TY - BOOK AU - Perrine,Laurence TI - Story and structure SN - 9780155837843 AV - PZ1 PY - 1974/// CY - New York PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich KW - Short stories KW - Short story N1 - 1; The most dangerous game; Richard Connell --; The child by tiger; Thomas Wolfe --; The destructors; Graham Greene --; The Japanese quince; John Galsworthy --; I'm a fool; Sherwood Anderson --; The kiss; Anton Chekhov --; Tears, idle tears; Elizabeth Bowen --; Youth; Joseph Conrad --; The silver crown; Bernard Malamud --; Defender of the faith; Philip Roth --; Haircut; Ring Lardner --; Paul's case; Willa Cather --; Hills like white elephants; Ernest Hemingway --; The lottery; Shirley Jackson --; The guest; Albert Camus --; Greenleaf; Flannery O'Connor --; The storm; McKnight Malmar --; That evening sun; William Faulkner --; Flurry at the sheep dog trial; Eric Knight --; The drunkard; Frank O'Connor --; The Spinoza of Market Street; Isaac Bashevis Singer --; The enchanted doll; Paul Gallico --; The rocking-horse winner; D.H. Lawrence --; Bontsha the silent; I.L. Peretz --; A municipal report; O. Henry --; A jury of her peers; Susan Glaspell --; The infant prodigy; Thomas Mann --; A hunger artist; Franz Kafka --; Young Goodman Brown; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; Two little soldiers; Guy Maupassant --; The bride comes to Yellow Sky; Stephen Crane --; Clay; James Joyce --; Death of a travelling salesman; Eudora Welty --; Clementina; John Cheever --; Miss Brill; Katherine Mansfield --; Rope; Katherine Anne Porter --; The sky is gray; Ernest J. Gaines --; Conquistador; Prudencio de Pereda --; My first goose; Isaac Babel --; Like a bad dream; Heinrich Boll --; Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby; Donald Barthelme --; The immortals; Jorge Luis Borges --; The death of Ivan Ilych; Leo Tolstoy; 2 N2 - 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 ER -