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Introductory matter includes a chronological list of the stories and a section on the elements of fiction. Then follow examples of short fiction arranged in alphabetical order by authors that include Welty, William Carlos Williams, Melville, de Maupassant, David Leavitt, Louise Erdrich, and Thom Jones. The last section, "Writers on Writing," features 15 valuable commentaries on the way writers read particular works of fiction: Andrea Barrett reads Willa Cather's "Paul's Case"; Gina Berriault, Ivan Bunin's "The Gentleman from San Francisco"; and Richard Ford, Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief," to name just three. In all, there are 44 stories written after 1980, 26 new to the 6th edition. A glossary is included and an instructor's handbook is available. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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• Chronological Table of Contents(p. xi)
• Preface(p. xvii)
• Preface to the Sixth Edition(p. xix)
• Talking about Fiction(p. xxiii)
• Character and Setting(p. xxiii)
• Action, Plot, and Complication(p. xxiv)
• Point of View(p. xxvi)
• Indirection(p. xxviii)
• The Part and the Whole(p. xxx)
• Coherence(p. xxxi)
• General Questions(p. xxxiv)
• I Want to Know Why(p. 1)
• Death by Landscape(p. 8)
• Sonny's Blues(p. 21)
• Gorilla, My Love(p. 45)
• The Littoral Zone(p. 50)
• Me and Miss Mandible(p. 58)
• The Disappeared(p. 67)
• Snow(p. 86)
• Witness(p. 88)
• Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?(p. 101)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge(p. 113)
• Silver Water(p. 121)
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote(p. 128)
• The Veldt(p. 136)
• Pagan Night(p. 147)
• The Gentleman from San Francisco(p. 156)
• Gina Berriault on "the Gentleman from San Francisco"(p. 172)
• Bread(p. 173)
• Cathedral(p. 186)
• The Rationing of Love(p. 197)
• Paul's Case(p. 211)
• Andrea Barrett on "Paul's Case"(p. 226)
• The Enormous Radio(p. 228)
• The Lady with the Dog(p. 237)
• Gusev(p. 249)
• Richard Bausch on "Gusev"(p. 259)
• The Story of an Hour(p. 261)
• The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(p. 264)
• Heart of Darkness(p. 269)
• Barry Hannah on "Heart of Darkness"(p. 331)
• The Babysitter(p. 334)
• A Continuity of Parks(p. 354)
• The Open Boat(p. 356)
• Allan Gurganus on "the Open Boat"(p. 374)
• The Blue Hotel(p. 376)
• Open Winter(p. 397)
• Sorrow-Acre(p. 414)
• Tobias Wolf on "Sorrowacre"(p. 436)
• Public Appearances(p. 438)
• The Intruder(p. 449)
• We Didn't(p. 459)
• King of the Bingo Game(p. 468)
• Matchimanito(p. 476)
• Barn Burning(p. 490)
• The Bear(p. 503)
• Dreams(p. 582)
• Babylon Revisited(p. 597)
• Great Falls(p. 613)
• The Road from Colonus(p. 625)
• A New England Nun(p. 634)
• Bernadette(p. 643)
• The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World(p. 661)
• Wounded Soldier(p. 666)
• Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded Soldier"(p. 672)
• The Yellow Wallpaper(p. 675)
• A Soldier's Embrace(p. 688)
• Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt(p. 699)
• George Garrett on "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt"(p. 705)
• Nativity, Caucasian(p. 707)
• Testimony of Pilot(p. 714)
• Wedding Night(p. 733)
• Young Goodman Brown(p. 735)
• The Birthmark(p. 745)
• Hills Like White Elephants(p. 757)
• Frederick Busch on "Hills Like White Elephants"(p. 761)
• In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried(p. 763)
• The Conscience of the Court(p. 770)
• The Lottery(p. 781)
• Greville Fane(p. 788)
• Passion(p. 801)
• Moving Pictures(p. 814)
• A New Man(p. 818)
• The Pugilist at Rest(p. 827)
• Araby(p. 841)
• A Little Cloud(p. 845)
• The Dead(p. 855)
• The Metamorphosis(p. 885)
• A Hunger Artist(p. 918)
• Girl(p. 925)
• The Man Who Would Be King(p. 927)
• Jewel of the Moon(p. 952)
• My Life as a Mollusk(p. 962)
• The Horse Dealer's Daughter(p. 976)
• The Coggios(p. 989)
• Gravity(p. 992)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas(p. 996)
• To Room Nineteen(p. 1001)
• Brief Lives in California(p. 1025)
• My Father's Chinese Wives(p. 1034)
• The Chevigny Man(p. 1044)
• Angel Levine(p. 1056)
• Death in Venice(p. 1065)
• Bliss(p. 1113)
• Shiloh(p. 1123)
• Boule de Suif(p. 1134)
• The Thistles in Sweden(p. 1162)
• Charles Baxter on "the Thistles in Sweden"(p. 1177)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener(p. 1178)
• The Management of Grief(p. 1206)
• Richard Ford on "the Management of Grief"(p. 1218)
• Royal Beatings(p. 1220)
• Prue(p. 1236)
• Signs and Symbols(p. 1240)
• The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien(p. 1245)
• How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again(p. 1251)
• The Things They Carried(p. 1263)
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find(p. 1277)
• Lee Smith on "a Good Man is Hard to Find"(p. 1289)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge(p. 1290)
• Guests of the Nation(p. 1301)
• Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the Nation"(p. 1310)
• Tell Me a Riddle(p. 1312)
• War(p. 1340)
• The Fall of the House of Usher(p. 1344)
• The Purloined Letter(p. 1358)
• Flowering Judas(p. 1372)
• The Fall(p. 1382)
• The Conversion of the Jews(p. 1391)
• Nadine at 35: A Synopsis(p. 1403)
• The Eighty-Yard Run(p. 1405)
• Gimpel the Fool(p. 1416)
• Intensive Care(p. 1427)
• In the Zoo(p. 1446)
• R. V. Cassill on "in the Zoo"(p. 1461)
• The Chrysanthemums(p. 1462)
• Rules of the Game(p. 1471)
• A Spinster's Tale(p. 1480)
• Ann Beattie on "a Spinster's Tale"(p. 1496)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(p. 1498)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych(p. 1503)
• A and P(p. 1544)
• The Moths(p. 1550)
• Everyday Use(p. 1555)
• Blackberry Winter(p. 1562)
• Why I Live at the P.O.(p. 1578)
• A Worn Path(p. 1587)
• Susan Dodd on "a Worn Path"(p. 1593)
• The Man Who Loved Levittown(p. 1595)
• The Use of Force(p. 1607)
• In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(p. 1611)
• Kew Gardens(p. 1620)
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man(p. 1626)
• Writing Papers about Fiction(p. 1637)
• When You Write about Fiction(p. 1644)
• Writing Fiction(p. 1653)
• Writers on Writing(p. 1665)
• Why Do You Write?(p. 1666)
• What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?(p. 1666)
• On Writing(p. 1667)
• What Happened(p. 1671)
• Selected Letters(p. 1673)
• A Familiar Preface(p. 1675)
• An Interview(p. 1678)
• Becoming a Writer(p. 1680)
• The Art of Fiction(p. 1696)
• Why the Novel Matters(p. 1699)
• The Novel(p. 1702)
• A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman(p. 1704)
• What Is Real?(p. 1706)
• The Nature and Aim of Fiction(p. 1709)
• Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales(p. 1710)
• What Is Art?(p. 1717)
• Glossary of Critical Terms(p. 1722)
• Permissions Acknowledgments(p. 1731)
• Index of Titles(p. 1737)