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VCE English/EAL Text List 2015
LIST 1

    NOVELS

Adiga, Aravind.     The White Tiger   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Atwood, Margaret.     Cat's Eye   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Brontë, Emily.     Wuthering Heights   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Kent, Hannah.     Burial Rites   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Matar, Hisham.     In the Country of Men   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Tóbín, Colm.     Brooklyn   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Winton, Tim.     Cloudstreet   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Witting, Amy.     I for Isabel   Not available as an audiobook

    SHORT STORIES

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi.     The Thing Around Your Neck   Audiobook available (selected stories). »» See available editions/place an order

Carver, Raymond.     Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?   Audiobook available (selected stories). »» See available editions/place an order

    PLAYS

Davis, Jack.     No Sugar   Not available as an audiobook

Euripides.     Medea   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Shakespeare, William.     Henry IV, Part 1   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    POETRY/SONGS

Harwood, Gwen.     Selected Poems   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Owen, Wilfred.     The War Poems   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    FILM

Mankiewicz, Joseph (dir).     All About Eve   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Perkins, Rachel (dir).     Mabo   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

    OTHER

Spiegelman, Art.     The Complete Maus   Not available as an audiobook

    NON-FICTION TEXTS

Funder, Anna.     Stasiland   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Wolff, Tobias.     This Boy's Life   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

LIST 2

THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE

Kinsella, John.     Peripheral Light - Selected poems   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Munro, Alice.     The View from Castle Rock   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Lean, David (dir.) A Passage to India    DVD is available. See available editions/place an order

Thornell, Kristel.     Night Street   Not available as an audiobook

    WHOSE REALITY?

Coetzee, J. M.     Foe     Not available as an audiobook

Frayn, Michael.     Spies   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Leunig, Michael.     The Lot: In Words     Not available as an audiobook

Levinson, Barry (dir).     Wag the Dog.    DVD is available. See available editions/place an order

Miller, Arthur.     Death of a Salesman   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT

Brecht, Bertolt.     Life of Galileo   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Asghar Farhadi (dir.)     A Separation   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order.

Greene, Graham.     The Quiet American   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Grenville, Kate.     The Lieutenant   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Stack, Megan.     Every Man In This Village Is A Liar   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    EXPLORING ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND BELONGING

Fabian, Anthony (dir.)     Skin   DVD is available. »» See available editions/place an order

Lawler, Ray.     Summer of the Seventeenth Doll   Not available as an audiobook

Miller, Patti.     The Mind Of A Thief   Not available as an audiobook

Mudrooroo.     Wild Cat Falling   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

VCE English Literature Text List 2015
LIST A

NOVELS

Crane, Stephen.     The Red Badge Of Courage   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Desai, Kiran.     The Inheritance of Loss   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Dick, Philip K.     Blade Runner (orig. title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Dunmore, Helen.     The Betrayal   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Flanagan, Richard.     Wanting   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

James, Henry.     The Turn Of The Screw   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Malouf, David.     Harland's Half Acre   Not available as an audiobook

Park, Ruth.     Swords and Crowns and Rings   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Parrett, Favel.     Past the Shallows   Not available as an audiobook

Temple, Peter.     The Broken Shore   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    PLAYS, FILM OR TELEVISION MINI-SERIES

Beckett, Samuel.     Happy Days   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Campion, Jane (dir).     The Piano    DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Cornelius, Patricia.     Do Not Go Gentle   Not available as an audiobook

Elliot, Adam (dir).     Mary and Max   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Orton, Joe.     Loot   Not available as an audiobook.   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Rame, Franca; Fo, Dario.     A Woman Alone & Other Plays   Not available as an audiobook

Schepisi, Fred (dir.)     The Eye of the Storm [based on the novel by Patrick White]   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Schaffer, Peter.     Amadeus   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Smith, Sue.     Bastard Boys [TV series script]   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

    SHORT STORIES

Drew, Robert.     The Rip   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.     The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Narayan, R. K.     Malgudi Days   Not available as an audiobook

Parker, Dorothy.     Complete Stories   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

The Best Australian Short Stories: A Ten-Year Collection   Individual titles available in audiobooks as follows:
   • Amsterdam, Steve    Dry Land »» See available editions/place an order
   • Drewe, Robert    The Lap Pool »» See available editions/place an order
   • Goldsworthy, Peter    Shooting the Dog »» See available editions/place an order
   • Halligan, Marion    Possessed by the God »» See available editions/place an order
   • Le, Nam    Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice »» See available editions/place an order
   • London, Joan    The New Dark Age »» See available editions/place an order
   • Winton, Tim    Aquifer »» See available editions/place an order

