Short fiction : an introductory anthology

Lynch, Gerald, 1953- (editor.). Rampton, David, 1950- (editor.).

Summary: Showcasing 53 short stories from the early nineteenth century to the present, this treats readers to a collection of works by Canadian and internationally acclaimed writers. Tracing the evolution of the short story, this anthology ignites readers’ imaginations with its diversity of voices, themes, literary techniques, and writing styles.

Record details

ISBN: 9780176415549
Physical Description: xxxiii, 764 p. ; 23 cm.
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Toronto : Thomson Nelson, c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The nose / Nikolay Gogol / -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The real thing / Henry James -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Rothschild's fiddle / Anton Chekhov -- The pool in the desert / Sara Jeannette Duncan -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Paul Farlotte / Duncan Campbell Scott -- Its wavering image / Edith Eaton -- The Hostelry of Mr. Smith / Stephen Leacock -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Araby / James Joyce -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The horse dealer's daughter / D. H. Lawrence -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- One's a heifer / Sinclair Ross -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The old chief Mshlanga -- Voices lost in snow / Mavis Gallant -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The virgin's gift / William Trevor -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- Who do you think you are? / Alice Munro -- A & P / John Updike -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- When he was free and young he used to wear silks / Austin C. Clarke -- As birds bring forth the sun / Alistair MacLeod -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- The age of lead / Margaret Atwood -- The company of wolves / Angela Carter -- The one about coyote going west / Thomas King -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- Burning chrome / William Gibson -- The immaculate conception photography gallery / Katherine Govier -- First love, last rites / Ian McEwan -- In the quiet of a Sunday afternoon / M. G. Vassanji -- Man descending / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Desire / Russell Smith.