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

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

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

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