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Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women
Women and Fiction Short Stories By and About Women A unique collection of twenty-six short stories about the special experience of being a woman: of growing up female, of being a daughter, sister, wife, mother,lover. Over the fence, under the hairdryer, in the office, at the playground, women have talked of love, sex, marriage, work, children, adultry, divorce, loneliness, unfulfillment, friends... more »hip and a thousand other things. All these stories have captured the essence of that experience in extraordinarily moving and convincing portraits of women and their lives.
Contributing authors include:
Virginia Woolf - The New Dress,
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour,
Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party,
Edith Wharton - The Other Two,
Doris Lessing - To Room Nineteen, Flannery O'Connor - Revelation, Katherine Anne Porter - Rope,
Eudora Weltry - A Worn Path,
Edna O'Brien - A Journey,
Joyce Carol Oates - In a Region of Ice,
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - The Secret Woman,
Willa Cather - A Wagner Matinee, Hortense Calisher - The scream on Fifty-Seventh Street,
Grace Paley - An Interest in Life,
Margaret Drabble - The Gifts of War, Gertrude Stein - Miss Furr and Miss Skeebe,