Short fiction: Classic and contemporary - Softcover

Bohner, Charles H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013809229X ISBN 13: 9780138092290

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1989

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses on The Short Story; Introduction to Fiction; and/or Introduction to Literature that use genre-specific books.This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. The selections total 137 stories by 113 writers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories includes writers of the 19th and 20th centuries and spans all genres of short fiction -- myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, science fiction, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. The selections include both acclaimed masterpieces, widely recognized as essential to any introduction to the genres, as well as more than 40 stories by highly regarded contemporary authors.

From the Back Cover:

This text is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of stories, arranged alphabetically, that spans all genres of short fiction. New to this edition is our COMPANION WEBSITE®, www.prenhall.com/bohner, with additional links and study questions for students.

TURNITIN.COM: (www.turnitin.com)—this new online resource is now available free to professors using SHORT FICTION, FIFTH EDITION. Turnitin.com, formerly Plagiarism.org, is a powerful tool to help instructors identify and prevent student plagiarism on the Web.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 013809229X
• ISBN 13: 9780138092290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1180