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Collection contains:
My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tree of Night by Truman Capote
A Little Cloud by James Joyce
The Country Husband by John Cheever
The Two Faces by Henry James
The Face Within the Face by Mark Schorer
Suicides by Cesare Pavese
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
Mule in the Yard by William Faulkner
A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre
The Guest by Albert Camus
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
The Eye by J.F. Powers
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Allan Sillitoe
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
The Bound Man by Else Aichinger
The Lament by Anton Chekhov
The Mourners by Bernard Malamud
The Condor and the Guests by Evan S. Connell
The Rapids by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
Love: Three Pages From a Sportsman's Notebook by Guy de Maupassant
Mother Sauvage by Guy de Maupassant
The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane
Killed at Resaca by Ambrose Bierce
Susanna at the Beach by Herbert Gold
In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
Across the Bridge by Graham Greene
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
This Way for the Gas by Tadeusz Borokowski
St. Emanuel the Good, Martyr by Miguel de Unamuno

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English
Pages
400

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The Shape of Fiction: Stories for Comparison
1967, D. C. Heath and Company
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The shape of fiction: stories for comparison
1967-04, D. C. Heath and Company
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The shape of fiction: stories for comparison
1967-04, D. C. Heath & Company
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Table of Contents

An Introduction
My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tree of Night by Truman Capote
A Little Cloud by James Joyce
The Country Husband by John Cheever
The Two Faces by Henry James
The Face Within the Face by Mark Schorer
Suicides by Cesare Pavese
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
Mule in the Yard by William Faulkner
A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre
The Guest by Albert Camus
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
The Eye by J.F. Powers
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Allan Sillitoe
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
The Bound Man by Else Aichinger
The Lament by Anton Chekhov
The Mourners by Bernard Malamud
The Condor and the Guests by Evan S. Connell
The Rapids by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
Love: Three Pages From a Sportsman's Notebook by Guy de Maupassant
Mother Sauvage by Guy de Maupassant
The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane
Killed at Resaca by Ambrose Bierce
Susanna at the Beach by Herbert Gold
In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
Across the Bridge by Graham Greene
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
This Way for the Gas by Tadeusz Borokowski
St. Emanuel the Good, Martyr by Miguel de Unamuno

Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Copyright Date
1967

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ1.C284 Sh

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
xxxvii,400 p.
Number of pages
400

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5542868M
Internet Archive
shapeoffictionst00cast
LCCN
67020848
OCLC/WorldCat
1166970, 493923429
Goodreads
60167830

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