylistics: Linguistics for the Student of Literature: Ean Taylor
Texts covered: Wales - A Dictionary of Stylistics; Blake - An Introduction to the Language of Literature; Leech and Short - Style in Fiction
Download now (PDF, 102KB) - John Fowles: Mary-Anne Harrington
Texts covered: The Collector; The French Lieutenant's Woman
Download now (PDF, 110KB) - E.M. Forster: Kate Gould
Texts covered: A Room with a View; Howards End
Download now (PDF, 11KB) - Iris Murdoch's Early Novels: Hilda D. Spear
Texts covered: Under the Net; The Bell; An Unofficial Rose
Download now (PDF, 104KB) - Isaac Rosenberg and Keith Douglas: Louise Williams
Download now (PDF, 188KB) - The Heroines of Barbara Pym: Emma Gardiner
Texts covered: Excellent Women; Less Than Angels; A Glass of Blessings
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - Three Jewish American Novels: Stephen Wade
Texts covered: Bellow - Herzog; Potok - The Chosen; Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
Download now (PDF, 103KB) - Three Tragic Novels of Thomas Hardy: Alma Evers
Texts covered: The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native; Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Download now (PDF, 103KB) - Three Eighteenth Century Authors: Martin Blocksidge
Texts covered: Swift - Gulliver's Travels; Pope - The Rape of the Lock; Johnson - Selected Writings
Download now (PDF, 105KB) - The Lyrics of A.E. Housman: Sarah Buckley
Download now (PDF, 174KB) - Four Gothic Tales: Thomas Craig
Texts covered: Walpole - The Castle of Otranto; Shelley - Frankenstein; Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher; Stoker - Dracula - Anthony Burgess: Rob Spence
Texts covered: A Clockwork Orange; Nothing Like the Sun; Earthly Powers
Download now (PDF, 100KB) - Travel Writing: Tom Wharton
Texts covered: The Best of Granta Travel; Waugh - When the Going Was Good; Robinson - Unsuitable for Ladies
Download now (PDF, 101KB) - Understanding Shakespearean Tragedy with Aristotle: Louisa Dreisin
Texts covered: Aristotle - Poetics; Shakespeare's Tragedies; Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Ian Brinton
Download now (pdf) - W.H. Auden: Poems of the 1930s: Ian Parks
Download now (PDF, 96KB) - Three Middleton Tragedies: Paul Dean
Texts covered: The Revenger's Tragedy; Women Beware Women; The Changeling
Download now (PDF, 105KB) - The Poetry of Edward Thomas: Ian Brinton
Download now (PDF, 112KB) - The Lyrics of Laurie Lee: Peter Cash
Texts covered: The Sun My Monument, The Bloom of Candles, My Many-Coated Man
Download now (PDF, 97KB) - Three Novels of William Faulkner: William Woodrow
Texts covered: As I Lay Dying; The Unvanquished; Go Down Moses
Download now (PDF, 103KB) - To and from Rome: John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Lowell as Catholic Writers: Anthony Haynes
Download now (PDF, 107KB) - The Poetry of John Clare: John Wareham
Download now (PDF, 108KB) - Classical and Modern - Reading with Fresh Understanding: Louisa Dreisin
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems of D.H. Lawrence: John Wareham
Download now (PDF, 111KB) - Cool Britannia? Three Plays About Modern Britain: Chris Megson
Texts covered: Racing Demon; Murmuring Judges; The Absence of War, by David Hare
Download now (PDF, 105KB) - The Novels of Graham Swift: Ian Brinton
Texts covered: Waterland; Last Orders
Download now (PDF, 105KB) - Arthur Miller's Drama: Mark Leech
Texts covered: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; A View from the Bridge; The Price; The Last Yankee
Download now (PDF, 103KB) - Samuel Beckett: Ian Brinton
Texts covered: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - W.B. Yeats: Declan Kiely
Download now (PDF, 101KB) - Ted Hughes: Peter Cash
Texts covered: The Thought-Fox, The Horses, Hawk Roosting, An Otter
Download now (PDF, 205KB) - Ernest Hemingway: William Woodrow
Texts covered: Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises); A Moveable Feast; The Old Man and the Sea - U.A. Fanthorpe: Kathleen Bell
Download now (PDF, 105KB) - Tony Harrison: David Thorley
Download now (PDF, 100KB) - Ivor Gurney: Hugh Underhill
Download now (PDF, 99KB) - Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' Trilogy: Hilda D. Spear
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - Robert Graves: the Love Poems: Ian Parks
- The African Short Stories of Muriel Spark: Abdel-Moneim Aly
Download now (PDF, 102KB) - Sylvia Plath: William Woodrow
Download now (PDF, 108KB) - The Poetry of R.S. Thomas: Malcolm Hebron
Download now (PDF, 106KB) - Three Regional Poets: George Mackay Brown, Norman Nicholson and R.S. Thomas: William Woodrow
Download now (PDF, 109KB) - Carol Ann Duffy: Peter Cash
Texts covered: Selected Poems; The World's Wife
Download now (PDF, 188KB) - Restoration Comedies: Peter Cash
Texts covered: Wycherley - The Country Wife; Etherege - The Man of Mode; Aphra Behn - The Rover; Vanbrugh - The Relapse; Congreve - The Way of the World; Farquhar - The Recruiting Officer; The Beaux' Stratagem
Download now (PDF, 113KB) - Robert Frost: Peter Cash
A close reading of sixteen poems
Download now (PDF, 259KB) - The Poetry of Basil Bunting: Ian Brinton
Download now (PDF, 115KB) - Shelley and Revolution: Ian Parks
Download now (PDF, 101KB) - Edmund Blunden and the Georgian Dilemma: Rennie Parker
Download now (PDF, 102KB) - Crossing the Sexual Divide: Catherine Belsey
Texts covered: Virginia Woolf - Orlando, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice
Download now (PDF, 103KB) - Raymond Carver: Peter Cash
Texts covered: They're Not Your Husband, The Student's Wife, So Much Water So Close To Home, Jerry and Molly and Sam, The Ducks, Tell the Women We're Going, How About This?
Download now (PDF, 170KB) - Wilfred Owen: Peter Cash
Poems covered: The Sentry, Exposure, Dulce et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, Insensibility, The Send-Off, Strange Meeting, The Last Laugh
Download now (PDF, 272KB) - Gerard Manley Hopkins: Peter Cash
Poems covered: As Kingfishers Catch Fire . . ., The Windhover, Binsey Poplars, Spring, Pied Beauty, Hurrahing in Harvest, The Starlight Night, Felix Randal, I Wake and Feel, Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
Download now (PDF, 274KB) - Alfred Tennyson: Peter Cash
A close reading of fourteen poems
Download now (PDF, 307KB) - Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness : Peter Cash
Download now (PDF, 281KB) - Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF, 347KB) - John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row
Appendix: Of Mice and Men: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF, 350KB) - Laurie Lee: Cider With Rosie: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF, 277KB) - John Cheever Stories: Part 1: Paul Dean
Download now (PDF 189KB) - John Cheever Stories: Part 2: Paul Dean
Download now (PDF 193KB) - The Early Work of Geoffrey Hill Part 1: For the Unfallen: J.D. Hughes
Download now (PDF 219KB) - The Early Work of Geoffrey Hill Part 2: King Log: J.D. Hughes
Download now (PDF 221KB) - Pre-1915 GCSE Poems: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF 389KB) - Post-1915 GCSE Poems: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF 353KB) - Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep: Peter Cash
Download now (PDF 184KB) - D.H. Lawrence: Six Animal Poems: Peter Cash
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