Richard Connell

This is a literature textbook for college students or Advanced Placement high school students.

An authoritative bestseller for over fifty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for today's students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as "Is some literature better?" and "How can it be evaluated?" A remarkable selection of classic, modern, and contemporary readings serves to illustrate the elements of literature and ensure broad appeal to students of diverse backgrounds and interests.

from the dust-jacket: "The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee" "Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat. The Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based..." "...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture." Stories included: The Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann The lunatics, by E. A. Poe Puritan passions, by N. Hawthorne Phantom of the opera, by G. Leroux The magician, by S. Maugham Freaks, by T. Robbins [Most dangerous game]( by R. Connell Dracula's daughter, by B. Stoker All that money can buy, by S. V. Bent The body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey The beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury The fly, by G. Langelaan Black Sunday, by N. Gogol [Incident at Owl Creek]( by A. Bierce Monster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft The skull, by R. Bloch The oblong box, by E. A. Poe

The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers -- [The most dangerous game]( / Richard Connell -- The treasure hunt / Edgar Wallace -- [Man from the South]( / Ronald Dahl -- Puzzle for Poppy / Patrick Quentin -- Treasure trove / F. Tennyson Jesse -- Your truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The dilemma of Grampa Dubois / Clayre and Michel Lipman -- The birds / Daphne du Maurier.

