Description: Contents by Alternate ThemesContents by Technical ElementsIntroduction: The QuestThe Elements of FictionChapter One: The CallRobert Penn Warren: Blackberry WinterWilla Cather: Paul's CaseKay Boyle: Astronomer's WifeJulio Cort((a'))zar: The Island at NoonJean Stafford: The LiberationKate Chopin: The Story of an HourSherwood Anderson: AdventureChapter Two: The OtherEdgar Allan Poe: William WilsonPatrick McGrath: The Lost ExplorerAmy Tan: Double FaceIsaac Bashevis Singer: Getzel the MonkeyJames Alan McPherson: The Story of a Dead ManLeslie Silko: Yellow WomanFlannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to FindAlberto Moravia: He and IChapter Three: The JourneyNathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major MolineuxF. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon RevisitedEudora Welty: A Worn PathStephen Crane: The Open BoatBernard Malamud: Idiots FirstRichard Wright: Big Boy Leaves HomeSteven Millhauser: Behind the Blue CurtainDoris Lessing: Through the TunnelJohn Barth: Night-Sea JourneyChapter Four: Helpers and GuidesHermann Hesse: The PoetToni Cade Bambara: The LessonRaymond Carver: CathedralIsaac Babel: AwakeningErnest J. Gaines: The Sky is GrayR.K. Narayan: Under the Banyan TreePhilip Roth: The Conversion of the JewsGabriel Garc((i'))a M((a'))rquez: Blacam((a'))n the Good, Vendor of MiraclesChapter Five: The TreasureJames Joyce: ArabyUrsula K. Le Guin: Semley's NecklaceAnn Beattie: JanusCarson McCullers: A Tree ((EMB)) A Rock ((EMB)) A CloudIsak Dinesen: The Blue JarHortense Calisher: The Middle DrawerRalph Ellison: Flying HomeMax Apple: The Oranging of AmericaMary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Revolt of "Mother"Chapter Six: TransformationD.H. Lawrence: The Horse-Dealer's DaughterJohn Updike: Twin Beds in RomeBharati Mukherjee: The Management of GriefTillie Olsen: O YesGustave Flaubert: The Legend of St. Julian the HospitallerEllen Gilchrist: TravelerWashington Irving: Rip Van WinkleVladimir Nabokov: ChristmasMarguerite Yourcenar: How Wang-Fo Was SavedGlossary of Critical TermsBiographies of the Authors

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