| Description |
xv, 522 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Paul's Case / Willa Cather -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Hear the Nightingale Sing / Caroline Gordon -- Je ne parle pas francais / Katherine Mansfield -- Miss de Mannering of Asham / F. M. Mayor -- That Tree / Katherine Anne Porter -- Look at All Those Roses / Elizabeth Bowen -- In a Winter Landscape / Olivia Manning -- The Legacy / Virginia Woolf -- First Love / Eudora Welty -- Is There a Life beyond the Gravy? / Stevie Smith -- Yonder Peasant, Who Is He? / Mary McCarthy -- Which New Era Would That Be? / Nadine Gordimer -- The Day Mr Prescott Died / Sylvia Plath -- The Day Stalin Died / Doris Lessing -- The Blush / Elizabeth Taylor -- An Interest in Life / Grace Paley -- Uno 1945 / Christina Stead -- The Rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake / Hortense Calisher -- The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies / Jean Stafford -- The House of the Famous Poet / Muriel Spark -- Good Country People / Flannery O'Connor -- Heathy Landscape with Dormouse / Sylvia Townsend Warner |
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Irish Revel / Edna O'Brien -- The Butterfly and the Traffic Light / Cynthia Ozick -- Scenes of Passion and Despair / Joyce Carol Oates -- Something to Tell the Girls / Jane Gardam -- A Star and Two Girls / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Overture and Beginners Please / Jean Rhys -- Hair Jewellery / Margaret Atwood -- Puss-in-Boots / Angela Carter -- The Terrors of Basket Weaving / Patricia Highsmith -- The Play Reading / Elizabeth Jolley -- In the Great War / Fay Weldon -- Victory Over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist -- On the Day that E. M. Forster Died / A. S. Byatt -- A Wife's Story / Bharati Mukherjee -- A Pair of Tickets / Amy Tan -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- The Prophecy / Anjana Appachana |
| Summary |
The best of women's writing - from such practitioners as Katherine Mansfield and Edith Wharton, to more recent authors such as Bharati Mukherjee and Alice Munro |
| Analysis |
English fiction Short stories By Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- Women authors.
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English fiction -- Women authors.
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English fiction -- 20th century.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, Commonwealth (English)
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Short stories, American -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Commonwealth countries
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Short stories, English -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Commonwealth (English) -- Women authors.
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Short stories, English.
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Women -- Fiction -- Social life and customs.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Craig, Patricia.
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| LC no. |
94000657 |
| ISBN |
0192142321 |
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