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viii, 385 pages ; 21 cm |
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Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Love and death / Joyce Carol Oates -- Smith and Jones / Conrad Aiken -- A last word / William Sansom -- Circe / Eudora Welty -- The tailor's daughter / Edward Dahlberg -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Master Richard / John Wain -- The legacy of Leontis / Harry Mark Petrakis -- The prison window / Louis Auchincloss -- The broken lyre / Bryan MacMahon -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Since when do they charge admission? / Wright Morris -- Nina / Anaïs Nin -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Walk in the moon shadows / Jesse Stuart -- Thus the early gods / George Garrett -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- Traven / David Madden -- Frail vessel / Mary Lavin -- Song of the first and last beatnik / Herbert Gold -- The agony of A. Boscas / Patrick Boyle -- The magic telephone / Garrison Keillor -- The blind man / D.H. Lawrence -- The best of everything / Richard Yates -- Shadow show / Clifford Simak -- Incest / John Updike -- The sword / Doris Betts -- The girl at the window / Jack Matthews. |
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Archetype (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Fiction -- Themes, motives.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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