The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
Subtitle: Compact Eighth Edition
By: [edited by] Ann Charters
Edition: Compact 8th ed.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1163
ISBN-13: 9780312596248
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Short story; Short stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Story and its writer; title: Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe; title: Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie; title: Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende; title: Hands / Sherwood Anderson; title: Happy endings / Margaret Atwood; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks; title: Snow / Ann Beattie; title: From Fun Home: Old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel; title: The rememberer / Aimee Bender; title: Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges; title: August 2026: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury; title: Cathedral; A small, good thing ; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver; title: Paul's case / Willa Carter; title: Water names / Lan Samantha Chang; title: Swimmer / John Cheever; title: Darling / Anton Chekhov; title: Désiré́e's baby; Story of an hour / Kate Chopin; title: Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros; title: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad; title: Open boat / Stephen Crane; title: How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz; title: Battle royal / Ralph Ellison; title: The red convertible / Louise Erdrich; title: Rose for Emily; That evening sun / William Faulkner; title: Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez; title: Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Homage / Nadine Gordimer; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway; title: Church cancels cow / Amy Hempel; title: Things you should know / A. M. Homes; title: Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: Who's Irish? / Gish Jen; title: White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones; title: Araby; Dead / James Joyce; title: Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka; title: Girl / Jamaica Kincaid; title: Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; title: Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield; title: Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville; title: Nawabdin electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin; title: Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro; title: Where are you going, where you have been? / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Things they carried / Tim O'Brien; title: Everything that rises must converge; Good country people; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; title: The shawl / Cynthia Ozick; title: Brownies / ZZ Packer; title: Conversation with my father / Grace Paley; title: Cask of Amontillado; Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter; title: Job history / Annie Proulx; title: From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco; title: From Persepolis : The veil / Marjane Satrapi; title: Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: Homework / Helen Simpson; title: Prisoner on the hell planet: a case history / Art Spiegelman; title: Two kinds / Amy Tan; title: Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy; title: A&P / John Updike; title: The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes; title: Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; title: Everyday use / Alice Walker; title: Good people / David Foster Wallace; title: Worn path / Eudora Welty; title: Say yes / Tobias Wolf; title: Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright; title: Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe; title: Superman and me / Sherman Alexie; title: Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson; title: Reading blind / Margaret Atwood; title: Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin; title: Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks; title: Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges; title: Translating Kafka / Ann Charters; title: Why I write short stories / John Cheever; title: Technique in writing the short story / Anton Chekhov; title: How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin; title: Sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane; title: A huger artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz; title: Influence of folklore on ''Battle royal'' / Ralph Ellison; title: Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner; title: Feminist reading of Gilman's ''Yellow wallpaper'' / Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar; title: Why I wrote ''Yellow wallpaper''; Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson; title: On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid; title: Finding your voice / Anne Lamott; title: On Tim O'Brien's ''Things they carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant; title: Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville; title: How I write short stories / Alice Munro; title: Stories that define me: Making of a writer; Smooth talk: Short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Alpha company / Tim O'Brien; title: Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley; title: Importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: In the canon, for all the wrong reasons / Amy Tan; title: Chekhov's intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy; title: Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker; title: Some remarks on Kafka's funnieness from which probably not enough has been removed / David Foster Wallace; title: Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty; title: Reading fiction / Richard Wright; title: Casebooks: Casebook one: Raymond Carver: One writing; Creative writing 101; The bath / Raymond Carver; title: Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks; title: Reading of ''What we talk about when we talk about love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman; title: Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott; title: Casebook two: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies": My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn; title: Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis; title: Casebook three: Flannery O'Connor: From ''Letters 1954-55''; Writing short stories; Reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor; title: Rhetorical reading of O'Connor's ''Everything that rises must converge'' / Wayne C. Booth; title: On ''Good country people'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland; title: Casebook four: Graphic storytelling: What the little old ladies feel / Alison Bechdel; title: From "Alternative comics: toward the habit of questioning" / Charles Hatfield; title: Are comics serious literature / Michael Kupperman; title: From understanding comics: Invisible art / Scott McCloud; title: Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum; title: Some reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco / Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said.  Appendices: Reading short stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel''); title: Elements of fiction; title: Brief history of the short story; title: Writing about short stories; title: Literary theory and critical perspectives; title: Glossary of literary terms; title: Chronological listing of authors' stories; title: Chronological listing of authors and stories; title: Index of authors and titles.