Byways and Highways focuses on ways of dealing with problems at crucial moments in life.

The anthology covers the following: excepts from a novel, short stories, story bytes, drama, poems, songs, essay, pictures, art, cartoons, advertisements, and film clips. The texts are recorded by native speakers with audio-recordings integrated in the text files.

 Byways and Highways aims at showing human conditions from different angles to give food for thought as to why some people are able to go through hardships without breaking down whereas others choose suicide, like in e.g. Ernest Hemingway's short story Indian Camp, in Alan Sillitoe's On Saturday Afternoon  in Deirdre Heddon's short story Still life and in the excerpt from Dead Poets Society.

Marilyn Monroe's turbulent life and its consequences are set to music in Elton John's memorable song Candle in the Wind.

The main character's wish to have his life terminated after a serious car accident can be found in a scene from Whose Life is it Anyway? by Brian Clark. The theme of euthanasia can be found in several other texts in the anthology.

In her essay Thoughts about Abortion Anna Quindlen gives her views on abortion. Other texts in Byways and Highways also highlight abortion.

Cartoons show ways of overcoming the fear of death by using humour when life bites.

Many more texts are to be found in Byways and Highways, so dig in...