Short Fiction
Subtitle: Classic and Contemporary
Edition: Second Edition (2)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1180
ISBN-13: 9780138092290
Copyright date: 1989
Table of contents: title: Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams --; title: The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson --; title: Rape fantasies / M. Atwood --; title: The story of my dovecot / I. Babel --; title: Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin --; title: The lesson / T.C. Bambara --; title: My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks --; title: Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth --; title: A city of churches / D. Barthelme --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce --; title: Like a bad dream / H. Böll --; title: The end of the duel / J.L. Borges --; title: Cathedral / R. Carver --; title: Paul's case / W. Cather --; title: The enormous radio ; The swimmer / J. Cheever --; title: The darling ; Gooseberies ; The lady with the dog / A. Chekhov --; title: The story of an hour / K. Chopin --; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / S. Clemens (M. Twain) --; title: The secret sharer / J. Conrad --; title: The magic poker / R. Coover ; The blue hotel ; The open boat / S. Crane ; The way up to heaven / R. Dahl --; title: The red-headed league / A.C. Doyle --; title: The doctor / A. Dubus --; title: King of the bingo game / R. Ellison --; title: Dry September ; A rose for Emily ; That evening sun / W. Faulkner --; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: Tuesday siesta / G.G. Márquez ; The yellow wallpaper / C.P. Gilman --; title: The overcoat / N. Gogol --; title: The life of the imagination / N. Gordimer --; title: Two gentle people / G. Greene --; title: Argument and persuasion / D. Hall --; title: Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver / T. Hardy --; title: The birthmark ; Young Goodman Brown / N. Hawthorne --; title: A Vermont tale / M. Helprin --; title: Hills like white elephants / E. Hemingway --; title: The lottery / S. Jackson --; title: The real thing ; The tree of knowledge / H. James --; title: A white heron / S.O. Jewett --; title: Araby ; The dead / J. Joyce --; title: A hunger artist / F. Kafka --; title: The man who would be king ; Mary Postgate / R. Kipling --; title: Not a good girl / P. Klass --; title: Haircut / R. Lardner --; title: The horse-dealer's daughter ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --; title: The professor's houses / U.K. LeGuin --; title: One off the short list ; A sunrise on the veld / D. Lessing --; title: To build a fire / J. London --; title: A tree, a rock, a cloud / C. McCullers --; title: The magic barrel / B. Malamud --; title: A dill pickle ; Miss Brill / K. Mansfield --; title: The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham --; title: The necklace / G. de Maupassant --; title: Bartleby the scrivener / H. Melville --; title: Patriotism / Y. Mishima --; title: Boys and girls / A. Munro --; title: The passenger / V. Nabokov --; title: The going-away party ; Where are you going, where have you been? / J.C. Oates --; title: The creature / E. O'Brien --; title: Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Guests of the nation ; My oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor --; title: Do you like it here? / J. O'Hara --; title: I stand here ironing / T. Olsen --; title: A conversation with my father / G. Paley --; title: War / L. Pirandello --; title: The cask of Amontilladl ; The fall of the House of Usher ; The purloined letter / E.A. Poe --; title: Flowering Judas ; The grave / K.A. Porter --; title: The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --; title: The diver / V.S. Pritchett --; title: The shot / A. Pushkin --; title: The conversion of the Jews / P. Roth --; title: I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 / J. Sayles --; title: Gimpel the fool / I.B. Singer --; title: The chrysanthemums / J. Steinbeck --; title: The catbird seat / J. Thurber --; title: The death of Ivan Ilych / L. Tolstoy --; title: The tryst / I. Turgenev --; title: A & P ; The music school ; Made in heaven / J. Updike --; title: Roselily ; To hell with dying / A. Walker --; title: Blackberry winter ; The patented gate and the mean hamburger / R.P. Warren --; title: Petrified man ; A worn path / E. Welty --; title: The other two ; Roman fever / E. Wharton --; title: The use of force / W.C. Williams --; title: Smokers / T. Wolff --; title: The man who was almost a man / R. Wright --; title: Writers on writing: How to tell a story / S. Clemens (M. Twain) --; title: Stephen Crane's own story / S. Crane --; title: Biography of a story / S. Jackson --; title: On her own work / F. O'Connor --; title: The brief prose tale / E.A. Poe --; title: "Blackberry winter": a recollection / R.P. Warren --; title: Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / E. Welty.