Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Prose

Save money with CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: POCKETFUL OF PROSE: VINTAGE SHORT FICTION, VOLUME I! An inexpensive alternative to the more expensive anthologies, this slim volume contains only the essentials of the most familiar and most taught favorites. The Quick and Easy Guide for Critical Reading, located conveniently for easy access, contains questions that center your study of the works in the book and also serve as a useful guide for reading any work, in or outside of class.

Preface	vii
D.H. Lawrence, "The Rocking Horse Winner"	1	(16)
Katherine Anne Porter, "Flowering Judas" (with annotations)	17	(18)
Katherine Anne Porter on the Creative Process	35	(4)
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" (with questions)	39	(13)
Students Question William Faulkner on "A Rose for Emily"	52	(5)
Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers"	57	(12)
Katherine Mansfield, "Bliss"	69	(14)
Guy de Maupassant, "The Necklace"	83	(8)
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren Pose Questions on the Trick Ending	91	(2)
James Joyce, "Araby"	93	(8)
John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums"	101	(11)
John Steinbeck's Revisions of "The Chrysanthemums" After the Original Publication with comment by William Osborne	112	(3)
Bernard Malamud, "The Magic Barrel"	115	(18)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"	133	(13)
Edgar Allan Poe's Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales	146	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"	149	(20)
Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O."	169	(16)
Willa Cather, "Paul's Case"	185	(22)
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"	207	(16)
Letters Written by Flannery O'Connor in Response to Interpretations of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"	223	(8)
Anton Chekhov, "Gooseberries"	231	(12)
Doris Lessing, "To Room Nineteen"	243	(35)
Feminist Insights by Dorothy Brewster and Mona Knapp	278	(3)
James Baldwin, "Going to Meet the Man"	281	(18)
A Critical Review and Reassessment by James Rees Moore	299	(4)
John Updike, "A&P"	303	(8)
Other Fiction by These Writers	311	(2)
Credits	313

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Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Prose Vintage Short Fiction, Volume I, Revised Edition

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