This collection contains: The most dangerous game / Richard Connell Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff The destructors / Graham Greene How I met my husband / Alice Munro Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri Everyday use / Alice Walker Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux The darling / Anton Chekhov A worn path / Eudora Welty Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer Paul's case / Willa Cather The lottery / Shirley Jackson The jilting of Granny Wetherall / Katherine Anne Porter Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The drunkard / Frank O'Connor Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood The guest / Albert Camus Roman fever / Edith Wharton A new leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The swimmer / John Cheever [The story of an hour ]( Kate Chopin A rose for Emily / William Faulkner A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale hurston The real thing / Henry James Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe A & P / John Updike The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Winter / William Shakespeare Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare The whipping / Robert Hayden The last night that she lived / Emily Dickinson Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman Archibald MacLeish The man he killed / Thomas Hardy A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin Is my team plowing / A.E. Housman Break of day / John Donne There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson When in Rome / Mari Evans Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine Question / May Swenson Mirror / Sylvia Plath The clod and the pebble / William Blake Ethics / Linda Pastan Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich. There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson When my love swears she is made of truth / William Shakespeare Pathedy of manners / Ellen Kay Naming of parts / Henry Reed Cross / Langston Hughes The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth Desert places / Robert Frost Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie A hymn to God the Father / John Donne One art / Elizabeth Bishop 35/10 / Sharon Olds Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson Living in sin / Adrienne Rich The forge / Seamus Heaney After apple-picking / Robert Frost Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden An August night / Seamus Heaney The snow man / Wallace Stevens / To autumn / John Keats Harlem / Langston Hughes Bereft / Robert Frost It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet The telephone / Maya Angelou Bright star / John Keats Mind / Richard Wilbur I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson Metaphors / Sylvia Plath Toads / Philip Larkin Ghost of a chance / Adrienne Rich A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins The road not taken / Robert Frost A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman The sick rose / William Blake Digging / Seamus Heaney To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick Peace / George Herbert The writer / Richard Wilbur Fire and ice / Robert Frost Up-hill / Christina Rossetti Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson Hymn to God my God, in my sickness / John Donne Weighing the dog / Billy Collins Ulysses / Alfred. Lord Tennyson Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson The sun rising / John Donne Incident / Countee Cullen Barbie doll / Marge Piercy The chimney sweeper / William Blake Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady luncheon club / Maya Angelou Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne Sorting laundry / Elisavietta Ritchie The history teacher / Billy Collins Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney A considerable speck / Robert Frost The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden in the inner city / Lucille Clifton My last duchess / Robert Browning "Out, out" / Robert Frost "She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare in Just / e.e. cummings Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen On his blindness / John Milton Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson My son the man / Sharon Olds Siren song / Margaret Atwood Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot Little Jack Horner / Anonymous Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson Design / Robert Frost I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson "Faith" is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson On the sonnet / John Keats Sonnet / Billy Collins The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake The indifferent / John Donne Love's deity / John Donne My number / Billy Collins I had heard it's a fight / Edwin Denby. For a lamb / Richard Eberhart Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson Since there's no help / Michael Drayton Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins My mistress' eyes / William Shakespeare Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson The oxen / Thomas Hardy One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us / Emily Dickinson The apparition ; The flea / John Donne Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold Church going / Philip Larkin The turtle / Ogden Nash That night when joy began / W.H. Auden The waking / Theodore Roethke God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Wlliam Shakespeare We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks Woman work / Maya Angelou Rite of passage / Sharon Olds As imperceptibly as grief / Emily Dickinson Music lessons / Mary Oliver Traveling through the dark / William Stafford Thistles / Ted Hughes Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost Virtue / George Herbert "Introduction" to Songs of innocence / William Blake Had I the choice / Walt Whitman The aim was song / Robert Frost Stanzas / George Gordon, Lord Byron Old ladies' home / Sylvia Plath Africa / Maya Angelou To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan A blessing / James Wright Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman Sound and sense / Alexander Pope I heard a fly buzz-when I died / Emily Dickinson Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen Landcrab / Margaret Atwood Tree at my window / Robert Frost Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne Blackberry eating / Galway Kinnell The health-food diner / Maya Angelou The dance / William Carlos Williams The pulley / George Herbert On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats That time of year / William Shakespeare Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas From Romeo and juliet / William Shakespeare Death, be not proud / John Donne The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson The white city / Claude McKay America / Claude McKay We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton / Kim Addonizio Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / T.S. Eliot Villanelle for an anniversary / Seamus Heaney The house on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick Still to be near / Ben Jonson The canonization / John Donne Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats Home burial / Robert Frost. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot Sunday mornig / Wallace Stevens The weary blues / Langston Hughes The fish / Elizabeth Bishop Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden Main character / Jimmy Santiago Baca On her loving two equally / Aphra Behn On reading poems to a senior class at South High / D.C. Berry Manners / Elizabeth Bishop Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega / Gwendolyn Brooks Combing / Gladys Cardiff To the ladies / Mary, Lady Chudleigh good times / Lucille Clifton Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge Voyages / Hart Crane War is kind / Stephen Crane the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand / e. e. cummings A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony / Emily Dickinson The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star / John Donne Nexus ; Persephone, falling / Rita Dove Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti The colonel / Carolyn Forché Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg From the wave / Thom Gunn Snow White and the seven deadly sins / R.S. Gwynn On the death of a child / Daniel Halpern Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy Follower / Seamus Heaney To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant / Langston Hughes The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell To Celia / Ben Jonson Warning / Jenny Joseph Men at forty / Donald Justice La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent / John Keats Aubade / Philip Larkin The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff / Denise Levertov To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace Puberty / William Matthews Silence / Marianne Moore Dim lady / Harryette Mullen I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims / Sharon Olds Résumé / Dorothy Parker A work of artifice / Marge Piercy Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights / Sylvia Plath Epigram from the French / Alexander Pope Salutation / Ezra Pound Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom Poetry: I / Adrienne Rich The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar / Theodore Roethke Young / Anne Sexton Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare Watermelons / Charles Simic Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith Small town with one road / Gary Soto One day I wrote her name upon the sand / Edmund Spenser Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens. A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas The virgins / Derek Walcott To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand / Walt Whitman The Critic / C/ K. Williams Poem ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary / Yvor Winters I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats Trifles / Susan Glaspell The stronger / August Strindberg Beauty / Jane Martin Tape /José Rivera POOF! / Lynn Nottage The sandbox / Edward Albee Time flies / David Ives A doll house / Hendrik Ibsen The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams Los vendidos / Luis Valdez Oedipus Rex / Sophocles Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare Tartuffe / Molière Am I blue / Beth Henley Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare Fences / August Wilson André's mother / Terrence McNally.

