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The Story and Its Writer--Compact Ninth Edition

by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin · 2017

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Read great fiction and discover what it takes to write it.

This book is a treasury of short fiction by the best writers of the past and present. Their stories will transport you to other times and places, where you will be inspired to laugh, to question, and to think. Along with the stories are writers' own commentaries on their craft and the traditions of short fiction, offering you insight, inspiration, and plenty of opportunities for discussion and writing.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
imaginationimaginationMore like thisLess of thisraceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
civil warcivil warMore like thisLess of this19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisAlabamaAlabamaMore like thisLess of thisLouisianaLouisianaMore like thisLess of thisMallard ResidenceMallard ResidenceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 1132 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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