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Revised VCE English/EAL Text List 2015
VCE Literature Text list 2015
 Short Stories
Things We Didn't See ComingAuthor: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Title: The Thing Around Your Neck [Library Edition]
Includes the stories: Cell One -- A Private Experience -- Ghosts -- On Monday of Last Week -- Jumping Monkey Hill -- The Thing Around Your Neck -- The American Embassy -- The Shivering -- The Arrangers of Marriage -- Tomorrow Is Too Far -- The Headstrong Historian
Media: 7CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $99.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Adjoa Andoh
Rating: StarStarStarStarstar
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Things We Didn't See ComingAuthor: Amsterdam, Steve
Title: Things We Didn't See Coming
Includes the stories: What we know now; The theft that got me here; Dry land; Cake walk; Uses for vinegar; The forest for the trees; Predisposed; The profit motive; Best medicine
Media: 5CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $89.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Noel Hodda
Rating: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
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Moral DisorderAuthor: Atwood, Margaret
Title: Moral Disorder and other stories
Media: 6CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $79.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Susan Denaker
Rating: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
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Selected Short StoriesAuthor: Carver, Raymond
Title: Selected Short Stories
Includes the stories: Fat; Chef's House; The Student's Wife; Where I'm Calling From
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Richard Ford, Anne Enright, David Means, Charles Baxter
Rating: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
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In the RavineAuthor: Chekhov, Anton
Title: In the Ravine and other short stories
Includes the stories: In the Ravine; Oh! The Public; The Chorus Girl; The Trousseau; A Story Without A Title; Children; Misery; Fat and Thin; The Beggar; Hush!; The Orator; An Actor's End
Media: 3CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Kenneth Branagh
Rating: Superbly read StarStarStarStarStar
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Eleven StoriesAuthor: Chekhov, Anton
Title: Eleven Stories
Includes the stories: The black monk; The kiss; A misfortune; An artist's story (The House with the Mezzanine); Not wanted; Expensive lessons; The head of the family; Mire; Anyuta; The helpmate; The trousseau
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $69.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ralph Cosham
Rating: StarStarStarStarnostar
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The Black MonkAuthor: Chekhov, Anton
Title: The Black Monk and Other Stories
Includes the : The Black Monk; The House with the Mezzanine; The Peasants; Gooseberries
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $79.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by George Guidall
Rating: StarStarStarStarnostar
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About Truth, Freedom and LoveAuthor: Chekhov, Anton
Title: About Truth, Freedom and Love
Includes the stories: The Black Monk; The House with the Mezzanine; The Peasants; Gooseberries
Media: 3CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Max Bollinger
Rating: StarStarStarStarnostar
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Great Classic Love StoriesAuthor: Chekhov, Anton; de Maupassant, Guy; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Melville, Herman; Cather, Willa; Joyce, James
Title: Great Classic Love Stories
Includes the stories: Anton Chekhov: The Lady with the Dog | Guy de Maupassant: Claire de lune | and others
Media: 5CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Peter Marinker, Cameron Stewart, and others
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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The RipAuthor: Drewe, Robert
Title: The Rip
Includes the stories: The lap pool; The orbituary of Gina Lavelle; Sea level; The water person and the tree person; The whale watchers; Stones like hearts; The aquarium at night; Masculine shoes; The cartoonist; Prometheus and Greg; How to kill a cane toad; The rip; The life alignment of the coffee grower
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Shane Nagle
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesAuthor: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Title: The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories
Includes the stories: The yellow wallpaper; The giant wistaria; According to Solomon; The boys and the butter; Her housekeeper; Martha's mother; A middle-sized artist; An offender; When I was a witch; The cottagette; Making a living; Mr. Robert Grey, Sr.
