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

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

Contents:

• The Capture of Walter Schnaffs by Guy de Maupassant
• Nothing to be Afraid of by Jan Mark
• Tooking for a Lowel by Patrick Campbell
• The Open Window by Saki (H H Munro)
• High Tea by Des Field
• The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• William's Version by Jan Mark
• The Second Bullet by Anna Katherine Green
• The Bottle Imp by R L Stevenson
• A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
• Teach me to Dance by Kerry Goldsworthy
• A Birthday by Katherine Mansfield
• The New World by William Lane
• Mrs Cart by Jack Cox
• Striker by Matthew Fitt
• The Judgement of Paris by Leonard Merrick
• Black Hole by Geraldine Stow
• Waking Up by Kate Stephens