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Story and Its Writer

An Introduction to Short Fiction

By Ann Charters,Chinua Achebe,Margaret Atwood,Ambrose Bierce,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Kate Chopin,Shirley Jackson,James Joyce,Herman Melville,Alice Munro,Edgar Allan Poe,John Steinbeck,Alice Walker,Edith Wharton,Richard Wright,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gabriel García Márquez,Gustave Flaubert,F. Scott Fitzgerald,William Faulkner

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Publish Date

1991

Publisher

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

Language

eng

Pages

1607

Description:

Dead men's path/Achebe Oasis/Adams Kugelmass episode/Allen Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson Happy endings/Atwood My first goose/Babel Sonny's blues/Baldwin Hammer man/Bambara Lost in the funhouse/Barth School/Barthelme Burning house/Beattie [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)/Bierce Like a bad dream/Böll Garden of forking paths/Borges This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski Distant episode/Bowles Overcoat II/Boyle Distance of the moon/Calvino Werewolf/Carter What we talk about when we talk about love/Carver Paul's case/Cather Swimmer/Cheever Darling ; Lady with the pet dog/Chekhov Regret ; [Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)/Chopin Hollow nut/Colette Heart of darkness/Conrad Gingerbread house/Coover Blow-up/Cortázar Open boat/Crane Blue jar ; Blue stones/Dinesen Curse/Dubus Battle royal/Ellison Red convertible/Erdrich [Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) ; Spotted horses/Faulkner Babylon revisited/Fitzgerald Simple heart/Flaubert Revolt of "Mother"/Freeman Doll Queen/Fuentes Very old man with enormous wings/García Márquez Yellow wallpaper/Gilman Overcoat/Gogol Town and country lovers/Gordimer My Kinsman, Major Molineux ; [Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)/Hawthorne Life/Head Hills like white elephants/Hemingway Daylight come/Hempel Spunk/Hurston Conversation in June about mothers/Sun-won House of flesh/Idriss Lottery/Jackson Beast in the jungle/James White heron/Jewett [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) ; [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W)/Joyce Hunger artist ; Metamorphosis/Kafka Girl/Kincaid Hitchhiking game/Kundera Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner/Lawrence Territory/Leavitt Ones who walk away from Omelas/Le Guin To room/Lessing Chicken/Lispector Jewbird/Malamud Disorder and early sorrow/Mann Bliss ; The fly/Mansfield Shiloh/Mason Necklace ; The string/Maupassant [Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)/Melville Lust/Minot Three million yen/Mishima Jasmine/Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy/Munro B. Wordsworth/Naipaul House opposite/Narayan Lucielia Louise Turner/Naylor Where are you going, where have you been?/Oates Things they carried/O'Brien Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find/O'Connor Guests of the nation/O'Connor I stand here ironing/Olsen Shawl/Ozick Conversation with my father/Paley [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) ; [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/Poe Theft/Porter Yellow woman/Silko Gimpel the fool/Singer Way we live now/Sontag Chrysanthemums/Steinbeck Two kinds/Tan Secret life of Walter Mitty/Thurber Death of Ivan Ilych/Tolstoy Palm-wine drinkard's first journey/Tutuola A & P ; Flight/Updike I'm your horse in the night/Valenzuela Roselily/Walker Weekend/Weldon Why I live at the P.O. ; A worn path/Welty Roman Fever/Wharton Hunters in the snow/Wolff Gardens/Woolf Man who was almost a man/Wright

subjectsAmerican Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction,  Homicide,  Horror,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Horror tales,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder,  short stories,  freedom,  selfhood,  self-fulfilment,  meaning of love,  short story,  tradition,  change,  death,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  Satanism,  Puritans,  catechism,  Devil,  Boys,  christian fiction,  Criticism and interpretation,  Daily Express,  family life,  Family reunions,  The Lass of Aughrim,  Three Graces,  Young men,  Copyists,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  history and criticism,  Revenge,  study and teaching,  History,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union

PeopleLouise Mallard,  Brently Mallard,  Josephine,  Richards,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Gabriel Conroy,  Kate Morkan,  Julia Morkan,  Mary Jane Morkan,  Lily,  Gretta Conroy,  Molly Ivors,  Mr Browne,  Freddy Malins,  Mrs Malins,  Bartell D'Arcy,  Patrick Morkan,  Michael Furey,  Mangan's sister,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Peyton Farquhar

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Times19th century,  Antebellum era,  1600s,  Carnival,  1861-65