The Wascana anthology of short fiction

Book 1999

"An anthology of short stories has been designed specifically as an instructional text for first-year university students. To explore the many dimensions of short narrative fiction, the collection includes traditional classics from European culture, from Chaucer to Gogol and Chekhov, and extends to popular and celebrated stories from contemporary writers. There is a decided emphasis on new stories from the Plains region of Canada and the United...

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University of Regina publications University of Regina publications ; 3 University of Regina publications, ISSN: 1480-0004 University of Regina publications, ISSN: 1480-0004 ; 3

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ISBN:

0889771138

Description:

xxv, 466 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

SPL: Canadiana

Contents:

Preface
Essay: The lonely voice by Frank O'Connor
The approximate size of my favourite tumour / Sherman Alexie
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Disappearances / Sandra Birdsell
Swimming upstream / Beth Brant
Joyride/ Bonnie Burnard
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
The miller's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Loss of the sky / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
The bingo van / Louise Erdrich
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
Sweethearts / Richard Ford
The Moslem wife / Mavis Gallant
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The overcoat / Nicolai Gogol
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
Araby / James Joyce
A seat in the garden / Thomas King
To set our house in order / Margaret Laurence
Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
The boat / Alistair MacLeod
The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield
Swimming lessons / Rohinton Mistry
The great electrical revolution / Ken Mitchell
Boys and girls / Alice Munro
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe
Traplines / Eden Robinson
The painted door / Sinclair Ross
Marching through Boston / John Updike
The watcher / Guy Vanderhaeghe
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Where is the voice coming from? / Rudy Wiebe
Glossary
Acknowledgements

Control Number:

93833

Other Authors:

Chase, Thomas
Mitchell, Ken, 1940-
Trussler, Michael, 1960-
University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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