Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction

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Prentice Hall, 2000 - Fiction - 1531 pages

For courses such as Introduction to the Short Story, Introduction to Fiction, and Creative Writing: Fiction.

A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, Fiction 100 offers instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs as well as their preferred teaching style. Intended to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, the stories in this text-anthology represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique and style. International in scope, Fiction 100 illustrates the development of short fiction from the early 19th Century to the present day, and features both traditional and contemporary works. Alphabetically organized by author, the 9th Edition is one of the largest anthologies of its kind, with 129 short stories; 20 of which are new.

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Contents

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ANTON CHEKHOV
155
The Lady with the
164
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

James H. Pickering, a longtime summer resident of Estes Park, is a professor of English at the University of Houston, where he has also served as dean, provost, and president. He has published seventeen books on Colorado and the West, including "This Blue Hollow": Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859-1915 (UPC).

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