The Forms of Fiction ed. John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap (Random House, 1962, hc, an)
- · Forward · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · fw
- · Introduction: Reading Fiction · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · in
- · Short Forms
- · Form in Its Relationship to Meaning · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r)
- · The Modern Writer’s Use of the Sketch, Fable, Yarn, and Tale · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r)
- · The Witness · Katherine Anne Porter · ss (r)
- · After the Storm · Ernest Hemingway · ss Cosmopolitan May 1932
- · The Unicorn in the Garden · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker October 21 1939
- · Wakefield · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine May 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- · A Country Doctor · Franz Kafka · ss (r)
translated from the German (“Ein Landarzt”, Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen, 1919).
- · Baker’s Bluejay Yarn · Mark Twain · ex from A Tramp Abroad, American Publishing Company, 1880
- · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926
- · Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931
- · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838
- · Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam UK, 1942
- · The Gentleman from San Francisco · Ivan Bunin · nv The Dial January 1922
- · Short Forms
- · Short Fiction for Study · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r)
- · The Peasant Marey · Fyodor Dostoevski · ss (r)
- · Three Deaths · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r)
- · The Piece of String · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “The String”
translated from the French (“La ficelle”, Le Gaulois, November 25, 1883).
- · A Trifling Occurrence · Anton Chekhov · ss The Famous Story Magazine February 1927
- · The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904
- · The Fly · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation and Athenaeum March 18 1922
- · War · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r)
- · The Story of My Dovecot · Isaac Babel · ss (r)
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · Two Lovely Beasts · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Story #127, November/December 1947
- · The Fancy Woman · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Summer 1941
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Longer Forms
- · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898
- · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)
- · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943
- · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908
- · The Fox · D. H. Lawrence · ss Hutchinson’s Story Magazine November 1920
- · Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Putnam’s Monthly October 1855 (+2)
- · Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r)
translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912).
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