Now look at these back cover blurbs and match them with the following book titles.

1. Brave New World (Auldous Huxley)

2. A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)

3. Crime Never Pays

4. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

5. Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)

A. MURDER: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being.

A terrible crime.

But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? Was it murder at all, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detections of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Randell.

B. After the death of his beautiful wife, Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to recover. There he marries a quiet and ordinary young woman who is very different from his first wife. Maxim takes her back to England – to Manderley, his lovely country house.

The new Mrs de Winter finds that at Manderley Rebecca is still in everyone’s thoughts – including Maxim’s – and she begins to feel that she’ll never be able to equal Rebecca as a wife or as mistress of Manderley.

Then one day a discovery is made – and the young Mrs de Winter begins to understand why Rebecca is still so important to all those at Manderley.

C. “You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.”

Can Professor Henry Higgins REALLY turn flower-girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady?

D. EAST MEETS WEST in this intriguing story. Or does it? Why should Miss Quested accuse Dr Aziz of assaulting her on an outing to the Marabar Caves? How can Dr Aziz defend himself against such an unfair charge?

Will the trial cause a bloody battle between the Indians lined up behind Dr Aziz and the British community solidly behind Miss Quested?

E. ALL human values have changed. What in the past were seen as virtues have been wiped out. Family life has disappeared, human beings are produced in bottles instead of being born in the natural manner. People do not suffer.; but they have no ideas of their own, their lives are planned for them from start to finish and they know nothing of the passions, the joys and sorrows, the triumphs or the defeats of the great figures of the past. In spite of the light and often amusing way this book is written, here is a warning to us all to think carefully about the way the world is developing before it is too late.

3. Put the books in order according to which ones you would be most/least interested in reading. Compare your order with other students. Is it the same or different? Explain the reasons for your order.