Story and structure. [print]
- forth edition.
- New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (c)1974.
- v, 552 pages 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The most dangerous game The child by tiger The destructors The Japanese quince I'm a fool The kiss Tears, idle tears Youth The silver crown Defender of the faith Haircut Paul's case Hills like white elephants The lottery The guest Greenleaf The storm That evening sun Flurry at the sheep dog trial The drunkard The Spinoza of Market Street The enchanted doll The rocking-horse winner Bontsha the silent A municipal report A jury of her peers The infant prodigy A hunger artist Young Goodman Brown Two little soldiers The bride comes to Yellow Sky Clay Death of a travelling salesman Clementina Miss Brill Rope The sky is gray Conquistador My first goose Like a bad dream Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby The immortals The death of Ivan Ilych Richard Connell -- Thomas Wolfe -- Graham Greene -- John Galsworthy -- Sherwood Anderson -- Anton Chekhov -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Joseph Conrad -- Bernard Malamud -- Philip Roth -- Ring Lardner -- Willa Cather -- Ernest Hemingway -- Shirley Jackson -- Albert Camus -- Flannery O'Connor -- McKnight Malmar -- William Faulkner -- Eric Knight -- Frank O'Connor -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Paul Gallico -- D.H. Lawrence -- I.L. Peretz -- O. Henry -- Susan Glaspell -- Thomas Mann -- Franz Kafka -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Guy Maupassant -- Stephen Crane -- James Joyce -- Eudora Welty -- John Cheever -- Katherine Mansfield -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Prudencio de Pereda -- Isaac Babel -- Heinrich Boll -- Donald Barthelme -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Leo Tolstoy.
Introducing students to the major elements of fiction writing this text helps to develop critical standards for judging literary works. It uses 41 short stories and three novellas by "classic" and contemporary practitioners to demonstrate techniques and suggest criteria for judgment. The book is organized by elements of fiction: plot; character; theme; point of view; and so on. It also includes an appendix to guide students through the thinking and structuring processes of writing clearly and persuasively about literature.