Physical Description:xiii, 816 pages ; 22 cm. print
Edition:Third edition.
Publisher:New York :Norton,[1971]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- A story / Dylan Thomas -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- A sense of shelter / John Updike -- The day Stalin died / Doris Lessing -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The tome of time / Henry James -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The lesson of the master / Henry James -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- The gambler, the nun and the radio / Ernest Hemingway -- A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- A losing game / J.F. Powers -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- The waiting / James Agee -- Odor of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence -- The shadow in the rose garden / D.H. Lawrence -- The white stocking / D.H. Lawrence -- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Araby / James Joyce -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- Take pity / Bernard Malamud -- The gardener / Rudyard Kipling -- The fire and the hearth / William Faulkner -- Delta autumn / William Faulkner -- Raid / William Faulkner -- When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren -- Old Red / Caroline Gordon -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Lytle -- What you hear from 'em / Peter Taylor -- Uncle Grant / Reynolds Price --