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $69.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Kirsten Potter
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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GravelAuthor: Goldsworthy, Peter
Title: Gravel
Includes the stories: The Nun's Story; Shooting the Dog; The Bet; Mirror, Mirror; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Fourth Tenor; Get a Life; The Formal
Media: 6CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $89.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Humphrey Bower
Rating: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
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Valley of GraceAuthor: Halligan, Marion
Title: Valley of Grace
Includes the stories: The Masonry Dancer; Valley of Grace; Possessed by the God; The Critical Period; Can You Plant a Cabbage Right?; Composing the Day; The Boilermaker's Garden
Media: 7CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $99.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Deidre Rubenstein
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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Dark RootsAuthor: Kennedy, Cate
Title: Dark Roots
Includes the stories: What thou and I did, till we loved; A pitch too high for the human ear; Habit; Flotsam; Cold snap; Resize; The testosterone club; Dark roots; Angel; Seizure; The light of coincidence; Soundtrack; Direct action; The correct names of things; Wheelbarrow thief; Sea burial; Kill or cure
Media: 5CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $84.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Cate Milte, Humphrey Bower
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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Interpreter of MaladiesAuthor: Lahiri, Jhumpa
Title: Interpreter of Maladies
Includes the stories: Interpreter of Maladies; A Temporary Matter; When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine; A Real Durwan; Sexy; Mrs Sen's; This Blessed House; The Treatment of Bibi Haldar; The Third and Final Continent
Media: 6CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Matilda Novak
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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The BoatAuthor: Le, Nam
Title: The Boat [Library Edition]
Includes the stories: Halflead Bay; Meeting Elise; Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice; Cartagena; Hiroshima; Tehran Calling; The Boat
Media: 9CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $89.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Cate Milte, James Wright
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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The New Dark AgeAuthor: London, Joan
Title: The New Dark Age [Library Edition]
Includes the stories: T Sister Ships; New Year; The Girls Love Each Other; Enough Rope; Travelling; Lilies; Burning Off; Letter to Constantine; Angels; The Woman Who Only Answered Yes or No; The Inlet; The Second Stage; The Angry Girl; Maisie Goes to India; The Photographer; The New Dark Age
Media: 11CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $99.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Deidre Rubenstein, James Wright
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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Classic Women's Short StoriesAuthor: Mansfield, Katherine; Chopin, Kate; Woolf, Virginia
Title: Classic Women's Short Stories
Includes the stories: Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party; Daughters of the Late Colonel; Kate Chopin: Lilacs; Ma'ame Pelagie; Virginia Woolf: A Mark on the Wall
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $31.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, Teresa Gallagher
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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Bliss and other storiesAuthor: Mansfield, Katherine
Title: Bliss and other stories
Includes the stories: Bliss; Mr Reginald Peacock's Day; Pictures; The Little Governess; Feuille D'Album; A Dill Pickle
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $31.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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Bliss and other storiesAuthor: Mansfield, Katherine
Title: Bliss and other stories
Includes the stories: Prelude; Je ne parle pas français; Bliss; The Wind Blows; Psychology; Pictures; The Man without a Temperament; Mr Reginald Peacock's Day; Sun and Moon; Feuille d'album; A Dill Pickle; The Little Governess; Revelations; The Escape
Media: 6CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $99.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Miriam Margolyes
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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The Garden PartyAuthor: Mansfield, Katherine
Title: The Garden Party and other stories
Includes the stories: The Garden Party; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Her First Ball; The Singing Lesson; The Strangers
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $59.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Peggy Ashcroft
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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After the QuakeAuthor: Murakami, Haruki
Title: After the Quake
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $45.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Rupert Degas
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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The Portable Dorothy ParkerAuthor: Parker, Dorothy
Title: Selected readings from The portable Dorothy Parker
Includes the stories: The lovely leave; Arrangement in black and white; The sexes; The standard of living; Mr. Durant; The waltz; The wonderful old gentleman; Song of the shirt, 1941; Enough rope (Poems); A telephone call; Here we are; Dusk before fireworks; You were perfectly fine; Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street; Soldiers of the republic; Too bad; The last tea; Big blonde; Sunset gun (Poems); Just a little one; Lady with a lamp; The little hours; Horsie; Glory in the daytime; New York to Detroit; Death and taxes (Poems); The custard heart; From the diary of a New York lady; Cousin Larry; Little Curtis; Sentiment; Clothe the naked; War song (Poem)
Media: 11CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $79.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Lorna Raver
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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Close Range: Wyoming StoriesAuthor: Proulx, Annie
Title: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Includes the stories: The half-skinned steer; The mud below; Job history; The blood bay; People in hell just want a drink of water; The bunchgrass edge of the world; Pair of spurs; A lonely coast; The governors of Wyoming; 55 miles to the gas pump; Brokeback Mountain
Media: 5CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Bruce Greenwood, Scott Campbell, Frances Fisher
Rating: StarStarStarStarhalftar
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Evelyn Waugh: The Complete StoriesAuthor: Waugh, Evelyn
Title: The Complete Stories
Includes the stories: The Balance; A House of Gentlefolks; The Manager of the Kremlin; Love in a Slump; Too Much Tolerance; Excursion in Reality; Incident in Azania; Bella Fleace Gave a Party; Cruise; The Man Who Liked Dickens; Out of Depth; By Special Request; Period Piece; On Guard; Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Winner Takes All; An Englishman's House; The Sympathetic Passenger; My Father's House; Lucy Simmonds; Charles Ryder's Schooldays; Scott King's Modern Europe; Tactical Exercise; Compassion; Love Among the Ruins; Basil Seal Rides Again. JUVENILA: The Curse of the Horse Race; Fidon's Confetion; Multa Pecunia; Fragment of a Novel; Essay; The House: An Anti-Climax. OXFORD STORIES: Portrait of a Young Man with a Career; Antony Who Sought Things That Were Lost; Edward of Unique Achievement; Fragments: They Dine with the Past; Conspiracy to Murder; Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story; The National Game
Media: 16CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $89.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Simon Prebble
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
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The TurningAuthor: Winton, Tim
Title: The Turning
Includes the stories: The Big World; Abbreviation; Aquifer; Damaged Goods; Small Mercies; On Her Knees; Cockleshell; The Turning; Sand; Family; Long, Clear View; Reunion; Commission; Fog; Boner McPharlin's Moll; Immunity; Defender
Media: 10CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $34.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Shane Nagle
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
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