TY - BOOK AU - Charters, Ann TI - The story and its writer: : an introduction to short fiction SN - 0312101376 U1 - 808.831 PY - 1995/// CY - Boston PB - Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press KW - Short stories N1 - 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 ER -