Waugh, Evelyn.     The Complete Short Stories   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    OTHER LITERATURE

Bryson, Bill.     The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

de Botton, Alain.     Status Anxiety   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Gaskell, Elizabeth.     The Biography of Charlotte Brontë   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Hyland, Adrian.     Kinglake-350   Not available as an audiobook

Voltaire.     Candide, or Optimism   Audiobook available. (Please note that there is no audiobook of the Theo Cuffe translation, but the available audio editions are all excellent translations and close enough to the Theo Cuffe translation to be helpful. »» See available editions/place an order

Walker, Brenda.     Reading by Moonlight   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    POETRY

Duffy, Carol Ann.     New Selected Poems   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Gray, Robert.     Cumulus - Selected Poems   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Laskey, Michael.     The Man Alone - New and Selected Poems   Not available as an audiobook

Leonard, John (ed.).     Young Poets: An Australian Anthology   Not available as an audiobook

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo.     Poems   Not available as an audiobook

Porter, Dorothy.     The Bee Hut   Not available as an audiobook

Whitman, Walt.     The Complete Poems (no specific editions or poems are nominated for poets in List A as the choice of poems is a teacher decision.)   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

LIST B

NOVELS

Austen, Jane.     Persuasion   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Brontë, Charlotte.     Jane Eyre   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Fowles, John.     The French Lieutenant's Woman   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Franklin, Miles.     My Brilliant Career   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Marquez, Gabriel García.     Love in the Time of Cholera   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

McCarthy, Cormac.     All the Pretty Horses   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Ondaatje, Michael.     The Cat's Table   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Scott, Kim.     That Deadman Dance   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Woolf, Virginia.     Mrs Dalloway   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    PLAYS

Aeschylus.     The Oresteia (trilogy includes Agamemnon -- The Libation Bearers -- The Eumenides). Please note: there is no audiobook edition of the Robert Fagles translation, but the Ian Johnston translation is a very literal translation and extremely useful for students.   Audiobook (Ian Johnston, translator) available. »»

Albee, Edward.     Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Ibsen, Henrik.     A Doll's House   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Ionesco, Eugène.     Rhinoceros   DVD available. »» See available editions/place an order

Shakespeare, William.     Antony and Cleopatra   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Shakespeare, William.     Coriolanus   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Shaw, George Bernard.     Pygmalion   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Stoppard, Tom.     Arcadia   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    SHORT STORIES

Carey, Peter.     Collected Stories [Do you love me? ; Life & Death in the South Side Pavilion ; Room No. 5 (Escribo) ; Peeling ; A Windmill in the West ; Concerning the Greek Tyrant ; Conversations with Unicorns ; American Dreams ; The Fat Man in History ; A Schoolboy Prank ; The Chance ; He Found Her in Late Summer]   Not available as an audiobook

Kennedy, Cate.     Dark Roots [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]   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Proulx, Annie.     Wyoming Stories [Stories for study: The Half-Skinned Steer ; The Mud Below ; Job History ; The Blood Bay ; People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water ; Pair of Spurs ; A Lonely Coast ; The Governors of Wyoming ; 55 Miles to the Gas Pump ; Brokeback Mountain]  Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

    OTHER LITERATURE

Barnes, Julian.     A History of the World in 10½ Chapters   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Capote, Truman.     In Cold Blood   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Orwell, George.     Down and Out in Paris and London   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Stanner, W. E. H.     The Dreaming and Other Essays   Not available as an audiobook

    POETRY

Dobson, Rosemary     Collected   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an orderw

Eliot, T. S.     Collected Poems 1909-1962   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an orderw

Heaney, Seamus (trans.).     Opened Ground   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Porter, Peter.     Max is Missing   Not available as an audiobook

Rich, Adrienne.     The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Rossetti, Christina.     Selected Poems. [Poems for study: Song ['When I am dead, my dearest'); Remember; The World; Three Stages; Echo; My Dream; 'The heart knoweth its own bitterness'; A Birthday; Winter: My Secret; Maude Clare; Up-Hill; L.E.L.; Goblin Market; Memory; Amor Mundi]   Audiobook available. »» See available editions/place an order

Szymborska, Wislawa.     Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska   Not available as an audiobook

 

 

 

 

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