wkumsalam:
As far as my experience is consernd i wud say tht yes ofcourse books vill help a lot but they r very time cosuming on the otherhand nowadays we have got the facility of internet and its quite esay to get the knowledge about whatever, we want so you too take its benefit and secondly i wud suggest you to make your notes by ur own b/c teachers while cheking get tired of the same material in answer copies and when somebody comes with some different ideas than tht really inspires them and compels them to give attractive marks so summation i wud simply say that for being a successfull literary student u need to be very creative because literature is not science which is based on particular facts rather its all what you think every individual can evalute any literary work differently..


workhard love your subject tht will take u to the top

ALL the best!

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