Short Fiction : Classic and Contemporary
ISBN: 9780131916753 | 0131916750
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 2/22/2005
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This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, folktale, and film. This edition presents a wide variety of selections by writers from diverse backgrounds that represent a true cross-section of the population and represent a broader, more current selection of contemporary fiction.Features a variety of relativelynew writers and some older writers whose work is gaining new audience... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Dead Men's Path | |
| Roses, Rhododendron | |
| A Bicycle | |
| I'm Working on My Charm | |
| I Want to Know Why | |
| Seeing Mrs | |
| Rape Fantasies | |
| Gertrude Talks Back | |
| The Little Red Hen Tells Al | |
| Awakening | |
| Sonny's Blues | |
| The Lesson | ... MORE |
| My Mother's Memoirs | |
| My Father's Lie | |
| and Other True Stories | |
| 'III' from Three Simple Stories | |
| Lost in the Funhouse | |
| A City of Churches | |
| The Chosen Vessel | |
| What Was Mine | |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
| The End of the Duel | |
| The Werewolf | |
| Cathedral | |
| Paul's Case | |
| The Swimmer | |
| The Darling | |
| The Lady With the Dog | |
| The Death of a Civil Servant | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| A Respectable Woman | |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
| The Other Wife | |
| The Secret Sharer | |
| The Magic Poker | |
| The Blue Hotel | |
| The Open Boat | |
| The Lover and the Tell- Tale | |
| The Blue Jar | |
| The Red-Headed League | |
| The Doctor | |
| King of the Bingo Game | |
| Dry September | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| A Scrap of Time | |
| Babylon Revisited | |
| Silence Dogood, No. 1 | |
| April Fish | |
| Tuesday Siesta | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| The Overcoat | |
| The Life of the Imagination | |
| Two Gentle People | |
| Argument and Persuasion | |
| The Birthmark | |
| Bessie Head | |
| Looking for a Rain God | |
| Vermont Tale | |
| Hills Like White Elephants | |
| Indian Camp | |
| Who's Passing for Who? | |
| Spunk | |
| Rip Van Winkle | |
| The Lottery | |
| The Real Thing | |
| The White Heron | |
| Araby | |
| Metamorphosis | |
| Search and Destroy | |
| The Circling Hand | |
| Girl | |
| Not a Good Girl | |
| Haircut | |
| My Vocation | |
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