Editor's acknowledgements, page viiii, v.2, signed Mary Wilmer.

Volume 1 The Hollow of the Three Hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Signalman / Charles Dickens -- The Happy Prince / Oscar Wilde -- The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Son's Veto /Thomas Hardy -- The Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- The Moving Finger / Edith Wharton -- The Door in the Wall / H. G. Wells -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) -- How It Happened / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Her First Ball / Katherine Mansfield -- The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection / Virginia Woolf -- The Fly in the Ointment / V. S. Pritchett -- The Custody of the Pumpkin / P. G. Wodehouse -- An Englishman's Home / Evelyn Waugh -- The Phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- The Prison / Bernard Malamud -- The Destructors / Graham Greene -- Meteor - John Wyndham -- Billennium / J. G. Ballard -- The Lemon Orchard / Alex La Guma -- The People Before / Maurice Shadbolt -- The Enemy / V. S. Naipaul -- Five-Twenty / Patrick White -- A Horse and Two Goats / R. K. Narayan -- Report on the Threatened City / Doris Lessing -- The Rain Horse / Ted Hughes -- Ming's Biggest Prey / Patricia Highsmith -- The Village Saint / Bessie Head -- Secrets / Bernard Maclaverty -- The Stoat / John Mcgahern -- Games at Twilight / Anita Desai -- The Taste of Watermelon / Borden Deal -- Journey / Patricia Grace -- The Bath / Janet Frame -- My Greatest Ambition / Morris Lurie -- To Da-duh, in Memoriam / Paule Marshall -- Of White Hairs and Cricket / Rohinton Mistry -- Elephant / Raymond Carver -- Sandpiper / Ahdaf Soueif -- Journey / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- The Tihrd and Final Continent / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Tyres / Adam Thorpe -- At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald -- Real Time / Amit Chaudhuri -- On Her Knees / Tim Winton -- The Contest / Annie Proulx.

"Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 is a set text for Cambridge IGCSE®, O Level and International AS & A Level Literature in English courses. The anthology contains short stories written in English by authors from many different countries and cultures, including Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, Janet Frame, Jhumpa Lahiri, Romesh Gunesekera, Segun Afolabi, Margaret Atwood and many others. Classic writers appear alongside new voices from around the world in a stimulating collection with broad appeal."--Publisher's description.