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ICSE Class 9 English Literature: Chapter-wise Notes and PYQs

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ICSE · Class 9 · 2026-27

ICSE Class 9 English Literature: chapter-wise study guide

All 12 chapters of ICSE Class 9 English Literature for the 2026-27 session. Each chapter page explains the ideas, gives tricks to remember them, shows where students lose marks, and links to practice.

  • 12 chapters
  • 12 topic pages
Start with the first chapter

Exam note: English Paper 2 (Literature in English). Class IX is a school examination: CISCE says the Class IX final examination is conducted internally by schools, on the Class IX texts only: Julius Caesar Acts I and II, and five stories and five poems from Treasure Chest. The ICSE 2028 syllabus gives an 80-mark, two-hour paper plus 20 marks of written assignments assessed in school; CISCE publishes no Class IX question-paper layout.

Drama

  1. Julius Caesar – Act I

  2. Julius Caesar – Act II

Prose

  1. Bonku Babu's Friend – Satyajit Ray

  2. Oliver Asks for More – Charles Dickens

  3. The Model Millionaire – Oscar Wilde

  4. Home-coming – Rabindranath Tagore

  5. The Boy who Broke the Bank – Ruskin Bond

Poetry

  1. The Night Mail – W.H. Auden

  2. Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat – T.S. Eliot

  3. I Remember, I Remember – Thomas Hood

  4. A Doctor's Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 – Vikram Seth

  5. A Work of Artifice – Marge Piercy

Syllabus source: CISCE ICSE 2028 English (01) syllabus (Classes IX and X), CISCE ICSE 2028 Appendix I: List of Prescribed Textbooks, CISCE Regulations for ICSE Examination Year 2028