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Fictions: Second Edition

Joseph F. Trimmer & C. Wade Jennings

First published 1989
Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Bernard Faucon
Pages xi+1230
ISBN 0155273264

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • Only known speculative fiction contents listed
  • No date other than copyright year
  • No printing line
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page
  • No price visible (but spine not included in scan)
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • "Harrison Bergeron" is credit as "Kurt Vonnegut" in ToC, but as "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." on title page
  • "The Garden of Forking Paths" translated by Donald A. Yates
  • "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • "The Metamorphosis" translated by Edwin and Willa Muir
  • "A Hunger Artist", "In the Penal Colony", & "Gimpel the Fool" do not have a translator credited
  • Stories are preceded with an introduction and followed by discussion questions

Searching by ISBN: 0155273264

Page Title Author(s) Type
95 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Short Story
110 The Garden of Forking Paths Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
118 The Demon Lover Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
169 The Swimmer John Cheever Short Story
354 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
403 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
443 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short Story
455 Dream Children Gail Godwin Short Story
483 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
493 The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
504 My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
545 On the Road Langston Hughes Short Story
549 The Lottery Shirley Jackson Short Story
586 A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett Short Story
594 Moving Pictures Charles Johnson Short Story
642 A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka Short Story
649 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Novella
682 In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka Novelette
718 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence Short Story
752 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story
788 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud Short Story
845 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville Novelette
902 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
941 Revelation Flannery O'Connor Short Story
990 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
1004 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
1054 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
1133 Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Short Story