Grade 10-12
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Texts That Inspire Insight

Moral dilemmas, complex characters, big questions — sharpen your mind through the world greatest works

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Tragedy occurs when no one takes responsibilty

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

Control the language and you control the possible truths

FRANKENSTEIN

Creating life without responsibility breeds monsters in every heart

ARTHURIAN ROMANCES

loyalty is test when desire and dute collide

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Comfort without meaning sterilises souls and dissolves human dignity

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

True honour admits fear and confesses failure before grace

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Listening to conscience can defy law and redeem friendship

OF MICE AND MEN

Tender friendship falters as dreams collapse under harsh realities

THE BELL JAR

Sometimes the greatest pain is psychological numbness

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Beauty without conscience corrupts the soul beyond recognition

THE STRANGER

Absurdity unmasks society and radical honesty invites condemnation

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

The conscience demands suffering and grace

THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS

Ego dissolves as seekers become the king they seek

STONER

Quiet persistence dignifies an ordinary life against indifferent systems

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Chance masquerades as fate while evil outruns weary wisdom

ROBINSON CRUSOE

Isolation breeds ingenuity and providence reframes wealth and responsibility

THE AENEID

Civilisations are built on those who take the most responsibility

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Comradeship sustains dignity while machinery grinds youth into silence

JOURNEY TO THE WEST

Discipline and true friendship tempers abuses of power

BRAVE NEW
WORLD

Engineered happiness trades freedom for comfort, consumption, and compliance

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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Protecting innocence reveals loneliness no performance can cure

CONFESSIONS

Restless hearts find home when pride surrenders to grace

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

Empathy, not circuitry, separates humans from convincing machines

HEART OF DARKNESS

Civilised veneers crumble as greed devours the human soul

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Conscience outruns law as friendship steers a moral journey

JANE EYRE

Integrity and self-respect teach love its rightful terms

THE KITE RUNNER

Atonement begins when courage finally tells the whole truth

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

First impressions deceive; humility clears vision for enduring love

PURPLE HIBISCUS

Finding voice dismantles fear and redefines faith and family

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

War’s emptiness is seen in the psychological devastation it leaves behind

THE ILIAD

Honour and rage shatter lives while glory proves fleeting

THE ROAD

Love becomes law in a world stripped to ash

THE ODYSSEY

Cunning and fidelity steer homeward through temptation and wrath

THE HANDMAID’S TALE

Control of language sustains tyranny as stories reopen possibility

THE GREAT GATSBY

Desire masquerades as love while wealth corrodes meaning

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Voice won through love and loss becomes true freedom

THINGS FALL APART

Tradition and pride fracture when worlds collide and change

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Unhealed love becomes a haunting inheritance across generations

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Tender love endures war’s futility and the indifferent universe

OLIVER TWIST

Kindness survives cruelty as innocence exposes social hypocrisy

LORD OF THE FLIES

When civilisation collapses, innocence surrenders to savagery

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

Fragmented memories reveal a proud family’s slow collapse

BEOWULF

Heroic strength wins battles while mortal fate shadows every triumph

BELOVED

A haunted home tests whether love can outlast inherited terror

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Seeing through others’ eyes unmasks prejudice

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Short Stories & Novellas

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Ignoring decay breeds dread, honesty offers release

SELECTED STORIES (HENRY LAWSON)

Hard places demand mateship, yet solitude still shapes character

METAMORPHOSES

Desire transforms us, humility steadies fate’s unpredictable changes

THE PROPHET

Love frees, work reveals love, and sorrow deepens joy

DUBLINERS

Self-awareness begins when everyday paralysis is finally named

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Stories carry grief so survivors can keep living

THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES

Tradition legitimises evil and strengthens its own power

THE COMPLETE STORIES (KAFKA)

Bureaucratic absurdity erodes identity unless compassion intervenes

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

Grace often arrives violently when pride refuses change

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH

Death clarifies life and shows kindness outweighs status

MASTER AND MAN AND OTHER STORIES

Self-sacrifice redeems a heart lost to possession and pride

A GENTLE CREATURE AND OTHER STORIES

Possession disguised as love pushes the meek to self-destruction

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE

The misfits and absurd expose bureaucracy, war, and technocracy

THE GARDEN
PARTY

Delicate epiphanies expose class distance

THE
PEARL

Greed can grow until it devours family

Scripts

A DOLL’S HOUSE

Self-respect demands truth even if marriage shatters

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

Conscience needs courage when law is twisted by power

ANTIGONE

Duty to the dead outranks tyrannical commands of kings

THE CRUCIBLE

Mass panic turns suspicion into murder unless truth stands

FENCES

Bitterness builds fences that love must learn to cross

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THE WINTER’S TALE

Jealousy wrecks lives as grace and time resurrect love

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Illusion comforts briefly, desire and brutality expose unbearable truth

