Class 11 Elective English — Woven Words (NCERT)

Short Stories • Poems • Essays • Play / Extended Reading • MCQs & Q&A

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NCERT Woven Words Class 11 cover

Short Stories

  1. The Lament — Anton Chekhov
  2. A Pair of Mustachios — Mulk Raj Anand
  3. The Rocking-horse Winner — D. H. Lawrence
  4. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs — Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. Pappachi’s Moth — Arundhati Roy
  6. The Third and Final Continent — Jhumpa Lahiri
  7. Glory at Twilight — Bhabani Bhattacharya
  8. The Luncheon — W. S. Maugham

Poetry

  1. The Peacock — Sujata Bhatt
  2. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds — William Shakespeare
  3. Coming — Philip Larkin
  4. Telephone Conversation — Wole Soyinka
  5. The World Is Too Much with Us — William Wordsworth
  6. Mother Tongue — Padma Sachdev
  7. Hawk Roosting — Ted Hughes
  8. For Elkana — Nissim Ezekiel
  9. Refugee Blues — W. H. Auden
  10. Felling of the Banyan Tree — Dilip Chitre
  11. Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats
  12. Ajamil and the Tigers — Arun Kolatkar

Essays

  1. My Watch — Mark Twain
  2. My Three Passions — Bertrand Russell
  3. Patterns of Creativity — S. Chandrasekhar
  4. Tribal Verse — G. N. Devy
  5. What Is a Good Book? — John Ruskin
  6. The Story — E. M. Forster (Summary, Q&A, MCQs)
  7. Bridges — Kumudini Lakhia

Play / Extended Reading

  1. Arms and the Man — Bernard Shaw
  2. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway

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