| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 816 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- A sense of shelter / John Updike -- The day Stalin died / Doris Lessing -- The tone of time ; The jolly corner ; The lesson of the master / Henry James -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway -- A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber -- Defender if the faith / Philip Roth -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- A losing game / J.F. Powers -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Entropy / Thomas Pynchon -- The waiting / James Agee -- The odor of chrysanthemums ; The shadow in the rose garden ; The white stocking / D.H. Lawrence -- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Big Boy leaves home / Richard Wright -- Araby / James Joyce -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- Take pity / Bernard Malamud -- The gardener / Rudyard Kipling -- The fire and the hearth ; Delta autumn ; Raid / William Faulkner -- When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Lytle -- What do you hear from ' Em? / Peter Taylor. |
| Subject |
College readers.
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| ISBN |
0393099725 |
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