Quartet;: A book of stories, plays, poems, and critical essays

by Harold P. Simonson

Taken from the Preface written by H.P.S."This anthology contains abundant fiction for introductory courses in literature and the humanities. These imaginative stories represent a wide range of style and theme and originate from many different nationalities and ethnic groups.What distinguishes this collection is the unquestioned quality of the stories. Each can be studied for it own artistic merits; each has beenchosen for its intrinsic worth, and no effort has been made to fit selections into chronological order. Although the fiction loosely follows a thematic sequence from youth to old age, all the stories invite readers to explore many levels of experience. Choices throughout the book challenge today's student to probe his own expression through these literary works."Authors and Stories Crane - The Open Boat,D.H. Lawrence - The Shades of Spring,James Joyce - Araby,William Faulkner - That Evening Sun,Richard Wright - The Man Who Was Almost A Man,James Baldwin - Sonny's Blues,Franz Kafka - The Judgment,Philip Roth - The Conversion of the Jews,Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Grand Inquisitor,Eugene Ionesco - Slime,Ernest Two-Hearted Part I,Big Two-Hearted Part II,Katherine Anne Porter - Flowering Judas,Flannery O'Connor - Good Country People,Miguel De Unamuno - Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr,Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall,Jorge Luis Borges - The South,Carson McCullers- A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud,Eudora Welty - A Worn Path,Bernard Malamud - Idiots First,Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych,Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener.

1092 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973