Elements of fiction, an anthology /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- The elements of fiction. The elements of fiction
- Early forms of fiction
- Three stories and commentaries. Moonlight / Guy de Maupassant
- Clay / James Joyce
- The theme of the traitor and the hero / Jorge Luis Borges.
- The modern short story. My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
- A simple soul / Gustave Flaubert
- Strider : the story of a horse / Leo Tolstoy
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
- The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant
- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
- Heartache / Anton Chekhov
- The gift of the magi / O. Henry
- The bull that thought / Rudyard Kipling
- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells
- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
- The boarding house / James Joyce
- The christening ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
- The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner
- Six years after / Katherine Mansfield
- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter
- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker
- Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel
- Goodbye Marcus, goodbye Rose / Jean Rhys
- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen
- A visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov
- The lottery in Babylon / Jorge Luis Borges.
- The modern short story. On the road / Langston Hughes
- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
- Winter night / Kay Boyle
- The third one / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The ethics of living Jim Crow / Richard Wright
- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
- The seacoast of Bohemia / Hortense Calisher
- The swimmer / John Cheever
- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
- A story / Dylan Thomas
- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
- Blow-up / Julio Cortázar
- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke
- The seventh trunk / Heinrich Böll
- Sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
- Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal / Stanislaw Lem
- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- The long-distance runner / Grace Paley
- The fastest Jeep in the world / Vance Bourjaily
- Meiosis / Italo Calvino
- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
- The fountain / W.S. Merwin
- Tuesday siesta / Gabriel García Márquez
- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
- The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme
- The gingerbread house / Robert Coover
- Ace in the hole / John Updike
- Elbow room / James Alan McPherson.
- The modern novella. The turn of the screw / Henry James
- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka.