Unfortunately not. My O level curriculum seemed to centre around John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, and the works of Thomas Hardy.

I am left with an abiding hatred of Hughes and Hardy, with particular ire reserved for the latter, whose tedious country bumpkin novels seem to be the staple diet of BBC drama producers. His work is so depressing and predictable, I really can't see what people find so good about them. It's flooding back to me now: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" was the course book. God how I hated it, and still do thirty years later.

We also covered Shakespeare, doing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Macbeth". As I said earlier, reading parts aloud in class is not the way to discover Shakespeare.

Would be good to learn the whole thing though I might give that a try