- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Norton
2000.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- ,
- Edition
- 6th ed
- Physical Description
- xxxvii, 1738 p. ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780393975086
- Chronological Table of Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Talking about Fiction
- Character and Setting
- Action, Plot, and Complication
- Point of View
- Indirection
- The Part and the Whole
- Coherence
- General Questions
- I Want to Know Why
- Death by Landscape
- Sonny's Blues
- Gorilla, My Love
- The Littoral Zone
- Me and Miss Mandible
- The Disappeared
- Snow
- Witness
- Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- Silver Water
- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
- The Veldt
- Pagan Night
- The Gentleman from San Francisco
- Gina Berriault on "the Gentleman from San Francisco"
- Bread
- Cathedral
- The Rationing of Love
- Paul's Case
- Andrea Barrett on "Paul's Case"
- The Enormous Radio
- The Lady with the Dog
- Gusev
- Richard Bausch on "Gusev"
- The Story of an Hour
- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- Heart of Darkness
- Barry Hannah on "Heart of Darkness"
- The Babysitter
- A Continuity of Parks
- The Open Boat
- Allan Gurganus on "the Open Boat"
- The Blue Hotel
- Open Winter
- Sorrow-Acre
- Tobias Wolf on "Sorrowacre"
- Public Appearances
- The Intruder
- We Didn't
- King of the Bingo Game
- Matchimanito
- Barn Burning
- The Bear
- Dreams
- Babylon Revisited
- Great Falls
- The Road from Colonus
- A New England Nun
- Bernadette
- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
- Wounded Soldier
- Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded Soldier"
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- A Soldier's Embrace
- Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt
- George Garrett on "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt"
- Nativity, Caucasian
- Testimony of Pilot
- Wedding Night
- Young Goodman Brown
- The Birthmark
- Hills Like White Elephants
- Frederick Busch on "Hills Like White Elephants"
- In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
- The Conscience of the Court
- The Lottery
- Greville Fane
- Passion
- Moving Pictures
- A New Man
- The Pugilist at Rest
- Araby
- A Little Cloud
- The Dead
- The Metamorphosis
- A Hunger Artist
- Girl
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Jewel of the Moon
- My Life as a Mollusk
- The Horse Dealer's Daughter
- The Coggios
- Gravity
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- To Room Nineteen
- Brief Lives in California
- My Father's Chinese Wives
- The Chevigny Man
- Angel Levine
- Death in Venice
- Bliss
- Shiloh
- Boule de Suif
- The Thistles in Sweden
- Charles Baxter on "the Thistles in Sweden"
- Bartleby, the Scrivener
- The Management of Grief
- Richard Ford on "the Management of Grief"
- Royal Beatings
- Prue
- Signs and Symbols
- The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien
- How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
- The Things They Carried
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Lee Smith on "a Good Man is Hard to Find"
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Guests of the Nation
- Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the Nation"
- Tell Me a Riddle
- War
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Purloined Letter
- Flowering Judas
- The Fall
- The Conversion of the Jews
- Nadine at 35: A Synopsis
- The Eighty-Yard Run
- Gimpel the Fool
- Intensive Care
- In the Zoo
- R. V. Cassill on "in the Zoo"
- The Chrysanthemums
- Rules of the Game
- A Spinster's Tale
- Ann Beattie on "a Spinster's Tale"
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- A and P
- The Moths
- Everyday Use
- Blackberry Winter
- Why I Live at the P.O.
- A Worn Path
- Susan Dodd on "a Worn Path"
- The Man Who Loved Levittown
- The Use of Force
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
- Kew Gardens
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man
- Writing Papers about Fiction
- When You Write about Fiction
- Writing Fiction
- Writers on Writing
- Why Do You Write?
- What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?
- On Writing
- What Happened
- Selected Letters
- A Familiar Preface
- An Interview
- Becoming a Writer
- The Art of Fiction
- Why the Novel Matters
- The Novel
- A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman
- What Is Real?
- The Nature and Aim of Fiction
- Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales
- What Is Art?
- Glossary of Critical Terms
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index of Titles