Studies in short fiction; five short novels and twenty-five stories.

Table of Contents:

American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…The stout gentleman / Washiington Irving ; William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe ; Drowne's wooden image / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville ; A true story / Mark Twain ; The real right thing / Henry James ; The men in the storm / Stephen Crane ; The law of life / Jack London ; The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce ; Paper pills / Sherwood Anderson ; The long way out / F. …”

The art of modern fiction

Table of Contents: “…The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Analyses of novels : Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- The American / Henry James -- The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy -- Victory / Joseph Conrad -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway.…”

The house of fiction : an anthology of the short story, with commentary /

The short story : an introductory anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Krause -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- One warm Saturday / Dylan Thomas -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- On the road / Anton Chekhov -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- Eveline / James joyce -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. …”

Studies in the short story,

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber -- The tell-tale heart (c. 1840) / Edgar Allan Poe -- My kinsman, Major Molineux (1837) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Bartleby (1853) / Herman Melville -- The lament (c. 1885) / Anton Chekhov -- The real thing (1893) / Henry James -- Heart of darkness (1899) / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat (1897) / Stephen Crane -- The gentleman from San Francisco (c. 1917) / Ivan Bunin -- A little cloud (1905) / James Joyce -- Petrified man (1939) / Eudora Welty -- Goodbye, my brother (1946) / John Cheever -- The unspoiled reaction (1946) / Mary McCarthy -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger (1947) / Robert Penn Warren -- Who made yellow roses yellow? …”

The shape of fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- This way for the gas / Tadeusz Borowski -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The guest / Albert Camus -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The bound man / Ilse Aichinger -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- The loneliness of the long distance runner / Allan Sillitoe -- Part Three: Stories -- for further comparison -- The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- The lament / Anton Chekhov -- The upturned face / Stephen Crane -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- Wine / Doris Lessing -- Tickets, please / D.H. …”

Great American short stories /