English for Year 12 Free Downloadable Text Articles
Novels
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Ransom, David Malouf
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
- Things We Didn't See Coming, Steven Amsterdam
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Short stories
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
Plays
- Cosi, Louis Nowra
- Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare
- Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose
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Poetry/Songs
- A Human Pattern – Selected Poems, Judith Wright
- The War Poems – Wilfred Owen
Film texts
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Director: Rolf de Heer), 2001
- On the Waterfront (Director: Elia Kazan), 1954
Non-fiction texts
- Bypass: the story of a road, Michael McGirr
- Dear America – Letters Home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman
- Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama
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The imaginative landscape
- Island, Alistair MacLeod
- One Night the Moon (Director: Rachel Perkins)
- Peripheral Light, Selected and New Poems, by John Kinsella
- Tirra Lirra by the River, Jessica Anderson
Whose reality?
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
- Spies, Michael Frayn
- The Lot, by Michael Leunig
- The Player (Director: Robert Altman), 1992
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Encountering conflict
- Paradise Road (Director: Bruce Beresford)
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
- The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, R Hillman and N Mazari
Exploring issues of identity and belonging
- Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung
- Sometimes Gladness, Bruce Dawe
- Skin, dir. Anthony Fabian
- The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
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