Beschreibung:
'The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction' contains 20 classic short stories by well-known and respected authors, some of which are rarely anthologized in the contemporary publishing market. Accordingly, this new selection provides a fresh perspective on each author and his or her place in the overarching literary canon, and will offer students both inspiration and guidance when thinking and writing about literature.
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Nathaniel Hawthorne: ?Young Goodman Brown?; Edgar Allan Poe: ?The Man of the Crowd?; Leo Tolstoy: ?How Much Land Does a Man Need??; Mark Twain: ?The Californian's Tale?; Ambrose Bierce: ?An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?; Sarah Orne Jewett: ?A White Heron?; Kate Chopin: ?The Story of an Hour?; Arthur Conan Doyle: ?A Scandal in Bohemia?; Anton Chekhov: ?The Lady with the Dog?; Charlotte Perkins Gilman: ?The Yellow Wallpaper?; Edith Wharton: ?The Choice?; O. Henry: ?The Ransom of Red Chief?; Rudyard Kipling: ?Mowgli's Brothers?; H.G. Wells: ?The Moth? 1866; Stephen Crane: ?The Open Boat?; Willa Cather: ?A Wagner Matinee?; James Joyce: ?Araby?; H.P. Lovecraft: ?The Outsider?; F. Scott Fitzgerald: ?Winter Dreams?; Robert. E. Howard: ?Circus Fists?; Copyrights; Glossary of Literary Terms