The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction
The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction
/ [edited by] Ann Charters
- 4th edition
- xxviii, 1666 pages
Part one : stories Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay are we created / Isabel Allende Death in woods / Sherwood Anderson Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood My first goose / Isaac Babel Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Lost in the funhouse / John Barth The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme Janus / Ann Beattie An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce Silver water / Amy Bloom The garden of forking paths This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski The eye / Paul Bowles Black boy / Kay Boyle Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The feathered ogre / Italo Calvino The guest / Albert Camus The erl-king / Angela Carter Cathedral / Raymond Carver Errand / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever The darling / Anton Chekhov The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin The story of an hour / Kate Chopin Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Axolotl / Julio Cortazar The open boat / Stephen Crane The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily / William Faulkner That evening sun / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert 1933 / Mavis Gallant A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Life / Bessie Head Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston The lottery / Shirley Jackson The beast in the jungle / Henry James A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson Araby / James Joyce The dead / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Braids / David Leavitt The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The dog of Titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro Heat / Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Good country people / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor In the shadow of war / Ben Okri I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The shawl / Cynthia Ozick A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe He / Katherine Anne Porter A great day / Frank Sargeson Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko The spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer Long distance / Jane Smiley The way we live now / Susan Sontag The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Two kinds / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber Night / Tatyana Tolstaya The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Roselily / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty A worn path / Eudora Welty Roman fever / Edith Wharton The beginnings of homewood / John Edgar Wideman Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf Say yes / Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The Eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto Part two : commentaries Part three : casebooks
0312101376
Short stories
808.831
Part one : stories Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay are we created / Isabel Allende Death in woods / Sherwood Anderson Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood My first goose / Isaac Babel Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Lost in the funhouse / John Barth The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme Janus / Ann Beattie An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce Silver water / Amy Bloom The garden of forking paths This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski The eye / Paul Bowles Black boy / Kay Boyle Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The feathered ogre / Italo Calvino The guest / Albert Camus The erl-king / Angela Carter Cathedral / Raymond Carver Errand / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever The darling / Anton Chekhov The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin The story of an hour / Kate Chopin Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Axolotl / Julio Cortazar The open boat / Stephen Crane The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily / William Faulkner That evening sun / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert 1933 / Mavis Gallant A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Life / Bessie Head Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston The lottery / Shirley Jackson The beast in the jungle / Henry James A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson Araby / James Joyce The dead / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Braids / David Leavitt The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The dog of Titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro Heat / Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Good country people / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor In the shadow of war / Ben Okri I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The shawl / Cynthia Ozick A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe He / Katherine Anne Porter A great day / Frank Sargeson Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko The spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer Long distance / Jane Smiley The way we live now / Susan Sontag The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Two kinds / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber Night / Tatyana Tolstaya The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Roselily / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty A worn path / Eudora Welty Roman fever / Edith Wharton The beginnings of homewood / John Edgar Wideman Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf Say yes / Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The Eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto Part two : commentaries Part three : casebooks
0312101376
Short stories
808.831