Stories of Ourselves Volume 3 with Digital Version (2 Years)

Discover fully updated volumes of global poetry and short stories for use as set texts.

Noel Cassidy (Edited by)

9781009467681, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Multiple-component retail product, published 27 March 2025

360 pages
24.5 x 18.9 x 2 cm, 0.71 kg

Volume 3 extends our global range of prose with even more contemporary and diverse works. Literature students will explore a wide variety of language, form and style, covering engaging themes. They will feel inspired to reflect on the world around them and know it, and themselves, more richly through literary works. Stories of Ourselves, ordered chronologically, places new voices alongside well-known texts. Authors include Heinrich Boll, Bessie Head, Margaret Atwood, Earl Lovelace, Assia Djebar, Kazuo Ishiguro, Okwiri Oduor, Mimoza Ahmeti, Meron Hadero, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shih-Li Know and Ken Liu. Access your digital resource via Cambridge GO.

Introduction
1. The Invisible Girl - Mary Shelley
2. The Black Veil - Charles Dickens
3. The Nightingale - Hans Christian Andersen
4. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Necklace - Guy De Maupassant
6. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde
7. Tony Kytes: The Arch-Deceiver - Thomas Hardy
8. The Sea Raiders - H. G. Wells
9. A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin
10. A Wagner Matinee - Willa Cather
11. The Mission of Mr. Scatters - Paul Laurence Dunbar
12. Sultana's Dream - Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
13. The Preliminaries - Cornelia A. P. Comer
14. Araby - James Joyce
15. The Mark On The Wall - Virginia Woolf
16. The Interlopers - Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
17. The Nightmare Room - Arthur Conan Doyle
18. The Return - Elizabeth Bowen
19. The Woman at The Store - Katherine Mansfield
20. Never - H. E. Bates
21. Atrophy - Edith Wharton
22. A Lady's Beaded Bag - Tennessee Williams
23. Excursion - Herman Bosman
24. Like Mother Used To Make - Shirley Jackson
25. The Lagoon - Janet Frame
26. The Flying Machine - Ray Bradbury
27. The Cricket Match - Sam Selvon
28. The Blush - Elizabeth Taylor
29. The Sacrificial Egg - Chinua Achebe
30. Action Will Be Taken (An Action-Packed Story) - Heinrich Boll
31. Woman from America - Bessie Head
32. The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up - David Lodge
33. A Very Desirable Residence - P. D. James
34. Sale - Anita Desai
35. Land Deal - Gerald Murnane
36. The Teddy-Bears' Picnic - William Trevor
37. My Father Writes to My Mother - Assia Djebar
38. Smoke - Ila Mehta
39. Fishing - Patricia Grace
40. The Fire Eater's Return - Earl Lovelace
41. The Secret of My Youth - Mimoza Ahmeti
42. The Light On The Sea - John Wickham
43. New York Day Women - Edwidge Danticat
44. A Village After Dark - Kazuo Ishiguro
45. The Clean Slate - Hilary Mantel
46. The American Embassy - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
47. Nietverloren - J. M. Coetzee
48. The Universal Story - Ali Smith
49. Golden Boys - Shih-Li Kow
50. Staying Behind - Ken Liu
51. My Father's Head - Okwiri Oduor
52. The Nominee - Curtis Sittenfeld
53. Hard to Say - Sharon Morse
54. Reflection - Silmy Abdullah
55. Kind Stranger - Meron Hadero
56. Widows - Margaret Atwood
Acknowledgements.

Subject Areas: Educational: English literature [YQE], Educational: English language & literacy [YQC], Educational material [YQ]