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Note: Each selection is followed by a Study Guide | |
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Introduction: On Fiction How to Read and Write | |
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About Fiction Terms Used in Thinking | |
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About Fiction Story Groupings Nineteenth-Century | |
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Fiction Jacob (17851863) and Wilhelm (17861859) | |
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Grimm, Hansel and Gretel Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) | |
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The Minister's Black Veil | |
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Young Goodman Brown Edgar Allen Poe (18091849) | |
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The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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The Purloined Letter Nikolai Gogol (18091852) | |
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The Nose Herman Melville (18191891) | |
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Bartleby the Scrivener Sarah Orne Jewett (18491909) | |
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A White Heron Guy De Maupassant (18501893) | |
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Old Mother Savage Kate Chopin (18511904) | |
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Desiree's Baby Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (18521930) | |
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The Revolt of 'Mother' Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) | |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper Stephen Crane (18711900) | |
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The Blue Hotel | |
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The Modern Tradition and Anton Chekhov | |
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Modern Fiction and Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov (18601904) | |
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The Lady with the Dog | |
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Misery | |
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Gooseberries | |
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Gusev Writers in the Modern Canon | |
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Introduction Joseph Conrad (18571924) | |
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The Secret Sharer Edith Wharton (18621937) | |
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Roman Fever Virginia Woolf (18781941) | |
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An Unwritten Novel James Joyce (18821941), Araby | |
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Clay Franz Kafka (18831924) | |
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A Hunger Artist | |
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The Bucket Rider D.H. Lawrence (18851930) | |
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The Blind Man | |
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The Rocking-Horse Winner William Faulkner (18971962) | |
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That Evening Sun | |
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A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway (18991961) | |
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Hills Like White Elephants Selected Modern and Contemporary Fiction | |
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I.L. Peretz (18511915) | |
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If Not Higher William Carlos Williams (18831963) | |
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The Use of Force Sherwood Anderson (18761941) | |
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I Want to Know Why Katherine Mansfield (18881923) | |
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The Garden-Party Katherine Anne Porter (18901980) | |
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Ryunosuke Akutagawa (18921927) | |
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Rashomon Isaac Babel (18941941?) | |
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My First Goose Vladimir Nabokov (18991977) | |
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Sounds John Steinbeck (19021968) | |
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The Chrysanthemums Zora Neale Hurston (19031960) | |
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Sweat Eudora Welty (b. 1909) | |
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A Worn Path John Cheever (19121982) | |
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The Country Husband Tillie Olsen (b. 1913?) | |
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I Stand Here Ironing Octavio Paz (b. 1914) | |
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My Life with the Wave Bernard Malamud (19141986) | |
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The Magic Barrel | |
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Idiots First Saul Bellow (b. 1915) | |
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A Silver Dish Doris Lessing (b. 1919) | |
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How I Finally Lost My Heart Shirley Jackson (19191965) | |
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The Lottery Grace Paley (b. 1922) | |
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A Conversation with My Father | |
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Zagrowsky Tells Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) | |
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City Lovers James Baldwin (19241987) | |
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Sonny's Blues Flannery O'Connor (19251964) | |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) | |
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings John Barth (b. 1930) | |
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Lost in the Funhouse Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) | |
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The Madman Alice Munro (b. 1931) | |
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White Dump John Updike (b. 1932) | |
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Separating John J. Clayton (b. 1935) | |
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The Man Who Could See Radiance Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) | |
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Where Are You Going | |
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Where Have You Been? | |
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Raymond Carver (19381988), Cathedral | |
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What We Talk About When We Talk | |
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About Love Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939) | |
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The Lesson Alice Walker (b. 1944) | |
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Everyday Use Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) | |
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The Man I Killed | |
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The Lives of the Dead Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954) | |
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Tiny, Smiling Daddy Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) | |
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Saint Marie (1934) | |
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Marie Lazarre Susan Minot (b. 1957) | |
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Lust Lorrie Moore (b. 1957) | |
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Like Life George Saunders (b. 1958) | |
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Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz Victoria Redel (b. 1959) | |
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A Day in the Park | |
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Index of Authors and Titles | |
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Index of Terms | |