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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Classic short fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1986 (OCoLC)761333891 |
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| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles H Bohner |
| ISBN: | 0131352458 9780131352452 |
| OCLC Number: | 12693653 |
| Description: | x, 1171 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Roses, rhododendron ; To see you again / Alice Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- The man from Mars ; Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Like a bad dream / Heinrich Böll -- The end of the deal / Jorge Luis Borges -- August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The enormous radio ; The swimmer / John Cheever -- The darling ; Gooseberries ; The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- The lagoon ; The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The magic poker / Robert Coover -- The blue hotel ; The bride comes to Yellow Sky ; The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Dry September ; A rose for Emily ; That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tuesday siesta / Gabriel García Márquez -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- The birthmark ; My kinsman, Major Molineux ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Four meetings ; The real thing ; The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Araby ; The dead / James Joyce -- The hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Not a good girl / Perri Klass -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- The horse-dealer's daughter ; The Prussian officer ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula LeGuin -- One off the short list ; To Room 19 / Doris Lessing -- To build a fire / Jack London -- A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- A dill pickle ; Her first ball ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The going-away party ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation ; My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Do you like it here? / John O'Hara -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- The cask of Amontillado ; The fall of the House of Usher ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Flowering Judas ; The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The shot / Alexander Pushkin -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- I-80 Nebraska M. 489-M. 205 / John Sayles -- Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The tryst / Ivan Turgenev -- A & P ; The music school ; Wife-wooing / John Updike -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- Petrified man ; Why I live at the P.O. ; A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright . |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Charles H. Bohner. |
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