Stern believes that, literature offers potential benefits of a high order for English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). Linguistically, literature can help students master the vocabulary and grammar of the language as well as activate the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. (cited in Celce-Murcia 1991).Widdowson (1975) says that literature should be viewed as discourse. The student's aim should be to learn how the language system, the structures and also the vocabulary and concepts of English are normally used in communication (p.80). The world created in the work of literature is the foreign world, and literature is a way of assimilating the knowledge of this foreign world, and of the view of reality which its native speakers take for granted when communicating with each other (Rivers, 1981).Literature is a vehicle for learning the differences between language varieties. It not only introduces to the reader the different styles and registers found in different varieties of English which authors adopt according to text and purpose but also the correct form of language in discourse and it illustrates a particular register embedded within a social context and thereby, provides a basis for determining why a particular form is used. Scholars believe that the language used in literature is authentic, real language in context, to which we respond directly and which if selected appropriately can be an important motivation for study and also can lead on naturally to an examination of the language. Literature also fosters an increase in reading proficiency, and in this way contributes to academic and occupational activities. Students' authentic responses to the literary tradition will both assist the development of appropriate syllabuses, through carefully graded sequence of texts.