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Title

The Riverside anthology of short fiction : convention and innovation / [compiled by] Dean Baldwin.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baldwin, Dean R., 1942-

Description

xvii, 1235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Short stories
• short stories
• Nouvelles

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories.
• Nouvelles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 1226-1227) and index.

Contents

Part 1. Stories. Gluskabe and the four wishes / Joseph Bruchac -- Town mouse and country mouse / Aesop -- Garrulity / Theophrastus -- Daedalus and Icarus / Ovid -- Fiammetta's story / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Fairy tale: the blue beard / Charles Perrault -- The sandman / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry Beckworth / Caroline M. Kirkland (Mary Clavers) -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The overcoat / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol -- Uncle Lot / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Lizzie Leigh / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- Yermolai and the miller's wife / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- A landscape painter / Henry James -- A simple soul / Gustave Flaubert -- Bellflower / Guy De Maupassant -- Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant -- The ruby / Ruben Dario -- Hunter Quatermain's story / H. Rider Haggard -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkens Freeman -- Luck / Mark Twain -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Easter eve / Anton Chekhov -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Araby / James Joyce -- The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Footfalls / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The wilderness / Horacio Quiroga -- The case of the perfect maid / Agatha Christie -- The letter / W. Somerset Maugham -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- The woman / Juan Bosch -- Cora unashamed / Langston Hughes -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- The curtain / Raymond Chandler -- Sense of humour / V.S. Pritchett -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- A still moment / Eudora Welty -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- The little shoemakers / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Monologue of Isabel watching it rain in Macondo / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Great uncle crow / Herbert Ernest Bates -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Immortality / Yasunari Kawabata -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The black Madonna / Doris Lessing -- Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- The babysitter / Robert Coover -- The blue bouquet / Octavio Paz -- To set our house in order / Margaret Laurence -- No sweetness here / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- At the river / Patricia Grace -- In the mountains / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- A few things wrong with me / Lydia David -- At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid -- The bloody chamber / Angela Carter -- There were palaces / Carlos Fuentes -- Emilie plead choose one egg / Paule Barton -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- The time and the place / Naguib Mahfouz -- Bluebeard's egg / Margaret Atwood -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- The progress of love / Alice Munro -- Snares / Louise Erdrich -- You're ugly too / Lorrie Moore -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- And of clay are we created / Isabel Allende -- Spoils / Nadine Gordimer -- "Jealous husband returns in form of parrot" / Robert Olen Butler, Jr. -- Part 2. A brief history of the short story. Early forms of short fiction: precursors to the short story -- The short story: a brief history -- Part 3. Reading and writing about short fiction -- Part 3. Reading and writing about short fiction. Reading fiction actively -- Lucid eye in silver town / John Updike -- The elements of fiction. Character -- Setting -- Theme -- Plot -- Point of view -- Style -- Figurative language -- Writing about short stories.

ISBN

• 0395813867
• 9780395813867

LCCN

97072437

OCLC

• ocm38989316
• 38989316
• SCSB-1231736

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library