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Introduction
Acknowledgements
About the Book
Preface
1. Chapter 1
2. Introduction
3. Biography
4. Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. The Cry of the Children
6. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
7. Biography
8. Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Browning
9. My Last Duchess
10. The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
11. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
12. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
13. Biography
14. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
15. Crossing the Bar
Alfred
16. The Lady of Shalott
17. From the Princess
18. The Lotos-Eaters
19. Ulysses
20. Break, Break, Break
21. from In Memoriam A. H. H.
22. The Charge of the Light Brigade
23. Biography
24. A Christmas Carol: Stave 3
Charles Dickens
25. A Christmas Carol: Stave 4
26. A Christmas Carol: Stave 5
27. A Christmas Carol: Stave 1
28. A Christmas Carol: Stave 2
29. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
30. Biography
31. Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
32. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
33. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
34. Biography
35. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 20
Henry James
36. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 19
37. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 10
38. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 11
39. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 12
40. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 13
41. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 14
42. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 15
43. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 16
44. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 17
45. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 18
46. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 21
47. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 7
48. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 22
49. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 23
50. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 24
51. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 8
52. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 9
53. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 6
54. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 5
55. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 4
56. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 3
57. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 2
58. Turn of the Screw: Chapter 1
59. Turn of the Screw: Introduction
60. The Importance of Being Earnest: Act I
Oscar Wilde
61. The Importance of Being Earnest: Act II
62. The Importance of Being Earnest: Act III
63. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
64. Biography
65. Biography
66. The White Man’s Burden
Rudyard Kipling
67. Fuzzy-Wuzzy
68. Recessional
69. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
70. Biography
71. The Going
Thomas Hardy
72. Drummer Hodge
73. The Subalterns
74. The Ruined Maid
75. The Impercipient
76. Mad Judy
77. The Haunter
78. The Convergence of the Twain
79. Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
80. Let Me Enjoy
81. Channel Firing
82. The Man He Killed
83. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
84. Hap
85. Biography
86. Major Barbara: Act I
George Bernard Shaw
87. Major Barbara: Act II
88. Major Barbara: Act III
89. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
90. Biography
91. Heart of Darkness: Chapter 1
Joseph Conrad
92. Heart of Darkness: Chapter 3
93. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
94. Heart of Darkness: Chapter 2
95. Biography
96. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
97. No Second Troy
98. Easter, 1916
99. The Wild Swans at Coole
100. The Second Coming
101. A Prayer for My Daughter
102. Leda and the Swan
103. Sailing to Byzantium
104. Among School Children
105. Byzantium
106. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
107. Study Questions and Activities
108. The Circus Animals’ Desertion
109. Biography
110. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
111. Loveliest of Trees
A.E. Housman
112. Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
113. To an Athlete Dying Young
114. [More Poems]
115. [Additional Poems]
116. Is My Team Ploughing?
117. Biography
118. The Open Window
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
119. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
120. The Schartz-Metterklume Method
121. Introduction
122. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
123. Biography
124. Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
125. The Sentry
126. Smile, Smile, Smile
127. Mental Cases
128. S.I.W.
129. Futility
130. Dulce et Decorum Est
131. Disabled
132. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
133. Counter-Attack
134. The Death Bed
135. Base Details and Glory of Women
136. Biography
137. Does it Matter?
138. Break of Day in the Trenches
139. Returning, We Hear the Larks
Isaac Rosenberg
140. Dead Man’s Dump
141. Study Questions and Activities
142. Biography
143. Study Questions and Activities
144. Oxford JISC Tutorial: Rupert Brooke
145. Biography
146. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
147. Juno and the Paycock: ACT II
Sean O'Casey
148. Juno and the Paycock: ACT III
149. Juno and the Paycock
150. Juno and the Paycock: ACT I
151. Biography
152. Explanatory Notes to Juno and the Paycock
153. Professions for Women
Virginia Woolf
154. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
155. Biography
156. To the Lighthouse
157. To the Lighthouse: Introduction
158. Biography
159. Dubliners: Araby
James Joyce
160. Dubliners: Eveline
161. Dubliners: After the Race
162. Dubliners: Counterparts
163. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
164. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
D.H. Lawrence
165. The Rocking Horse Winner
166. Biography
167. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
168. Biography
169. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
170. The Waste Land
171. The Hollow Men
172. The Journey of the Magi
173. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
174. The Fly
Katherine Mansfield
175. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
176. A Cup of Tea
177. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: X
178. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: XII
179. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: XI
180. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IX
181. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VIII
182. Miss Brill
183. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: I
184. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: II
185. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: III
186. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IV
187. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: V
188. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VI
189. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VII
190. Biography
191. Brave New World: Chapter 10
Aldous Huxley
192. Brave New World: Chapter 1
193. Brave New World: Chapter 2
194. Brave New World: Chapter 3
195. Brave New World: Chapter 4
196. Brave New World: Chapter 5
197. Brave New World: Chapter 6
198. Brave New World: Chapter 7
199. Brave New World: Chapter 8
200. Brave New World: Chapter 9
201. Brave New World: Chapter 11
202. Brave New World: Chapter 13
203. Brave New World: Chapter 12
204. Brave New World: Chapter 14
205. Biography
206. Brave New World: Chapter 15
207. Brave New World: Chapter 16
208. Brave New World: Chapter 17
209. Brave New World: Chapter 18
210. Study Questions and Activities
211. Biography
212. Pleasure Spots
George Orwell
213. Can Socialists be Happy?
214. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
Appendix
Appendix 1: A Mini-Casebook on The Turn of the Screw
Appendix 2: A Mini-Casebook on Brave New World
Appendix 3: A Mini-Casebook on Heart of Darkness
Appendix 4: Glossary of Literary Terms
Appendix 5: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story, or Play
Appendix 6: Documenting Essays in MLA Style
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