McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction

PART I: INTRODUCTION: READING FICTION. PLEASURES OF FICTION: Experience. Interpretation. Evaluation. The Act of Reading ELEMENTS OF FICTION: Plot and Structure bullet; Character bullet; Setting Point of View. Style. Theme. Irony. Symbol. FORMS OF FICTION: Parable, Fable, Tale. Short Story Short Novel. Novel. Reading Novel Openings. Ernest Hemingway and Painting. James Joyce and Song PART II: MYTHS, TALES, AND LEGENDS. TALES FROM THE FAR EAST Chinese: The King''s Favorite. The Lost Horse. Japanese: Muddy Road. Urashima the Fisherman. Hindu: from the Panchantantra, from the Ramayan TALES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: Hebrew and Yiddish: It Could Always be Worse Wisdom or Luck? Arabic: The Beduin''s Gazelle (Saudi Arabian) The Shipwrecked Sailor (Egyptian) Persian: The Tales of Scheherazad The Ruined Man Who Became Rich again through a Dream TALES FROM THE MEDITERANNEAN VICINITY: Greek: Echo and Narcissus. Pegasus and Bellerophon. Roman: Cupid and Psyche. Pyramus and Thisbe. Italian: The Crab Prince. Bella Venezi. The School of Salamanca. Spanish: The Tinker and the Ghost French: The Little Fairy Bell. The Story of Merlin TALES FROM NORTHERN EUROPE: German: Parsival at the Castle of the Grain. Godfather Death. Celtic: How Thomas Connolly Met The Banshee (Irish). The Man Who Had No Story (Irish). The Ostler and the Grave Robbers (Scottish). Scandinavian: Amleth''s Revenge (Danish). The Treasures of the Gods (Norse). The Silly Man Who sold His Beard (Swedish Gypsy) NATIVE AMERICAN TALES: Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (Apache). Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (Tewa). Sedna (Eskimo). TALES FROM AFRICA: African-American-The Word the Devil Made up. Pig''s Long Nose and Greedy Mouth. African-Head Tree. The Black Clot PART III: SHORT STORIES. Lee K. Abbott: How Love is Lived in Paradise. Chinua Achebe: Marriage is a Private Affair. Julia Alvarez: Snow. Sherwood Anderson: I''m a Fool. Guillaume Apollinaire: The Posthumous Fiance. Margaret Atwood: Giving Birth. Rape Fantasies. Happy Endings. Isaac Babel: My First Goose. James Baldwin: Sonny''s Blues. The Rockpile. Going to Meet the Man. Toni Cade Bambara: The Lesson. Ann Beattie: Snow. Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Heinrich Boll: The Laugher. Kay Boyle: Winter Night. Jorge Luis Borges: Garden of the Forking Paths. Robert Olsen Butler: The Trip Back. Hortense Calisher: The Scream on 57th Street. Raymond Carver: Cathedral. A Small Good Thing. Errand. Willa Cather: Paul''s Case. John Cheever: The Swimmer. Anton Chekhov: Gooseberries. The Man in A Case. About Love. The Lady with the Dog. Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman. A Pair of Silk Stockings. The Storm. Sandra Cisneros: Barbie Q. Colette: The Hand. Julio Cortazar: Continuity of Park. Stephen Crane: The Open Boat. Isak Dinesen: The Blue Stones. Ralph Ellison: Battle Royal. Louise Erdrich: American Horse. William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily. Dry September F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited. Carlos Fuentes: The Doll Queen. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Handsomest Drowned Man in All the World Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Gail Godwin: Dream Children bullet; Nadine Gordimer: Town and Country Lovers Nathaniel Hawthorne: Roger Malvin''s Burial. Young Goodman Brown. Rappaccini''s Daughter. bullet; Ernest Hemingway: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber William Holinger: Charles Tries Speed Reading. Zora Neale Hurston: Spunk. Shirley Jackson: The Lottery. James Joyce: Araby. Clay. A Little Cloud. Franz Kafka: Before the Law. The Judgment. A Hunger Artist. Jamaica Kincaid: Girl D. H. Lawrence: The Horse Dealer''s Daughter. The Blind Man/The Rocking-Horse Winner. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wife''s Story Doris Lessing: The Old Chief Mshlanga. Woman on a Roof. To Room 19. Bernard Malamud: Idiots First. Thomas Mann: Disillusionment. Katherine Mansfield: Her First Ball. Bobbie Ann Mason: Shiloh/Offerings/Wish. Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace. James Alan McPherson: Why I Like Country Music Yukio Mishima: Swaddling Clothes. Alice Munro: Prue. Joyce Carol Oates: Where are you Going, Where Have You Been. How I Contemplated the World. The Lady with the Pet Dog. Tim O''Brien: The Things They Carried. Flannery O''Connor: Good Country People. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Everything that Rises Must Converge. Frank O''Connor: My Oedipus Complex. The Drunkard. Guests of the Nation. Tillie Olsen: I Stand Here Ironing. Cynthia Ozick: The Shawl. Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde. I. L. Peretz: If Not Higher. Luigi Pirandello: War. Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher. The Purloined Letter. The Cask of Amontillado. Katherine Anne Porter: Rope. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Magic. George Scullard: The Nebulous Eye. Richard Selzer: Whither Thou Goest. Leslie Marmon Silko: The Man to Send Rain Clouds. Isaac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel the Fool. Amy Tan: Rules of the Game. James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. John Updike: A & P. Luisa Valenzuela: I''m Your Horse in the Night. Alice Walker: To Hell With Dying. Everyday Use. Elethia. Eudora Welty: A Worn Path. Why I Live at the P. O.Death of a Traveling Salesman bullet; Edith Wharton: Roman Fever John Edgar Wideman: Doc''s Story. William Carlos Williams: The Use of Force. Virginia Woolf: Kew Gardens bullet; Richard Wright: Big Black Good Man PART IV: SHORT NOVELS James Joyce: The Dead. Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych. Appendix: Critical Comments on Fiction. Margaret Atwood: Stories and Voices. Elizabeth Bowen: The Writer''s Eye. Raymond Carver: Fiction, the Glimpse and Menace. bullet; Anton Chekhov: Letters on Fiction Kate Chopin: On Maupassant. Joseph Conrad: To Make You See. E.L. Doctorow: The Importance of Fiction. Ralph Ellison: Folklore and Fiction. Ernest Hemingway: Notes on Writing Fiction. Henry James: The House of Fiction. D.H. Lawrence: The Bright Book of Life. Guy de Maupassant: Fiction and the Illusion of Life Bobbi Ann Mason: Heroes and Ordinary People. Howard Moss: The Music of Tone. Flannery O''Connor: Fiction and Unfolding. Frank O''Connor: The Short Story as Lyric. Cynthia Ozick: Fiction and Redemption. Edgar Allan Poe: The Single Effect. Leo Tolstoy: What is Art? John Updike: The Subtlety of Fiction. Eudora Welty: Place in Fiction. Edith Wharton: The Short Story and the Novel. Glossary IndexDiYanni, Robert is the author of 'McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction', published 1994 under ISBN 9780070169494 and ISBN 0070169497.