02398nam a2200229 4500 2352 20181127165007.0 790208s1979 mau 001 1 eng 78069561 0395266351 Twice-told tales : an anthology of short fiction / [edited by] Gerard A. Barker. Twice told tales Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1979. xiii, 689 p. ; 24 cm. 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. College readers. Short stories. Barker, Gerard A. 1879 1879 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 4833 0 808.83 BAR 30001227 2018-11-27 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN