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A world of fiction : twenty timeless short stories / [compiled by] Sybil Marcus.

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LIBRA PE1128 .W7599 2006
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Marcus, Sybil
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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