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The Story and its writer

an introduction to short fiction

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"The Story and its writer" was published by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press in 1991 - Boston, MA, it has 1607 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: The Story and its writer
  • Authors: ➤  
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 1607
  • Publisher: ➤  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
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  • Publish Location: Boston, MA

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pagination: xxiv, 1607 p. ;

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"The Story and its writer" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Dead men's path/Achebe
  • 2- Oasis/Adams
  • 3- Kugelmass episode/Allen
  • 4- Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson
  • 5- Happy endings/Atwood
  • 6- My first goose/Babel
  • 7- Sonny's blues/Baldwin
  • 8- Hammer man/Bambara
  • 9- Lost in the funhouse/Barth
  • 10- School/Barthelme
  • 11- Burning house/Beattie
  • 12- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce
  • 13- Like a bad dream/Böll
  • 14- Garden of forking paths/Borges
  • 15- This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski
  • 16- Distant episode/Bowles
  • 17- Overcoat II/Boyle
  • 18- Distance of the moon/Calvino
  • 19- Werewolf/Carter
  • 20- What we talk about when we talk about love/Carver
  • 21- Paul's case/Cather
  • 22- Swimmer/Cheever
  • 23- Darling ; Lady with the pet dog/Chekhov
  • 24- Regret ; Story of an hour/Chopin
  • 25- Hollow nut/Colette
  • 26- Heart of darkness/Conrad
  • 27- Gingerbread house/Coover
  • 28- Blow-up/Cortázar
  • 29- Open boat/Crane
  • 30- Blue jar ; Blue stones/Dinesen
  • 31- Curse/Dubus
  • 32- Battle royal/Ellison
  • 33- Red convertible/Erdrich
  • 34- Rose for Emily ; Spotted horses/Faulkner
  • 35- Babylon revisited/Fitzgerald
  • 36- Simple heart/Flaubert
  • 37- Revolt of "Mother"/Freeman
  • 38- Doll Queen/Fuentes
  • 39- Very old man with enormous wings/García Márquez
  • 40- Yellow wallpaper/Gilman
  • 41- Overcoat/Gogol
  • 42- Town and country lovers/Gordimer
  • 43- My Kinsman, Major Molineux ; Young goodman Brown/Hawthorne
  • 44- Life/Head
  • 45- Hills like white elephants/Hemingway
  • 46- Daylight come/Hempel
  • 47- Spunk/Hurston
  • 48- Conversation in June about mothers/Sun-won
  • 49- House of flesh/Idriss
  • 50- Lottery/Jackson
  • 51- Beast in the jungle/James
  • 52- White heron/Jewett
  • 53- Araby ; The dead/Joyce
  • 54- Hunger artist ; Metamorphosis/Kafka
  • 55- Girl/Kincaid
  • 56- Hitchhiking game/Kundera
  • 57- Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner/Lawrence
  • 58- Territory/Leavitt
  • 59- Ones who walk away from Omelas/Le Guin
  • 60- To room/Lessing
  • 61- Chicken/Lispector
  • 62- Jewbird/Malamud
  • 63- Disorder and early sorrow/Mann
  • 64- Bliss ; The fly/Mansfield
  • 65- Shiloh/Mason
  • 66- Necklace ; The string/Maupassant
  • 67- Bartleby, the scrivener/Melville
  • 68- Lust/Minot
  • 69- Three million yen/Mishima
  • 70- Jasmine/Mukherjee
  • 71- Walker brothers cowboy/Munro
  • 72- B. Wordsworth/Naipaul
  • 73- House opposite/Narayan
  • 74- Lucielia Louise Turner/Naylor
  • 75- Where are you going, where have you been?/Oates
  • 76- Things they carried/O'Brien
  • 77- Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find/O'Connor
  • 78- Guests of the nation/O'Connor
  • 79- I stand here ironing/Olsen
  • 80- Shawl/Ozick
  • 81- Conversation with my father/Paley
  • 82- Cask of Amontillado ; The Tell-tale heart/Poe
  • 83- Theft/Porter
  • 84- Yellow woman/Silko
  • 85- Gimpel the fool/Singer
  • 86- Way we live now/Sontag
  • 87- Chrysanthemums/Steinbeck
  • 88- Two kinds/Tan
  • 89- Secret life of Walter Mitty/Thurber
  • 90- Death of Ivan Ilych/Tolstoy
  • 91- Palm-wine drinkard's first journey/Tutuola
  • 92- A & P ; Flight/Updike
  • 93- I'm your horse in the night/Valenzuela
  • 94- Roselily/Walker
  • 95- Weekend/Weldon
  • 96- Why I live at the P.O. ; A worn path/Welty
  • 97- Roman Fever/Wharton
  • 98- Hunters in the snow/Wolff
  • 99- Gardens/Woolf
  • 100- Man who was almost a man/Wright

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