| 1 | The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet) | Plot Overview · Character Sketches · Themes and Central Ideas |
| 2 | The Third Level (Jack Finney) | Plot in Brief · Characters and Their Roles · Setting and Atmosphere |
| 3 | Sell my Dreams (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) | Author and Literary Form · Main Characters · Plot Summary in Order |
| 4 | Lost Spring (Anee Jung) | Core Idea and Central Message · Saheb and the World of Seemapuri · Barefoot Children and the Meaning of Shoes |
| 5 | The Tiger King | Plot Overview · Characters and Their Roles · Themes and Message |
| 6 | Eveline (James Joyce) | Story Overview and Central Idea · Characters and Their Roles · Plot Movement and Key Turning Points |
| 7 | Deep Water (William Douglas) | Author and Background · Summary of the Story · Character Sketches |
| 8 | Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi) | Journey and First Impressions · Gondwana and Geological History · Human Impact and Antarctica’s Importance |
| 9 | A Wedding in Brownsville (Isaac Bashevis Singer) | Author and Background · Plot Outline · Character Sketches |
| 10 | The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof) | Plot in Brief · Characters and Their Roles · Themes and Message |
| 11 | The Enemy (Pearl S. Buck) | Plot in Brief · Character Sketches · Themes and Ideas |
| 12 | Tomorrow (Joseph Conrad) | Author and Literary Features · Captain Hagberd: Character Sketch · Bessie Carvil and Josiah Carvil |
| 13 | Indigo (Louis Fischer) | Background and Author · Champaran and the Peasant Problem · Arrival at Muzzafarpur and the First Steps |
| 14 | On the face of It (Susan Hill) | Plot and Structure · Characters · Themes |
| 15 | One Centimetre (Bi Shu-Min) | Story Overview · Characters and Their Roles · Themes and Central Ideas |
| 16 | Poets and Pancakes (Asokamitran) | Chapter Overview and Central Idea · The Make-up Department · The Office Boy and His Frustration |
| 17 | Memories of Childhood | Chapter Overview · Zitkala-Sa: The Cutting of My Long Hair · Bama: We Too are Human Beings |
| 18 | A Lecture Upon the Shadow (John Donne) | About the Poet and the Poem · Central Idea and Theme · Structure and Movement of the Poem |
| 19 | The Interview | Part I: The Interview as a Journalistic Form · Part II: Umberto Eco — Writer, Scholar, and Novelist |
| 20 | Poems By Milton (John Milton) | John Milton: Key Facts · Poem 1: On Time · Poem 2: On Shakespear.* 1630 |
| 21 | Going Places (A. R. Barton) | Core idea and theme · Sophie’s character · Jansie’s character |
| 22 | Poems by Blake (William Blake) | William Blake: Poet and Visionary Artist · Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience · The Divine Image: Humanising the Virtues |
| 23 | My Mother at Sixty-Six (Kamala Das) | Poet and Poem Overview · Summary of the Poem · Themes and Central Ideas |
| 24 | Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda) | Poet and Central Idea · Meaning of the Opening Lines · Images of Silence and Peace |
| 25 | Kubla Khan (S.T Coleridge) | Poet and Literary Background · Historical and Narrative Frame · Dream Vision and Incompleteness |
| 26 | A Thing of Beauty (John Keats) | About the Poet and the Poem · Central Idea and Theme · Things of Beauty Mentioned in the Poem |
| 27 | Trees (Emily Dickinson) | Poet and Poem at a Glance · Main Idea and Theme · Imagery and Symbols |
| 28 | A Roadside Stand (Robert Frost) | About the Poet and the Poem · Setting and Central Situation · City Traffic and Rural Indifference |
| 29 | The Wild Swans at Coole (W.B. Yeats) | Poet and Background · Summary of the Poem · Central Themes |
| 30 | Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (Adrienne Rich) | Poet and poem background · Central idea and theme · Important symbols and imagery |
| 31 | Time and Time Again (A.K. Ramanujan) | Poet and Poem Profile · Central Idea of the Poem · Important Images and Their Meaning |
| 32 | Blood (Kamala Das) | Poet and Context · Central Idea and Theme · Character Sketches |
| 33 | Freedom (G.B Shaw) | Shaw's Idea of Freedom · Natural Slavery and Human Slavery · Government, Elections, and the Illusion of Freedom |
| 34 | The Mark on the Wall (Virgina Woolf) | Author and Background · Opening Situation and the Mark · Movement of Thought and Imagination |
| 35 | Film-Making (Ingmar Bergman) | Bergman's Idea of Film-Making · Film, Literature, and Music · Bergman's View of the Artist and the Audience |
| 36 | Why the Novel Matters (D.H Lawrence) | Core Idea of the Essay · Lawrence's View of the Self · Contrast with Parson, Philosopher, Scientist, and Saint |
| 37 | The Argumentative Indian (Amartya Sen) | Core Idea of the Essay · Krishna, Arjuna, and the Question of Duty · Oppenheimer Parallel |
| 38 | On Science Fiction (Isaac Asimov) | Science Fiction, Imagination, and Reality · Myth, Legend, and Literary Allusion · Asimov’s View of Sword-and-Sorcery |
| 39 | Chandalika (Rabindranath Tagore) | Author and Literary Form · Main Characters · Plot Summary and Movement of the Play |
| 40 | Broken Images (Girish Karnad) | Author and Playwright Profile · Plot and Central Conflict · Character Sketches |