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.
AUD$29.05
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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 IGCSEâ„¢, 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.
Table of 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.
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