Need help with the Stories of Ourselves, Volume 1?
A selection of stories from Stories of Ourselves Volume 1 is set for the Cambridge International A Level Literature in English syllabus, to be examined from 2024-2026. It is an anthology of short stories from the 19th to 21st centuries. While all the stories are written in English, the writers come from all over the world, giving readers a multiplicity of viewpoints. There are stories from places as diverse as England and South Africa, the United States of America and the Caribbean.
These digital PDFs include:
- VOCABULARY
- CHARACTER LIST AND A BREAKDOWN OF CHARACTERS
- SETTING
- PLOT SUMMARY
- NARRATIVE VOICE
- QUOTATIONS
- GENRE
- CONTEXT
- ATTITUDES
- THEMES
- EXTRA TASKS
- COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
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POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
*Each digital document is accompanied with a worksheet so you can practice on your own!
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- Of White Hairs and Crickets - Rohinton Mistry
- An Englishman's Home - Evelyn Waugh
- Billenium - J G Ballard
- Five-Twenty - Patrick White
- Games at Twilight - Anita Desai
- My Greatest Ambition - Murris Lurie
- Real-Time - Amit Chaudhuri
- Report on the Threatened City - Dorris Lesing
- The Door in the Wall - H G Wells
- The People Before - Maurice Shadbolt
- The Prison - Bernard Malamud
- The Son's Veto - Thomas Hardy
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- To Da-duh, in Memoriam - Paule Marshall
- Tyres - Adam Thorpe