English for Year 12 Free Downloadable Text Articles

Novels

• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• Hard Times, Charles Dickens
• Home, Larissa Behrendt
• Life of Pi, Yann Martell
• Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• Of Love and Shadows, Isabel Allende
• Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks

Short stories

• Great Short Works, Edgar Allan Poe (ed. G R Thompson)
• Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

Plays

• A Man for all Seasons, Robert Bolt
• Cosi, Louis Nowra
• Richard III, William Shakespeare

Poetry/Songs

• A Human Pattern – Selected Poems, Judith Wright
• Selected Poems, Kenneth Slessor

Film texts

• Look Both Ways (Director: Sarah Watt), 2005
• 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
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

The imaginative landscape

• Island, Alistair MacLeod
• Jindabyne (Director: Ray Lawrence)
• The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost (ed. Edward Lathem)
• Tirra Lirra by the River, Jessica Anderson

Whose reality?

• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
• Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
• The Player (Director: Robert Altman), 1992
• The Shark Net, Robert Drewe

Encountering conflict

• Omagh (Director: Pete Travis)
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, R Hillman and N Mazari
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller

Exploring issues of identity and belonging

• Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung
• Sometimes Gladness, Bruce Dawe
• The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger
• Witness (Director: Peter Weir)