The Story and its Writer
An Introduction to Short Fiction
Third Edition
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Author
- Ann Charters
- Chinua Achebe
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Kate Chopin
- Jackson, Shirley
- Joyce, James
- Herman Melville
- Alice Munro
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- John Steinbeck
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- Richard Wright
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Flaubert, Gustave
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Faulkner
Publication
1991 - Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Boston
Language
English
Word Count
401,750 words, Guess
Page Count
1,607 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestoryitswriterin0000annc
- ISBN-100312034695
- ISBN-139780312034696
- Goodreads25929292
- Library of Congress Control Number89063890
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780312034696
- Open LibraryOL48060860M
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
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