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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction: Eighth Edition
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.
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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October 2, 2011
I reviewed a lot of short story anthologies to teach a short fiction class, and this one was wonderful. It includes a lot of the classics students hadn't read on their own -- Gogol, Chekhov, Kafka, and contemporary writers as well. Concise bios and a whole section of critical essays. The students loved it, as did I. My only complaint is that it's printed on the thinnest, most see-through paper you've ever seen.
June 2, 2011
Taking a class in reading the greats. This anthology looks fantastic! First two stories to read: Marquez and Bender.
For this class we read quite a few of the stories in this collection. It is a wonderful anthology. Seems as if some stories are found in all my anthologies, but I was exposed to some new writers such as Bender and really enjoyed expanding my knowledge base.
For this class we read quite a few of the stories in this collection. It is a wonderful anthology. Seems as if some stories are found in all my anthologies, but I was exposed to some new writers such as Bender and really enjoyed expanding my knowledge base.
February 18, 2014
This is the most incredible compilation. Not only does it include a vast array of authors (from Shirley Jackson to Edgar Allan Poe to George Saunders, to Alice Munro) but it includes a comprehensive collection of essays by renowned authors and critics alike, not to mention sections on how to write, etc. This is truly a phenomenal text.
July 17, 2013
Obviously I haven't gotten to every story in this compilation yet but I have gained insight from every one that I have. Great buy - worth every penny, and I'd recommend it to anyone. I bought it for school and I've never been more happy with a class-assigned text.
February 12, 2011
Finished Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal.... Read it to be truly sickened by the blight of American (Racial) History.
July 14, 2012
Kudos to a former professor of mine. Great compilation!
May 14, 2014
this book had a lot of good stories in it
March 7, 2015
This anthology is full of s lot of great short stories! I highly recommend it if you like short stories or want to try out a variety of different genres!
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