AQA A Level English Literature Specification A (legacy)
LA5C: Literary Connections coursework
Final coursework re-takes: January 2010
These are texts that have produced interesting work for this unit. It is not an exclusive list nor are these 'approved' texts - candidates are free to select from the wide range of suitable works, as explained on the LA5C page. It is important, in addition, that the task is carefully focused - which is why both texts and tasks need to be approved in advance by your moderator.
Some texts have links to Amazon to provide you with more details, but as there are over 100 pairings here, completing this task will take some time! You can use the search box on the left to locate editions. Meanwhile, please send in any further suggestions of your own.
- Journey's End and The Siege of Krishnapur
- Journey's End and Regeneration
- The Great Gatsby
and Death of a Salesman
- The Great Gatsby
- The Wasteland and The Great Gatsby
- Trainspotting
and The Great Gatsby
- Trainspotting
- Trainspotting
(youth culture)
- Paradise Lost and Lord of the Flies (evil)
- Paradise Lost and Frankenstein
- Villette and Frankenstein (mother figures)
- Paradise Lost and Philip Pullman (anti-heroes)
- Cold Comfort Farm and Precious Bane
- Passage to India and Heat and Dust
- The Catcher in the Rye
and Slaughterhouse 5
- The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
(development of identity)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
and The Catcher in the Rye
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- The Color Purple
and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Tolkien and Pullman (fantasy novels' exploration of good and evil)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
and The Wasp Factory (non-conformists)
- The Wasp Factory and Lord of the Flies
- Catch 22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (heroes)
- Lolita and A Child Called It (the presentation of abuse)
- Empire of the Sun and Birdsong
- Birdsong
and Atonement
- Wuthering Heights and Birdsong
- Birdsong
- Birdsong
- Birdsong
- Birdsong
- Master Georgie (Beryl Bainbridge) and Birdsong
- Birdsong
- Mrs Dalloway and Scars Upon My Heart
- Mrs Dalloway and The God of Small Things
- The Return of the Soldier and Not So Quiet (Helen Zenna Smith)
- How to Be Good (Nick Hornby) and The Good Doctor (Damon Galgut) (the concept of goodness)
- Oliver Twist and The Jew of Malta
- Beloved and The Color Purple
- Nice Work and Hard Times
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
and The Remains of the Day
(narrators on a journey of self-discovery)
- The Waves and Ulysses (the presentation of the self)
- The Collector and The Lovely Bones (abductors and villains)
- The Collector and Frankenstein
- Ridley Walker and A Clockwork Orange
- Jane Eyre and The Wide Sargasso Sea
- Roddy Doyle and poems by Seamus Heaney (childhood)
- The Cider House Rules and Up the Junction
- Nights at the Circus and Big Fish (Wallace) (magic realism)
- Nights at the Circus and A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Streetcar Named Desire and Wuthering Heights (relationships between men and women)
- Jane Eyre and Tulip Fever (Moggach)
- Henry V and Her Privates We
(Frederic Manning)
- Brave New World and Oryx and Crake
- Nineteen Eighty-four
and Oryx and Crake
- Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and A Room with a View
- Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Reading in the Dark
- Translations and Reading in the Dark
- The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Esther Waters (George Moore) (the treatment of women)
- Fasting, Feasting
(Anita Desai) and Disgrace
(J M Coetzee)
- The Woman in White and The Turn of the Screw
- The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
- Decline and Fall and The Importance of Being Earnest (the cad)
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Vinegar Tom
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang and Danziger's Travels by Nick Danziger.
- Mansfield Park and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Sense and Sensibility and The Color Purple.
- Wuthering Heights and Rebecca
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
- Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Jane Eyre and An Experiment in Love.
- Andrea Ashworth's Once in a House on Fire and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
- The Magic Toyshop and The Cement Garden.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Plath's The Bell Jar
- Waterland and Great Expectations.
- Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice.
- Pride and Prejudice and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
- Atonement
and Emma.
- The Hanging Garden and A Certain Justice (James' and Rankin's presentation of detectives)
- Sula and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
- Burnt Out Case and Heart of Darkness.
- The French Lieutenant's Woman and Wuthering Heights.
- Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey
- Atonement
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Anita and Me and The Buddha of Suburbia.
- Atonement
- Sylvia Plath's poetry and To The Lighthouse (motherhood)
- The Old Man and the Sea and The Life of Pi
- The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Rape of the Lock (ideas of beauty)
- Howards End
and The Shipping News
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Clarissa.
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- The Remains of the Day
- Nineteen-eight Four and Gulliver's Travels
- Rebecca and Jane Eyre.
- The Color Purple and The Wrong Boy
by Willy Russell.
- Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison and Translations by Brian Friel.
- Adam Bede and Mansfield Park
- Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charlotte Bronte's Shirley
- The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver and Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Vernon God Little
by D B C Pierre and The Catcher in the Rye
