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Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories {original}

by James Moffett (Editor & Contributor), Kenneth R. McElheny (Editor)

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I love this book beyond any anthology of short stories I've read, and a lot of that is the concept, and not just the content. Point of view makes such a big difference in fiction. I've loved playing with it in my (decidedly amateur) fiction and I love to read stories that play with it--I've been known to read entire novels written in second person ("you")--though that rare point of view isn't included here. There are 44 short stories here, from less than two thousand to over 10,000 words. The points of views represented are: Interior Monologue, Dramatic Monologue, Letter Narration, Diary Narration, Subjective Narration, Detached Autobiography, Observer Narration, Anonymous Narration (Single, Double, Multiple, Objective).

The authors in the edition I own include Dorothy Parker, Tillie Olsen, Katherine Mansfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Henry James, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, V.S. Naipual, Lorrie Moore, Truman Capote, Langston Hughes, John Updike, Frank O'Connor, Ralph Ellison, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, Eudora Welty among others. Not the same as one in a review naming Dostoevksy, Gogol, Turgenev, Crane, Malamud, Porter, Bellow. So this exists in several editions, and can't be taken as a "best" of the short story (otherwise where is Cather, Chekhov, Hawthorne, Joyce, de Maupassant, O Henry, Poe, Saki, Twain?) but it is a very strong collection. I was impressed by the earlier edition assigned me in high school, and this one holds up well too. Both as best I can remember carry Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"--among the most memorable and powerful short stories I've ever read. ( )
  LisaMaria_C | Aug 16, 2013 |
Case 13 shelf 2
  semoffat | Aug 31, 2021 |
includes Parker, Mansfield, Dostoevsky, Bierce, James, Keyes, Gogol, Capote, Sillitoe, O'Connor, Caldwell, W.C. Williams, Turgenev, Steinbeck, Crane, Malamud, Bellow, Porter, Welty, &c.
  languagehat | Nov 16, 2005 |
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This LT work combines the original 1966 edition, co-edited by James Moffett and Kenneth McElheny, based on ISBN [including 0451612639; 0451615735; 0451616936; 0451619595; 0451621581; 0451623371; 0451624912; and 0451627229]. Separate LT works combine: (a) the 1995 revised and updated edition, which reportedly omits half of the authors / stories originally collected and adds 29 authors not previously included; and (b) editions catalogued on LT that are otherwise indistinguishable. Please refine combinations where you can, but maintain the distinction between the 1966 original and the 1995 revised / updated editions. Thank you.
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This LT work combines editions of James Moffett's and Kenneth McElheny's co-edited anthology that are catalogued on LT [including ISBNs 0451000218; 0451618807; 0451624912; and 0808523074], but are otherwise indistinguishable. Separate LT works combine: (a) the original 1966 edition; and (b) the 1995 revised and edition, which reportedly omits half of the authors / stories originally collected and adds 29 authors not previously included. Please refine combinations where you can, but maintain the distinction between the 1966 original and the 1995 revised / updated editions. Thank you.
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Contents:

Preface

Interior Monologue
  • But the One on the Right / Dorothy Parker
  • This Is My Living Room / Tom Mcafee
Dramatic Monologue
  • The Lady's Maid / Katherine Mansfield
  • Travel Is So Broadening / Sinclair Lewis
Letter Narration.
  • A Novel in Nine Letters / Fyodor Dostoevski
  • Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General / Ambrose Bierce
  • A Bundle of Letters / Henry James
Diary Narration
  • Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes
  • The Diary of a Madman / Nikolai Gogol
Subjective Narration
  • My Side of the Matter / Truman Capote
  • Too Early Spring / Stephen Vincent Benét
  • My Sister's Marriage / Cynthia Rich
  • On Saturday Afternoon / Alan Sillitoe
  • A and P / John Updike
Detached Autobiography
  • First Confession / Frank O'Connor
  • Warm River / Erskine Caldwell
  • The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams
  • Bad Characters / Jean Stafford
Memoir, or Observer Narration
  • The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mademoiselle Pearl / Guy de Maupassant
  • The Tryst / Ivan Turgenev
  • Johnny Bear / John Steinbeck
Biography, or Anonymous Narration: Single Character Point of View
  • Patricia, Edith, and Arnold / Dylan Thomas
  • Horses – One Dash / Stephen Crane
  • The Prison / Bernard Malamud
  • The Stone Boy / Gina Berriault
  • Enemies / Anton Chekhov
  • Act of Faith / Irwin Shaw
  • The Five-Forty-Eight / John Cheever
  • A Father-to-Be / Saul Bellow
Anonymous Narration: Dual Character Point of View
  • María Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter
  • Unlighted Lamps / Sherwood Anderson
  • The Shadow in the Rose Garden / D. H. Lawrence
Anonymous Narration: Multiple Character Point of View
  • The Boarding House / James Joyce
  • The Idiots / Joseph Conrad
  • Fever Flower / Shirley Ann Grau
  • The Suicides of Private Greaves / James Moffett
Anonymous Narration: No Character Point of View
  • Powerhouse / Eudora Welty
  • The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte
  • The Minister's Black Veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
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