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Title: The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters ISBN: 0-312-39729-1 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $61.10 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amy Charters smacks a grand slam.
Comment: This is such a great book -- one of the most valuable on my shelves. Amy Charters has made wonderful choices here -- she's managed to create an anthology that simultaneously does justice to the classics while remaining hip and accessible. For those who like background information, there's a handy appendix filled with writers either talking about their own work or commenting on a selection in the book.
For those who have not "taken" to short stories, I suggest you consider The Story and its Writer. For teachers, this is simply a great resource -- I use it all the time.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good anthology
Comment: This anthology belongs on the shelves of any serious reader of literary fiction. The short stories in it are among the highest caliber and are often used by professors to teach students how to write. If you enjoy reading good fiction, or want to study how good authors write so you can write like them, then this book is one you ought to consider getting from your library or owning.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good stories with commentaries by their writers
Comment: Ann Charters has done a wonderful job of compiling a variety of great works of short fiction. There's Oates, Chekhov, Borges, Updike, Bierce, Carver, Cheever, and MANY others.
There is also an extended amount of commentary on the works themselves. You'll read about Flannery O'Connor's "Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable," John Cheever's "Why I Write Short Stories," and more. You often get a candid response from writers about not only their writing, but other writers as well. It is a very nice touch.
Before each story, there is a small biography of the writer, often informing the reader about the origin of the story that follows.
Last, the appendices to the book are quite good as well. They cover the basic "Elements of Fiction" and "A Brief History of the Short Story" as well as a glossary of literary terms that are handy for students of short fiction and helpful for those simply interested in the technique behind the art.
The book doesn't pretend to present everything about short fiction, but gives you a taste for the good stuff out there.
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Title: The Voice That Is Great Within Us : American Poetry of the Twentieth Century by Hayden Carruth ISBN: 0553262637 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Writing Fiction (6th Edition) by Janet Burroway, Susan Weinberg ISBN: 0321117956 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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Title: The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy ISBN: 0393968200 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $68.20 |
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Title: The Art of Fiction : Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner ISBN: 0679734031 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Contemporary Essay by Donald Hall ISBN: 0312101384 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $51.85 |
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