The Seagull Reader: Stories

by Joseph Kelly

Book Overview

The best-priced alternative to full-length anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Stories offers a compelling blend of classic and contemporary favorites in a flexible format that fits any course. The Third... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393938212
• ISBN13: 9780393938210
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Efficient yet Civilized

My book arrived quickly and in the promised excellent condition. I appreciated the note attached. The personal touch made it feel like a gift from a friend!

Good collection

This is a very good collection of short stories from multiple authors. It's a good read, but can feel a little jarring if you try to read straight through. It may be best to look up the story before reading it, to get a summary first. Stories contained within the book (Author, Title): _____________________________________ Chinua Achebe, Uncle Ben's Choice Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tooth and Claw Raymond Cheever, The Swimmer Anton Chekhov, In Exile Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Stephen Crane, The Open Boat Louise Erdrich, I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants O. Henry, The Furnished Room James Joyce, Araby Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist Jamaica Kincaid, Girl D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter Beth Lordan, Digging Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums Paul Theroux, The Memory of Priest of the Creech People John Updike, A & P Hannah Voskuil, Currents Alice Walker, Everyday Use Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Edith Wharton, Roman Fever Virginia Woolf, The New Dress ______________________________

Seagull stories

This book is full of interesting short stories that are written for almost any age. Each story has an interesting twist to it, making this book hard to put down. Excellent for any home library.