The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, 村上春樹, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus
Part One: Stories -- Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace -- Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat -- Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story] -- Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum -- Ann Beattie / Janus -- Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story] -- Ambrose Bierce / Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Roberto Bolano / Jim -- Jorge Luis Borges / The South -- Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- T. Coraghessan Boyle / Birnam Wood -- Ray Bradbury / August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains -- Albert Camus / The Guest -- Alejo Carpentier / Journey to The Seed -- Angela Carter / The Kiss -- Raymond Carver / Cathedral -- Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing -- Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love --Willa Cather / Paul's Case -- John Cheever / The Swimmer -- Anton Chekhov / The Darling -- Anton Chekhov / The Lady wit
For young readers
Book data: Open Library