This reader is aimed at students with an advanced knowledge of the English language. It is a collection exploring the trials of life from youth to old age, featuring stories by Evelyn Waugh, Saki, Roald Dahl, Susan Hill, Raymond Carver and Frank Sargeson.

Nine science-fiction stories by some of the best-known writers of the genre including Ray Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, and John Wyndham offer some thought-provoking possibilities.

A novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned". That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned and, above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby,...