A Window on Literature is a new classroom text which consists of 12 units, each of which is based on a theme and contains one or two literary texts and accompanying activities. The texts are unabridged and have been carefully selected to be suitable for use with lower-intermediate and intermediate students. A Window on Literature contains:
- poems, play extracts, short story extracts and one complete short story.
- writers from a wide range of English-speaking countries and social backgrounds, including Harold Pinter, Katherine Mansfield, Langston Hughes and Janet Frame
- a wealth of activities on vocabulary, comprehension, inference and interpretation, creative response
- notes on vocabulary items and the authors in each unit
- a key for relevant exercises
- a cassette of recordings of all of the texts.