Art of the Short Story

Name: Art of the Short Story
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ISBN: 9780321363633

ISBN-10: 0321363639

ISBN-13: 9780321363633

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dana Gioia, R. Gwynn

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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 8/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 944
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.20" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English



About the Authors



Introduction


The Art of the Short Story



Stories


Chinua Achebe, Nigerian


Dead Men's Path


Author's Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture


Sherwood Anderson, American


Hands


Author's Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story


Margaret Atwood, Canadian


Happy Endings


Author's Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity


James Baldwin, American


Sonny's Blues


Author's Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer


Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine


The Garden of Forking Paths


Author's Perspective: Borges on Literature as Experience


Albert Camus, French, Born in Algeria


The Guest


Author's Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria


Raymond Carver, American


Cathedral


A Small Good Thing


Author's Perspective: Carver on Commonplace but Precise Language


Willa Cather, American


Paul's Case


Author's Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification


John Cheever, American


The Swimmer


Author's Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories


Anton Chekhov, Russian


The Lady with the Pet Dog


Misery


Author's Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and "The Center of Gravity."


Kate Chopin, American


The Storm


The Story of an Hour


Author's Perspective: Chopin on Her Writing Method


Sandra Cisner