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| Genre/Form: | Periodicals |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Gale Research Inc. |
| OCLC Number: | 241383850 |
| Notes: | Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. |
| Description: | v. : port. ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Vol 1: Araby / James Joyce -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat -- Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- King of the Bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Open window / Saki -- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Short, happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vol 2: Bear / William Faulkner -- Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- Gimpel the Fool / Esaac Bashevis Singer -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- Worn path / Eudora Welty. V.3. A & P / John Updike -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- Bartleby the scrivener, a tale of wall street / Herman Melville -- A conservation with my father / Grace Paley -- The door in the wall / H.G. Wells -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The Japanese quince / John Galsworthy -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- The man who lived underground / Richard Wright -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The outcasts of poker flat / Bret Harte -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros. V.8. Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- How I contemplated the world / Joyce Carol Oates -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- The legend of sleepy hollow / Washington Irving -- The lifted veil / George Eliot -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- The man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Mateo falcone / Prosper Merimee -- Mrs. Bathurst / Rudyard Kipling -- A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins -- Freeman -- Redemption / Joh Residents and transients / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken. V.9. The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- The difference / Ellen Glasgow -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- A spinster's tale / Peter Taylor -- The stationmaster / Alexander Pushkin -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Victory over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre. V.10. Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- La Grande Breteche / Honore de Balzac -- The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera --Jeeves takes charge / Pelham Grenville Wodehouse -- Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko -- My first goose / Isaac Babel -- The news from Ireland / William Trevor -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty. V. 11 And of clay are we created / Isabel Allende -- Battle royal, or, The invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler -- Grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Marriage aÌ€ la mode / Katherine Mansfield -- Mrs. Plum / Es'kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Roselily / Alice Walker -- Say yes / Tobias Wolff -- Sheriff's children / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Women in their beds / Gina Berriault. V. 12 The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman -- Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing -- The erlking / Angela Carter -- The feathered ogre / Italo Calvino -- Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima -- Goodbye, Columbus / Philip Roth -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The pagan rabbi / Cynthia Ozick. V. 16 Birds / Daphne du Maurier -- Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud -- Dharma / Vikram Chandra -- The Diamond mine / Willa Cather -- The Gold of TomaÌ?s Vargas / Isabel Allende -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- Henne Fire / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The invalid's story / Mark Twain -- Kitchen / Banana Yoshimoto -- Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- The woman who came at six o'clock / Gabriel Garcia Marquez. |
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