Table of Contents

Contents by Alternate Themes
Contents by Technical Elements
Introduction: The Quest
The Elements of Fiction
Chapter One: The Call
Robert Penn Warren: Blackberry Winter
Willa Cather: Paul's Case
Kay Boyle: Astronomer's Wife
Julio Cort((a'))zar: The Island at Noon
Jean Stafford: The Liberation
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Sherwood Anderson: Adventure
Chapter Two: The Other
Edgar Allan Poe: William Wilson
Patrick McGrath: The Lost Explorer
Amy Tan: Double Face
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Getzel the Monkey
James Alan McPherson: The Story of a Dead Man
Leslie Silko: Yellow Woman
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Alberto Moravia: He and I
Chapter Three: The Journey
Nathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
Eudora Welty: A Worn Path
Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
Bernard Malamud: Idiots First
Richard Wright: Big Boy Leaves Home
Steven Millhauser: Behind the Blue Curtain
Doris Lessing: Through the Tunnel
John Barth: Night-Sea Journey
Chapter Four: Helpers and Guides
Hermann Hesse: The Poet
Toni Cade Bambara: The Lesson
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Isaac Babel: Awakening
Ernest J. Gaines: The Sky is Gray
R.K. Narayan: Under the Banyan Tree
Philip Roth: The Conversion of the Jews
Gabriel Garc((i'))a M((a'))rquez: Blacam((a'))n the Good, Vendor of Miracles
Chapter Five: The Treasure
James Joyce: Araby
Ursula K. Le Guin: Semley's Necklace
Ann Beattie: Janus
Carson McCullers: A Tree ((EMB)) A Rock ((EMB)) A Cloud
Isak Dinesen: The Blue Jar
Hortense Calisher: The Middle Drawer
Ralph Ellison: Flying Home
Max Apple: The Oranging of America
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Revolt of "Mother"
Chapter Six: Transformation
D.H. Lawrence: The Horse-Dealer's Daughter
John Updike: Twin Beds in Rome
Bharati Mukherjee: The Management of Grief
Tillie Olsen: O Yes
Gustave Flaubert: The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller
Ellen Gilchrist: Traveler
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
Vladimir Nabokov: Christmas
Marguerite Yourcenar: How Wang-Fo Was Saved
Glossary of Critical Terms
Biographies of the Authors

Reviews

"A great collection of modern short stories with the addition of intelligent and meaningful discussion of myth, archetypes, and the elements of fiction. The questions at the end of each story are excellent. This is a book I will use over and over!"--Linda Gordon, Nova Southeastern University
"Excellent selection and organization. Looks very useful and flexible."--Gary Eberle, Aquinas College
"Excellent selections--this is exactly what I had been looking for for my 'Myth and Fantasy' class. Questions in text and comments in teacher's manual are also excellent. The students are actually learning!"--Polly Kalliman Nimmer, College of St. Mary
"I'm using this for the first time and am really looking forward to the semester. The book looks wonderful!"--Polly Nimmer, College of Saint Mary
"Good selections and great introduction."--Catharine A. Tipton, The Paideia School
"A perfect text for young adults searching for meaning."--Rev. John Delli Carpini, St. Charles Seminary
"An outstanding anthology of stories basic to a leading archetype in literature."--Thomas McKinley, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"The organization along the lines of Campbell's theory is unique and intriguing."--Norman Leer, Roosevelt University
"This selection corresponds well to the quest in medieval literature."--Carol Pulham, Cedar Crest College
"Super book! A great break between novels. Excellent introductions."--Joel Rudinger, Firelands College