Unseen prose - CCEASome examples of fiction writers

In your examination you will be asked to analyse and evaluate an unseen nineteenth-century prose extract.

Part of English LiteratureUnseen prose

Some examples of fiction writers

Here are some examples of fiction writers from the 19th century who may be used in your examination:

  • Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
  • Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
  • Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
  • Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Sign of Four, The Speckled Band
  • Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
  • Maria Edgeworth – Castle Rackrent
  • George Eliot – Silas Marner
  • Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island
  • Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days
  • H.G. Wells – The War of the Worlds
  • Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray