The Resource The Story and Its Writer : An Introduction to Short Fiction, [edited by] Ann Charters
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- Author
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- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968,
- Spiegelman, Art,
- Spiegelman, Art,
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004,
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004,
- Smith, Zadie,
- Smith, Zadie,
- Simpson, Helen,
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960,
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960,
- Simpson, Helen,
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,
- Shields, Carol,
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,
- Chang, Lan Samantha,
- Chang, Lan Samantha,
- Shields, Carol,
- Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
- Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
- Cheever, John,
- Saki, 1870-1916,
- Cheever, John,
- Saki, 1870-1916,
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904,
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904,
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904,
- Sacco, Joe,
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904,
- Cisneros, Sandra,
- Cisneros, Sandra,
- Sacco, Joe,
- Roth, Philip,
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924,
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924,
- Roth, Philip,
- Proulx, Annie,
- Proulx, Annie,
- Cortázar, Julio,
- Cortázar, Julio,
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980,
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900,
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980,
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849,
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900,
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849,
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998,
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998,
- Paley, Grace,
- Paley, Grace,
- Ellison, Ralph,
- Ellison, Ralph,
- Palahniuk, Chuck,
- Palahniuk, Chuck,
- Ozick, Cynthia,
- Ozick, Cynthia,
- Erdrich, Louise,
- Erdrich, Louise,
- Olsen, Tillie,
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962,
- Olsen, Tillie,
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962,
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966,
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940,
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940,
- O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966,
- O'Connor, Flannery,
- O'Connor, Flannery,
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Munro, Alice, 1931-
- Munro, Alice, 1931-
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935,
- Mukherjee, Bharati,
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935,
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852,
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852,
- Mukherjee, Bharati,
- Mueenuddin, Daniyal,
- Gordimer, Nadine,
- Gordimer, Nadine,
- Mueenuddin, Daniyal,
- Moore, Lorrie,
- Moore, Lorrie,
- Moody, Rick,
- Moody, Rick,
- Millhauser, Steven,
- Millhauser, Steven,
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891,
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864,
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891,
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864,
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961,
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961,
- Hempel, Amy,
- Hempel, Amy,
- Henry, O., 1862-1910,
- Henry, O., 1862-1910,
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893,
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893,
- Homes, A. M.,
- Homes, A. M.,
- Mason, Bobbie Ann,
- Mason, Bobbie Ann,
- Hurston, Zora Neale,
- Hurston, Zora Neale,
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859,
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859,
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923,
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923,
- Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965,
- Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965,
- James, Henry, 1843-1916,
- London, Jack, 1876-1916,
- James, Henry, 1843-1916,
- London, Jack, 1876-1916,
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013,
- Jen, Gish,
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013,
- Jen, Gish,
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,
- Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922,
- Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922,
- Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930,
- Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930,
- Jones, Edward P.,
- Lahiri, Jhumpa,
- Lahiri, Jhumpa,
- Jones, Edward P.,
- Jones, Thom,
- Jones, Thom,
- Kinsella, W. P.,
- Kinsella, W. P.,
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941,
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941,
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924,
- Kincaid, Jamaica,
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924,
- Keret, Etgar, 1967-
- Kincaid, Jamaica,
- Keret, Etgar, 1967-
- Yamamoto, Hisaye,
- Achebe, Chinua,
- Yamamoto, Hisaye,
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960,
- Achebe, Chinua,
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960,
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941,
- Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973,
- Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973,
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941,
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963,
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963,
- Allende, Isabel,
- Allende, Isabel,
- Wideman, John Edgar,
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941,
- Wideman, John Edgar,
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941,
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937,
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937,
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001,
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001,
- Watson, Brad, 1955-2020,
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,
- Bambara, Toni Cade,
- Bambara, Toni Cade,
- Watson, Brad, 1955-2020,
- Banks, Russell, 1940-
- Wallace, David Foster,
- Banks, Russell, 1940-
- Wallace, David Foster,
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Barthelme, Donald,
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Barthelme, Donald,
- Vonnegut, Kurt,
- Beattie, Ann,
- Beattie, Ann,
- Vonnegut, Kurt,
- Viramontes, Helena María, 1954-
- Viramontes, Helena María, 1954-
- Urquhart, Jane,
- Urquhart, Jane,
- Updike, John,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Updike, John,
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Tan, Amy,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Tan, Amy,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968,
- Contributor
-
- Kincaid, Jamaica,
- Kincaid, Jamaica,
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924,
- Kinsella, W. P.,
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941,
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941,
- Kinsella, W. P.,
- Jones, Thom,
- Kupperman, Michael, 1966-
- Jones, Thom,
- Kupperman, Michael, 1966-
- Jones, Edward P.,
- Lahiri, Jhumpa,
- Lahiri, Jhumpa,
- Jones, Edward P.,
- Lamott, Anne,
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Lamott, Anne,
- Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930,
- Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930,
- Jin, Ha, 1956-
- Jin, Ha, 1956-
- Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922,
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
- Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922,
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,
- Jenks, Tom,
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,
- Jenks, Tom,
- Jen, Gish,
- Jen, Gish,
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013,
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013,
- Lewis, Simon,
- Janouch, Gustav,
- Janouch, Gustav,
- Lewis, Simon,
- James, Henry, 1843-1916,
- London, Jack, 1876-1916,
- James, Henry, 1843-1916,
- London, Jack, 1876-1916,
- Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965,
- Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965,
- Mairowitz, David Zane, 1943-
- Mairowitz, David Zane, 1943-
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923,
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923,
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859,
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859,
- Mason, Bobbie Ann,
- Hurston, Zora Neale,
- Mason, Bobbie Ann,
- Hurston, Zora Neale,
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893,
- Homes, A. M.,
- Homes, A. M.,
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893,
- McClane, Kenneth A., 1951-
- Henry, O., 1862-1910,
- Henry, O., 1862-1910,
- McClane, Kenneth A., 1951-
- Hempel, Amy,
- McCloud, Scott, 1960-
- McCloud, Scott, 1960-
- Hempel, Amy,
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961,
- McFarland, Dorothy Tuck, 1938-
- McFarland, Dorothy Tuck, 1938-
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961,
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864,
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891,
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891,
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864,
- Hatfield, Charles, 1965-
- Hatfield, Charles, 1965-
- Miller, J. Hillis, (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021,
- Miller, J. Hillis, (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021,
- Millhauser, Steven,
- Harris, Janice H.
- Gubar, Susan, 1944-
- Millhauser, Steven,
- Gubar, Susan, 1944-
- Moody, Rick,
- Granados, Christine, 1969-
- Moody, Rick,
- Moore, Lorrie,
- Granados, Christine, 1969-
- Moore, Lorrie,
- Gornick, Vivian,
- Moser, Don,
- Gornick, Vivian,
- Gordimer, Nadine,
- Moser, Don,
- Mueenuddin, Daniyal,
- Gordimer, Nadine,
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852,
- Mueenuddin, Daniyal,
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852,
- Mukherjee, Bharati,
- Mukherjee, Bharati,
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935,
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935,
- Munro, Alice, 1931-
- Munro, Alice, 1931-
- Gilbert, Sandra M.,
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Gilbert, Sandra M.,
- Gilb, Dagoberto, 1950-
- Gilb, Dagoberto, 1950-
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977,
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977,
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,
- Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph, 1753-1819,
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,
- Fuentes, Carlos,
- Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph, 1753-1819,
- Fuentes, Carlos,
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Ford, Richard, 1944-
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- O'Connor, Flannery,
- Ford, Richard, 1944-
- Flynn, Sean,
- O'Connor, Flannery,
- Flynn, Sean,
- O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966,
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940,
- O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966,
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940,
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962,
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962,
- Olsen, Tillie,
- Erdrich, Louise,
- Olsen, Tillie,
- Erdrich, Louise,
- Ozick, Cynthia,
- Ellman, Richard
- Ozick, Cynthia,
- Palahniuk, Chuck,
- Ellison, Ralph,
- Ellison, Ralph,
- Palahniuk, Chuck,
- Paley, Grace,
- Eisner, Will,
- Eisner, Will,
- Paley, Grace,
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Parini, Jay,
- Parini, Jay,
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998,
- Davis, Lydia, 1947-
- Davis, Lydia, 1947-
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998,
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Plum, Sydney
- Crumb, R.,
- Crumb, R.,
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900,
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849,
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849,
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980,
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900,
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980,
- Cortázar, Julio,
- Proulx, Annie,
- Proulx, Annie,
- Cortázar, Julio,
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924,
- Roth, Philip,
- Roth, Philip,
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924,
- Cisneros, Sandra,
- Cisneros, Sandra,
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904,
- Sacco, Joe,
- Sacco, Joe,
- Said, Edward W.,
- Said, Edward W.,
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904,
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904,
- Saki, 1870-1916,
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904,
- Cheever, John,
- Saki, 1870-1916,
- Cheever, John,
- Saltzman, Arthur M., (Arthur Michael), 1953-
- Saltzman, Arthur M., (Arthur Michael), 1953-
- Charters, Ann,
- Charters, Ann,
- Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
- Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Scott, A. O.,
- Chang, Lan Samantha,
- Scott, A. O.,
- Shields, Carol,
- Chang, Lan Samantha,
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,
- Shields, Carol,
- Showalter, Elaine,
- Showalter, Elaine,
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
- Simpson, Helen,
- Simpson, Helen,
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960,
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960,
- Byerman, Keith E.
- Smith, Zadie,
- Smith, Zadie,
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004,
- Burke, Jan,
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004,
- Burke, Jan,
- Spiegelman, Art,
- Spiegelman, Art,
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994,
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994,
- Brennan, Matthew C.
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968,
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Tan, Amy,
- Tan, Amy,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951
- Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975,
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975,
- Booth, Wayne C.,
- Booth, Wayne C.,
- Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
- Updike, John,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Updike, John,
- Urquhart, Jane,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Urquhart, Jane,
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- Viramontes, Helena María, 1954-
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- Beattie, Ann,
- Viramontes, Helena María, 1954-
- Vonnegut, Kurt,
- Beattie, Ann,
- Vonnegut, Kurt,
- Barthelme, Donald,
- Barthelme, Donald,
- Barry, Lynda, 1956-
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Barry, Lynda, 1956-
- Banks, Russell, 1940-
- Wallace, David Foster,
- Wallace, David Foster,
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989,
- Banks, Russell, 1940-
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989,
- Bambara, Toni Cade,
- Bambara, Toni Cade,
- Watson, Brad, 1955-2020,
- Watson, Brad, 1955-2020,
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001,
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001,
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941,
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937,
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937,
- Wideman, John Edgar,
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941,
- Allende, Isabel,
- Wideman, John Edgar,
- Allende, Isabel,
- Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963,
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963,
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927
- Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927
- Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973,
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941,
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941,
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960,
- Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973,
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960,
- Achebe, Chinua,
- Achebe, Chinua,
- Yamamoto, Hisaye,
- Keret, Etgar, 1967-
- Yamamoto, Hisaye,
- Keret, Etgar, 1967-
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924,
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Eighth Edition
- Extent
- xxvi, 1820 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction: Story and Its Writer -- Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks -- San Francisco / Lynda Barry -- Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel -- Rememberer / Aimee Bender -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Werewolf / Angela Carter -- Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's Case / Willa Carter -- Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's Baby; Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- Night Women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich-- Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Homage / Nadine Gordimer -- Bride / Christine Granados -- Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel -- Things You Should Know / A. M. Homes -- Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Real Thing / Henry James -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Dirty Wedding / Denis Johnson -- Bad Neighbors / Edward P. Jones -- Pugilist at Rest / Thom Jones -- Araby; Dead / James Joyce -- Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Not Human Beings / Etgar Keret -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella -- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Odour of Chrysanthemums ; Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Drover's Wife / Henry Lawson -- Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing -- Build a Fire / Jack London -- Fly ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Invasion from Outer Space / Steven Millhauser -- Videos of the Dead / Rick Moody -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin -- Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dance of the Happy Shades / Alice Munro -- Toys of Peace / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) -- Ice Man / Haruki Murakami -- Lady with the Pet Dog ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- Everything That Rises Must Converge; Good Country People; Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick-- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Escort / Chuck Palahniuk -- Conversation with My Father ; Mother / Grace Paley -- My Life with the Wave / Octavio Paz -- Stars / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Cask of Amontillado; Fall of the House of Usher ; Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- Job History / Annie Proulx -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco -- From Persepolis : The Veil / Marjane Satrapi -- Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders -- Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine / Carol Shields -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Homework / Helen Simpson -- Girl with Bangs / Zadie Smith -- Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag -- Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History / Art Spiegelman -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- A & P / John Updike -- Dreams / Jane Urquhart -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Good People / David Foster Wallace -- Seeing Eye / Brad Watson -- Why I Live at the P.O. ; Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies ; Stories / John Edgar Wideman -- Use of Force / William Carlos Williams -- Powder ; Say Yes / Tobias Wolff -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright -- Brown House / Hisaye Yamamoto
- Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe -- Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie -- Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman / Paula Gunn Allen -- Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story / Sherwood Anderson -- Reading Blind / Margaret Atwood -- Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and "Lady with the Dog" / Matthew C. Brennan -- Translating Kafka / Ann Charters -- Why I Write Short Stories / John Cheever -- Technique in Writing the Short Story / Anton Chekhov -- How I Stumbled Upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin -- Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane -- Hunger Artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz --On the Short, Short Story / Lydia Davis -- Influence of Folklore on ''Battle Royal'' / Ralph Ellison -- Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "Dead" / Richard Ellmann -- Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner -- Why We Like Chekhov / Richard Ford -- Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future / Carlos Fuentes -- On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick -- Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" / Janice H. Harris -- How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston -- Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson -- Genesis of "Real Thing" / Henry James -- Kafka's View of "Metamorphosis" / Gustav Janouch -- Looking Back on Girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett -- On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid -- Finding Your Voice / Anne Lamott -- Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" / Jack London -- Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" / Katherine Mansfield -- On Tim O'Brien's ''Things They Carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Writer's Goal / Guy de Maupassant -- Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville -- Deconstructive Reading on Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / J. Hillis Miller -- How I write Short Stories / Alice Munro -- On Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Haruki Murakami -- Gogol's Genius in "Overcoat" ; Reading of Chekhov's "Lady with the Little Dog" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Peter Klaus the Goatherd / J.C.C. Nachtigal -- Alpha Company / Tim O'Brien -- Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story ; Style and Form in Joyce's "Dead" / Frank O'Connor -- Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley -- Lawrence's and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" / Jay Parini -- Guided Tours of Time and Death / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road, and Stop for the Yard Sales / Annie Proulx -- Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography / Edward W. Said -- Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Writing as Reading / Susan Sontag -- In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons / Amy Tan -- Chekhov's Intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy -- Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" / Lionel Trilling -- Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View / Alice Walker -- Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed / David Foster Wallace -- Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? / Eudora Welty -- Reading Fiction / Richard Wright
- Casebooks: Casebook One: James Baldwin's "Sonny blues:" Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin -- Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" / Keith E. Byerman -- "Sonny Blues" Saved My Life / Kenneth A. McClane -- Casebook Two: Raymond Carver: On Writing; Creative Writing 101; Bath / Raymond Carver -- Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks -- Reading of ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman -- Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott -- Casebook Three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow wallpaper:" Why I Wrote "Yellow wallpaper ; Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Feminist Reading of Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- On "Yellow Wallpaper" / Elaine Showalter -- Casebook Four: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies:" My Two Lives / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn -- Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis -- Casebook Five: Flannery O'Connor: From Letters, 1954-55 ; Writing Short Stories; Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor -- Parables of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' / Wayne C. Booth -- On ''Good Country People'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland -- Casebook Six: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:" Stories That Define Me: Making of a Writer ; Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film / Joyce Carol Oates -- Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action / Don Moser -- Casebook Seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale / Edgar Allan Poe -- On "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado" / D.H. Lawrence -- New Critical Reading of "Fall of the House of Usher" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke -- Fall of the House of Usher / Will Eisner -- Casebook Eight: Graphic Storytelling: What the Little Old Ladies Feel / Alison Bechdel -- From "Alternative Comics: Toward the Habit of Questioning" / Charles Hatfield -- Are Comics Serious Literature / Michael Kupperman -- From Understanding Comics: Invisible Art / Scott McCloud -- Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum -- Some Reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco -- Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading Short Stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'') -- Elements of Fiction -- Brief History of the Short Story -- Writing about Short Stories -- Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- Chronological Listing of Authors' Stories -- Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories -- Index of Authors and Titles
- Isbn
- 9780312596231
- Label
- The Story and Its Writer : An Introduction to Short Fiction
- Title
- The Story and Its Writer
- Title remainder
- An Introduction to Short Fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- [edited by] Ann Charters
- Contributor
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- Urquhart, Jane,
- Updike, John,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Bender, Aimee,
- Updike, John,
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Tan, Amy,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Tan, Amy,
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968,
- Contributor
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- Said, Edward W.,
- Burke, Jan,
- Flynn, Sean,
- Flynn, Sean,
- McFarland, Dorothy Tuck, 1938-
- McFarland, Dorothy Tuck, 1938-
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975,
- McCloud, Scott, 1960-
- Ford, Richard, 1944-
- McCloud, Scott, 1960-
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989,
- Ford, Richard, 1944-
- McClane, Kenneth A., 1951-
- Fuentes, Carlos,
- McClane, Kenneth A., 1951-
- Parini, Jay,
- Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph, 1753-1819,
- Fuentes, Carlos,
- Parini, Jay,
- Byerman, Keith E.
- Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph, 1753-1819,
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977,
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977,
- Eisner, Will,
- Gilbert, Sandra M.,
- Gilbert, Sandra M.,
- Eisner, Will,
- Mairowitz, David Zane, 1943-
- Booth, Wayne C.,
- Scott, A. O.,
- Mairowitz, David Zane, 1943-
- Scott, A. O.,
- Brennan, Matthew C.
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994,
- Ellman, Richard
- Janouch, Gustav,
- Lewis, Simon,
- Janouch, Gustav,
- Lewis, Simon,
- Saltzman, Arthur M., (Arthur Michael), 1953-
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989,
- Saltzman, Arthur M., (Arthur Michael), 1953-
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994,
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975,
- Booth, Wayne C.,
- Jenks, Tom,
- Jenks, Tom,
- Moser, Don,
- Gornick, Vivian,
- Gornick, Vivian,
- Moser, Don,
- Lamott, Anne,
- Lamott, Anne,
- Showalter, Elaine,
- Showalter, Elaine,
- Said, Edward W.,
- Burke, Jan,
- Kupperman, Michael, 1966-
- Kupperman, Michael, 1966-
- Gubar, Susan, 1944-
- Crumb, R.,
- Gubar, Susan, 1944-
- Harris, Janice H.
- Plum, Sydney
- Miller, J. Hillis, (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021,
- Hatfield, Charles, 1965-
- Miller, J. Hillis, (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021,
- Hatfield, Charles, 1965-
- Crumb, R.,
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- 1940-1992
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- 1860-1904,
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- 1835-1910,
- 1857-1924,
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- 1969-
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- 1927-2014,
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- 1969-
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- 1967-
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- 1929-2018,
- 1919-2013,
- 1876-1916,
- 1888-1923,
- 1850-1893,
- 1819-1891,
- 1931-
- 1870-1916,
- 1949-
- 1938-
- 1946-
- 1903-1966,
- 1914-1998,
- 1952-
- 1809-1849,
- 1890-1980,
- 1862-1910,
- 1969-
- 1958-
- 1948-
- 1933-2004,
- 1902-1968,
- 1828-1910,
- 1894-1967,
- 1954-
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- Charters, Ann,
- Achebe, Chinua,
- Aiken, Conrad
- Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke
- Alexie, Sherman
- Allende, Isabel,
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Atwood, Margaret
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade,
- Banks, Russell
- Barry, Lynda
- Barthelme, Donald,
- Beattie, Ann,
- Bechdel, Alison
- Bender, Aimee,
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Borowski, Tadeusz
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
- Bradbury, Ray
- Camus, Albert
- Carter, Angela
- Carver, Raymond
- Cather, Willa
- Chang, Lan Samantha,
- Cheever, John,
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Chopin, Kate
- Cisneros, Sandra,
- Twain, Mark
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cortázar, Julio,
- Crane, Stephen
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Davis, Lydia
- Díaz, Junot
- Ellison, Ralph,
- Erdrich, Louise,
- Faulkner, William
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Gilb, Dagoberto
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich
- Gordimer, Nadine,
- Granados, Christine
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hempel, Amy,
- Homes, A. M.,
- Hurston, Zora Neale,
- Irving, Washington
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry
- Jen, Gish,
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Jin, Ha
- Johnson, Denis
- Jones, Edward P.,
- Jones, Thom,
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Keret, Etgar
- Kincaid, Jamaica,
- Kinsella, W. P.,
- Lahiri, Jhumpa,
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lawson, Henry
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Lessing, Doris
- London, Jack
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Mason, Bobbie Ann,
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Melville, Herman
- Millhauser, Steven,
- Moody, Rick,
- Moore, Lorrie,
- Mueenuddin, Daniyal,
- Mukherjee, Bharati,
- Munro, Alice
- Saki
- Murakami, Haruki
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O'Brien, Tim
- O'Connor, Flannery,
- O'Connor, Frank
- Olsen, Tillie,
- Ozick, Cynthia,
- Palahniuk, Chuck,
- Paley, Grace,
- Paz, Octavio
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Henry, O.
- Proulx, Annie,
- Roth, Philip,
- Sacco, Joe,
- Satrapi, Marjane
- Saunders, George
- Shields, Carol,
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Simpson, Helen,
- Smith, Zadie,
- Sontag, Susan
- Spiegelman, Art,
- Steinbeck, John
- Tan, Amy,
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Toomer, Jean
- Updike, John,
- Urquhart, Jane,
- Viramontes, Helena María
- Vonnegut, Kurt,
- Walker, Alice
- Wallace, David Foster,
- Watson, Brad
- Welty, Eudora
- Wharton, Edith
- Wideman, John Edgar,
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wolff, Tobias
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wright, Richard
- Yamamoto, Hisaye,
- Brennan, Matthew C.
- Crumb, R.,
- Mairowitz, David Zane
- Ellman, Richard
- Ford, Richard
- Fuentes, Carlos,
- Gornick, Vivian,
- Harris, Janice H.
- Janouch, Gustav,
- Lamott, Anne,
- Miller, J. Hillis
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
- Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph
- Parini, Jay,
- Said, Edward W.,
- Trilling, Lionel
- Byerman, Keith E.
- McClane, Kenneth A.
- Jenks, Tom,
- Saltzman, Arthur M.
- Scott, A. O.,
- Gilbert, Sandra M.,
- Gubar, Susan
- Showalter, Elaine,
- Flynn, Sean,
- Lewis, Simon,
- Booth, Wayne C.,
- McFarland, Dorothy Tuck
- Moser, Don,
- Brooks, Cleanth
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Burke, Jan,
- Eisner, Will,
- Hatfield, Charles
- Kupperman, Michael
- McCloud, Scott
- Plum, Sydney
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- The Story and Its Writer : An Introduction to Short Fiction, [edited by] Ann Charters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Introduction: Story and Its Writer -- Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks -- San Francisco / Lynda Barry -- Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel -- Rememberer / Aimee Bender -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Werewolf / Angela Carter -- Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's Case / Willa Carter -- Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's Baby; Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- Night Women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich-- Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Homage / Nadine Gordimer -- Bride / Christine Granados -- Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel -- Things You Should Know / A. M. Homes -- Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Real Thing / Henry James -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Dirty Wedding / Denis Johnson -- Bad Neighbors / Edward P. Jones -- Pugilist at Rest / Thom Jones -- Araby; Dead / James Joyce -- Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Not Human Beings / Etgar Keret -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella -- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Odour of Chrysanthemums ; Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Drover's Wife / Henry Lawson -- Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing -- Build a Fire / Jack London -- Fly ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Invasion from Outer Space / Steven Millhauser -- Videos of the Dead / Rick Moody -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin -- Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dance of the Happy Shades / Alice Munro -- Toys of Peace / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) -- Ice Man / Haruki Murakami -- Lady with the Pet Dog ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- Everything That Rises Must Converge; Good Country People; Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick-- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Escort / Chuck Palahniuk -- Conversation with My Father ; Mother / Grace Paley -- My Life with the Wave / Octavio Paz -- Stars / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Cask of Amontillado; Fall of the House of Usher ; Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- Job History / Annie Proulx -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco -- From Persepolis : The Veil / Marjane Satrapi -- Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders -- Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine / Carol Shields -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Homework / Helen Simpson -- Girl with Bangs / Zadie Smith -- Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag -- Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History / Art Spiegelman -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- A & P / John Updike -- Dreams / Jane Urquhart -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Good People / David Foster Wallace -- Seeing Eye / Brad Watson -- Why I Live at the P.O. ; Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies ; Stories / John Edgar Wideman -- Use of Force / William Carlos Williams -- Powder ; Say Yes / Tobias Wolff -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright -- Brown House / Hisaye Yamamoto
- Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe -- Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie -- Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman / Paula Gunn Allen -- Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story / Sherwood Anderson -- Reading Blind / Margaret Atwood -- Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and "Lady with the Dog" / Matthew C. Brennan -- Translating Kafka / Ann Charters -- Why I Write Short Stories / John Cheever -- Technique in Writing the Short Story / Anton Chekhov -- How I Stumbled Upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin -- Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane -- Hunger Artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz --On the Short, Short Story / Lydia Davis -- Influence of Folklore on ''Battle Royal'' / Ralph Ellison -- Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "Dead" / Richard Ellmann -- Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner -- Why We Like Chekhov / Richard Ford -- Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future / Carlos Fuentes -- On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick -- Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" / Janice H. Harris -- How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston -- Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson -- Genesis of "Real Thing" / Henry James -- Kafka's View of "Metamorphosis" / Gustav Janouch -- Looking Back on Girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett -- On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid -- Finding Your Voice / Anne Lamott -- Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" / Jack London -- Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" / Katherine Mansfield -- On Tim O'Brien's ''Things They Carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Writer's Goal / Guy de Maupassant -- Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville -- Deconstructive Reading on Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / