New IGNOU BEGE-141 Help Book Understanding Prose in English – BAEGH English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Varieties of Prose
Understanding Prose: An Introduction
Descriptive Prose
Narrative Prose
Expository Prose

Block 2 – Forms of Prose: Short Stories and Essays
‘Misery’– Anton Chekhov
‘Mother’–Judah Waten
‘Shooting an Elephant’– George Orwell
‘On Seeing England for the First Time’–Jamaica Kincaid

Block 3 – Biography and Autobiography
Biography and Autobiography: An Introduction
Gandhi: Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Bertrand Russells’s Autobiography
Lytton Strachey’s–Queen Victoria

Block 4 – Diary, Speech, Letters, Travelogues
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
Margaret Laurence’s My Final Hour
Nehru’s Letters to Indira Gandhi: ‘The Quest of Man’
Travelogue: Travels by a Lesser Line — Bill Aitken