Class 12 Elective English — Kaleidoscope (NCERT)

Short Stories • Poetry • Non-Fiction • Drama • MCQs & Q&A

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NCERT Kaleidoscope Class 12 cover

Short Stories

  1. I Sell My Dreams — Gabriel García Márquez
  2. Eveline — James Joyce
  3. A Wedding in Brownsville — Isaac Bashevis Singer
  4. Tomorrow — Joseph Conrad
  5. One Centimetre — Bi Shu-Min

Poetry

  1. A Lecture upon the Shadow — John Donne
  2. Poems by Milton — John Milton
  3. Poems by Blake — William Blake
  4. Kubla Khan — S. T. Coleridge
  5. Trees — Emily Dickinson
  6. The Wild Swans at Coole — W. B. Yeats
  7. Time and Time Again — A. K. Ramanujan
  8. Blood — Kamala Das

Non-Fiction

  1. Freedom — G. B. Shaw
  2. The Mark on the Wall — Virginia Woolf
  3. Film-making — Ingmar Bergman
  4. Why the Novel Matters — D. H. Lawrence
  5. The Argumentative Indian — Amartya Sen
  6. On Science Fiction — Isaac Asimov

Drama

  1. Chandalika — Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Broken Images — Girish Karnad

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