This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world.
Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 is a set text for Cambridge IGCSE®, O Level and International AS & A Level Literature in English courses. The anthology contains short stories written in English by authors from many different countries and cultures, including Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, Janet Frame, Jhumpa Lahiri, Romesh Gunesekera, Segun Afolabi, Margaret Atwood and many others. Classic writers appear alongside new voices from around the world in a stimulating collection with broad appeal.
Compiled by:
Mary Wilmer Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: New edition Dimensions:
Height: 245mm,
Width: 190mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 890g ISBN:9781108436199 ISBN 10: 1108436196 Series:Cambridge International IGCSE Pages: 462 Publication Date:15 March 2018 Audience:
Children/juvenile
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English as a second language
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Death of the Laird's Jock - Walter Scott; 2. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Nathanial Hawthorne; 3. Nick - Christina Rossetti; 4. George Silverman's Explanation - Charles Dickens; 5. The Nightingale and the Rose - Oscar Wilde; 6. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce; 7. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion - Thomas Hardy; 8. The Copper Beeches - Arthur Conan Doyle; 9. A Story of a Wedding Tour - Margaret Oliphant; 10. The Shrinking Shoe - Walter Besant; 11. The Middle Years - Henry James; 12. Going Blind - Henry Lawson; 13. The Little Regiment - Stephen Crane; 14. The Woman's Rose - Olive Schreiner; 15. The Lady's Maid's Bell - Edith Wharton; 16. The Furnished Room - O. Henry; 17. Gabriel-Ernest - Saki (Hector Hugh Munro); 18. The Widow's Might - Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 19. Eveline - James Joyce; 20. Them Others - Stacy Aumonier; 21. The Doll's House - Katherine Mansfield; 22. A Warning to the Curious - M.R. James; 23. Death in the Woods - Sherwood Anderson; 24. Indian Summer of an Uncle - P.G. Wodehouse; 25. 'And Women Must Weep' - Henry Handel Richardson; 26. The Black Ball - Ralph Emerson; 27. Lappin and Lapinova - Virginia Woolf; 28. Stability - Philip K. Dick; 29. The Tower - Marghanita Laski; 30. The Gold Watch - Mlk Raj Anand; 31. The Reservoir - Janet Frame; 32. Thank You M'am - Langston Hughes; 33. A Visit - Anna Kavan; 34. The Axe - Penelope Fitzgerald; 35. When It Happens - Margaret Atwood; 36. Words - Carol Shields; 37. The Man Who Walked on the Moon - J.G. Ballard; 38. A Walk to the Jetty - Jamaica Kincaid; 39. In the Mountains - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; 40. Showing the Flag - Jane Gardam; 41. Sharmaji - Anjana Appachana; 42. Mrs. Sen's - Jumpa Lahiri; 43. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Yiyun Li; 44. Mrs Mahmood - Segun Afolabi; 45. Promenade - Henrietta Rose-Innes; 46. The Plantation - Ovo Adagha; 47. Haywards Heath - Aminatta Forna; 48. The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu; 49. Fluke - Romesh Gunesekera.
