xviii, 1049 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Catherine the wise / Italo Calvino -- Heartache / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Araby / James Joyce -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The glass mountain / Donald Barthelme -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Why I like country music / James Alan McPherson -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula Le Guin -- The snow child / Angela Carter -- The circling hand / Jamaica Kincaid.
