Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary

This exceptionally wide-ranging collection of stories spans all genres of short fiction, including myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. Designed to familiarize readers with major writers and differing approaches to the art of storytelling, this anthology also helps expand readers' appreciation of fiction with sections on reading and writing about fiction, biographical information on each author, a glossary of terms with examples, and a section on the established schools of literary criticism. Includes works by Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Leslie Dick, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mary Gaitskill, Susan Glaspell, Gish Jen, Mary Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Jeanette Winterson, Sherman Alexie, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest J. Gaines, Dagoberto Gilb, Hanif Kureishi, Tomás Rivera, Salman Rushdie, by Castillo, Winterson, David Leavitt, and Reynolds Price. For anyone interested in short fiction.