VCE Literature 2011

Lysistrata and Other Plays
Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this title shows the political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent,...
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The Boat
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each story is...
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Border Ballads
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Running in the Family
The much-loved, critically-acclaimed memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher...
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in 1970, this has since become one of Fo's best known and translated text. Based on a true story it throws in to relief the judicial and police...
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Blake’s Poetry and Designs
The Second Edition of this revered Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive introduction to Blake's poetry and thought available.
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My Brother Jack
Through the story of the two brothers, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths: that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest Aussie battler, whose...
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The Aunt’s Story
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed of the trammels of convention she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved in the residents of a small French...
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Wolf Notes
Beveridge's poetry is remarkable for its attentiveness to the humble rituals of life. It discovers richness and grace in the smallest, the poorest, the most awkward of the most transient of beings.
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Selected Poems: Tennyson
Contains poems which epitomize the Victorian age.
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Agamemnon’s Kiss: Selected Essays
Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She...
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield's clear and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre. This collection represents the whole range of her writing from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes...
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Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl',...
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The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, The Ladybird
Two young women living during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. There exists a complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier. A wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing...
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Silas Marner
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an...
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Two Brothers
From the award-winning author of Inheritance, Two Brothers is a riveting contemporary play that explores the minds of the men that lead us - and the secrets they hide.
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Istanbul
A portrait of Istanbul that guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways. It also introduces us to the city's writers,...
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A Passage to India
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave...
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Sixty Lights
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is...
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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals...
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The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
A collection of stories such as Peasants , The House with the Mezzanine and My Life , in which, the author paints a picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship.
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Copenhagen
The Student Edition of Frayn's multi-award winning play includes a full commentary and notes.
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Beowulf
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by...
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Atonement
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame...
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Max is Missing
Max is Missing is Peter Porter's first book of the new millennium, and an openly declared 'late work'.
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No Sugar
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
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Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations
With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett.
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Part of the series Euripides in Penguin Classics , this title contains plays such as Phoenician Women , Bacchae , Iphigenia at Aulis , Orestes , and...
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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many...
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After the Quake
For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? 'When he gets angry, he causes...
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
A book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and the love of words. It tells of the relationship between the dictionary editor and one of its main contributors (they were all volunteers) who corresponded for 17 years...
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Frankenstein
Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its...
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Slaughterhouse 5: The Children’s Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
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The Dressmaker
After twenty years away, Tilly Dunnage returns to Dungatar.
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This Boy’s Life
A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy...
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Cloudstreet
A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's award-winning novel. Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth.
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Emma
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour...
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Bleak House
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs;...
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Gwen Harwood Collected Poems
Based on thorough research by editors who knew and corresponded with the late poet, this extraordinary collection contains poems from all of Harwood's published books, a large section of unpublished work, and illuminating...
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours...
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A Moveable Feast
Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Sean Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished,...
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Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these tales she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow...
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12 Edmondstone Street
David Malouf begins by describing, in loving evocative detail, the house in Brisbane where he was born and grew up, moving from room to room, always relating the smallest items in it to the life he remembers and his widening...
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