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Twice-told tales : an anthology of short fiction / [edited by] Gerard A. Barker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1979.Description: xiii, 689 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0395266351
Other title:
  • Twice told tales
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Contents:
Contents: Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimir Nabokov -- A painful case / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth
Contents: The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- The evening sun and Dry September / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover and a warning for married women (The daemon lover) / Elizabeth Bowen - The daemon lover and The phantom lover, two excerpts / Shirley Jackson -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Green -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton
Contents: To build a fire / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey family and the Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child who was tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Checkhov -- Tricks and defeat of sporting genius / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain - - Repentance and First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest and Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium and Judgement day / Flannery O'Connor -- Odor of chrysanthemums and The ending / D.H. Lawrence -- The jewelry and Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James.
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Includes index.

Contents: Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimir Nabokov -- A painful case / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth

Contents: The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- The evening sun and Dry September / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover and a warning for married women (The daemon lover) / Elizabeth Bowen - The daemon lover and The phantom lover, two excerpts / Shirley Jackson -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Green -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton

Contents: To build a fire / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey family and the Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child who was tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Checkhov -- Tricks and defeat of sporting genius / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain - - Repentance and First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest and Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium and Judgement day / Flannery O'Connor -- Odor of chrysanthemums and The ending / D.H. Lawrence -- The jewelry and Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James.

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