Cover of The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition

Civil peace / Chinua Achebe

The last lovely city / Alice Adams

Dominoes / Jack Agueros

The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen

And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende

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Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson

Happy endings / Margaret Atwood

My first goose / Isaac Babel

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin

The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara

Lost in the funhouse / John Barth

The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme

Janus / Ann Beattie

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce

The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges

This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski

The eye / Paul Bowles

Black boy / Kay Boyle

Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle

A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler

The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio

The guest / Albert Camus

The erl-king / Angela Carter

Cathedral / Raymond Carver

Errand / Raymond Carver

What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver

Paul's case / Willa Cather

The swimmer / John Cheever

The darling / Anton Chekhov

The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov

The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt

Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin

The story of an hour / Kate Chopin

Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad

Axolotl / Julio Cortázar

The open boat / Stephen Crane

The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen

Battle royal / Ralph Ellison

King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison

The red convertible / Louise Erdrich

A rose for Emily / William Faulkner

That evening sun / William Faulkner

Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald

A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert

1933 / Mavis Gallant

A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez

The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol

Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer

My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life / Bessie Head

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston

Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston

The lottery / Shirley Jackson

The beast in the jungle / Henry James

A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett

Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson

Araby / James Joyce

The dead / James Joyce

A hunger artist / Franz Kafka

The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka

Girl / Jamaica Kincaid

The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera

Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence

The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence

Braids / David Leavitt

The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin

Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing

Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz

Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud

Bliss / Katherine Mansfield

The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield

The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto

Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason

The necklace / Guy de Maupassant

Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville

Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima

How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore

Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele

The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee

Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro

Heat / Joyce Carol Oates

Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates

The things they carried / Tim O'Brien

Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor

Good country people / Flannery O'Connor

A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor

Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor

In the shadow of war / Ben Okri

I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen

The shawl / Cynthia Ozick

A conversation with my father / Grace Paley

My life with the wave / Octavio Paz

The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe

Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allen Poe

He / Katherine Anne Porter

A great day / Frank Sargeson

Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko

Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko

Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko

The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer

Long distance / Jane Smiley

The way we live now / Susan Sontag

The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck

Two kinds / Amy Tan

The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber

Night / Tatyana Tolstaya

The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy

A & P / John Updike

Roselily / Alice Walker

Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty

A worn path / Eudora Welty

Roman fever / Edith Wharton

The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman

Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf

Say yes / Tobias Wolff

Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf

The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright

The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto

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childrens
Length
epic · 926 pages

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