CONTENTS
SURPRISE
Dear Miriam by James Flanders
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock
The Open Window by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
The Landlady by Roald Dahl
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LOVE
Eveline by James Joyce
Down by the Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
The Garden of Love by William Blake
A Poison Tree by William Blake
The Man with the Scar by William Somerset Maugham
The First Autumn by Erskin Caldwell
Reported Missing by Barry Cole
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LONELINESS
Table Talk by David Campton
One Flesh by Elisabeth Jennings
The Girls in their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw
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SOCIETY
Uncle Ernst by Alan Sillitoe
The Waste Land by Alan Paton
More About People by Ogden Nash
I Am a Rock by Paul Simon
The Unknown Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Slaughterhouse by Alfred Hayes
Five Ways to Kill a Man by Edwin Brock
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
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GROWING UP
Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing
Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
She's Leaving Home by John Lennon/Paul McCartney
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WAR
Does is Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon
The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty
With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan
Your Attention Please by Peter Porter
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