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9780024041852

Worlds of Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780024041852

  • ISBN10:

    0024041858

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-01-01
  • Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div
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Summary

THIS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES ENCOMPASSES A LARGER GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE BOTH WESTERN AND NON-WESTERN AND HAS GREATER GENDER BALANCE THAN IS TYPICAL OF MOST SHORT-STORY ANTHOLOGIES. It includes a diverse representation of ethnic voices from within the United States as well as less-frequently-anthologized stories by well-known writers around the world. This second edition of WORLDS OF FICTION includes both classic and contemporary stories that reflect thematic, aesthetic, and cultural variety: different styles, subjects, and points of view as well as diversity of cultural, historical, and gender perspectives. Headnotes and questions for each story provide contextual enhancement and guidelines for critical thinking and reflection.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(9)
From The Thousand and One Nights: ``The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni''
10(9)
Edward William Lane
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): ``Girls at War''
19(11)
Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana): ``Two Sisters''
30(10)
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Japan): ``Within a Grove''
40(7)
James O'Brien
Woody Allen (United States): ``The Kugelmass Episode''
47(9)
Isabel Allende (Chile): ``And of Clay Are We Created''
56(8)
Margaret Sayers Peden
Hanan Al-Shaykh (Lebanon): ``The Unseeing Eye''
64(3)
Denys Johnson-Davies
Rudolfo A. Anaya (United States): ``B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca''
67(11)
Sherwood Anderson (United States): ``Death in the Woods''
78(9)
Margaret Atwood (Canada): ``Dancing Girls''
87(11)
Isaac Babel (Russia): ``My First Goose''
98(4)
Walter Morison
BarbaraNeely (United States): ``Spilled Salt''
102(7)
Ann Beattie (United States): ``The Burning House''
109(11)
J. Bernlef (Netherlands): ``The Black Dog''
120(4)
Frank Scimone
Ambrose Bierce (United States): ``An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''
124(7)
Heinrich Boll (Germany): ``The Laugher''
131(3)
Leila Vennewitz
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina): ``Death and the Compass''
134(9)
Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Dino Buzzati (Italy): ``The Falling Girl''
143(4)
Lawrence Venuti
Italo Calvino (Italy): ``A Sign in Space''
147(7)
William Weaver
Albert Camus (Algeria/France): ``The Guest''
154(10)
Justin O'Brien
Raymond Carver (United States): ``Where I'm Calling From''
164(11)
Willa Cather (United States): ``Paul's Case''
175(15)
John Cheever (United States): ``The Swimmer''
190(9)
Anton Chekhov (Russia): ``The Kiss''
199(14)
Constance Garnett
Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (France): ``The Seamstress''
213(4)
Una Vicenzo Troubridge
Enid McLeod
Joseph Conrad (Poland/England): ``Amy Foster''
217(21)
Stephen Crane (United States): ``The Open Boat''
238(17)
Isak Dinesen (Denmark): ``The Sailor-Boy's Tale''
255(8)
Birago Diop (Senegal): ``Sarzan''
263(9)
Ellen Conroy Kennedy
Jose Donoso (Chile): ``Paseo''
272(13)
Lorraine O'Grady Freeman
Margareta Ekstrom (Sweden): ``The Night Between the Second and the Third''
285(8)
Eva Claeson
Ralph Ellison (United States): ``Flying Home''
293(15)
Louise Erdrich (United States): ``Love Medicine''
308(16)
William Faulkner (United States): ``A Rose for Emily''
324(8)
Feng Jicai (China): ``The Street-Sweeping Show''
332(4)
Susan Wilff Chen
F. Scott Fitzgerald (United States): ``Babylon Revisited''
336(15)
Gustave Flaubert (France): ``The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller''
351(18)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): ``The Doll Queen''
369(12)
Margaret S. Peden
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia): ``Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon''
381(6)
J. S. Bernstein
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (United States): ``The Yellow Wallpaper''
387(13)
Natalia Ginzburg (Italy): ``The Mother''
400(8)
Isabel Quigley
Susan Glaspell (United States): ``A Jury of Her Peers''
408(16)
Nikolai Gogol (Russia): ``The Overcoat''
424(20)
Constance Garnett
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): ``A Soldier's Embrace''
444(11)
Judy Grahn (United States): ``Boys at the Rodeo''
455(6)
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Germany): ``Karl Katz''
461(5)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States): ``The Birthmark''
466(13)
Bessie Head (South Africa/Botswana): ``The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses''
479(5)
Ernest Hemingway (United States): ``The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber''
484(22)
Langston Hughes (United States): ``Thank You, Ma'am''
506(4)
Zora Neale Hurston (United States): ``The Gilded Six-Bits''
510(9)
Shirley Jackson (United States): ``The Lottery''
519(7)
Svava Jakobsdottir (Iceland): ``A Story for Children''
