Short fiction
Subtitle: classic and contemporary
By: Charles Bohner with Dean Dougherty, editors.
Contributors: Bohner, Charles H.; Dougherty, Dean.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1244
ISBN-13: 9780134600499
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Short stories.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe; title: Roses, rhododendron / Alice Adams; title: A bicycle / Iqbal Ahmad; title: I'm working on my charm / Dorothy Allison; title: I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson; title: Seeing Mrs. Landers / Thea Astley; title: Rape fantasies ; Hairball ; Gertrude talks back ; The little red hen tells all / Margaret Atwood; title: Awakening / Isaac Babel; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara; title: My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / Russell Banks; title: III from "Three simple stories" / Julian Barnes; title: Lost in the funhouse / John Barth; title: A city of churches / Donald Barthelme; title: The chosen vessel / Barbara Baynton; title: What was mine / Ann Beattie; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The end of the duel / Jorge Luis Borges; title: The werewolf / Angela Carter; title: Cathedral / Raymond Carver; title: Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: The swimmer / John Cheever; title: The darling ; Gooseberries ; The lady with the dog ; The death of the civil servant / Anton Chekhov; title: The story of an hour ; Regret ; A respectable woman / Kate Chopin; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens; title: The other wife / Colette; title: The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad; title: The magic poker / Robert Coover; title: The blue hotel ; The open boat ; The lover and the tell-tale / Stephen Crane; title: The blue jar / Isak Dinesen; title: The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The doctor / Andre Dubus; title: King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison; title: Dry September ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: A scrap of time / Ida Fink; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Silence dogood, no. 1 / Benjamin Franklin; title: April fish / Mavis Gallant; title: Tuesday siesta / Gabriel García Márquez; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol; title: The life of the imagination / Nadine Gordimer; title: Two gentle people / Graham Greene; title: Argument and persuasion / Donald Hall; title: The birthmark ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Looking for a rain god / Bessie Head; title: A Vermont tale / Mark Helprin; title: Hills like white elephants ; Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway; title: Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes; title: Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: The real thing / Henry James; title: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Araby / James Joyce; title: The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka; title: Search and destroy / Wayne Karlin; title: The circling hand ; Girl / Jamaica Kincaid; title: Not a good girl / Perri Klass; title: Haircut / Ring Lardner; title: My vocation / Mary Lavin; title: The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; title: A place of safety / Halldór Laxness; title: The professor's houses / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing; title: Small causes / Primo Levi; title: To build a fire / Jack London; title: Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz; title: The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud; title: A dill pickle ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield; title: Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville; title: Patriotism / Yukio Mishima; title: A father / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Friend of my youth ; Boys and girls / Alice Munro. The passenger / Vladimir Nabokov; title: Where are you going, where have you been? ; Shopping / Joyce Carol Oates; title: The creature / Edna O'Brien; title: The things they carried / Tim O'Brien; title: Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor; title: Do you like it here? / John O'Hara; title: I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; title: A conversation with my father / Grace Paley; title: War / Luigi Pirandello; title: The cask of amontillado ; The fall of the house of Usher ; Hop-frog / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Flowering Judas ; The grave / Katherine Anne Porter; title: The valiant woman / J.F. Powers; title: The diver / V.S. Pritchett; title: The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth; title: I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205 / John Sayles; title: Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck; title: No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent; title: A pair of tickets / Amy Tan; title: Souvenir / John Tavela; title: The catbird seat / James Thurber; title: The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy; title: The tryst / Ivan Turgenev; title: A & P / John Updike; title: The verb to kill / Luisa Valenzuela; title: The moths / Helena María Viramontes; title: Roselily ; To hell with dying ; The welcome table / Alice Walker; title: Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren; title: Petrified man ; A worn path / Eudora Welty; title: Roman fever / Edith Wharton; title: Damballah / John Edgar Wideman; title: The use of force / William Carlos Williams; title: Smokers / Tobias Wolff; title: Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf; title: The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright; title: from "Dissecting the way a writer works": an interview by Graeme Gibson ; "My mother would rather skate than scrub floors": an interview by Joyce Carol Oates ; from Survival ; Witches / Margaret Atwood; title: from his letters / Anton Chekhov; title: On Stephen Crane and "The blue hotel," by Alfred Kazin ; On his life ; Stephen Crane's own story ; A letter to John Hilliard / Stephen Crane; title: Let me tell a story now / Bessie Head; title: Biography of a story / Shirley Jackson; title: To a young reader / Primo Levi; title: A letter to Richard Murray / Katherine Mansfield; title: On her own work / Flannery O'Connor; title: The brief prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The writing of "Flowering Judas" / Katherine Anne Porter; title: The old artist: notes on Mr. Sweet ; An interview with Eudora Welty ; from "Beyond the peacock" / Alice Walker; title: "Blackberry winter": a recollection / Robert Penn Warren; title: "Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" / Eudora Welty