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Modern short stories, the uses of imagination

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Modern short stories

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the uses of imagination

Authors last names: Conrad, Fitzgerald, Ellison, McCarthy, Oliver, O'Connor, Porter, Updike, Lessing, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Thurber, Roth, McPherson, Powers, Jacobson, Pynchon, Agee, Lawrence, Nabokov, Anderson, Wright, Joyce, Mansfield, Malamud, Kipling, Faulkner, Warren, Welty, Gaines, Lytle, Taylor. Biographical Sketches of the Authors pg. 781. Titles of Stories: Heart of Darkness, Babylon Revisited, Battle Royal, Artists in Uniform, Neighbors, My Oedipus Complex, The Grave, A Sense of Shelter, The Day Stalin Died, The Tone of Time, The Jolly Corner, The Lesson of the Master, Roman Fever, The Gambler, The Nun, and The Radio, A Couple of Hamburgers, Defender of the Faith, Gold Coast, A Losing Game, Beggar My Neighbour, Entropy, The Waiting, Odor of Chrysanthemums, The Shadow in the Rose Garden, The White Stocking, Pnin, The Egg, Big Boy Leaves Home, Araby, Her First Ball, Take Pity, The Gardener, The Fire and the Hearth, Delta Autumn, Raid, When the Light Gets Green, A Worn Path, The Sky is Gray, Mister McGregor, What you Hear from 'Em?

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