| Description |
xix, 379 pages ; 18 cm |
| Note |
"A Mentor book" |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 373-379. |
| Contents |
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- The secret woman / Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette -- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter night / Kay Boyle -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The scream on Fifty-seventh Street / Hortense Calisher -- Like a winding sheet / Ann Petry -- In a cafe / Mary Lavin -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The eldest child / Maeve Brennan -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers -- To room nineteen / Doris Lessing -- An interest in life / Grace Paley -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Cousin Lewis / Jean Stubbs -- A journey / Edna O'Brien -- The office / Alice Munro -- In a region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble -- Day-old baby rats / Julie Hayden -- Everyday use / Alice Walker. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- Women authors.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
Women authors -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Cahill, Susan, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0812487508 |
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