How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank / John Steinbeck -- Seven say you can hear corn grow / Kay Boyle -- [Hitch-hiker]( / Roald Dahl -- A couple of hamburgers /James Thurber -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The tennis court / William Trevor -- A bit of singing and dancing / Susan Hill -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- The teacher / Sherwood Anderson -- [The red-headed league]( / A. Conan Doyle -- The vertical ladder / William Sansom -- Mamma Mia / William Sansom -- [The most dangerous game]( / Richard Connell -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- To build a fire / Jack London.

Part 1. The Elements of Fiction -- Chapter 1. Reading the Story -- The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell -- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- Chapter 2. Plot and Structure -- The Destructors / Graham Greene -- How I Met My Husband / Alice Munro -- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Chapter 3. Characterization -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff -- Chapter 4. Theme -- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- [Eveline]( / James Joyce -- A Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Once upon a Time / Nadine Gordimer -- Chapter 5. Point of View -- Paul's Case / Willa Cather -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- [A Rose for Emily]( / William Faulkner -- Chapter 6. Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy -- The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Translated by Gregory Rabassa -- Chapter 7. Humor and Irony -- The Drunkard / Frank O'Connor -- You're Ugly, Too / Lorrie Moore -- The Guest / Albert Camus / Translated by Justin O'Brien -- Chapter 8. Evaluating Fiction -- General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation -- A Municipal Report / O. Henry -- A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- A New Leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Part 2. Three Fiction Casebooks Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov / Translated by Constance Garnett -- The Lady with the Dog / Translated by Constance Garnett -- The Darling / Translated by Constance Garnett -- Critical Perspectives on Chekhov -- Anton Chekhov, From His Letters -- Eudora Welty, From "Reality in Chekhov's Stories" -- Richard Ford, From "Why We Like Chekhov" -- Thomas Winner, On "The Darling" -- A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- A Late Encounter with the Enemy -- Greenleaf -- Critical Perspectives on O'Connor -- Flannery O'Connor, "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" -- Flannery O'Connor, "Letter to a Professor of English" -- Madison Jones, "A Good Man's Predicament" -- Richard Giannone, On "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" -- Gilbert H. Muller, On "Greenleaf" -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Lady with the Pet Dog -- Life after High School -- Critical Perspectives on Oates -- Joyce Carol Oates, From "Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer" -- Joyce Carol Oates, On "Heat" -- Greg Johnson, On "Heat" -- Matthew C. Brennan, "Plotting against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and 'The Lady with the Dog'" -- Part 3. Writing About Fiction -- I. Why Write about Literature? -- II. For Whom Do You Write? -- III. Choosing a Topic -- 1. Papers That Focus on a Single Story -- 2. Papers of Comparison and Contrast -- 3. Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author -- 4. Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common -- IV. Proving Your Point -- V. Writing the Paper -- VI. Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) -- VII. Documentation -- 1. Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) -- 2. Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) -- VIII. Stance and Style (S1-S6) -- IX. Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems -- 1. Grammar (G1-G2) -- 2. Punctuation (P1-P5) -- 3. Usage (U1-U2) -- X. Writing Samples -- 1. Fiction Explication: "Darkness" in the Conclusion of "The Child by Tiger" -- 2. Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once upon a Time" -- Part 4. Stories for Further Reading -- Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Errand / Raymond Carver -- The Swimmer / John Cheever -- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Love in L.A. / Dagoberto Gilb -- The Gilded Six-Bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- [Bartleby the Scrivener]( / Herman Melville -- The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- [Cask of Amontillado]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Child by Tiger / Thomas Wolfe.

Contains: Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson To build a fire / Jack London Cooper's Creek / Alan Moorehead Walk well, my brother / Farley Mowat Three Skeleton Key / George G. Toudouze Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase [The most dangerous game]( / Richard Connell "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" / Rudyard Kipling A first-rate tragedy / Diana Preston Two mountain men / George Laycock Three days / John Haines The open boat / Stephen Crane The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz Alive / Piers Paul Read Annapurna / Maurice Herzog The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton The Devil's Thumb / Jon Krakauer.

