The EXTRACTS featured are taken from fourteen major novels that span nearly two hundred years of English Literature. Useful background information on the authors and the context of their novels is provided in dictation format.

This book provides 14 authentic extracts from modern and classical literature, each exploring a different theme, from the best of English authors and novels:

* Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
* About a Boy by Nick Hornby
* The Time Machine by H G Wells
* The Beach by Alex Garland
* The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
* A Passage to India by E M Forster
* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
* The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
* Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
* The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
* Captain Corelli's Man