The Situation of the Story
Subtitle: Short Fiction in Contemporary Perspective
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 791
ISBN-13: 9780312044732
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3; title: SANN BEAT TIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22; title: MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37; title: EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62; title: WILLIAM GO YEN, Tapioca Surprise 73; title: STEPHEN CRANE, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 83; title: WILLIAM FAULKNER, Barn Burning 97; title: CONRAD AIKEN, Strange Moonlight 113; title: ELIZABETH SPENCER, Moon Rocket 124; title: TRUMAN CAPOTE, Children on Their Birthdays 133; title: JOHN UPDIKE, A & P 148; title: ALICE MUNRO, Miles City, Montana 155; title: LEE K. ABBOTT, The End of Grief 175; title: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Day's Wait 187; title: ELLEN WILBUR, Wind and Birds and Human Voices; title: JOYCE CAROL OATES, Theft 214; title: BHARATI MUKHERJEE, The Tenant 255; title: AMY TAN, Rules of the Game 268; title: LOUISE ERDRICH, Love Medicine 279; title: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper 301; title: STONI CADE BAMBARA, Maggie of the Green Bottles 316; title: ANTON CHEKHOV, The Darling 323; title: D. H. LAWRENCE, The Lovely Lady 334; title: HENRY JAMES, Paste 350; title: WILLA CATHER, The Way of the World 364; title: VIRGINIA WOOLF, Lappin and Lapinova 377; title: ZORA NEALE HURSTON, The Gilded Six-Bits 385; title: JAMES JOYCE, The Dead 395; title: DORIS LESSING, To Room Nineteen 431; title: TILLIE OLSEN, I Stand Here Ironing 460; title: RAYMOND CARVER, Boxes 467; title: GLORIA NAYLOR, The Two 481; title: SHIRLEY JACKSON, Flower Garden, 489; title: REGINALD McKNlGHT, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas 511; title: HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES, The Cariboo cafe 522; title: JOHN EDGAR WIDE-MAN, Fever 535; title: ANNA LEE WALTERS, The Warriors 558; title: GEORGE GARRETT, An Evening Performance 573; title: CHARLES JOHNSON, China 581; title: ESTELA PORTILLO TRAMBLEY, Pay the Criers 598; title: EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 615; title: KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Grave 623; title: ALLEN BARNETT, The Times As It Knows Us 629; title: BERNARD MALAMUD, Angel Levine 675; title: EDITH WHARTON, Afterward 685; title: SARAH ORNE JEWETT, The Landscape Chamber 711; title: FRANZ KAFKA, A Report to an Academy 725; title: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Drowne's Wooden Image 733; title: HERMAN MELVILLE, Bartleby, the Scrivener 744; title: JOHN CHEEVER, Torch Song 775