Short Fiction
Classic and Contemporary
Second Edition (2)
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Author
- Charles H. Bohner
- Alice Adams
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Kate Chopin
- Mark Twain
- Dahl, Roald.
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Joyce, James
- Jack London
- Herman Melville
- Alice Munro
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Philip A. Roth
- John Steinbeck
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- Richard Wright
- Jackson, Shirley
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Publication
1989 - Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Language
English
Word Count
295,000 words, Guess
Page Count
1,180 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveshortfictionclas0000unse_n0d1
- ISBN-10013809229X
- ISBN-139780138092290
- Goodreads10694132
- Library of Congress Control Number89016281
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number895009353
- Open LibraryOL7344413M
Classifications
- DDC808.83 '1
- LCCPN6120.2.S46 1989
Description
Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson -- Rape fantasies / M. Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / I. Babel -- Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin -- The lesson / T.C. Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth -- A city of churches / D. Barthelme -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / A. Bierce -- Like a bad dream / H. Böll -- The end of the duel / J.L. Borges -- Cathedral / R. Carver -- Paul's case / W. Cather -- The enormous radio ; The swimmer / J. Cheever -- The darling ; Gooseberies ; The lady with the dog / A. Chekhov -- [The story of an hour ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)/ K. Chopin -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / S. Clemens (M. Twain) -- The secret sharer / J. Conrad -- The magic poker / R. Coover ; The blue hotel ; The open boat / S. Crane ; [The way up to heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W) / R. Dahl -- [The red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / A.C. Doyle -- The doctor / A. Dubus -- King of the bingo game / R. Ellison -- Dry September ; [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) ; [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / W. Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tuesday siesta / G.G. Márquez ; The yellow wallpaper / C.P. Gilman -- The overcoat / N. Gogol -- The life of the imagination / N. Gordimer -- Two gentle people / G. Greene -- Argument and persuasion / D. Hall -- Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver / T. Hardy -- [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) ; [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / N. Hawthorne -- A Vermont tale / M. Helprin -- Hills like white elephants / E. Hemingway -- The lottery / S. Jackson -- The real thing ; The tree of knowledge / H. James -- A white heron / S.O. Jewett -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) ; [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / J. Joyce -- A hunger artist / F. Kafka -- The man who would be king ; Mary Postgate / R. Kipling -- Not a good girl / P. Klass -- Haircut / R. Lardner -- The horse-dealer's daughter ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The professor's houses / U.K. LeGuin -- One off the short list ; A sunrise on the veld / D. Lessing -- To build a fire / J. London -- A tree, a rock, a cloud / C. McCullers -- The magic barrel / B. Malamud -- A dill pickle ; Miss Brill / K. Mansfield -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- The necklace / G. de Maupassant -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / H. Melville -- Patriotism / Y. Mishima -- Boys and girls / A. Munro -- The passenger / V. Nabokov -- The going-away party ; Where are you going, where have you been? / J.C. Oates -- The creature / E. O'Brien -- Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation ; My oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Do you like it here? / J. O'Hara -- I stand here ironing / T. Olsen -- A conversation with my father / G. Paley -- War / L. Pirandello -- [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W); [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) ; [The purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / E.A. Poe -- Flowering Judas ; The grave / K.A. Porter -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The diver / V.S. Pritchett -- The shot / A. Pushkin -- The conversion of the Jews / P. Roth -- I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 / J. Sayles -- Gimpel the fool / I.B. Singer -- The chrysanthemums / J. Steinbeck -- The catbird seat / J. Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / L. Tolstoy -- The tryst / I. Turgenev -- A & P ; The music school ; Made in heaven / J. Updike -- Roselily ; To hell with dying / A. Walker -- Blackberry winter ; The patented gate and the mean hamburger / R.P. Warren -- Petrified man ; A worn path / E. Welty -- The other two ; Roman fever / E. Wharton -- The use of force / W.C. Williams -- Smokers / T. Wolff -- The man who was almost a man / R. Wright -- Writers on writing: How to tell a story / S. Clemens (M. Twain) -- Stephen Crane's own story / S. Crane -- Biography of a story / S. Jackson -- On her own work / F. O'Connor -- The brief prose tale / E.A. Poe -- "Blackberry winter": a recollection / R.P. Warren -- Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / E. Welty.
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