The Whole Story - Short Stories for Pleasure and Language Improvement

The Whole Story includes the work of a variety of 20th century writers in English from around the world; among them Greene, Hemingway, Achebe and
Frame uses carefully structured exercises to make the texts accessible and encourage personal response emphasises vocabulary development, providing explanations of less common words with each text, plus exercises to encourage students to explore the meanings of words in context provides user’s notes and an easy reference key, making the book suitable for both class use and self-study is accompanied by a cassette of selected readings in varieties of
world English.

Childhood
1 The First day of School by William Saroyan
2 Tell us about the Turkey, Jo by A lan Marshall
3 Heat by Jean Rhys
4 A Shadow by R . K .Narayan
5 I Spy by Graham Greene
Adulthood
6 Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe
7 A Tree Falls by Roger Mais
8 A High Dive by L. P.Hartley
9 Eye  Witness by E d McBain
Old Age
10 You  are Now Entering the Human Heart by Janet Frame
11 Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway
12 Embroidery by Ray B radbury