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

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ISBN: 9781413015607 | 1413015603
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Copyright: 4/29/2005

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Save money with CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: POCKETFUL OF PROSE: VINTAGE SHORT FICTION, VOLUME II, REVISED EDITION! 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.

A Word from the Editor to Students and Teachers	vii
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"	1	(10)
Sherwood Anderson, "I'm a Fool"	11	(12)
Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill" (with annotations)	23	(8)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Gimpel the Fool"	31	(14)
Author's Note on His Collected Stories	45	(4)
Frank O'Connor, "First Confession"	49	(10)
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"	59	(10)
Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing"	69	(8)
Silences: Tillie Olsen Writes About Her Difficulties as a Writer Raising Children	77	(4)
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"	81	(6)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"	87	(17)
Linda Wagner-Martin: Example of a Short but Complete Essay on a Story	104	(3)
Margaret Atwood, "Rape Fantasies"	107	(10)
Nadine Gordimer, "Once Upon a Time"	117	(8)
Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"	125	(38)
Lewis Mumford Provides an Early Biographical Approach	163	(2)
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children"	165	(8)
Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist"	173	(10)
Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"	183	(12)
Alice Munro, "The Found Boat"	195	(12)
Raymond Carver, "A Small, Good Thing"	207	(26)
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"	233	(3)
Emily Toth, Kate Chopin Thinks Back Through Her Mothers: Three Stories by Kate Chopin	236	(5)
Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"	241	(22)
Susan Glaspell's Adaptation of "A Jury of Her Peers" as a play, Trifles	263	(10)
Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"	273	(5)
Ernest Hemingway on His Early Fiction: Passages from His Memoir A Moveable Feast and the letters	278	(5)
James Thurber, "The Catbird Seat"	283	(10)
Eudor a Welty, "A Worn Path"	293	(8)
Bruce Schwartz, Excerpt from Film Script for Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"	301	(6)
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning"	307	(20)
Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"	327	(9)
Joan Givner Provides a Biographical Context	336	(3)
Considerations as You Read	339	(2)
Review Questions That Apply to Most Fiction	341	(2)
Other Fiction by These Writers	343	(4)
Credits	347

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