Discoveries Fifty Stories of the Quest

Name: Discoveries Fifty Stories of the Quest
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ISBN: 9780195068504

ISBN-10: 0195068505

ISBN-13: 9780195068504

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Harold Schechter, Jonna Gormely Semeiks

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The second edition of this short story reader includes new stories by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, and B. K. Narayan, and representing a new generation of writers, such as Stephen Milhauser, Ellen Gilchrist, and Patrick McGrath. The anthology is organized around the quest pattern delineated by Joseph Campbell.

Book details

List price: $119.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.14" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.090



Contents by Alternate Themes


Contents by Technical Elements


Introduction: The Quest


The Elements of Fiction



The Call


Blackberry Winter



Paul's Case



Astronomer's Wife



The Island at Noon



The Liberation



The Story of an Hour



Adventure




The Other


Edgar Allan Poe



The Lost Explorer



Double Face



Getzel the Monkey



The Story of a Dead Man



Yellow Woman



A Good Man is Hard to Find



He and I




The Journey


My Kinsman



Babylon Revisited



A Worn Path



The Open Boat



Idiots First



Big Boy Leaves Home



Behind the Blue Curtain



Through the Tunnel



Night-Sea Journey




Helpers and Guides


The Poet



The Lesson



Cathedral



Awakening



The Sky is Gray



Under the Banyan Tree



The Conversion of the Jews



Blacam((a'))n the Good, Vendor of Miracles




The Treasure


James Joyce



Semley's Necklace



Ann Beattie



A Tree ((EMB)) A Rock ((EMB)) A Cloud



The Blue Jar



The Middle Drawer



Flying Home



The Oranging of America, Max Apple


The Revolt of "Mother"


Freeman




Transformation


The Horse-Dealer's Daughter



Twin Beds in Rome



The Management of Grief



O Yes



The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller



Traveler



Washington Irving



Vladimir Nabokov



How Wang-Fo Was Saved



Glossary of Critical Terms


Biographies of the Authors