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Short Fiction Classic and Contemporary

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ISBN-10: 0134600495

ISBN-13: 9780134600499

Edition: 4th 1999

Authors: Charles H. Bohner, Dean Dougherty

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For undergraduate courses on The Short Story; Introduction to Fiction; and/or Introduction to Literature that use genre-specific books. This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. The selections total 137 stories by 113 writers.
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Book details

List price: $52.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Charles Bohner, a professor in the University of Delaware's English Department, published widely during his many years of scholarly work and teaching, but Bold Journey is his first novel.

Introduction
Dead Men's Path
Roses, Rhododendron
A Bicycle
I'm Working on My Charm
I Want to Know Why
Seeing Mrs
Rape Fantasies
Gertrude Talks Back
The Little Red Hen Tells Al
Awakening
Sonny's Blues
The Lesson
My Mother's Memoirs
My Father's Lie
and Other True Stories
'III' from Three Simple Stories
Lost in the Funhouse
A City of Churches
The Chosen Vessel
What Was Mine
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The End of the Duel
The Werewolf
Cathedral
Paul's Case
The Swimmer
The Darling
The Lady With the Dog
The Death of a Civil Servant
The Story of an Hour
A Respectable Woman
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Other Wife
The Secret Sharer
The Magic Poker
The Blue Hotel
The Open Boat
The Lover and the Tell- Tale
The Blue Jar
The Red-Headed League
The Doctor
King of the Bingo Game
Dry September
A Rose for Emily
A Scrap of Time
Babylon Revisited
Silence Dogood, No. 1
April Fish
Tuesday Siesta
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Overcoat
The Life of the Imagination
Two Gentle People
Argument and Persuasion
The Birthmark
Bessie Head
Looking for a Rain God
Vermont Tale
Hills Like White Elephants
Indian Camp
Who's Passing for Who?
Spunk
Rip Van Winkle
The Lottery
The Real Thing
The White Heron
Araby
Metamorphosis
Search and Destroy
The Circling Hand
Girl
Not a Good Girl
Haircut
My Vocation