The Oxford book of modern women's stories
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The Oxford book of modern women's stories
Oxford University Press, 1994
Available at 25 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of short stories brings together the best of contemporary women's writing. Its contributors range from Katherine Mansfield and Edith Wharton to Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro and Anjana Appachana.
Table of Contents
- Willa Cather: `Paul's Case'
- Edith Wharton: `Afterward'
- Caroline Gordon: `Hear the Nightingale Sing'
- Catherine Mansfield: `Je Ne Parle Pas Francais'
- F.M. Mayor: `Miss De Mannering of Asham'
- Katherine Anne Porter: `That Tree'
- Elizabeth Bowen: `Look at all Those Roses'
- Olivia Manning: `In a Winter Landscape'
- Virginia Woolf: `A Legacy'
- Eudora Welty: `First Love'
- Stevie Smith: Is There Life Beyond the Gravy?'
- Mary McCarthy: `Yonder Peasant, Who is He?'
- Nadine Gordimer: `Which New Era Would That Be?'
- Sylvia Plath: `The Day Mr Prescott Died'
- Doris Lessing: `The Day Stalin Died'
- Elizabeth Taylor: `The Blush'
- Grace Paley: `An Interest in Life'
- Christina Stead: `UNO 1945'
- Hortense Calisher: `The Rehabilitation of Gineva Leake'
- Jean Stafford: `The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies'
- Muriel Spark: `The House of the Famous Poet'
- Flannery O'Connor: `Good Country People'
- Sylvia Townsend Warner: `Healthy Landscape With Dormouse'
- Edna O'Brien: `Irish Revel'
- Cynthia Ozick: `The Butterfly and the Traffic Light'
- Joyce Carol Oates: `Scenes of Passion and Despair'
- Jane Gardam: `Something to Tell the Girls'
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: `A Star and Two Girls'
- Jean Rhys: `Overture and Beginners Please'
- Margaret Atwood: `Hair Jewellery'
- Angela Carter: `Puss-in-Boots'
- Patricia Highsmith: `The Terrors of Basket Weaving'
- Elizabeth Jolley: `The Play Reading'
- Fay Weldon: `In the Great War'
- Ellen Gilchrist: `Victory Over Japan'
- A.S. Byatt: `On the Day that E.M. Forster Died'
- Bharati Mukherjee: `A Wife's Story'
- Amy Tan: `A Pair of Tickets'
- Alice Munro: `Meneseteung'
- Anjana Appachana: `The Prophecy'.
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