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Adres wydawniczy

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Opis fizyczny

xiv, 768 pages ; 23 cm

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Wariant tytułu

American short stories.

Uwagi

Includes index.

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- A death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The girl with a pimply face / William Carlos Williams -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Red-headed baby / Langston Hughes -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles.

A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty -- The lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- The death of Justina / John Cheever -- Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The persistence of desire / John Updike -- Alaska / Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Gravity / David Leavitt -- The house on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict.

Collection of fifty-six American short stories and biographical information about each author.

Temat

United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Medicine in literature.

Short stories, American -- Literary collections.

Short stories, American.

Medicine in Literature

Short stories, American

Medicine in literature

Manners and customs

United States

Gatunek

Short stories, American.

short stories.

Literary collections

Short stories, American

Fiction

Short stories

Short stories.

Short stories.

Hasło dodatkowe

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Powiązania

Online version: Oxford book of American short stories. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)609979734

Online version: Oxford book of American short stories. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)623005853

ISBN

0195070658 (acid-free paper)

9780195070651 (acid-free paper)

0192824066 (pbk.)

9780192824066 (pbk.)

9780195092622 (paperback)

0195092627 (paperback)