The Story and its writer
Subtitle: an introduction to short fiction
By: [edited by] Ann Charters.
Contributors: Charters, Ann.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1607
ISBN-13: 9780312034696
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Short stories.; Short story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1601-1605).
Table of contents: title: Dead men's path/Achebe; title: Oasis/Adams; title: Kugelmass episode/Allen; title: Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson; title: Happy endings/Atwood; title: My first goose/Babel; title: Sonny's blues/Baldwin; title: Hammer man/Bambara; title: Lost in the funhouse/Barth; title: School/Barthelme; title: Burning house/Beattie; title: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce; title: Like a bad dream/Böll; title: Garden of forking paths/Borges; title: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski; title: Distant episode/Bowles; title: Overcoat II/Boyle; title: Distance of the moon/Calvino; title: Werewolf/Carter; title: What we talk about when we talk about love/Carver; title: Paul's case/Cather; title: Swimmer/Cheever; title: Darling ; Lady with the pet dog/Chekhov; title: Regret ; Story of an hour/Chopin; title: Hollow nut/Colette; title: Heart of darkness/Conrad; title: Gingerbread house/Coover; title: Blow-up/Cortázar; title: Open boat/Crane; title: Blue jar ; Blue stones/Dinesen; title: Curse/Dubus; title: Battle royal/Ellison; title: Red convertible/Erdrich; title: Rose for Emily ; Spotted horses/Faulkner; title: Babylon revisited/Fitzgerald; title: Simple heart/Flaubert; title: Revolt of "Mother"/Freeman; title: Doll Queen/Fuentes; title: Very old man with enormous wings/García Márquez; title: Yellow wallpaper/Gilman; title: Overcoat/Gogol; title: Town and country lovers/Gordimer; title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux ; Young goodman Brown/Hawthorne; title: Life/Head; title: Hills like white elephants/Hemingway; title: Daylight come/Hempel; title: Spunk/Hurston; title: Conversation in June about mothers/Sun-won; title: House of flesh/Idriss; title: Lottery/Jackson; title: Beast in the jungle/James; title: White heron/Jewett; title: Araby ; The dead/Joyce; title: Hunger artist ; Metamorphosis/Kafka; title: Girl/Kincaid; title: Hitchhiking game/Kundera; title: Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner/Lawrence; title: Territory/Leavitt; title: Ones who walk away from Omelas/Le Guin; title: To room/Lessing; title: Chicken/Lispector; title: Jewbird/Malamud; title: Disorder and early sorrow/Mann; title: Bliss ; The fly/Mansfield; title: Shiloh/Mason; title: Necklace ; The string/Maupassant; title: Bartleby, the scrivener/Melville; title: Lust/Minot; title: Three million yen/Mishima; title: Jasmine/Mukherjee; title: Walker brothers cowboy/Munro; title: B. Wordsworth/Naipaul; title: House opposite/Narayan; title: Lucielia Louise Turner/Naylor; title: Where are you going, where have you been?/Oates; title: Things they carried/O'Brien; title: Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find/O'Connor; title: Guests of the nation/O'Connor; title: I stand here ironing/Olsen; title: Shawl/Ozick; title: Conversation with my father/Paley; title: Cask of Amontillado ; The Tell-tale heart/Poe; title: Theft/Porter; title: Yellow woman/Silko; title: Gimpel the fool/Singer; title: Way we live now/Sontag; title: Chrysanthemums/Steinbeck; title: Two kinds/Tan; title: Secret life of Walter Mitty/Thurber; title: Death of Ivan Ilych/Tolstoy; title: Palm-wine drinkard's first journey/Tutuola; title: A & P ; Flight/Updike; title: I'm your horse in the night/Valenzuela; title: Roselily/Walker; title: Weekend/Weldon; title: Why I live at the P.O. ; A worn path/Welty; title: Roman Fever/Wharton; title: Hunters in the snow/Wolff; title: Gardens/Woolf; title: Man who was almost a man/Wright