Initiation
Subtitle: stories and short novels on three themes
By: edited by David Thorburn.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Initiation: Hawthorne, N. My kinsman, Major Molineux. Joyce, J. An encounter. Babel, I. The story of my Dovecot. Hemingway, E. The killers. Ellison, R. Battle royal. O'Connor, F. Good country people.  Barth, J. Lost in the funhouse. Conrad, J. The shadow-line.; title: Love: Chekhov, A. About love. James, H. The tone of time. Lawrence, D. H. The horse-dealers's daughter. Fitzgerald, F. S. Babylon revisited. Stafford, J. A country love story. Malamud, B. The magic barrel. Updike, J. Separating. Porter, K. A. Pale horse, pale rider.; title: Outsiders: Tolstoy, L. The three hermits. Anderson, S. Hands. Lessing, D. The second hut. Singer, I. B. Gimpel the Fool. Camus, A. The guest. Márquez, G. G. The last voyage of the ghost ship. Roth, P. "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka. Kafka, F. The metamorphosis.; title: Questions for study and writing.