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Contemporary Short Stories

by: Applebee, Arthur N.

Contemporary Short Stories

by: Applebee, Arthur N.

ISBN 13:
9780812370980
ISBN 10:
0812370988
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 06/01/1993
Publisher: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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Unit 1 Connections: STORIES ABOUT THE FAMILY

(81)

Introduction

(2)

The Lie

(11)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

No Dogs Bark

(5)

Juan Rulfo

The Heir

(13)

So Kiwon

Teenage Wasteland

(10)

Anne Tyler

The Name

(13)

Aharon Megged

A Visit to Grandmother

(8)

William Melvin Kelley

Everyday Use

(6)

Alice Walker

Rules of the Game

(11)

Amy Tan

Reviewing Concepts

(2)

Unit 2 Transitions: Coming-Of-Age Stories

(82)

Introduction

(2)

The Secret Lion

(7)

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Games at Twilight

(8)

Anita Desai

As the Night the Day

(12)

Abioseh Nicol

Seventeen Syllables

111

(12)

Hisaye Yamamoto

Marigolds

123

(9)

Eugenia Collier

Initiation

132

(10)

Sylvia Plath

Through the Tunnel

142

(9)

Doris Lessing

The Cave

151

(12)

Jean McCord

Reviewing Concepts

161

(2)

Unit 3 Complications: Stories of Human Nature

163

(56)

Introduction

164

(2)

The Pearl

166

(11)

Yukio Mishima

The Wooing of Ariadne

177

(11)

Harry Mark Petrakis

The Interview

188

(10)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A Summer's Reading

198

(8)

Bernard Malamud

Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge

206

(7)

Rachel de Queiroz

The Form of the Sword

213

(6)

Jorge Luis Borges

Reviewing Concepts

217

(2)

Unit 4 Illuminations: Stories About Society

219

(64)

Introduction

220

(2)

Santa's Children

222

(9)

Italo Calvino

Six Feet of the Country

231

(11)

Nadine Gordimer

The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

242

(7)

Bessie Head

Action Will Be Taken

249

(7)

Heinrich Boll

Lather and Nothing Else

256

(6)

Hernando Tellez

Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird

262

(8)

Toni Cade Bambara

Out of Place

270

(8)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Censors

278

(5)

Luisa Valenzuela

Reviewing Concepts

281

(2)

Unit 5: Transformations: Stories of the Fantastic

283

(58)

Introduction

284

(2)

The Night Face Up

286

(9)

Julio Cortazar

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

295

(8)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Youngest Doll

303

(7)

Rosario Ferre

Rhinoceros

310

(12)

Eugene Ionesco

What I Have Been Doing Lately

322

(5)

Jamaica Kincaid

The Beautiful Stranger

327

(6)

Shirley Jackson

The Happy Man

333

(8)

Naguib Mahfouz

Reviewing Concepts

339

(2)

Unit 6 Speculations: Futuristic Stories

341

(78)

Introduction

342

(2)

I Sing the Body Electric!

344

(25)

Ray Bradbury

Searching for Summer

369

(9)

Joan Aiken

378

(10)

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Feeling of Power

388

(10)

Isaac Asimov

The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon

398

(7)

Stanislaw Lem

Vocational Counselling

405

(8)

Christa Reinig

All Cats Are Gray

413

(6)

Andre Norton

Reviewing Concepts

418

(1)

Biographies of Authors

419

(11)

Index of Essential Vocabulary

430

(2)

Index of Literary Terms

432

(1)

Index of Writing Modes and Formats

433

(2)

Index of Authors and Titles

435

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