Stories of Ourselves: Volume 2
Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English

This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world.

9781108436199, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 March 2018

462 pages
24.5 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.89 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: School editions of English literature fiction texts [YQEF], Educational: English literature [YQE], Short stories [FYB], Anthologies [non-poetry DQ]