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General English

Grammar

English grammar digest - Trudy Aronson - Prentice Hall (all sections)

Understanding and using English grammar - Betty Schrampfer Azar - Pearson Education (all sections)

How to prepare for the TOEFL - Pamela Sharpe - Barron's Educational Series (Review of structure)

* The first and the third references are the best ones among these three. the first reference covers almost all important grammatical points. the third reference touches a number of important and problematic points about grammar, but does not try to teach grammar from scratch. the second reference starts from the very basics of grammar and although it is a highly valuable book for learning grammar it has less priority for your MA exam.

Vocabulary

1100 words you need to know - Murray Bromberg & Gordon - Barron's Educational Series (all)

Vocabulary for the College-Bound student - Harold Levine and Norman Levine and Robert Levine - AMSCO School Publications (all - especially the first 5 chapters)

Vocabulary for the high school students - Harold Levine and Norman Levine and Robert Levine - AMSCO School Publications (all)

Essential Words for the GRE - Philip Geer - Barron's Educational Series (all)

* The first and the second references are the most informative ones for your MA exam. The third reference is another good reference besides the first one and actually complements it, but it is not very urgent to study. Between the second and the fourth references you may choose just one and there is no need to cover them both simultaneously; however, the former is a more useful one.

Reading

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* For the reading section, any book trying to teach IELTS reading skills is satisfactory. Different publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Pearson Longman, and many others have offered good sources in this respect.

English Literature

A survey in English literature - 2 Vols. - A. Abjadian - Tehran: SAMT, 2000

The Norton Anthology of English literature (8th ed.) - M. H. Abrams - New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

The Oxford companion to English literature (5th ed.) - M. Drabble - Oxford: OUP, 1985

Cambridge paperback guide to English literature - I. Ousby - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

The short Oxford history of English literature (2nd ed.) - A. Sanders - Oxford: OUP, 1999

A compendious history of English literature - J. Sokhanvar - Tehran: SAMT

Literary Criticism

Literary criticism: An introduction to theory and practice - C. E. Bressler

An introduction to literary criticism - R. Dutton

A handbook of critical approaches to literature (5th ed.) - W. L. Guerin et al.

A short history of literary criticism - V. Hall

Critical theory today - L. Tyson

Literary Movements

.. Literary movements for students - D. Galens (ed.)

Literary schools: A reader - F. Yeganeh

Literary Terms

A glossary of literary terms (7th ed.) - M. H. Abrams

.. The concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms - C. Baldick

.. The penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory - J. A. Cudden

Literary terms and criticism - J. Peck & M. Coyle

The practice of literary terminology - J. Sokhanvar

Containing Poems, Novels, and Plays of each Period

The Norton Anthology of English literature (8th ed.) - M. H. Abrams - New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Literature: structure, sound and sense, Poetry (2nd. ed.) - L. Perrine - New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974

The Cambridge introduction to twentieth-century American poetry - Ch. Beach - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Novels

Novels by: Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, D. H., Laurence, and Virginia Wolf

Studying the novel: An introduction - J. Hawthorn - New York: Edward Arnold, 1985

Plays

Literature: structure, sound, and sense, Drama (2nd ed.) - L. Perrine - New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974

Plays by: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Samuel Becket, Harold Pinter - J. Sokhanvar - Tehran: Rahnama Press, 2006

To Be Continued …

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