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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

Ann Charters

First published 2011
Publisher Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Helen Berggruen
Pages xx+1168
ISBN 9780312596248

Designed as a high school textbook. 8th edition, by ISBN. Only stories of speculative fiction genre are listed here. "Cover Art: 18 Lloyd Square; 1999 (oil on canvas) by Helen Berggruen" on the copyright page. "5 4 3 2 1 f e d c" on copyright page.

Searching by ISBN: 9780312596248

Page Title Author(s) Type
32 Happy Endings Margaret Atwood Short Story
100 The Rememberer Aimee Bender Short Story
103 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Short Story
112 The Circular Ruins Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
116 August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury Short Story
161 Paul's Case Willa Cather Short Story
180 The Swimmer John Cheever Short Story
199 Désirée's Baby Kate Chopin Short Story
203 The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin Short Story
271 The Open Boat Stephen Crane Novelette
294 Battle Royal Ralph Ellison Short Story
314 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
334 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
340 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short Story
357 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
387 The Lottery Shirley Jackson Short Story
404 A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett Short Story
465 A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka Short Story
471 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Novella
507 Girl Jamaica Kincaid Short Story
525 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence Short Story
554 The Necklace Guy de Maupassant Short Story
561 Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville Novelette
623 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
662 Good Country People Flannery O'Connor Novelette
676 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor Short Story
722 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
727 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
846 Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Short Story
903 Reading Blind Margaret Atwood Essay
912 Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
913 Translating Kafka Ann Charters Essay
917 Why I Write Short Stories John Cheever Essay
921 How I Stumbled upon Maupassant Kate Chopin Essay
922 The Sinking of the Commodore Stephen Crane Essay
926 A Hunger Artist R. Crumb & David Zane Mairowitz Short Story
936 The Influence of Folklore on "Battle Royal" Ralph Ellison Essay
940 A Feminist Reading of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar Essay
942 Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman Essay
943 Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration Charlotte Perkins Gilman Essay
950 The Morning of June 28, 1948, and "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson Essay
953 On "Girl" Jamaica Kincaid Essay
959 The Writer's Goal Guy de Maupassant Essay
961 Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Herman Melville Essay
967 Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer Joyce Carol Oates Essay
969 Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film Joyce Carol Oates Essay
978 The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale Edgar Allan Poe Essay
996 Some Words on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed David Foster Wallace Essay
1039 From Letters, 1954-55 Flannery O'Connor Essay
1041 Writing Short Stories Flannery O'Connor Essay
1046 Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable Flannery O'Connor Essay
1049 A Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" Wayne C. Booth Essay
1052 On "Good Country People" Dorothy Tuck McFarland Essay
1052|1052.1 Good Country People Dorothy Tuck McFarland & Flannery O'Connor Review
940|940.1 The Yellow Wallpaper Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar & Charlotte Perkins Gilman Review
961|961.1 Young Goodman Brown Herman Melville & Nathaniel Hawthorne Review