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Preface
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Talking about Fiction
Character and Setting
Action, Plot, and Complication
Point of View
Indirection
The Part and The Whole
Coherence
I Want to Know Why Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues James Baldwin
Gorilla, My Love
Toni Cade Bambara
Me and Miss Mandible
Donald Barthelme
Janus Ann Beattie
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce
Identity
Clark Blaise
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Jorge Luis Borges
The Veldt Ray Bradbury
Bigfoot Stole My Wife
Ron Carlson
I Am Bigfoot
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From
The Father
R. V. Cassill
Paul's Case
Willa Cather
The Enormous Radio
John Cheever
The Five-Forty-Eight
The Lady with the Dog
Anton Chekhov
The Darling
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
The Motor Car
Austin C. Clarke
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Babysitter
Robert Coover
A Continuity of Parks
Julio Cortazar
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
The Blue Hotel
Horizontal Snow
Rick DeMarinis
Sorrow-Acre
Isak Dinesen
The Lost Phoebe
Theodore Dreiser
King of the Bingo Game Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito
Louise Erdrich
A Rose for Emily William Faulkner
Barn Burning
The Bear
To Byzantium Andrew Fetler
Dreams Timothy Findley
Babylon Revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Colonel
Carolyn Forche
Great Falls Richard Ford
The Road from Colonus
E. M. Forster
A New England Nun
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
My Heart Is Broken
Mavis Gallant
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Evening Performance George Garrett
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Soldier's Embrace Nadine Gordimer
Testimony of Pilot Barry Hannah
Wedding Night Tom Hawkins
Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birthmark
Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried Amy Hempel
Brilliant Silence Spencer Holst
The Conscience of the Court Zora Neale Hurston
The Lottery Shirley Jackson
The Tree of Knowledge Henry James
Araby James Joyce
A Little Cloud
The Dead
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist
Girl Jamaica Kincaid
The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling
The Loons
Margaret Laurence
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen
Doris Lessing
The Fifth Story
Clarice Lispector
Gold Coast
James Alan McPherson
Angel Levine
Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Bliss
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden-Party
Shiloh
Bobbie Ann Mason
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
Patriotism
Yukio Mishima
The Management of Grief
Bharati Mukherjee
Royal Beatings
Alice Munro
Prue
Signs and Symbols
Vladimir Nabokov
Lucielia Louise Turner Gloria Naylor
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit
House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Parker's Back
Guests of the Nation Frank O'Connor
My Oedipus Complex
Tell Me a Riddle Tillie Olsen
The Used-Boy Raisers Grace Paley
War
Luigi Pirandello
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
Theft Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
The Conversion of the Jews Philip Roth
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis Jo Sapp
Gimpel the Fool
Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the Zoo Jean Stafford
The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck
Rules of the Game Amy Tan
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
A & P John Updike
Reunion
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Everyday Use Alice Walker
Voke-Tech Theodore Weesner
Why I Live at the P.O. Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
The Use of Force
William Carlos Williams
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf
The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright
Writing about Fiction
Reviewing a Story
Critical Concentration
The Hand-to-Hand Engagement
Writing Fiction
Imitation and Comparison
Story-Generating Models
Models for Revision
Writers on Writing
Why Do You Write?
Margaret Atwood
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?
Toni Cade Bambara
On Writing
Raymond Carver
What Happened
John Cheever
Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
A Familiar Preface
Joseph Conrad
An Interview with Ralph Ellison
Who's Who---and Why F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Interview with Ernest Hemingway
The Art of Fiction Henry James
Why the Novel Matters
D. H. Lawrence
An Interview with Doris Lessing
The Novel
Guy de Maupassant
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman
Bharati Mukherjee
What Is Read?
Alice Munro
The Nature and Aim of Fiction Flannery O'Connor
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales Edgar Allan Poe
An Interview with Katherine Anne Porter
An Interview with James Thurber
What is Art?
Leo Tolstoy
An Interview with Eudora Welty
Glossary of Critical Terms
Index of Titles
