Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in English Literature · 4ET1 · Free · no account needed
English Literature — the set texts
Every text below carries two complete resources, completely free: condensed, exam-ready Grade 9 Notes — character by character, the strongest quotations with named methods, themes, craft, context and full essay plans — and a much longer Complete Text Guide that teaches the whole work from its historical world to the examination room. Each text names the specification that sets it.
Also known as Edexcel IGCSE English Literature — Pearson’s own name for the qualification is the International GCSE, and that is the name every Incandio page uses.
Then the part a revision guide cannot do: every character and theme is a study you teach back to Ember, an AI pupil, and defend against the writer in a structured debate — because in Literature the thing you master is an interpretation.
- An Inspector Calls — J. B. Priestley · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to An Inspector Calls - Macbeth — William Shakespeare · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · Understanding Macbeth in Depth - Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Romeo and Juliet - To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1) — Modern Prose option
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird - Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1) — Modern Prose option
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Of Mice and Men - Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1) — Modern Prose option
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Klara and the Sun - Western Lane — Chetna Maroo · Set text on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1) — Modern Prose option
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Western Lane - The Poetry Anthology — all sixteen poems — Part 3 of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology · The compulsory poetry of Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1) — every learner studies all sixteen poems
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to the Poetry Anthology - If— — Rudyard Kipling · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to If— - Prayer Before Birth — Louis MacNeice · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Prayer Before Birth - Blessing — Imtiaz Dharker · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Blessing - Search For My Tongue — Sujata Bhatt · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Search For My Tongue - Half-past Two — U A Fanthorpe · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Half-past Two - Piano — D H Lawrence · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Piano - Hide and Seek — Vernon Scannell · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Hide and Seek - Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Sonnet 116 - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad — John Keats · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad - Poem at Thirty-Nine — Alice Walker · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Poem at Thirty-Nine - War Photographer — Carol Ann Duffy · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to War Photographer - The Tyger — William Blake · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Tyger - My Last Duchess — Robert Browning · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to My Last Duchess - Half-caste — John Agard · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Half-caste - Do not go gentle into that good night — Dylan Thomas · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Do not go gentle into that good night - Remember — Christina Rossetti · One of the sixteen compulsory anthology poems on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Literature (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Remember - A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to A Christmas Carol - Frankenstein — Mary Shelley · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), which prescribes the 1831 text — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Frankenstein - Animal Farm — George Orwell · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Animal Farm - Pigeon English — Stephen Kelman · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Pigeon English - My Name is Leon — Kit de Waal · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to My Name is Leon - Anita and Me — Meera Syal · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Anita and Me - Telling Tales — Graham Swift, D. H. Lawrence, Helen Dunmore, John McGahern, Kazuo Ishiguro, Claudette Williams and Penelope Lively · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Telling Tales - Leave Taking — Winsome Pinnock · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Leave Taking - Princess & The Hustler — Chinonyerem Odimba · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Princess & The Hustler - A Taste of Honey — Shelagh Delaney · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to A Taste of Honey - DNA — Dennis Kelly · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to DNA - Lord of the Flies — William Golding · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Lord of the Flies - Blood Brothers — Willy Russell · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — Modern texts option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Blood Brothers - The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), Paper 1 Section A — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Merchant of Venice - Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), Paper 1 Section A — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Julius Caesar - Much Ado About Nothing — William Shakespeare · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), Paper 1 Section A — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Much Ado About Nothing - The Sign of Four — Arthur Conan Doyle · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — 19th-century novel option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Sign of Four - Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — 19th-century novel option; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Jane Eyre - Great Expectations — Charles Dickens · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), and these notes are written for it. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1) also lists the novel as a Literary Heritage option, which Incandio does not yet teach
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Great Expectations - Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), and these notes are written for it. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1) also lists the novel as a Literary Heritage option, which Incandio does not yet teach
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Pride and Prejudice - The Tempest — William Shakespeare · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702), Paper 1 Section A — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Tempest - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson · Set text on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Power and Conflict — all fifteen poems — The Power and Conflict cluster of the AQA poetry anthology · The Power and Conflict poetry cluster on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — one of three clusters; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Power and Conflict - Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Ozymandias - London — William Blake · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to London - Extract from The Prelude — William Wordsworth · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Extract from The Prelude - The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Charge of the Light Brigade - Exposure — Wilfred Owen · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Exposure - Storm on the Island — Seamus Heaney · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Storm on the Island - Bayonet Charge — Ted Hughes · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Bayonet Charge - Remains — Simon Armitage · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Remains - Poppies — Jane Weir · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Poppies - Tissue — Imtiaz Dharker · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Tissue - The Emigrée — Carol Rumens · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Emigrée - Checking Out Me History — John Agard · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Checking Out Me History - Kamikaze — Beatrice Garland · A Power and Conflict poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Kamikaze - Love and Relationships — all fifteen poems — The Love and Relationships cluster of the AQA poetry anthology · The Love and Relationships poetry cluster on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — one of three clusters; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Love and Relationships - When We Two Parted — Lord Byron · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to When We Two Parted - Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Love's Philosophy - Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Porphyria's Lover - Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!' — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!' - Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Neutral Tones - Letters from Yorkshire — Maura Dooley · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Letters from Yorkshire - The Farmer's Bride — Charlotte Mew · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Farmer's Bride - Walking Away — Cecil Day-Lewis · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Walking Away - Eden Rock — Charles Causley · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Eden Rock - Follower — Seamus Heaney · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Follower - Mother, any distance — Simon Armitage · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Mother, any distance - Before You Were Mine — Carol Ann Duffy · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Before You Were Mine - Winter Swans — Owen Sheers · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Winter Swans - Singh Song! — Daljit Nagra · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Singh Song! - Climbing My Grandfather — Andrew Waterhouse · A Love and Relationships poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Climbing My Grandfather - Worlds and Lives — all fifteen poems — The Worlds and Lives cluster of the AQA poetry anthology · The Worlds and Lives poetry cluster on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — one of three clusters; not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Worlds and Lives - Lines Written in Early Spring — William Wordsworth · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Lines Written in Early Spring - England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to England in 1819 - Shall earth no more inspire thee — Emily Brontë · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Shall earth no more inspire thee - In a London Drawingroom — George Eliot · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to In a London Drawingroom - On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 — James Berry · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 - Name Journeys — Raman Mundair · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Name Journeys - pot — shamshad khan · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to pot - A Wider View — Seni Seneviratne · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to A Wider View - Homing — Liz Berry · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Homing - A Century Later — Imtiaz Dharker · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to A Century Later - The Jewellery Maker — Louisa Adjoa Parker · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to The Jewellery Maker - With Birds You're Never Lonely — Raymond Antrobus · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to With Birds You're Never Lonely - A Portable Paradise — Roger Robinson · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to A Portable Paradise - Like an Heiress — Grace Nichols · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Like an Heiress - Thirteen — Caleb Femi · A Worlds and Lives poem on AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) — not on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (4ET1)
Grade 9 Notes · The Complete Guide to Thirteen
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