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A world of fiction : twenty timeless short stories / [compiled by] Sybil Marcus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
- English language.
- Short stories.
- short stories.
- Genre:
- Readers.
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Readers (Publications)
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- White Plains, NY : Pearson/Longman, ©2006.
- Contents:
- Husbands, wives, and lovers.
- Can-can / Arturo Vivante
- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
- Epicac / Kurt Vonnegut
- The legacy / Virginia Woolf
- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
- An intruder / Nadine Gordimer
- Parent and child.
- Powder / Tobias Wolff
- Mother / Grace Paley
- A short digest of a long novel / Budd Schulberg
- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
- The boarding house / James Joyce
- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
- Loneliness and alienation.
- The model / Bernard Malamud
- Disappearing / Monica Wood
- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
- Teenage wasteland / Anne Tyler
- Social change and injustice.
- Like a winding sheet / Ann Petry
- The lily-white boys / William Maxwell
- The catbird seat / James Thurber
- Everyday use / Alice Walker
- Explanation of literary terms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: World of fiction.
- ISBN:
- 0131946366
- 9780131946361
- OCLC:
- 61881104
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