Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education

Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2

1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

2. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion by Thomas Hardy

3. The Lady’s Maid’s Bell by Edith Wharton

4. Gabriel-Ernest by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

5. The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield

6. A Warning to the Curious by M R James

7. Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson

8. The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison

9. Stability by Philip K Dick

10. The Tower by Marghanita Laski

11. The Axe by Penelope Fitzgerald

12. When It Happens by Margaret Atwood

13. The Plantation by Ovo Adagha

14. Haywards Heath by Aminatta Forna

15. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

Bierce also connects life & death, showing how life is brought out
more vividly when near to death. people are consciously living
on multiple consciousness levels - conscious, unconscious. he
makes death a kind of level like these
- narrative voice and setting
- static quality to setting
- memory - tingued with romanticism
- narrative voice also brings in concept of patriotism
through the military

Narrator/story isn't to be trusted too much. It's the way

Phyllis herself remembers her story years later. Perhaps
90 years old. Follows oral tradition, there is constant doubt
that is inserted in a narrative.

Meta fiction is used - story within a story. Attempt by first

person narrator to retrieve a tragic story in danger of being
lost.
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