Chronological Table of Contents | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
Preface to the Sixth Edition | p. xix |
Talking about Fiction | p. xxiii |
Character and Setting | p. xxiii |
Action, Plot, and Complication | p. xxiv |
Point of View | p. xxvi |
Indirection | p. xxviii |
The Part and the Whole | p. xxx |
Coherence | p. xxxi |
General Questions | p. xxxiv |
I Want to Know Why | p. 1 |
Death by Landscape | p. 8 |
Sonny's Blues | p. 21 |
Gorilla, My Love | p. 45 |
The Littoral Zone | p. 50 |
Me and Miss Mandible | p. 58 |
The Disappeared | p. 67 |
Snow | p. 86 |
Witness | p. 88 |
Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? | p. 101 |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | p. 113 |
Silver Water | p. 121 |
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | p. 128 |
The Veldt | p. 136 |
Pagan Night | p. 147 |
The Gentleman from San Francisco | p. 156 |
Gina Berriault on "the Gentleman from San Francisco" | p. 172 |
Bread | p. 173 |
Cathedral | p. 186 |
The Rationing of Love | p. 197 |
Paul's Case | p. 211 |
Andrea Barrett on "Paul's Case" | p. 226 |
The Enormous Radio | p. 228 |
The Lady with the Dog | p. 237 |
Gusev | p. 249 |
Richard Bausch on "Gusev" | p. 259 |
The Story of an Hour | p. 261 |
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | p. 264 |
Heart of Darkness | p. 269 |
Barry Hannah on "Heart of Darkness" | p. 331 |
The Babysitter | p. 334 |
A Continuity of Parks | p. 354 |
The Open Boat | p. 356 |
Allan Gurganus on "the Open Boat" | p. 374 |
The Blue Hotel | p. 376 |
Open Winter | p. 397 |
Sorrow-Acre | p. 414 |
Tobias Wolf on "Sorrowacre" | p. 436 |
Public Appearances | p. 438 |
The Intruder | p. 449 |
We Didn't | p. 459 |
King of the Bingo Game | p. 468 |
Matchimanito | p. 476 |
Barn Burning | p. 490 |
The Bear | p. 503 |
Dreams | p. 582 |
Babylon Revisited | p. 597 |
Great Falls | p. 613 |
The Road from Colonus | p. 625 |
A New England Nun | p. 634 |
Bernadette | p. 643 |
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World | p. 661 |
Wounded Soldier | p. 666 |
Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded Soldier" | p. 672 |
The Yellow Wallpaper | p. 675 |
A Soldier's Embrace | p. 688 |
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt | p. 699 |
George Garrett on "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" | p. 705 |
Nativity, Caucasian | p. 707 |
Testimony of Pilot | p. 714 |
Wedding Night | p. 733 |
Young Goodman Brown | p. 735 |
The Birthmark | p. 745 |
Hills Like White Elephants | p. 757 |
Frederick Busch on "Hills Like White Elephants" | p. 761 |
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried | p. 763 |
The Conscience of the Court | p. 770 |
The Lottery | p. 781 |
Greville Fane | p. 788 |
Passion | p. 801 |
Moving Pictures | p. 814 |
A New Man | p. 818 |
The Pugilist at Rest | p. 827 |
Araby | p. 841 |
A Little Cloud | p. 845 |
The Dead | p. 855 |
The Metamorphosis | p. 885 |
A Hunger Artist | p. 918 |
Girl | p. 925 |
The Man Who Would Be King | p. 927 |
Jewel of the Moon | p. 952 |
My Life as a Mollusk | p. 962 |
The Horse Dealer's Daughter | p. 976 |
The Coggios | p. 989 |
Gravity | p. 992 |
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | p. 996 |
To Room Nineteen | p. 1001 |
Brief Lives in California | p. 1025 |
My Father's Chinese Wives | p. 1034 |
The Chevigny Man | p. 1044 |
Angel Levine | p. 1056 |
Death in Venice | p. 1065 |
Bliss | p. 1113 |
Shiloh | p. 1123 |
Boule de Suif | p. 1134 |
The Thistles in Sweden | p. 1162 |
Charles Baxter on "the Thistles in Sweden" | p. 1177 |
Bartleby, the Scrivener | p. 1178 |
The Management of Grief | p. 1206 |
Richard Ford on "the Management of Grief" | p. 1218 |
Royal Beatings | p. 1220 |
Prue | p. 1236 |
Signs and Symbols | p. 1240 |
The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien | p. 1245 |
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again | p. 1251 |
The Things They Carried | p. 1263 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | p. 1277 |
Lee Smith on "a Good Man is Hard to Find" | p. 1289 |
Everything That Rises Must Converge | p. 1290 |
Guests of the Nation | p. 1301 |
Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the Nation" | p. 1310 |
Tell Me a Riddle | p. 1312 |
War | p. 1340 |
The Fall of the House of Usher | p. 1344 |
The Purloined Letter | p. 1358 |
Flowering Judas | p. 1372 |
The Fall | p. 1382 |
The Conversion of the Jews | p. 1391 |
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis | p. 1403 |
The Eighty-Yard Run | p. 1405 |
Gimpel the Fool | p. 1416 |
Intensive Care | p. 1427 |
In the Zoo | p. 1446 |
R. V. Cassill on "in the Zoo" | p. 1461 |
The Chrysanthemums | p. 1462 |
Rules of the Game | p. 1471 |
A Spinster's Tale | p. 1480 |
Ann Beattie on "a Spinster's Tale" | p. 1496 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | p. 1498 |
The Death of Ivan Ilych | p. 1503 |
A and P | p. 1544 |
The Moths | p. 1550 |
Everyday Use | p. 1555 |
Blackberry Winter | p. 1562 |
Why I Live at the P.O. | p. 1578 |
A Worn Path | p. 1587 |
Susan Dodd on "a Worn Path" | p. 1593 |
The Man Who Loved Levittown | p. 1595 |
The Use of Force | p. 1607 |
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | p. 1611 |
Kew Gardens | p. 1620 |
The Man Who Was Almost a Man | p. 1626 |
Writing Papers about Fiction | p. 1637 |
When You Write about Fiction | p. 1644 |
Writing Fiction | p. 1653 |
Writers on Writing | p. 1665 |
Why Do You Write? | p. 1666 |
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? | p. 1666 |
On Writing | p. 1667 |
What Happened | p. 1671 |
Selected Letters | p. 1673 |
A Familiar Preface | p. 1675 |
An Interview | p. 1678 |
Becoming a Writer | p. 1680 |
The Art of Fiction | p. 1696 |
Why the Novel Matters | p. 1699 |
The Novel | p. 1702 |
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman | p. 1704 |
What Is Real? | p. 1706 |
The Nature and Aim of Fiction | p. 1709 |
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales | p. 1710 |
What Is Art? | p. 1717 |
Glossary of Critical Terms | p. 1722 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 1731 |
Index of Titles | p. 1737 |
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