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Table of contents
History and society
The post-war years
244
The Sixties and the Seventies
246
The end of the Welfare State
248
READING
We Are All Falklanders Now
(The Times)
249
From the fall of the Berlin Wall
to the present
250
DICTATION
US foreign policy
in the 1980s
250
TOWARDS FCE
File 7
What do young
people like?
252
Culture
Post-Modernism
254
LISTENING
Life in a car
255
SISTER ARTS Painting
Consumerism
and Hedonism
•
R. Hamilton, Just what is it that makes
today’s homes so different, so appealing?
257
The literary scene
Contemporary poetry
258
The British novel
260
The American novel
262
Contemporary drama
264
GENRES
Drama
The Theatre of the Absurd
266
•
H. Pinter,
The Birthday Party
266
Writers and texts
Samuel Beckett
268
Waiting for Godot
269
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“Well, That Passed the Time”
271
SISTER ARTS Painting
Despair and Solitude
•
F. Bacon, Study after Velázquez’
Portrait of Pope Innocent X
277
John Osborne
278
Look Back in Anger
278
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Just Another Sunday Evening
280
Philip Larkin
283
g3
Mr Bleaney
284
Allen Ginsberg
287
g4
I Saw the Best Minds of My
Generation
288
Jack Kerouac
290
On the Road
291
g5
LA-Bound
292
Harold Pinter
294
A Slight Ache
295
g6
A Wasp in the Marmalade Pot
296
Seamus Heaney
299
g7
Digging
300
g8
Casualty
302
Ian McEwan
305
The Cement Garden
306
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A Corpse in the Cellar
307
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
310
A House for Mr Biswas
311
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Prologue
312
Salman Rushdie
314
Midnight’s Children
315
g11
The Hour of Birth Draws Near
316
Kazuo Ishiguro
318
The Remains of the Day
319
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A Butler’s Got to Do What
a Butler’s Got to Do
320
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M
ILLENNIUM
O
VERVIEW
Global English
324
The Present Age
(1945-today)
242
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