Contains: What is required to survive hardship and danger? Early marriage / Conrad Richter [Most dangerous game]( / Richard Connell Is it possible to seize happiness from life? Summer of he beautiful white horse / William Saroyan Antaeus / borden Deal How does war distort human relationships? Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty Enemy / Pearl Buck Old man at the bridge / Earnest Hemingway Can man defy the laws of nature? Build a fire / Jack London Interlopers / Saki Can a man be master of his own conducts? Quality / John Galsworthy Heyday of the blood / Dorothy Canfield Fisther Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber How does fear affect personality? Fever dream / Ray Bradbury Telltale heart / Edgar Allan Poe What price is paid for pretense? Necklace / Guy de Maupassant Cress Delahanty / Jessamyn West Unlucky winner / Max Shulman Is it necessary to suffer in order to grow? Water never hurt a man / Walter D. Edmonds Visit to grandmother / Willaim Melvin kelley Gift / John Steinbeck

More than fifty years ago, Laurence Perrine pioneered an engaging approach to teaching literature that presented diverse, exciting examples and straightforward answers to tough questions. Since then, millions of students have used Perrine's introductions to the elements of literature, gaining a better understanding of fiction, poetry, and drama—and developing essential skills in critical reading, analysis, and writing. This book's classic and contemporary readings bring the elements of literature to life, and represent the most accessible selections of any first-year anthology. More than 75 new selections refresh the collection with a variety of respected voices, including, among others, Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Bernard Malamud, Jane Martin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Oliver, and Elizabeth Strout.

Fifty years ago, Laurence Perrine pioneered a new and better approach to teaching literature. That breakthrough has made his unique textbooks best-selling favorites for generations. Now, Perrine's straightforward answers to tough questions, diverse and exciting example pieces, and step-by-step guides to understanding and appreciating literature have been updated for today's students. The perfect all-purpose resource for courses emphasizing literature, Perrine's Literature covers fiction, poetry, and drama, and is designed to develop the essential skills required for success in almost any college class: critical reading, careful analysis, and effective writing.

The Norton Introduction to Fiction is both an anthology and a textbook— a "teaching anthology "—for college students beginning their study of fiction. Of the 44 stories, 7 brief narratives, and 2 short novels, all the narratives, one of the short novels, and fully 30 of the stories are new to this edition. Among these are deservedly familiar stories and authors, as well as ones that rouse the quickening thrill of discovery. from Edgar Allan Poe and James Joyce to Gabriel Garcia Mårquez and Alice Munro. The narratives include tales from American Indians and Eskimos and from Africa, China, and the Middle East. The book begins with questions of craft—the so-called elements of fiction—such as plot, characterization, and theme. Then stories are grouped by kind (initiation stories) and mode (fantasy stories). The non- Western narratives help by contrast to define the short story as a genre. Finally, stories are placed in broader contexts: an author's oeuvre, a particular literary tradition, and historical or cultural setting. Each chapter is introduced by a discussion of basic concepts necessary for taking or writing about fiction, and each selection is annotated to help readers understand and appreciate the story, but never to dictate a mean- ing or response. Since the study of the short story leads almost inevitably to the study of the novel, two short novels are included: Heart of Darkness and Doris Lessing's The Temptation of Jack Orkney. These are introduced by "A Preface to the Novel," which discusses the difference between reading a short story and a novel, and which offers a brief history of the novel as a context for reading.

Contains: The bamboo trap by Robert S. Lemmon Leiningen versus the ants by Carl Stephenson The blue cross by G.K. Chesterton [The most dangerous game]( by Richard Connell The fourth man by John Russell The interlopers by "Saki" (H.H. Munro) [The adventure of the dancing men]( by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Pit and the Pendulum]( by Edgar Allen Poe Rescue party by Arthur C. Clarke August heat by William Fryer Harvey To build a fire by Jack London Action by C.E. Montague.