Twice-Told Tales
Subtitle: an anthology of short fiction
By: [edited by] Gerard A. Barker.
Contributors: Barker, Gerard A.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 689
ISBN-13: 9780395266359
Copyright date: 1979
Subjects: College readers.; Short stories.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Twice-told tales.; title: To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London --; title: To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London --; title: An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family --; title: The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield --; title: Sleepy / Anton Chekhov --; title: From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough --; title: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain --; title: Repentance / Frank O'Connor --; title: First confession / Frank O'Connor --; title: The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson --; title: The geranium / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Judgement / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence --; title: Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence --; title: Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence --; title: The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant --; title: Paste / Henry James --; title: Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The heroine / Isak Dinesen --; title: Stories for comparison. That evening sun / William Faulkner --; title: The killers / Ernest Hemingway --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce --; title: The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges --; title: Miriam / Truman Capote --; title: A little companion / Angus Wilson --; title: The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown --; title: The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson --; title: The phantom lover, two excerpts --; title: Dry September / William Faulkner --; title: Going to meet the man / James Baldwin --; title: The basement room / Graham Greene --; title: Next door / Kurt Vonnegut --; title: William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --; title: The eyes / Edith Wharton --; title: Stories for individual study. Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken --; title: The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov --; title: A painful case / James Joyce --; title: Barbados / Paule Marshall --; title: Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty --; title: Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson --; title: Awakening / Isaac Babel --; title: Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The judgement / Franz Kafka --; title: King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --; title: Night-sea journey / John Barth.