Heath Introduction to Fiction

This affordable, chronologically arranged anthology features 63 short stories carefully selected for their representation of international voices and techniques, their significance in the development of fiction, and their educational and thematic value. Selections are weighted toward the modern and contemporary, with a fair representation of earlier stories. Story groupings help instructors shape thematic units, and help students recognize thematic and technical points of comparison between readings. Multiple stories by the same author allow students to compare works and analyze the evolution of the writer's literary technique. Contents include: "The Minister's Black Veil", "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe; "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville; "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy; "Miss Tempy's Watchers" by Sarah Orne Jewett; "Old Mother Savage" by Guy de Maupassant; "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin; "If Not Higher" by I.L. Peretz; "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane; "The Lady and the Dog", "Misery", "The Darling", "Gooseberries", "About Love" by Anton Chekhov; "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad; "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton; "An Unwritten Novel" by Virginia Woolf; "Araby", "Clay" by James Joyce; "A Hunger Artist", "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka; "The Blind Man", "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence; "My First Goose" by Isaac Babel; "Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald; "The Evening Sun", "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner; "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway; "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter; "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston; "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck; "Gimpel the Fool" by Isaac Bashevis Singer; "Bright and Morning Star" by Richard Wright; "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty; "The Country Husband" by John Cheever; and 25 more.