| Description |
xii, 576 pages ; 18 cm |
| Series |
A Signet classic, CQ307 |
| Contents |
Interior monologue : But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- This is my living room / Tom Mcafee -- Dramatic monologue : The lady's maid / Katherine Mansfield -- Travel is so broadening / Sinclair Lewis -- Letter narration : A novel in nine letters / Fyodor Dostoevski -- Jupiter Doke, brigadier general / Ambrose Bierce -- A bundle of letters / Henry James -- Diary Narration : Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol -- Subjective narration : My side of the matter / Truman Capote -- Too early Spring / Stephen Vincent Benet -- My sister's marriage / Cynthia Rich -- On Saturday afternoon / Alan Sillitoe -- A and P / John Updike -- Detached Autobiography : First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Warm river / Erskine Caldwell -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Bad characters / Jean Stafford -- Memoir, or, observer narration : The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Mademoiselle Pearl / Guy de Maupassant -- The tryst / Ivan Turgenev -- Johnny Bear / John Steinbeck -- Biography, or, anonymous narration : Single character point of view : Patricia, Edith, and Arnold / Dylan Thomas -- Horses-- one dash / Stephen Crane -- The prison / Bernard Malamud -- The stone boy / Gina Berriault -- Enemies / Anton Chekhov -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The five-forty-eight / John Cheever -- A father-to-be / Saul Bellow -- Anonymous narration : Dual character point of view : Maria Concepcion / Katherine Anne Porter -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The shadow in the rose garden / D.H. Lawrence -- Anonymous narration : multiple character point of view : The boarding house / James Joyce -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- Fever flower / Shirley Ann Grau -- The suicides of Private Greaves / James Moffett -- Anonymous narration : No character point of view : Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson |
| Notes |
"A Mentor book" |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 575-576 |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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| Author |
McElheny, Kenneth R.
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| LC no. |
66006263 |
| ISBN |
0451616936 |
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