Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall, 1993, 0-02-395555-4, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- · Preface · James H. Pickering · pr (r)
- · I. Reading and Studying the Short Story
- · Plot
- · My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”
- · Character
- · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939
- · Setting
- · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · Point of View
- · Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r)
- · Theme
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · Symbol and Allegory
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · Style and Tone
- · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- · II. Stones
- · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
- · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985
- · The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941).
- · Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954
- · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925
- · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969
- · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”
- · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).
- · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)
- · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898
- · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891
- · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944
- · Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927
- · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925
- · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- · Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877
- · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981
- · We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r)
- · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922
- · Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986
- · Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957
- · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · Thanks for the Ride · Alice Munro · ss (r)
- · Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967
- · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- · The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846
- · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935
- · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- · Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981, as “1955, or, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down”
- · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941
- · Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r)
- · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- · Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980
- · III. Writing About the Short Story
- · Reading Critically. Reading and Writing. Quotation and Documentation · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · IV. Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · V. Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r)
- · VI. Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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