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Discoveries: Fifty Shades of the Quest: Second Edition

Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks

First published 1992
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Asher B. Durand
Pages 652
Price $81.95
ISBN 0195068505

Anthology focused on the hero's quest. In theme, it relates highly to genre, but the contents are not all genre. Per preface, this second edition changes a quarter of the contents of the first edition.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • No date other than year. Date from Amazon.com as of 2020-03-22.
  • First printing per number line.
  • Copyright page has both a 1992 & 1993 copyright statement, but LCCN has 1992. It is listed as first printing per number line and 1992 date agrees with Amazon.
  • Credit artist credit rear cover
  • No price on book. Price from Amazon.com as of 2020-03-22.
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Anthology is focused on the hero's quest. In theme, it relates highly to genre, but the contents are not all genre. Only stories already in database indexed below, but there could be other genre content.
  • Preface states this second edition changes a quarter of the contents of the first edition
  • "The Island at Noon" translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
  • "The Poet" translated by Denver Lindley
  • "Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles" translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller" translated by Arthur McDowell
  • "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" translated by Alberto Manguel

Searching by ISBN: 0195068505

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction: The Quest Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
11 The Elements of Fiction Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
21 The Call Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
65 The Island at Noon Julio Cortázar Short Story
86 The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin Short Story
95 The Other Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
99 William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
115 The Lost Explorer Patrick McGrath Short Story
187 The Journey Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
191 My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
253 Idiots First Bernard Malamud Short Fiction
292 Behind the Blue Curtain Steven Millhauser Short Story
308 Night-Sea Journey John Barth Short Story
316 Helpers and Guides Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
320 The Poet Hermann Hesse Short Story
396 Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
404 The Treasure Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
414 Semley's Necklace Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story
499 Transformation Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
553 The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller Gustave Flaubert Novelette
586 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Short Story
605 How Wang-Fo Was Saved Marguerite Yourcenar Short Story
614 Glossary of Critical Terms (Discoveries) Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
621 Biographies of the Authors (Discoveries) Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
bp|1 Preface (Discoveries) Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay
bp|2 Preface to the First Edition (Discoveries) Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormley Semeiks Essay