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.
The Heath Introduction to Fiction
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Table of Contents
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 Allan 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
Author Description
Review quote
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 Allan 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