| Description |
xiv, 768 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Stories include: -- 1. Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving -- 2. The Wives of the Dead, Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 3. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, Herman Melville -- 4. The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe -- 5. The Ghost in the Mill, Harriet Beecher Stowe -- 6. Cannibalism in the Cars, Mark Twain -- 7. The Storm, Kate Chopin -- 8. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Gilman Perkins -- 9. The Middle Years, Henry James -- 10. In a Far Country, Jack London -- 11. The Little Regiment, Stephen Crane -- 12. A Journey, Edith Wharton -- 13. A Death in the Desert, Willa Carter -- 14. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway -- 15. An Alcoholic Case, F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 16. The Girl with the Pimply Face, William Carlos Williams -- 17. He, Katherine Anne Porter -- 18. Red-Headed Baby, Langston Hughes -- 19. A Late Encounter with the Enemy, Flannery O'Connor -- 20. Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin -- 21. There will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury -- 22. Where is the Voice Coming From, Eudora Welty -- 23. The Lecture, Isaac Beshevis Singer -- 24. My Son the Murderer, Bernard Malamud -- 25. Something to Remember Me By, Saul Bellow -- 26. The Death of Justina, John Cheever -- 27. Texts, Ursula Le Guin -- 28. The Persistence of Desire, John Updike -- 29. Are These Actual Miles?, Raymond Carver -- 30. Heat, Joyce Carol Oates |
| Summary |
56 classic short stories by authors such as Poe, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bellow, Wharton and Updike |
| Analysis |
English fiction Short stories |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Medicine in Literature.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
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| LC no. |
92001353 |
| ISBN |
0195070658 (acid-free paper) |
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