Legal Fictions
Subtitle: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law
Edition: First edition
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: August 15, 1992
Place of publication: Woodstock, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
Copyright date: 1991
First sentence: This is the first anthology solely about lawyers and the law.
Description: The labyrinthine world of lawyers and the law has intrigued and challenged many writers, as this one-of-a-kind collection of 35 short stories by our best contemporary authors proves beyond a reasonable doubt. This outstanding collection includes stories about young lawyers, junior partners, senior partners and name partners; some are successful lawyers, some are struggling through personal or professional crises. International in scope, the collection looks at lawyers and the law around the world; it also includes some of the best humorous pieces ever written about the law. The law and literature connection has intrigued many writers including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickens and Kafka.

In his introduction, lawyer and writer Jay Wishingrad explores this connection, discussing its antecedents and its literary and legal proponents today as well as the connection between deconstruction and the Critical Legal Studies movement. Essential reading for literary lawyers as well as the general reader, Legal Fictions is a comprehensive and entertaining literary look at a perennially fascinating and controversial subject - lawyers and the law.
Notes: Printing statement: "First Published in 1992"
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Table of contents: label: ix
title: Introduction
pagenum: Jay Wishingrad; label: 3
title: The Tender Offer
pagenum: Louis Auchincloss; label: 13
title: About Boston
pagenum: Ward Just; label: 40
title: The Balloon of William Fuerst
pagenum: Lowell B. Komie; label: 46
title: The Contract
pagenum: Harvey Jacobs; label: 53
title: Still Life
pagenum: Marian Thurm; label: 64
title: After You’ve Gone
pagenum: Alice Adams; label: 70
title: Weight
pagenum: Margaret Atwood; label: 82
title: Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife
pagenum: Cynthia Quick; label: 97
title: Centaurs
pagenum: J.S. Marcus; label: 101
title: Discipline
pagenum: Larry Brown; label: 120
title: Witness
pagenum: Madison Smartt Bell; label: 136
title: Earthly Justice
pagenum: E.S. Goldman; label: 155
title: The Most Outrageous Consequence
pagenum: James Reid Parker; label: 162
title: The Colonel’s Foundation
pagenum: Louis Auchincloss; label: 177
title: Justice is Blind
pagenum: Thomas Wolfe; label: 185
title: Triumph of Justice
pagenum: Irvin Shaw; label: 199
title: The Paradise of Bachelors
pagenum: Herman Melville; label: 208
title: Web of Circustance
pagenum: Charles W. Chestnut; label: 224
title: Bartleby, the Scrivener
pagenum: Herman Melville; label: 260
title: Congress in Crisis: The Proximity Bill
pagenum: Garrison Keillor; label: 265
title: Szyrk v. Village of Tatmount et al., in the United States District Court, Southern Distric of Virginia, No. 105-87
pagenum: William Gaddis; label: 277
title: Coyote v. Acme
pagenum: Ian Frazier; label: 285
title: Before the Law
pagenum: Franz Kafka; label: 287
title: The Litigants
pagenum: Isaac Bashevis Singer; label: 291
title: Crimes of Conscience
pagenum: Nadine Gordimer; label: 297
title: A Few Selected Sentences
pagenum: B.S. Johnson; label: 301
title: Heart of a Judge
pagenum: R. Sarif Easmon; label: 322
title: Joy and the Law
pagenum: Guiseppe De Lampedusa; label: 327
title: The Condemned Man’s Last Night
pagenum: Benjamin Péret; label: 331
title: Legal Aid
pagenum: Frank O’Connor; label: 341
title: General Bellomo
pagenum: Paul West; label: 346
title: The Clairvoyant
pagenum: Karel Čapek; label: 353
title: The Case for the Defence
pagenum: Graham Greene; label: 357
title: Rumpole for the Prosecution
pagenum: John Mortimer; label: 395
title: The Judge’s Wife
pagenum: Isabell Allende; label: [404]
title: About the Authors