Grade 12 Compulsory English-Literature

 Section Two: Literature

Unit One: Short Stories
1. Neighbours - Tim Winton 180
2. A Respectable Woman - Kate Chopin 184
3. A Devoted Son - Anita Desai 189
4. The Treasure in the Forest - H. G. Wells 199
5. My Old Home - Lu Xun 208
6. The Half-closed Eyes of the Buddha
and the Slowly Sinking Sun -Shankar Lamichhane 218
7. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 224

Unit Two: Poems
1. A Day - Emily Dickinson-232
2. Every Morning I Wake - Dylan Thomas-234
3. I Was My Own Route - Julia de Burgos-236
4. The Awakening Age - Ben Okri-239
5. Soft Storm - Abhi Subedi -241

Unit Three: Essays
1. On Libraries - Oliver Sacks-247
2. Marriage as a Social Institution - Stephen L. Nock-252
3. Knowledge and Wisdom - Bertrand Russell-257
4. Humility - Yuval Noah Harari-261
5. Human Rights and the Age of Inequality - Samuel Moyn-265

Unit Four: One-act Plays
1. A Matter for Husband - Ferenc Molnar - 272
2. Facing Death - August Strindberg -279
3. The Bull - Bhimnidhi Tiwari - 293