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

Overview 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 Kow and Ken Liu. Access your digital resource via Cambridge GO. Features We have introduced more modern, relevant texts and more diversity in our chosen authors, showcasing a global range of prose that reaches across time and cultures. New stories from authors representing Botswana, Malaysia, Ethiopia and the US. 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 Kow and Ken Liu. Chronological ordering, grouping texts from the same period. Covers engaging and uplifting themes, including the search for personal identity, the celebration of cross-cultural connection and the absurd comedy of modern life. Parts of Stories of Ourselves are set for study in Cambridge IGCSE™, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level Literature in English (0475/0992/2010), Cambridge IGCSE World Literature (0408) and Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English (9695) and Cambridge International AS Level Language and Literature in English (8695) syllabuses. Available in print and digital to allow for more flexible use inside and outside the classroom. Accessibility Information: The accessibility information of this publication is unknown. Contents 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.