Following Selection
Appendix - I
INDIAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION, MARCH 2013
LIST OF PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS 1. ENGLISH (01): PAPER 1. (Language) No specific book is being recommended for background reading. PAPER 2. (Literature in English) DRAMA : As You Like It : Shakespeare (edited by Roma Gill, Oxford University Press) OR Loyalties : John Galsworthy (edited by G.R. Hunter) PROSE: At least one of the following: (i) A Treasure Trove of Short Stories: Compiled and Edited by S. Chakravarthi (Frank Bros. & Co.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. An Astrologer’s Day : R.K. Narayan Dust : ‘Saki’ (HH Munro) The Postmaster : Rabindranath Tagore The Case For the Defence : Graham Greene How Much Land Does A Man Require? : Leo Tolstoy The Tiger in the Tunnel : Ruskin Bond The Umbrella Man : Roald Dahl Girls : Mrinal Pande The Sniper : Liam O’Flaherty The Gift of the Magi : O’Henry Marriage Is A Private Affair : Chinua Achebe A Fishy Story : Jerome K Jerome Rikky-Tikki-Tavi : Rudyard Kipling The Monkey’s Paw: W. W. Jacobs A Day’s Wait : Ernest Hemingway 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. POETRY: The Golden Lyre (A Collection of Poems) (Compulsory) Compiled and edited by Michael Shane Calvert (Evergreen Publishers) Only the following poems to be studied: 1. 2. 3. 4. If : Rudyard Kipling A River : A. K. Ramanujan The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost Because I Could Not Stop for Death : Emily Dickinson Night of the Scorpion : Nissim Ezekiel No Men Are Foreign : James Kirkup To the Indian Who Died in Africa : T. S. Eliot Shakespeare : Matthew Arnold To India – My Native Land : Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Our Casuarina Tree : Toru Dutt L Belle Dame Sans Merci : John Keats The Ballad Of Father Gilligan : W. B. Yeats Laugh and Be Merry : John Masefield The Slave’s Dream : H.W. Longfellow The Frog and the Nightingale : Vikram Seth
INDIAN LANGUAGES: 2. AO NAGA (42): (Only two of the following books are to be offered) (i) Mejen O 2nd edition. (An Anthology of
INDIAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION, MARCH 2013
LIST OF PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS 1. ENGLISH (01): PAPER 1. (Language) No specific book is being recommended for background reading. PAPER 2. (Literature in English) DRAMA : As You Like It : Shakespeare (edited by Roma Gill, Oxford University Press) OR Loyalties : John Galsworthy (edited by G.R. Hunter) PROSE: At least one of the following: (i) A Treasure Trove of Short Stories: Compiled and Edited by S. Chakravarthi (Frank Bros. & Co.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. An Astrologer’s Day : R.K. Narayan Dust : ‘Saki’ (HH Munro) The Postmaster : Rabindranath Tagore The Case For the Defence : Graham Greene How Much Land Does A Man Require? : Leo Tolstoy The Tiger in the Tunnel : Ruskin Bond The Umbrella Man : Roald Dahl Girls : Mrinal Pande The Sniper : Liam O’Flaherty The Gift of the Magi : O’Henry Marriage Is A Private Affair : Chinua Achebe A Fishy Story : Jerome K Jerome Rikky-Tikki-Tavi : Rudyard Kipling The Monkey’s Paw: W. W. Jacobs A Day’s Wait : Ernest Hemingway 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. POETRY: The Golden Lyre (A Collection of Poems) (Compulsory) Compiled and edited by Michael Shane Calvert (Evergreen Publishers) Only the following poems to be studied: 1. 2. 3. 4. If : Rudyard Kipling A River : A. K. Ramanujan The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost Because I Could Not Stop for Death : Emily Dickinson Night of the Scorpion : Nissim Ezekiel No Men Are Foreign : James Kirkup To the Indian Who Died in Africa : T. S. Eliot Shakespeare : Matthew Arnold To India – My Native Land : Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Our Casuarina Tree : Toru Dutt L Belle Dame Sans Merci : John Keats The Ballad Of Father Gilligan : W. B. Yeats Laugh and Be Merry : John Masefield The Slave’s Dream : H.W. Longfellow The Frog and the Nightingale : Vikram Seth
INDIAN LANGUAGES: 2. AO NAGA (42): (Only two of the following books are to be offered) (i) Mejen O 2nd edition. (An Anthology of