Textbook:
Texts, Poems & Short-Stories
This Be The Verse & Days by Philip Larkin.
Two short and powerful poems by Philip Larkin (1922-1985), one of the most famous and popular English Poet of the second half of the twentieth century.
Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.
George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and short story writer, he was born and brought up in Orkney.
By the way, "tartan" is a type of cloth typical from Scotland and famous for its checkered pattern, see example on the right.
The Tyger, a poem by William Blake.
With the MP3 file of the poem read by Thimothy West and a link to the fascinating Blake Archive, an electronic museum and archive.
Address Unknown, the famous epistolary short-story by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor,
first published in the United States in Story magazine in September 1938.
"Address Unknown serves not only as a reminder of Nazi horrors but as a cautionary tale in light of current racial, ethnic, and nationalistic intolerance." Publishers Weekly
Being Frank, a short-story by Ian Rankin.
Ian Rankin is my favorite author - Scottish - of detective novels [+ a worksheet].
The Masque of The Red Death, a short-story by Edgar Allan Poe.
With the MP3 file of the story read by Christopher Lee..
Trainspotting, (short extract from chapter 1) by Irvine Welsh - 1993.
With the same extract in MP3 format read by Irvine Welsh himself. A good way to get to understand how varied accents can be ... but beware the rude language and the strange Scottish phonetic spelling.
