English Text Summary Notes

Our English Text Summary Notes are written by experienced senior VCE English teachers who have studied and taught these texts for many years.  Rather than just summarising each text, our English text summary notes delve into the heart of the text by detailing each of the following:

  • Author Notes
  • Historical Context
  • Genre
  • Structure
  • Style
  • Setting
  • Plot Summary
  • Character Profiles
  • Themes and Issues
  • Important Quotations
  • Sample Essay Topics
  • Final Examination Advice
  • References


TSSM offers thorough English Text Summary Notes for each of the following VCE English texts:

  • A Farewell to Arms*
  • A Human Pattern - Selected Poems*
  • A Man for all Seasons
  • A View from the Bridge
  • Blueprints for a Barbed-wire Canoe
  • Border Crossing
  • Bypass: the story of a road*
  • Citizen Kane
  • Cosi* 
  • Collected Stories
  • Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam*
  • Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984-2004
  • Fine Line
  • Gattaca
  • Generals Die in Bed
  • Great Short Works
  • Hamlet
  • Hard Times
  • Home
  • I for Isobel
  • If this is a Man
  • I'm Not Scared
  • In the Lake of the Woods
  • Inheritance
  • Interpreter of Maladies*
  • Into Thin Air
  • King Oedipus
  • Lantana
  • Life of Pi*
  • Look Both Ways
  • Maestro
  • Minimum of Two
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Of Love and Shadows
  • On the Waterfront* 
  • Richard III
  • Romulus, My Father
  • Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
  • Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • Short Stories by Henry Lawson
  • Sky Burial
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • The Age of Innocence
  • The Baghdad Blog
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Plague
  • The Quiet American
  • The Stories of Tobias Wolff
  • The Wife of Martin Guerre
  • Voices & Visions from India
  • Year of Wonders*

* All new titles are available from February 1, 2010. 

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