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Chronological Table of Contents | |
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Preface | |
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Preface to the Sixth Edition | |
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Talking about Fiction | |
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Character and Setting | |
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Action, Plot, and Complication | |
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Point of View | |
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Indirection | |
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The Part and the Whole | |
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Coherence | |
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General Questions | |
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I Want to Know Why | |
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Death by Landscape | |
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Sonny's Blues | |
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Gorilla, My Love | |
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The Littoral Zone | |
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Me and Miss Mandible | |
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The Disappeared | |
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Snow | |
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Witness | |
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Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? | |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
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Silver Water | |
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | |
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The Veldt | |
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Pagan Night | |
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The Gentleman from San Francisco | |
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Gina Berriault on "the Gentleman from San Francisco" | |
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Bread | |
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Cathedral | |
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The Rationing of Love | |
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Paul's Case | |
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Andrea Barrett on "Paul's Case" | |
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The Enormous Radio | |
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The Lady with the Dog | |
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Gusev | |
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Richard Bausch on "Gusev" | |
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The Story of an Hour | |
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
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Heart of Darkness | |
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Barry Hannah on "Heart of Darkness" | |
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The Babysitter | |
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A Continuity of Parks | |
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The Open Boat | |
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Allan Gurganus on "the Open Boat" | |
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The Blue Hotel | |
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Open Winter | |
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Sorrow-Acre | |
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Tobias Wolf on "Sorrowacre" | |
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Public Appearances | |
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The Intruder | |
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We Didn't | |
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King of the Bingo Game | |
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Matchimanito | |
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Barn Burning | |
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The Bear | |
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Dreams | |
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Babylon Revisited | |
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Great Falls | |
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The Road from Colonus | |
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A New England Nun | |
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Bernadette | |
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The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World | |
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Wounded Soldier | |
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Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded Soldier" | |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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A Soldier's Embrace | |
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Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt | |
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George Garrett on "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" | |
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Nativity, Caucasian | |
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Testimony of Pilot | |
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Wedding Night | |
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Young Goodman Brown | |
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The Birthmark | |
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Hills Like White Elephants | |
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Frederick Busch on "Hills Like White Elephants" | |
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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried | |
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The Conscience of the Court | |
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The Lottery | |
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Greville Fane | |
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Passion | |
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Moving Pictures | |
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A New Man | |
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The Pugilist at Rest | |
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Araby | |
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A Little Cloud | |
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The Dead | |
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The Metamorphosis | |
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A Hunger Artist | |
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Girl | |
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The Man Who Would Be King | |
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Jewel of the Moon | |
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My Life as a Mollusk | |
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
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The Coggios | |
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Gravity | |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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To Room Nineteen | |
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Brief Lives in California | |
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My Father's Chinese Wives | |
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The Chevigny Man | |
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Angel Levine | |
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Death in Venice | |
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Bliss | |
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Shiloh | |
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Boule de Suif | |
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The Thistles in Sweden | |
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Charles Baxter on "the Thistles in Sweden" | |
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Bartleby, the Scrivener | |
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The Management of Grief | |
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Richard Ford on "the Management of Grief" | |
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Royal Beatings | |
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Prue | |
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Signs and Symbols | |
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The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien | |
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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again | |
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The Things They Carried | |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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Lee Smith on "a Good Man is Hard to Find" | |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
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Guests of the Nation | |
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Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the Nation" | |
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Tell Me a Riddle | |
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War | |
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The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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The Purloined Letter | |
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Flowering Judas | |
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The Fall | |
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The Conversion of the Jews | |
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Nadine at 35: A Synopsis | |
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The Eighty-Yard Run | |
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Gimpel the Fool | |
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Intensive Care | |
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In the Zoo | |
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R. V. Cassill on "in the Zoo" | |
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The Chrysanthemums | |
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Rules of the Game | |
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A Spinster's Tale | |
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Ann Beattie on "a Spinster's Tale" | |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | |
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The Death of Ivan Ilych | |
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A and P | |
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The Moths | |
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Everyday Use | |
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Blackberry Winter | |
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Why I Live at the P.O. | |
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A Worn Path | |
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Susan Dodd on "a Worn Path" | |
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The Man Who Loved Levittown | |
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The Use of Force | |
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | |
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Kew Gardens | |
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
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Writing Papers about Fiction | |
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When You Write about Fiction | |
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Writing Fiction | |
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Writers on Writing | |
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Why Do You Write? | |
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What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? | |
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On Writing | |
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What Happened | |
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Selected Letters | |
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A Familiar Preface | |
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An Interview | |
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Becoming a Writer | |
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The Art of Fiction | |
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Why the Novel Matters | |
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The Novel | |
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A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman | |
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What Is Real? | |
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The Nature and Aim of Fiction | |
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Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales | |
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What Is Art? | |
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Glossary of Critical Terms | |
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Permissions Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Titles | |