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• ISBN: 0393959333
• ISBN: 9780393959338
• Physical Description: xxxii, 1750 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: 4th ed.
• Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1990.

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Includes index.

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I want to know why -- Rape fantasies -- My first goose -- Sonny's blues -- A passion in the desert -- Janus -- Leaving the yellow house -- An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote -- Art colony -- The veldt -- Now that April's here -- The distance of the moon -- Where I'm calling from -- The father -- Paul's case -- The enormous radio -- The five-forty-eight -- The lady with the dog -- A visit to Friends -- Dushechka -- The story of an hour -- The star -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The hidden women -- Heart of darkness -- The babysitter.

(Cont.) The open boat -- The blue hotel -- Sorrow-acre -- King of the bingo game -- Matchimanito -- A rose for Emily -- Barn burning -- The bear -- Babylon revisited -- The legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller -- The road from Colonus -- A New England nun -- My heart is broken -- The handsomest drowned man in the world -- Traveler -- Young Goodman Brown -- The birthmark -- Hills like white elephants -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried -- The lottery -- The tree of Knowledge -- The jolly corner -- Araby -- A little cloud -- The dead -- The metamorphosis -- A hunger artist -- The man who would be king -- The loons -- The blind man -- The horse dealers daughter -- The rockin-horse winner -- The ones who walk away from Omelas -- The linden tree.

(Cont.) To room nineteen -- Gold coast -- The language of men -- Angel Levine -- Disorder and early sorrow -- Bliss -- The garden party -- Shiloh -- The necklace -- Bartleby the scrivener -- Patriotism -- Royal beatings -- Prue -- Signs and symbols -- Lucielia Louise Turner -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correctiona and began my life over again -- The things they carried.

(Cont.) A good man is hard to find -- Everything that rises must converge -- Parkers back -- Guests of the nation -- My Oedipus complex -- Tell me a riddle -- The used-boy raisers -- Souvenir -- War -- The fall of the House of Usher -- The purloined letter -- Theft -- Flowering Judas -- The valiant woman -- Coach -- The conversion of the Jews -- Gimpel the fool -- In the zoo -- The chrysanthemums -- Helping -- Miss Leonora when last seen -- The secret life of Walter Mitty -- The death of Ivan Ilych -- A & P -- Everyday use -- Powerhouse -- A worn path -- The muse's tragedy -- The use of force -- In the garden of the North American martyrs -- Kew Gardens -- The man who was almost a man.

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