Encore

  a short story collection

edited by Peter Kneale & Owen Belling

Encore is a new collection of 18 short stories suitable for students from Years 7 to 11, including the work of some of the masters of the form, and established and emerging contemporary writers. The collection has now been republished in a revised edition with improved layout and font.

The collection offers a range of styles, genre and subjects, including:

 the humour of life       

 the future

 fantasy   

 fear

 world of the imagination        

 crime

 relationship between past and present       

 relationships

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Encore Contents:

The Capture of Walter Schnaffs    Guy de Maupassant 

Nothing to be Afraid of                  Jan Mark

Tooking for a Lowel                        Patrick Campbell        

The Open Window                        Saki (H H Munro)

 High Tea                                         Des Field       

The Tell-tale Heart                          Edgar Allan Poe

 William's Version                           Jan Mark        

The Second Bullet                          Anna Katherine Green

 The Bottle Imp                                R L Stevenson 

A Retrieved Reformation              O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

 Teach me to Dance                      Kerry Goldsworthy    

A Birthday                                       Katherine Mansfield

 The New World                            William Lane  

Mrs Cart                                          Jack Cox

Striker                                              Matthew Fitt   

The Judgement of Paris               Leonard Merrick

Black Hole                                      Geraldine Stow          

Waking Up                                     Kate Stephens

Encore Teacher Resource Book includes a range of related student activities encouraging students to reflect, analyse, challenge and create.