Seagull Reader : Stories

by KELLY JOSEPH

• ISBN13: 9780393976304
• ISBN10: 0393976300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
What Are Stories?	ix
How Do You Read Stories?	x
Conclusion	xxvii
Stories
Uncle Ben's Choice	3	(5)
Chinua Achebe
Cathedral	8	(15)
Raymond Carver
The Swimmer	23	(12)
John Cheever
In Exile	35	(9)
Anton Chekhov
The Story of an Hour	44	(4)
Kate Chopin
The Open Boat	48	(25)
Stephen Crane
A Rose for Emily	73	(10)
William Faulkner
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	83	(7)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Yellow Wallpaper	90	(18)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Young Goodman Brown	108	(14)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills Like White Elephants	122	(5)
Ernest Hemingway
The Furnished Room	127	(7)
O. Henry
Araby	134	(7)
James Joyce
A Hunger Artist	141	(9)
Franz Kafka
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	150	(18)
D. H. Lawrence
A Loaf of Bread	168	(20)
James Alan McPherson
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	188	(18)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried	206	(18)
Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	224	(17)
Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the Nation	241	(13)
Frank O'Connor
I Stand Here Ironing	254	(8)
Tillie Olsen
The Cask of Amontillado	262	(8)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	270	(10)
Katherine Anne Porter
Yellow Woman	280	(10)
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Chrysanthemums	290	(11)
John Steinbeck
A & P	301	(7)
John Updike
Everyday Use	308	(10)
Alice Walker
A Worn Path	318	(9)
Eudora Welty
Roman Fever	327	(16)
Edith Wharton
Biographical Sketches	343	(12)
Glossary	355	(4)
Permissions Acknowledgments	359