The story

Description

Anthology of short stories designed to assist the reader in appreciation and critical evaluation of the story as a literary form.

Description

One: The story base -- Railway accident / Thomas Mann -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima -- Sausage and beer / Stephen Minot -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The freshest boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- two: Character and action -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Sentimental education / Harold Brodkey -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Amy Foster / Joseph Conrad -- three: Surface and symbol -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Artificial Nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- Hydrography / Paul Brodeur -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- four: Style and meaning -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Vision of the world / John Cheever -- The old people / William Faulkner -- A clean, well lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- five: Toward the novel -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Prentice-Hall English literature series

Other Editions

• The story: a critical anthology.Prentice-Hall1967-01-01
• The storyPrentice-Hall1950-01-01
• The storyPrentice-Hall1967-01-01
• The StoryPaperbackPrentice Hall1967-06-01
• The StoryPrentice Hall1967-06-01