| Description |
viii, 385 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Love and death / Joyce Carol Oates -- Smith and Jones / Conrad Aiken -- Last word / William Sansom -- Circe / Eudora Welty -- Tailor's daughter / Edward Dahlberg -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Master Richard / John Wain -- Legacy of Leontis / Harry Mark Petrakis -- Prison window / Louis Auchincloss -- Broken lyre / Bryan MacMahon -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- Since when do they charge admission? / Wright Morris -- Nina / Anais Nin -- 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 -- Agony of A. Boscas / Patrick Boyle -- Magic telephone / Garrison Keillor -- Blind man / D. H. Lawrence -- Best of everything / Richard Yates -- Shadow show / Clifford Simak -- Incest / John Updike -- Sword / Doris Betts -- Girl at the window / Jack Matthews. |
| Subject |
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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| Added Author |
Matthews, Jack.
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