Joseph F. Trimmer

C. Wade Jennings

The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- / Truth or consequences / Alice Adams -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks -- The author / Donald Barthelme -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- The guest / Albert Camus -- A small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Press clippings ; We love Glenda so much / Julio Cortazar -- The open boat ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Killings / Andre Dubus -- Battle royal ; King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- A rose for Emily ; That evening sun ; Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Thank you for the lovely tea / Mavis Gallant -- Revenge ; Traceleen, she's still talking / Ellen Gilchrist -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown ; The birthmark ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Moon of Atevo / Larry Heinemann -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- On the road / Langston Hughes -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The real thing / Henry James -- Spells / Tama Janowitz -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Moving pictures ; The sorcerer's apprentice / Charles Johnson -- Araby ; The dead / James Joyce -- A hunger artist ; The metamorphosis ; In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Patriotic / Janet Kauffman -- The only man on liberty street / William Melvin Kelley.

Fictions

Fictions is an anthology of short fiction designed for college courses in which the short story and the novella are the principal subjects for discussion and writing. This collection of one hundred stories include some of the most memorable work of the world's classic and contemporary writers. Many of the selections are masterpieces that have fascinated students of literature fdor generations. Others, while less well known, possess similar virtues and may thus achieve a comparable position within our literary tradition. The collection includes many stories of new voices. The textbook also illustrates how the various steps in the writing process -- keeping a journal, brainstorming, restricting a topic, planning your essay and developing an outline, writing the first draft, and revising the first draft -- lead to a successful paper.

"Fictions" is an anthology of short fiction. This collection of stories include some of the most memorable work of the world's classic and contemporary writers. Many of the selections are masterpieces that have fascinated students of literature for generations. Others, while less well known, possess similar virtues and may thus achieve a comparable position within our literary tradition. The collection includes many stories of new voices. The textbook also illustrates how the various steps in the writing process -- keeping a journal, brainstorming, restricting a topic, planning your essay and developing an outline, writing the first draft, and revising the first draft -- lead to a successful paper. -- From product description.

C. Wade Jennings

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