Literature
By: [compiled by] James H. Pickering, Jeffrey D. Hoeper.
Contributors: Pickering, James H.; Hoeper, Jeffrey D.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1573
ISBN-13: 9780023955808
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot; title: Character; title: Setting; title: Point of view; title: Theme; title: Symbol and allegory; title: Style and tone. -- Stories. My kinsman, Major Molineux; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The fall of the House of Usher; title: The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev; title: Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain); title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy; title: The adventure of the speckled band / Athur Conan Doyle; title: The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: The blue hotel / Stephen Crane; title: The darling / Anton Chekhov; title: Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad; title: The tree of knowledge / Henry james; title: Araby / James Joyce; title: I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson; title: A hunger artist / Franz Kafka; title: The fly / Katherine Mansfield; title: Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway; title: A rose for Emily; title: Barn burning / William Faulkner; title: Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor; title: The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence; title: Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle; title: The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright; title: The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges; title: Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty; title: The grave / Katherine Anne Porter; title: August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury; title: A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: The guest / Albert Camus; title: Wine / Doris Lessing; title: The office / Alice Munro; title: A & P / John Updike; title: Patriotism / Yuko Mishima; title: Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Lost in the funhouse / John Barth; title: A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez; title: Nine lives / Ursuala Le Guin; title: Yellow woman / Leslie Silko; title: Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme; title: Cathedral / Raymond Carver; title: Watch time fly / Laura Furman; title: II: Poetry.; title: III: Drama. What is drama? Drama and poetry; title: Drama and fiction; title: The actors; title: The audience; title: The theater. -- The elements of drama. Dialogue; title: Story; title: Character; title: Action. -- The classifications of drama. Tragedy; title: Comedy. -- Analyzing and evaluating drama --; title: Plays. King Oedipus / Sophocles; title: Lysistrata / Aristophanes; title: Othello / William Shakespeare; title: Tartuffe / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin); title: Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen; title: Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw; title: The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov; title: Trifles / Susan Glaspell; title: Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill; title: The real inspector hound / Tom Stoppard; title: Amadeus / Peter Shaffer