Kay, Judith

Discovering fiction : a reader of American short stories : student's book 2 / Discovering fiction : student's book 2 Judith Kay, Rosemary Gelshenen. - Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xxvi, 285 p. : ill. 26 cm. + 1 instructor's manual (vi, 58 p. : 22 cm.)

"First published as America Writes by St. Martin's Press, Inc. 1997" - t.p. verso

About the Authors. - To the Student. - To the Instructor. - Instructions for Using This Book. - Pt. One : A Life Lesson. Ch. 1. A Day's Wait / Ernest Hemingway. Ch. 2. Thank You, Ma'm / Langston Hughes. Ch. 3. The Corn Planting / Sherwood Anderson. Ch. 4. The Quickening / Lisa Interollo. - Pt. Two : The Unexpected Twist. Ch. 5. The Last Leaf / O. Henry (William Sydney Porter). Ch. 6. The Ambitious Guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ch. 7. The Lottery / Shirley Jackson. Ch. 8. The One Day War / Judith Soloway. - Pt. Three : Irony. Ch. 9 : The Third Level / Jack Finney. Ch. 10. All Summer in a Day / Ray Bradbury. Ch. 11 : Desiree's Baby / Kate Chopin. - Pt. Four : Family Relationships. Ch. 12. A Visit to Grandmother / William Melvin Kelly. Ch. 13. Too Soon a Woman / Dorothy M. Johnson. Ch. 14. My Father Sits in the Dark / Jerome Weidman. - Pt. Five : Meeting Challenges. Ch. 15. A Rice Sandwich / Sandra Cisneros. Ch. 16. The Circus / William Saroyan. Ch. 17. The Warriors / Anna Lee Walters. Ch. 18. Talking to the Dead / Sylvia Watanabe. - Appendix. Common Errors. Literary Terms. Irregular Verbs. - Acknowledgments. - Index.

1 instructor's manual : Discovering fiction : a reader of American short stories : instructor's manual 2 [by] Judith Kay, Rosemary Gelshenen. ISBN 0521008093

0521003512 (pbk.)


English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Short stories, American.


United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

428.64 / KAY