The Story and Its Writer
Subtitle: An Introduction to Short Fiction
By: [edited by] Ann Charters.
Contributors: Charters, Ann.
Edition: Compact 4th ed.
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 926
ISBN-13: 9780312111700
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Short stories.; Short story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe; title: The last lovely city / Alice Adams; title: Dominoes / Jack Agueros; title: The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen; title: And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende; title: Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson; title: Happy endings / Margaret Atwood; title: My first goose / Isaac Babel; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Lost in the funhouse / John Barth; title: The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme; title: Janus / Ann Beattie; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges; title: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski; title: The eye / Paul Bowles; title: Black boy / Kay Boyle; title: Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler; title: The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio; title: The guest / Albert Camus; title: The erl-king / Angela Carter; title: Cathedral / Raymond Carver; title: Errand / Raymond Carver; title: What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver; title: Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: The swimmer / John Cheever; title: The darling / Anton Chekhov; title: The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov; title: The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt; title: Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin; title: The story of an hour / Kate Chopin; title: Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros; title: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad; title: Axolotl / Julio Cortázar; title: The open boat / Stephen Crane; title: The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen; title: Battle royal / Ralph Ellison; title: King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison; title: The red convertible / Louise Erdrich; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: That evening sun / William Faulkner; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert; title: 1933 / Mavis Gallant; title: A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol; title: Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer; title: My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Life / Bessie Head; title: Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway; title: The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: The beast in the jungle / Henry James; title: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson; title: Araby / James Joyce; title: The dead / James Joyce; title: A hunger artist / Franz Kafka; title: The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka; title: Girl / Jamaica Kincaid; title: The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera; title: Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence; title: The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; title: Braids / David Leavitt; title: The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing; title: Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz; title: Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud; title: Bliss / Katherine Mansfield; title: The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield; title: The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto; title: Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville; title: Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima; title: How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore; title: Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele; title: The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro; title: Heat / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates; title: The things they carried / Tim O'Brien; title: Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; title: Good country people / Flannery O'Connor; title: A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor; title: In the shadow of war / Ben Okri; title: I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; title: The shawl / Cynthia Ozick; title: A conversation with my father / Grace Paley; title: My life with the wave / Octavio Paz; title: The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe; title: He / Katherine Anne Porter; title: A great day / Frank Sargeson; title: Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Long distance / Jane Smiley; title: The way we live now / Susan Sontag; title: The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck; title: Two kinds / Amy Tan; title: The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber; title: Night / Tatyana Tolstaya; title: The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy; title: A & P / John Updike; title: Roselily / Alice Walker; title: Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty; title: A worn path / Eudora Welty; title: Roman fever / Edith Wharton; title: The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman; title: Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf; title: Say yes / Tobias Wolff; title: Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf; title: The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright; title: The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto