Contemporary Short Stories

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Pub. Date: 1993-06-01
Publisher(s): McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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Table of Contents

Unit 1 Connections: STORIES ABOUT THE FAMILY 1(81)
Introduction
2(2)
The Lie
4(11)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
No Dogs Bark
15(5)
Juan Rulfo
The Heir
20(13)
So Kiwon
Teenage Wasteland
33(10)
Anne Tyler
The Name
43(13)
Aharon Megged
A Visit to Grandmother
56(8)
William Melvin Kelley
Everyday Use
64(6)
Alice Walker
Rules of the Game
70(11)
Amy Tan
Reviewing Concepts
79(2)
Unit 2 Transitions: Coming-Of-Age Stories 81(82)
Introduction
82(2)
The Secret Lion
84(7)
Alberto Alvaro Rios
Games at Twilight
91(8)
Anita Desai
As the Night the Day
99(12)
Abioseh Nicol
Seventeen Syllables
111(12)
Hisaye Yamamoto
Marigolds
123(9)
Eugenia Collier
Initiation
132(10)
Sylvia Plath
Through the Tunnel
142(9)
Doris Lessing
The Cave
151(12)
Jean McCord
Reviewing Concepts
161(2)
Unit 3 Complications: Stories of Human Nature 163(56)
Introduction
164(2)
The Pearl
166(11)
Yukio Mishima
The Wooing of Ariadne
177(11)
Harry Mark Petrakis
The Interview
188(10)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Summer's Reading
198(8)
Bernard Malamud
Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge
206(7)
Rachel de Queiroz
The Form of the Sword
213(6)
Jorge Luis Borges
Reviewing Concepts
217(2)
Unit 4 Illuminations: Stories About Society 219(64)
Introduction
220(2)
Santa's Children
222(9)
Italo Calvino
Six Feet of the Country
231(11)
Nadine Gordimer
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses
242(7)
Bessie Head
Action Will Be Taken
249(7)
Heinrich Boll
Lather and Nothing Else
256(6)
Hernando Tellez
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird
262(8)
Toni Cade Bambara
Out of Place
270(8)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Censors
278(5)
Luisa Valenzuela
Reviewing Concepts
281(2)
Unit 5: Transformations: Stories of the Fantastic 283(58)
Introduction
284(2)
The Night Face Up
286(9)
Julio Cortazar
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
295(8)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Youngest Doll
303(7)
Rosario Ferre
Rhinoceros
310(12)
Eugene Ionesco
What I Have Been Doing Lately
322(5)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Beautiful Stranger
327(6)
Shirley Jackson
The Happy Man
333(8)
Naguib Mahfouz
Reviewing Concepts
339(2)
Unit 6 Speculations: Futuristic Stories 341(78)
Introduction
342(2)
I Sing the Body Electric!
344(25)
Ray Bradbury
Searching for Summer
369(9)
Joan Aiken
SQ
378(10)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Feeling of Power
388(10)
Isaac Asimov
The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon
398(7)
Stanislaw Lem
Vocational Counselling
405(8)
Christa Reinig
All Cats Are Gray
413(6)
Andre Norton
Reviewing Concepts
418(1)
Biographies of Authors 419(11)
Index of Essential Vocabulary 430(2)
Index of Literary Terms 432(1)
Index of Writing Modes and Formats 433(2)
Index of Authors and Titles 435
Pronounciation Key: Inside Back Cover

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