About this title: During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the first edition of her "The Story and Its Writer" was as notable for its student appeal as it was for its quality and range. And to complement these stories, she introduced a lasting innovation: an array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and ...
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Edition: 3rd Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780312034696ISBN:0312034695
Description: Good+ St. Martin's Press 1990 3rd Edition light wear and creasing to cover, occassion pen notes in bright text, light soil to page edges. 1607 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780312762513ISBN:0312762518
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library Copy With Usual Markings, Covers Soiled, Spine Creased, Page Ends Soiled, Text Is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Description: Good. GOOD BOOK! NO MARKINGS IN TEXT, LIGHT SMUDGES ON OUTER EDGES. NO SPINE CREASES, MODERATE WEAR & CORNER BENDS ON COVER. "Description: During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the first edition ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St Martin's
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780312762551ISBN:0312762550
Description: Good. Paperback. Cover shows light wear to edges, very minor spine creasing. Front cover and spine each have a price sticker. Spine has moderate sunning. Pages are very lightly sunned to edges, no markings. Pages 61 & 62 are wrinkled. Binding is good. read more
"I took a short story class and even though the class wasn't amazing I really enjoy this book. I haven't read all the stories of course but I discovered a lot of great authors and have found a lot of good books threw this book"
"I read a good chunk of this for my English class this semester. It is full of short stories and commentaries on them. I enjoyed reading some of them, some of them were fine, and I really didn't like some of them. About par for a textbook, I guess."
"Been using the newest edition of this for a class I'm TA'ing. It's one of the most comprehensive collections I've seen and the essays and criticism in the back are engaging and illuminating. But boy, it's heavy. The best thing was it was free! Too bad I spilled tamagoyaki on it..."
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