Contents
Foreword v
Rationalisation of Content in the Textbooks vii
About the Book ix
Prose 1-86
1. The LasT Lesson Alphonse Daudet 2
2. LosT spring Anees Jung 13
3. Deep WaTer William Douglas 23
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4. The raTTrap Selma Lagerlof 32
5. inDigo Louis Fischer 45
6. poeTs anD pancakes Asokamitran 56
7. The inTervieW
parT i Christopher Silvester 66
parT ii An Interview with Umberto Eco 68
8. going pLaces A. R. Barton 75
Poetry 87-99
1. My MoTher aT sixTy-six Kamala Das 88
2. keeping QuieT Pablo Neruda 90
3. a Thing of BeauTy John Keats 93
4. a roaDsiDe sTanD Robert Frost 95
5. aunT Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich 98
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