Legal Fictions
Subtitle: Short stories about Lawyers & the Law
Publisher: Quartet Books Ltd
Published: 1995
Place of publication: london, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 402
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Jay Wishingrad; title: I. Lawyers & The Law : Here and Now; title: A. Louis Auchincloss, "The Tender Offer"; title: B. Ward Just, "About Boston"; title: C. Lowell B. Komie, "The Balloon of William Fuerst"; title: D. Harvey Jacobs, "The Contract"; title: E. Marian Thurm, "Still Life"; title: G. Margaret Atwood, "Weight"; title: H. Cynthia Ozick, "Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestory, Her Afterlife"; title: I. J.S. Marcus, "Centaurs"; title: J. Larry Brown, "Discipline"; title: K. Madison Smartt Bell, "Witness"; title: L. E.S. Goldman, "Earthly Justice"; title: II. Lawyers & The Law: 1900-1950; title: A. James Reid Parker, "The Most Outrageous Consequences"; title: B. Louis Auchincloss, "Justice Is Blind"; title: D. Irwin Shaw, "Triumph of Justice"; title: III. Lawyers & The Law: 1850-1900; title: A. Herman Melville, "The Paradise of Bachelors"; title: B. Charles B. Chesnutt, "The Web of Circumstance"; title: C. Herman Melville, "Bartelby, The Scrivener"; title: IV. Lawyers & The Law: Humor; title: A. Garrison Keillor, "Congress in Crisis: The Proximity Bill"; title: B. William Gaddis, "Szyrk v. Village of Tatamount et al., in the United States District Court,; title: Southern District of Virginia, No. 105-87"; title: C. Ian Frazier, "Coyote v. Acme"; title: V. Lawyers & The Law: Other Voices, Other Countries; title: A. Franz Kafka, "Before the Law"; title: B. Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Litigants"; title: C. Nadine Gordimer, "Crimes of Consequence"; title: D. B. S. Johnson, "A Few Selected Sentences"; title: E. R. Sarif Easmon, "Heart of a Judge"; title: F. Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, "Joy and the Law"; title: G. Benjamin Peret, "The Condemned Man's Last Night"; title: H. Frank O'Connor, "Legal Aid"; title: I. Paul West, "General Bellemo"; title: J. Karel Capek, "The Clarevoyant"; title: K. Graham Greene, "The Case for the Defence"; title: L. John Mortimer, "Rumpole for the Prosecution"; title: M. Isabel Allende, "The Judge's Wife"; title: About the Authors