University or college OF CAMBRIDGE Essential Exams
IGCSE Reading IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486
Information FOR Instructors ON Tales Collection FOR Research FROM
STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE University or college OF CAMBRIDGE Essential Exams ANTHOLOGY OF Brief Tales IN ENGLISH
FOR Evaluation IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010, 2011 AND 2012
CONTENTS
Introduction: How to use these records
1. The Signalman Charles Dickens
2. The Yellowish Wallpapers Charlotte Perkins GiIman
3. How It Happened Arthur Conan DoyIe
4. There Will Come Soft Rains Ráy Bradbury
5. Meteor Bob Wyndham
6. The Lemon Orchard Alex are generally Guma
7. Techniques Bernard MacLavérty
8. The Taste of Watermelon Borden Deal
9. The 3 rd and Final Country Jhumpa Láhiri
10. On Her Legs Tim…display more content material…![On Her Knees Tim Winton On Her Knees Tim Winton](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125799677/131907043.jpg)
IGCSE Reading IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486
Information FOR Instructors ON Tales Collection FOR Research FROM
STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE University or college OF CAMBRIDGE Essential Exams ANTHOLOGY OF Brief Tales IN ENGLISH
FOR Evaluation IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010, 2011 AND 2012
CONTENTS
Introduction: How to use these records
1. The Signalman Charles Dickens
2. The Yellowish Wallpapers Charlotte Perkins GiIman
3. How It Happened Arthur Conan DoyIe
4. There Will Come Soft Rains Ráy Bradbury
5. Meteor Bob Wyndham
6. The Lemon Orchard Alex are generally Guma
7. Techniques Bernard MacLavérty
8. The Taste of Watermelon Borden Deal
9. The 3 rd and Final Country Jhumpa Láhiri
10. On Her Legs Tim…display more content material…
Another story in Tim Winton’s “The Turning” that captures the idea that moments, people, places and times an change who we are and how we see the world, is “On Her Knees”. This story involves Vic Lang and his mother Carol Lang. Vic Lang is a recurring character throughout the book, where the audience discover his many turnings.
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It can be significant that the design on the picture entraps and limits the lady within and the narrator ultimately recognizes with her, saying ‘I've obtained out at last… you can't put me back again!'
Wider reading
Various other short tales by Charlotte Perkins Gilman include When I Has been a Witch, Turned, Producing a Change and If I Were a Guy.
Review with
Thé Signalman by CharIes Dickens
0n Her Knees by Tim Winton
The Empty of the Three Hillsides by Nathaniel Hawthorné
The Fall of the Home of Ushér by Edgar AIlen Poe
Thé Lady in the Searching Cup by Virginia Woolf
Sandpipér by Adhaf Souéif
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Biographical ánd critical material on Charlotte Pérkins Gilman can become discovered át: http://www.woménwriters.net/domesticgoddess/giIman1.html ánd http://www.kirjastó.sci.fi/giIman.htm 4
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
How It Happened
Arthur Conan Doyle can be perhaps better identified for his SherIock Holmes mystéries, but in this tale it is usually the readers who is certainly asked to do the detective function in an attempt to solve the very short story's mystery before its ménouement. There are usually little clues, such as the narrator't opinion ‘I can live it again' and the reference point to the vehicle as ‘roaring, golden death', to tip at the resolution of the story before its last line.
The story also worries wilful manly pride, in the narrator'beds insistence ón
Wider reading
Various other short tales by Charlotte Perkins Gilman include When I Has been a Witch, Turned, Producing a Change and If I Were a Guy.
Review with
Thé Signalman by CharIes Dickens
0n Her Knees by Tim Winton
The Empty of the Three Hillsides by Nathaniel Hawthorné
The Fall of the Home of Ushér by Edgar AIlen Poe
Thé Lady in the Searching Cup by Virginia Woolf
Sandpipér by Adhaf Souéif
0nline
Biographical ánd critical material on Charlotte Pérkins Gilman can become discovered át: http://www.woménwriters.net/domesticgoddess/giIman1.html ánd http://www.kirjastó.sci.fi/giIman.htm 4
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
How It Happened
Arthur Conan Doyle can be perhaps better identified for his SherIock Holmes mystéries, but in this tale it is usually the readers who is certainly asked to do the detective function in an attempt to solve the very short story's mystery before its ménouement. There are usually little clues, such as the narrator't opinion ‘I can live it again' and the reference point to the vehicle as ‘roaring, golden death', to tip at the resolution of the story before its last line.
The story also worries wilful manly pride, in the narrator'beds insistence ón