The Heath Introduction to Fiction

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ISBN: 9780395958254 | 0395958253
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Copyright: 6/15/1999

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This affordable, chronologically arranged anthology features 72 short stories carefully selected for their representation of international voices and techniques, their significance in the development of fiction, and their educational and thematic value. Selections are weighted toward the modern and contemporary, with a fair representation of earlier stories. Story groupings help instructors shape thematic units, and help students recognize thematic and technical points of comparison between readings. Multiple stories by the same author allow students to compare works and analyze the evolution of the writer's literary technique.

Note: Each selection is followed by a Study Guide
Introduction: On Fiction How to Read and Write
About Fiction Terms Used in Thinking
About Fiction Story Groupings Nineteenth-Century
Fiction Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859)
Grimm, Hansel and Gretel Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
The Minister's Black Veil
Young Goodman Brown Edgar Allen Poe (1809–1849)
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Purloined Letter Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)
The Nose Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Bartleby the Scrivener Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
A White Heron Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893)
Old Mother Savage Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
Desiree's Baby Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
The Revolt of 'Mother' Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
The Blue Hotel
The Modern Tradition and Anton Chekhov
Modern Fiction and Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
The Lady with the Dog
Misery
Gooseberries
Gusev Writers in the Modern Canon
Introduction Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
The Secret Sharer Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Roman Fever Virginia Woolf (1878–1941)
An Unwritten Novel James Joyce (1882–1941), Araby
Clay Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
A Hunger Artist
The Bucket Rider D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
The Blind Man
The Rocking-Horse Winner William Faulkner (1897–1962)
That Evening Sun
A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Hills Like White Elephants Selected Modern and Contemporary Fiction
I.L. Peretz (1851–1915)
If Not Higher William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
The Use of Force Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
I Want to Know Why Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
The Garden-Party Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927)
Rashomon Isaac Babel (1894–1941?)
My First Goose Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Sounds John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
The Chrysanthemums Zora Neale Hurston (1903–1960)
Sweat Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
A Worn Path John Cheever (1912–1982)
The Country Husband Tillie Olsen (b. 1913?)
I Stand Here Ironing Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
My Life with the Wave Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
The Magic Barrel
Idiots First Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
A Silver Dish Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
How I Finally Lost My Heart Shirley Jackson (1919–1965)
The Lottery Grace Paley (b. 1922)
A Conversation with My Father
Zagrowsky Tells Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
City Lovers James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Sonny's Blues Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings John Barth (b. 1930)
Lost in the Funhouse Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
The Madman Alice Munro (b. 1931)
White Dump John Updike (b. 1932)
Separating John J. Clayton (b. 1935)
The Man Who Could See Radiance Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going
Where Have You Been?
Raymond Carver (1938–1988), Cathedral
What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939)
The Lesson Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
The Man I Killed
The Lives of the Dead Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954)
Tiny, Smiling Daddy Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
Saint Marie (1934)
Marie Lazarre Susan Minot (b. 1957)
Lust Lorrie Moore (b. 1957)
Like Life George Saunders (b. 1958)
Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz Victoria Redel (b. 1959)
A Day in the Park
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of Terms
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