The Story and Its Writer--Eighth Edition

Collection contains: Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks -- San Francisco / Lynda Barry -- Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel -- Rememberer / Aimee Bender -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Werewolf / Angela Carter -- Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's Case / Willa Carter -- Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov -- [Désiré́e's Baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W); [Story of an Hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- Night Women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich -- Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Homage / Nadine Gordimer -- Bride / Christine Granados -- Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel -- Things You Should Know / A.M. Homes -- Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Real Thing / Henry James -- Who's Irish? /

Year

2011

Language

English

Publisher

Bedford/St. Martin's

Editions

1

Pages

1820

ISBN

9780312596231

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