Details

Description

xi, 479 pages ; 23 cm

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- from Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- from Adam Bede / George Eliot -- from Roughing it / Mark Twain -- from Lady Anna / Anthony Trollope -- from Billy Budd / Herman Melville -- from Weir of Hermiston / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- from The Forsyte saga / John Galsworthy -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie -- Letter /

W. Somerset Maugham -- Majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Tomorrow / William Faulkner -- And, or / Sterling A. Brown -- Happy event / Nadine Gordimer -- Greenhouse with Cyclamens I / Rebecca West -- from The floating opera / John Barth -- Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth -- from To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Mr. Portway's practice / Michael Gilbert -- Senior partner's ghosts / Louis

Auchincloss -- from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp -- from The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles -- Act of prostitution / James Alan McPherson -- Gentleman's agreement / Elizabeth Jolley -- from The sorcerer of Bolinas Reef / Charles A. Reich -- from The good mother / Sue Miller -- from The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe -- American appetites / Joyce Carol Oates -- Lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.

Subject

Legal stories, English.

Legal stories, American.

Legal stories -- Great Britain.

Legal stories -- United States.

English fiction.

American fiction.

Added Author

Shapiro, Fred R.

Garry, Jane.

ISBN

0195095472 (acid-free paper)