CONTENTS
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed (2016)
Baba Schwartz, The May Beetles (2016) & Jacob G. Rosenberg, East of Time (2005)
Tim Winton, Eyrie (2013) & Cloudstreet (1991)
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011)
Genelle Guzman-McMillan, Angel in the Rubble (2011)
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Annie Proulx, Close Range (1999)
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1994)
Thea Astley, Reaching Tin River (1990)
11 The Other Side of the River
Les Murray, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ (1969)
Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death (1964)
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
15 The Whole Story Is the Meaning
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)
Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (1953)
17 Sharp Elbows and a Hacking Cough
Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (1952)
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Mary Gilmore, The Passionate Heart (1918)
21 The Best of All Impossible Worlds
G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (1906)
22 A Local Habitation and a Name
Joseph Furphy, Such Is Life (1903)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
John Shaw Neilson, ‘Love’s Coming’ (1896)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869)
Isabella Beeton, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
29 Reader, I Married the Wrong One
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
John Donne, ‘The Sunne Rising’ (early seventeenth century)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)
William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603)
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1390)
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (c. 55 ce)
Herodotus, First paragraph of The Histories (fifth century bce)
Homer, Book 24 of The Iliad (eighth century bce)
39 My Tears Have Become My Bread
A taste of the Torah, the Bible, the Qur’an
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (c. sixth century bce)