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 traditions of the short story. In subsequent editions her sense of what works was confirmed as the book evolved into the most comprehensive, diverse-- and bestselling -- introduction to fiction anthology. Instructors rely on Ann Charters' ability to assemble an authoritative and teachable anthology, and anticipate each edition's selection of new writers and stories.
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ANN CHARTERS (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and has taught courses in the short story for over thirty years. A preeminent authority on the Beat writers, Charters has written a critically acclaimed biography of Jack Kerouac; compiled Beats & Company, a collection of her own photographs of Beat writers; and edited the best-selling Portable Beat Reader. Her recent books include The Kerouac Reader, Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, 1957-1969, Beat Down to Your Soul, and The Portable Sixties Reader. Her other textbooks with Bedford/St. Martin's include Literature and Its Writers, co-edited with Samuel Charters, and The American Short Story and Its Writer.
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Students beware.,
By LP Singer (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (Paperback)
A warning to students using this as a textbook: take note that this version is the COMPACT 7th edition, and may very well be useless to you if you've been assigned the 7th edition of the text. To call this book "compact" is incredibly misleading. It's outright missing fifty-one stories and then some, compared against the regular version. The last sentence in the description on the back cover, not replicated in Amazon's product description, briefly mentions the book's creative definition of "compact." The word isn't even part of the official title, so you won't find it listed as such on Amazon's website. The only indication that this is the vastly shorter version is the cover image, which is probably too small to easily make out, and the listed word count, which only helps if you know what it's supposed to be. Had they called this a condensed or abridged version, or an excised one, the book's nature would be much clearer. Also, I might not be out forty bucks. I'm guessing I'm not the first. Good luck finding the regular 7th edition on Amazon; I couldn't.
Content-wise, I expect this to be an excellent and informative book. It has a very wide range of authors and stories, even when missing 40% of them. Were I reviewing the regular edition, I would likely give it five stars. Perhaps I will, after I'm forced to buy it too.
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Extremely thin paper,
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The book contains tons of great short stories. Unfortunately, the paper it is printed on is so thin that pages bend, and the book starts to look old after a couple of days of reading.
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Condensed Version of the Original Text,
By Phillip "amazon_phil" (Philadephia, PA) - See all my reviews
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I mistakenly bought this text for my class at Villanova. Later, I spoke to my prof and he told me to get the original text. Unfortunately, this meant returning the text to Amazon and shelling out money to the college bookstore on campus. Used text was $50 and new text was $60. I got a slightly used text. Don't be fooled into getting this copy. I was and had to deal with the whole process of an Amazon return. Check the ISBN number and with your professor. I noticed that my class syllabus had around 1/2 of short stories not in the condensed version. If there was a link to the actual text, then I could write good things about it. Unfortunately, this text is abridged and not much good to say about except its lighter weight. The problem is that it's missing some of the crucial stories that my professor had planned us to read later in the semester.
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