Women and Fiction: Short Stories by and About Women

Book Overview

From Kate Chopin's turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein's war-time Paris, to Alice Walker's modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century. These well-known and well-loved authors people their stories with vibrant female characters, from all over the world and all walks of life. Separately, each of these stories bears the mark of a skilled writer. Together, they celebrate woman in her many roles-as daughter, mother, worker, wife, lover, sister, and friend. In Tillie Olsen's classic, "I Stand Here Ironing," a single mother considers her success in raising a daughter. In Eudora Welty's "The Worn Path," an African-American grandmother meets with grace the impudence of a young, white man. In Alice Munro's "The Office," a wife who has too many distractions to write at home rents a room in town, only to be constantly interrupted by her landlord. Superbly written, and at once poignant and ironic, these insightful stories capture the essence of being a woman-in all its similarity, and all its diversity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451616308
• ISBN13: 9780451616302
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: New Amer Library
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher