The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction: Third Edition

by Ann Charters

Dead men's path/Achebe
Oasis/Adams
Kugelmass episode/Allen
Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson
Happy endings/Atwood
My first goose/Babel
Sonny's blues/Baldwin
Hammer man/Bambara
Lost in the funhouse/Barth
School/Barthelme
Burning house/Beattie
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce
Like a bad dream/Böll
Garden of forking paths/Borges
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski
Distant episode/Bowles
Overcoat II/Boyle
Distance of the moon/Calvino
Werewolf/Carter
What we talk about when we talk about love/Carver
Paul's case/Cather
Swimmer/Cheever
Darling ; Lady with the pet dog/Chekhov
Regret ; Story of an hour/Chopin
Hollow nut/Colette
Heart of darkness/Conrad
Gingerbread house/Coover
Blow-up/Cortázar
Open boat/Crane
Blue jar ; Blue stones/Dinesen
Curse/Dubus
Battle royal/Ellison
Red convertible/Erdrich
Rose for Emily ; Spotted horses/Faulkner
Babylon revisited/Fitzgerald
Simple heart/Flaubert
Revolt of "Mother"/Freeman
Doll Queen/Fuentes
Very old man with enormous wings/García Márquez
Yellow wallpaper/Gilman
Overcoat/Gogol
Town and country lovers/Gordimer
My Kinsman, Major Molineux ; Young goodman Brown/Hawthorne
Life/Head
Hills like white elephants/Hemingway
Daylight come/Hempel
Spunk/Hurston
Conversation in June about mothers/Sun-won
House of flesh/Idriss
Lottery/Jackson
Beast in the jungle/James
White heron/Jewett
Araby ; The dead/Joyce
Hunger artist ; Metamorphosis/Kafka
Girl/Kincaid
Hitchhiking game/Kundera
Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner/Lawrence
Territory/Leavitt
Ones who walk away from Omelas/Le Guin
To room/Lessing
Chicken/Lispector
Jewbird/Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow/Mann
Bliss ; The fly/Mansfield
Shiloh/Mason
Necklace ; The string/Maupassant
Bartleby, the scrivener/Melville
Lust/Minot
Three million yen/Mishima
Jasmine/Mukherjee
Walker brothers cowboy/Munro
B. Wordsworth/Naipaul
House opposite/Narayan
Lucielia Louise Turner/Naylor
Where are you going, where have you been?/Oates
Things they carried/O'Brien
Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find/O'Connor
Guests of the nation/O'Connor
I stand here ironing/Olsen
Shawl/Ozick
Conversation with my father/Paley
Cask of Amontillado ; The Tell-tale heart/Poe
Theft/Porter
Yellow woman/Silko
Gimpel the fool/Singer
Way we live now/Sontag
Chrysanthemums/Steinbeck
Two kinds/Tan
Secret life of Walter Mitty/Thurber
Death of Ivan Ilych/Tolstoy
Palm-wine drinkard's first journey/Tutuola
A & P ; Flight/Updike
I'm your horse in the night/Valenzuela
Roselily/Walker
Weekend/Weldon
Why I live at the P.O. ; A worn path/Welty
Roman Fever/Wharton
Hunters in the snow/Wolff
Gardens/Woolf
Man who was almost a man/Wright

Genres: Fiction

1607 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now I need a new bedtime book!