The Story and Its Writer
Subtitle: An Introduction to Short Fiction
Edition: Ninth Edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 1775
ISBN-13: 9781319125189
Copyright date: 2015
Notes: Source title: The Story and Its Writer with 2016 MLA Update: An Introduction to Short Fiction
Table of contents: title: Part One: Stories --; title: Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace --; title: Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --; title: Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance --; title: Sherwood Anderson / Hands --; title: Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings --; title: Isaac Babel / My First Goose --; title: James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson --; title: Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat --; title: Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story] --; title: Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum --; title: Ann Beattie / Janus --; title: Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story] --; title: Ambrose Bierce / An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge --; title: Roberto Bolano / Jim --; title: Jorge Luis Borges / The South --; title: Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen --; title: T. Coraghessan Boyle / Birnam Wood --; title: Ray Bradbury / August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains --; title: Albert Camus / The Guest --; title: Alejo Carpentier / Journey to The Seed --; title: Angela Carter / The Kiss --; title: Raymond Carver / Cathedral --; title: Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing --; title: Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love --Willa Cather / Paul's Case --; title: John Cheever / The Swimmer --; title: Anton Chekhov / The Darling --; title: Anton Chekhov / The Lady with the Little Dog --; title: Kate Chopin / Désirée's Baby --; title: Kate Chopin / The Story of an Hour --; title: Sandra Cisneros / Barbie-Q --; title: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County --; title: Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness --; title: Julio Cortázar / Axolotl --; title: Stephen Crane / The Open Boat --; title: Edwidge Danticat / Night Women --; title: Lydia Davis / Blind Date --; title: Junot Díaz / How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie --; title: Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese --; title: Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / Her Chinese Husband --; title: Larry Eigner / Act --; title: Ralph Ellison / Battle Royal --; title: Nathan Englander / What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank --; title: Louise Erdrich / The Red Convertible --; title: William Faulkner / A Rose for Emily --; title: William Faulkner / That Evening Sun --; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald / Winter Dreams --; title: Janet Frame / Two Sheep --; title: Carlos Fuentes / Pain --; title: Mary Gaitskill / The Other Place --; title: Gabriel García Márquez / A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings --; title: William Gass / A Fugue --; title: Dagoberto Gilb / Love in L.A. --; title: Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper --; title: Nikolai Gogol / The Overcoat --; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Minister's Black Veil --; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne / Young Goodman Brown --Ernest Hemingway / Hills Like White Elephants --; title: Zora Neale Hurston / the Gilded Six-Bits --Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat --; title: Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle --; title: Shirley Jackson / The Lottery --; title: Henry James / The Real Thing --; title: Sarah Orne Jewett / A White Heron --; title: Ha Jin / Saboteur --; title: Denis Johnson / Work --; title: James Joyce / Araby --; title: James Joyce / The Dead --; title: Franz Kafka / A Hunger Artist --; title: Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis --; title: Etgar Keret / Not Human Beings --; title: Jamaica Kincaid / Girl --; title: Nora Krug / Kamikaze [graphic story] --; title: Jhumpa Lahiri / Interpreter of Maladies --; title: D.H. Lawrence / Odour of Chrysanthemums --; title: D.H. Lawrence / The Rocking Horse Winner --; title: Ursula K. Le Guin / The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas --; title: Doris Lessing / To Room 19 --; title: Clarice Lispector / The Smallest Woman in the World --; title: Jack London / To Build a Fire --; title: Katherine Mansfield / Miss Brill --; title: Bobbie Ann Mason / Shiloh --; title: Guy de Maupassant / The Necklace --; title: Herman Melville / Bartleby, the Scrivener --; title: Steven Millhauser / Flying Carpets --; title: Lorrie Moore / Referential --; title: Alice Munro / Age of Faith --; title: Haruki Murakami / UFO in Kushiro --; title: Vladimir Nabokov / Signs and Symbols --; title: Santiago Nazarian / Fish Spine --; title: Joyce Carol Oates / The Lady with the Pet Dog --; title: Joyce Carol Oates / Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? --; title: Tim O'Brien / The Things They Carried --; title: Flannery O'Connor / Everything That Rises Must Converge --; title: Flannery O'Connor / Good Country People --; title: Flannery O'Connor / A Good Man Is Hard to Find --; title: Frank O'Connor / Guests of the Nation --; title: Tillie Olsen / I Stand Here Ironing --; title: Daniel Orozco / Orientation --; title: Julie Otsuka / The Children --; title: Cynthia Ozick / The Shawl --; title: ZZ Packer / Brownies --; title: Grace Paley / A Conversation with My Father --; title: Grace Paley / Mother --; title: Octavio Paz / My Life with the Wave --; title: Edgar Allan Poe / The Cask of Amontillado --; title: Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House of Usher --; title: Edgar Allan Poe / The Tell-Tale Heart --; title: Katherine Anne Porter / Maria Concepción --; title: W.S. Porter (O. Henry) / The Gift of the Magi --; title: Annie Proulx / Job History --; title: Jamie Quatro / 1.7 To Tennessee --; title: Philip Roth / The Conversion of the Jews --; title: Joe Sacco / From Palestine: Refugeeland [graphic story] --; title: Marjane Satrapi / From Persepolis: The Veil [graphic story] --; title: George Saunders / Sticks --; title: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh / A Brief Encounter with The Enemy --; title: Leslie Marmon Silko / Yellow Woman --; title: Art Spiegelman / Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History [graphic story] --; title: John Steinbeck / The Chrysanthemums --; title: Amy Tan / Two Kinds --; title: Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilych --; title: Jean Toomer / Blood-Burning Moon --; title: John Updike / A & P --; title: Luis Alberto Urrea / Father Returns From the Mountain --; title: Helen Maria Viramontes / Miss Clairol --; title: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Harrison Bergeron --; title: Alice Walker / Everyday Use --; title: David Foster Wallace / Everything Is Green --; title: Eudora Welty / A Worn Path --; title: Edith Wharton / The Other Two --; title: John Edgar Wideman / newborn thrown in trash and dies --; title: William Carlos Williams / The Use of Force --; title: Tobias Wolff / Bullet in the Brain --; title: Tobias Wollf / Say Yes --; title: Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens --; title: Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man --; title: Part Two: Commentaries --; title: Part Three: Casebooks.