Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It includes novels, poetry, short stories, and essays. The series is extensive and open-ended, and provides school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It includes writing in English from various genres and differing times. Moments of Madness is edited by Frank Myszor, Lecturer in English, Itchen Sixth Form College, Southampton.

Table of Contents

1. The Badness Within Him by Susan Hill; 2. The Day of the Butterfly by Alice Munro; 3. Red Dress by Alice Munro; 4. Killing Lizards by William Boyd; 5. Dossy by Janet Frame; 6. Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol; 7. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 8. Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver; 9. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner; 10. Thief by Robley Wilson Jnr; 11. The July Ghost by A.S. Byatt; 12. The Wasteland by Alan Paton; 13. The Terrible Screaming by Janet Frame; 14. Dragon's Breath by A.S. Byatt