526(6)
Dennis Auburn Hill
Henry James (United States/England): ``The Real Thing''
532(18)
Sarah Orne Jewett (United States): ``A White Heron''
550(8)
Elizabeth Jolley (England/Australia): ``Another Holiday for the Prince''
558(5)
James Joyce (Ireland): ``Eveline''
563(5)
Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia): ``The Metamorphosis''
568(33)
Willa
Edwin Muir
Ghassan Kanafani (Palestinian): ``A Hand in the Grave''
601(7)
Hilary Kilpatrick
Kanai Mieko (Japan): ``Platonic Love''
608(5)
Amy Vladeck Heinrich
John Kasaipwalova (Paupa New Guinea): ``Betel Nut Is Bad Magic for Airplanes''
613(7)
Khamsing Srinawk (Thailand): ``The Gold-Legged Frog''
620(4)
Domnern Garden
Par Lagerkvist (Sweden): ``The Children's Campaign''
624(9)
Alan Blair
Margaret Laurence (Canada): ``A Bird in the House''
633(13)
Mary Lavin (Ireland): ``Happiness''
646(12)
D. H. Lawrence (England): ``Tickets, Please''
658(11)
Ursula K. Le Guin (United States): ``Sur''
669(13)
Doris Lessing (Rhodesia/England): ``A Woman on a Roof''
682(8)
Catherine Lim (Singapore): ``Or Else, the Lightning God''
690(9)
Lu Xun (China): ``The Story of Hair''
699(6)
William A. Lyell
Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia/United States): ``The Lemon''
705(15)
Jeanne Nemcova
Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt): ``Half a Day''
720(4)
Denys Johnson-Davies
Bernard Malamud (United States): ``The Jewbird''
724(8)
Thomas Mann (Germany): ``The Infant Prodigy''
732(7)
H. T. Lowe-Porter
Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand/England): ``Her First Ball''
739(5)
Rene Marques (Puerto Rico): ``Island of Manhattan''
744(9)
Faye Edwards
Gladys Ortiz
Paule Marshall (Barbados/United States): ``Brooklyn''
753(15)
Bobbie Ann Mason (United States): ``Shiloh''
768(11)
William Somerset Maugham (England): ``The Appointment in Samarra''
779(2)
Guy de Maupassant (France): ``The Necklace''
781(7)
Marjorie Laurie
Richard McCann (United States): ``My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame''
788(13)
John McCluskey (United States): ``Lush LIfe''
801(12)
Herman Melville (United States): ``Bartleby, the Scrivener''
813(26)
Katherine Min (Korea/United States): ``The One Who Goes Farthest Away''
839(8)
Susan Minot (United States): ``Lust''
847(7)
Mishima Yukio (Japan): ``Swaddling Clothes''
854(5)
Ivan Morris
Kermit Moyer (United States): ``Tumbling''
859(20)
Es'kia Mphahlele (South Africa): ``Mrs. Plum''
879(24)
Slawomir Mrozek (Poland): ``The Elephant''
903(3)
Konrad Syrop
Bharati Mukherjee (India/United States): ``A Father''
906(9)
Alice Munro (Canada): ``The Office''
915(10)
V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad): ``One Out of Many''
925(23)
Carmen Naranjo (Costa Rica): ``And We Sold the Rain''
948(5)
Jo Anne Engelbert
R. K. Narayan (India): ``A Horse and Two Goats''
953(13)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya): ``A Meeting in the Dark''
966(11)
Joyce Carol Oates (United States): ``Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?''
977(13)
Oba Minako (Japan): ``The Pale Fox''
990(7)
Stephen W. Kohl
Flannery O'Connor (United States): ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''
997(12)
Oe Kenzaburo (Japan): ``Aghwee the Sky Monster''
1009(20)
John Nathan
Sembene Ousmane (Senegal): ``Black Girl''
1029(10)
Ellen Conroy Kennedy
Amos Oz (Israel): ``Nomad and Viper''
1039(13)
Nicholas deLange
Philip Simpson
Emilia Pardo Bazan (Spain): ``The Revolver''
1052(4)
Angel Flores
Octavio Paz (Mexico): ``The Blue Bouquet''
1056(3)
Lysander Kemp
Virgilio Pinera (Cuba): ``Insomnia''
1059(2)
Mark Schafer
Edgar Allan Poe (United States): ``The Cask of Amontillado''
1061(6)
Katherine Anne Porter (United States): ``Rope''
1067(5)
Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala): ``The Proof''
1072(4)
Paul Bowles
Gabrielle Roy (Canada): ``The Move''
1076(10)
Joyce Marshall
Leslie Marmon Silko (United States): ``Yellow Woman''
1086(8)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland/United States): ``Gimpel the Fool''
1094(11)
Saul Bellow
Maria Teresa Solari (Peru): ``Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher''
1105(3)
John Benson
John Steinbeck (United States): ``The Chrysanthemums''
1108(8)
Hyemeyohsts Storm (United States): ``The Story of Jumping Mouse''
1116(9)
Graham Swift (England): ``Learning to Swim''
1125(11)
Amy Tan (China/United States): ``Half and Half''
1136(11)
Leo Tolstoy (Russia): ``The Death of Ivan Ilych''
1147(39)
Louise
Aylmer Maude
Amos Tutuola (Nigeria): ``The Complete Gentleman''
1186(7)
Mark Twain (United States): ``Luck''
1193(4)
John Updike (United States): ``A & P''
1197(6)
Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina): ``Strange Things Happen Here''
1203(7)
Helen R. Lane
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru): ``Sunday''
1210(12)
Mary E. Ellsworth
Alice Walker (United States): ``Everyday Use''
1222(7)
Eudora Welty (United States): ``Why I Live at the P. O.''
1229(10)
Edith Wharton (United States): ``Roman Fever''
1239(10)
LONGER NARRATIVES
Mulk Raj Anand (India): Untouchable
1249(84)
Kate Chopin (United States): ``The Awakening
1333(88)
Thematic Contents 1421

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