J. Hillis Miller -- How I write Short Stories / Alice Munro -- On Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Haruki Murakami -- Gogol's Genius in "Overcoat" ; Reading of Chekhov's "Lady with the Little Dog" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Peter Klaus the Goatherd / J.C.C. Nachtigal -- Alpha Company / Tim O'Brien -- Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story ; Style and Form in Joyce's "Dead" / Frank O'Connor -- Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley -- Lawrence's and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" / Jay Parini -- Guided Tours of Time and Death / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road, and Stop for the Yard Sales / Annie Proulx -- Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography / Edward W. Said -- Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Writing as Reading / Susan Sontag -- In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons / Amy Tan -- Chekhov's Intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy -- Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" / Lionel Trilling -- Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View / Alice Walker -- Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed / David Foster Wallace -- Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? / Eudora Welty -- Reading Fiction / Richard Wright
- Casebooks: Casebook One: James Baldwin's "Sonny blues:" Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin -- Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" / Keith E. Byerman -- "Sonny Blues" Saved My Life / Kenneth A. McClane -- Casebook Two: Raymond Carver: On Writing; Creative Writing 101; Bath / Raymond Carver -- Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks -- Reading of ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman -- Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott -- Casebook Three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow wallpaper:" Why I Wrote "Yellow wallpaper ; Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Feminist Reading of Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- On "Yellow Wallpaper" / Elaine Showalter -- Casebook Four: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies:" My Two Lives / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn -- Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis -- Casebook Five: Flannery O'Connor: From Letters, 1954-55 ; Writing Short Stories; Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor -- Parables of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' / Wayne C. Booth -- On ''Good Country People'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland -- Casebook Six: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:" Stories That Define Me: Making of a Writer ; Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film / Joyce Carol Oates -- Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action / Don Moser -- Casebook Seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale / Edgar Allan Poe -- On "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado" / D.H. Lawrence -- New Critical Reading of "Fall of the House of Usher" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke -- Fall of the House of Usher / Will Eisner -- Casebook Eight: Graphic Storytelling: What the Little Old Ladies Feel / Alison Bechdel -- From "Alternative Comics: Toward the Habit of Questioning" / Charles Hatfield -- Are Comics Serious Literature / Michael Kupperman -- From Understanding Comics: Invisible Art / Scott McCloud -- Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum -- Some Reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco -- Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading Short Stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'') -- Elements of Fiction -- Brief History of the Short Story -- Writing about Short Stories -- Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- Chronological Listing of Authors' Stories -- Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories -- Index of Authors and Titles
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- Introduction: Story and Its Writer -- Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks -- San Francisco / Lynda Barry -- Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel -- Rememberer / Aimee Bender -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Werewolf / Angela Carter -- Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's Case / Willa Carter -- Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's Baby; Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- Night Women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich-- Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Homage / Nadine Gordimer -- Bride / Christine Granados -- Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel -- Things You Should Know / A. M. Homes -- Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Real Thing / Henry James -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Dirty Wedding / Denis Johnson -- Bad Neighbors / Edward P. Jones -- Pugilist at Rest / Thom Jones -- Araby; Dead / James Joyce -- Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Not Human Beings / Etgar Keret -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella -- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Odour of Chrysanthemums ; Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Drover's Wife / Henry Lawson -- Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing -- Build a Fire / Jack London -- Fly ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Invasion from Outer Space / Steven Millhauser -- Videos of the Dead / Rick Moody -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin -- Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dance of the Happy Shades / Alice Munro -- Toys of Peace / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) -- Ice Man / Haruki Murakami -- Lady with the Pet Dog ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- Everything That Rises Must Converge; Good Country People; Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick-- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Escort / Chuck Palahniuk -- Conversation with My Father ; Mother / Grace Paley -- My Life with the Wave / Octavio Paz -- Stars / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Cask of Amontillado; Fall of the House of Usher ; Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- Job History / Annie Proulx -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco -- From Persepolis : The Veil / Marjane Satrapi -- Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders -- Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine / Carol Shields -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Homework / Helen Simpson -- Girl with Bangs / Zadie Smith -- Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag -- Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History / Art Spiegelman -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- A & P / John Updike -- Dreams / Jane Urquhart -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Good People / David Foster Wallace -- Seeing Eye / Brad Watson -- Why I Live at the P.O. ; Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies ; Stories / John Edgar Wideman -- Use of Force / William Carlos Williams -- Powder ; Say Yes / Tobias Wolff -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright -- Brown House / Hisaye Yamamoto
- Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe -- Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie -- Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman / Paula Gunn Allen -- Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story / Sherwood Anderson -- Reading Blind / Margaret Atwood -- Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and "Lady with the Dog" / Matthew C. Brennan -- Translating Kafka / Ann Charters -- Why I Write Short Stories / John Cheever -- Technique in Writing the Short Story / Anton Chekhov -- How I Stumbled Upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin -- Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane -- Hunger Artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz --On the Short, Short Story / Lydia Davis -- Influence of Folklore on ''Battle Royal'' / Ralph Ellison -- Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "Dead" / Richard Ellmann -- Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner -- Why We Like Chekhov / Richard Ford -- Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future / Carlos Fuentes -- On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick -- Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" / Janice H. Harris -- How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston -- Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson -- Genesis of "Real Thing" / Henry James -- Kafka's View of "Metamorphosis" / Gustav Janouch -- Looking Back on Girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett -- On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid -- Finding Your Voice / Anne Lamott -- Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" / Jack London -- Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" / Katherine Mansfield -- On Tim O'Brien's ''Things They Carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Writer's Goal / Guy de Maupassant -- Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville -- Deconstructive Reading on Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / J. Hillis Miller -- How I write Short Stories / Alice Munro -- On Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Haruki Murakami -- Gogol's Genius in "Overcoat" ; Reading of Chekhov's "Lady with the Little Dog" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Peter Klaus the Goatherd / J.C.C. Nachtigal -- Alpha Company / Tim O'Brien -- Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story ; Style and Form in Joyce's "Dead" / Frank O'Connor -- Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley -- Lawrence's and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" / Jay Parini -- Guided Tours of Time and Death / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road, and Stop for the Yard Sales / Annie Proulx -- Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography / Edward W. Said -- Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Writing as Reading / Susan Sontag -- In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons / Amy Tan -- Chekhov's Intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy -- Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" / Lionel Trilling -- Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View / Alice Walker -- Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed / David Foster Wallace -- Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? / Eudora Welty -- Reading Fiction / Richard Wright
- Casebooks: Casebook One: James Baldwin's "Sonny blues:" Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin -- Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" / Keith E. Byerman -- "Sonny Blues" Saved My Life / Kenneth A. McClane -- Casebook Two: Raymond Carver: On Writing; Creative Writing 101; Bath / Raymond Carver -- Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks -- Reading of ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman -- Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott -- Casebook Three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow wallpaper:" Why I Wrote "Yellow wallpaper ; Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Feminist Reading of Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- On "Yellow Wallpaper" / Elaine Showalter -- Casebook Four: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies:" My Two Lives / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn -- Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis -- Casebook Five: Flannery O'Connor: From Letters, 1954-55 ; Writing Short Stories; Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor -- Parables of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' / Wayne C. Booth -- On ''Good Country People'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland -- Casebook Six: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:" Stories That Define Me: Making of a Writer ; Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film / Joyce Carol Oates -- Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action / Don Moser -- Casebook Seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale / Edgar Allan Poe -- On "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado" / D.H. Lawrence -- New Critical Reading of "Fall of the House of Usher" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke -- Fall of the House of Usher / Will Eisner -- Casebook Eight: Graphic Storytelling: What the Little Old Ladies Feel / Alison Bechdel -- From "Alternative Comics: Toward the Habit of Questioning" / Charles Hatfield -- Are Comics Serious Literature / Michael Kupperman -- From Understanding Comics: Invisible Art / Scott McCloud -- Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum -- Some Reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco -- Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading Short Stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'') -- Elements of Fiction -- Brief History of the Short Story -- Writing about Short Stories -- Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- Chronological Listing of Authors' Stories -- Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories -- Index of Authors and Titles
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- 863236661
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- 24 cm
- Edition
- Eighth Edition
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- xxvi, 1820 pages
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- 9780312596231
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- rdamedia
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