TWELVE ANGRY MEN

Justice begins with listening and looking past prejudices

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Wit unmasks hypocrisy and class folly

MEDEA

Betrayal turns love into vengeance with unthinkable costs

HAMLET

Thought without action poisons grief, truth, and destiny

MACBETH

Unchecked ambition invites prophecy’s trap and self-made doom

A RAISIN IN THE SUN

Dreams demand dignity and home becomes the measure of hope

OTHELLO

Trust warped by jealousy destroys love, honour, and self

THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS

Pride defies prophecy, yet duty to gods outlasts kings

WAITING FOR GODOT

Kindness during uncertainty gives meaning to endless waiting

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Chasing illusions damages families while truth invites reconciliation

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Question the script or drift helplessly through chance

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

Denying shared responsibility multiplies harm

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Unchecked desire destroys trust and fractures fragile identities

Poetry

SHAKESPEARE’S THE SONNETS

Love seeks immortality as time erodes beauty

A HUMAN PATTERN OF JUDITH WRIGHT:

Landscapes shape conscience as love binds people to country

NEW SELECTED POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY

Memory turns spade and pen into tools for healing

SELECTED POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN

Pity names the truth of war’s mangled youth

THE WORLD’S WIFE OF CAROL ANN DUFFY

Female voices retell myths, correcting power with wit

THE WASTE LAND
T. S. ELIOT 

Modern spiritual drought and dislocation

THE COMPLETE POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Beauty touches death and sings in haunting precision

THE SELECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind”

HOWL, KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS BY ALLEN GINSBERG

Prophetic rage seeks freedom through candour, compassion, and rhythm

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

Innocence and experience collide revealing visionary moral perception

THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A chorus of centuries shows language shaping human truth

JOHN MILTON: SELECTED POEMS

Majestic music weds liberty, faith, and fierce moral vision

SYLVIA PLATH: COLLECTED POEMS

Brilliant intensity turns pain into crystalline, unsettling clarity

THE ODES OF PINDAR

Praise becomes philosophy, excellence requires discipline, honour, divine favour

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Imagination baptises nature, faith and doubt sing together

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Philosophy & Theology

AQUINAS: SELECTED WRITINGS

Reason and revelation harmonise, ordering love toward ultimate good

NIETZSCHE: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

Question inherited morals and forge values through fearless self-examination

BOETHIUS: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

Fortune turns, wisdom teaches freedom from external change

RENE DESCARTES: MEDITATIONS AND OTHER METAPHYSICAL WRITINGS

Methodic doubt clears illusions, discovering the thinking self’s certainty

ARISTOTLE: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

Virtue forms through habit, aiming at flourishing, the measured mean

THE ABOLITION OF MAN

Education without objective values reduces humans to conditioned subjects

PASCAL: PENSÉES

Distraction masks our misery and only God satisfies

THE PRINCE

Ruling demands effectiveness over virtue 

MEDITATIONS

Rationality and daily discipline free the troubled mind

THE REPUBLIC

Justice orders the soul and city through philosophical rule

Essays, Criticism & Theory

HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR
THOMAS C. FOSTER

Patterns and archetypes reveal hidden meanings beneath familiar plots

HOW TO READ POETRY LIKE A PROFESSOR
THOMAS C. FOSTER

Sound, form, and image work together to unlock sense

BEGINNING THEORY
PETER BARRY

Critical lenses reshape texts and expose culture’s unspoken power

LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
TERRY EAGLETON

Ideas about literature matter because they change how we read

C. S. LEWIS: ESSAY COLLECTION

Clear reason defends imagination and faith against fashionable emptiness

THE ESSAYS: A SELECTION
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Curiosity about oneself illuminates humanity with sceptical generosity

HOW TO READ A BOOK
MORTIMER J. ADLER & CHARLES VAN DOREN

Active questions turn reading into dialogue with demanding minds

THE ART OF POETRY
SHIRA WOLOSKY

Close attention to craft reveals emotion charged with thought

HOW TO READ LITERATURE
TERRY EAGLETON

Enjoyment and critique coexist when reading is historically attentive

HOW TO READ AND WHY:
HAROLD BLOOM

Interpretation nourishes life because stories teach attentive freedom

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