{"product_id":"women-and-fiction-isbn-9780451528278","title":"Women and Fiction","description":"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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eKate Chopin (1851-1904): The Story of an Hour\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton (1862-1937): The Other Two\u003cbr\u003eWilla Cather (1873-1947): A Wagner Matinée\u003cbr\u003eColette (1873-1947): The Secret Woman\u003cbr\u003eGertrude Stein (1874-1946): Miss Furr and Miss Skeene\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941): The New Dress\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Mansfield (1888-1923): The Garden Party\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Anne Porter (1890-1980): Rope\u003cbr\u003eKay Boyle (1902-1992): Winter Night\u003cbr\u003eEudora Welty (1909-2001): A Worn Path\u003cbr\u003eHortense Calisher (1911- ): The Scream on Fifty-Seventh Street\u003cbr\u003eAnn Petry (1911-1997): Like a Winding Sheet\u003cbr\u003eMary Lavin (1912-1996): In a Café\u003cbr\u003eTillie Olsen (1913- ): I Stand Here Ironing\u003cbr\u003eMaeve Brennan (1917-1993): The Eldest Child\u003cbr\u003eCarson McCullers (1917-1967): Wunderkind\u003cbr\u003eDoris Lessing (1919- ): To Room Nineteen\u003cbr\u003eGrace Paley (1922- ): An Interest in Life\u003cbr\u003eFlannery O'Connor (1925-1964): Revelation\u003cbr\u003eJean Stubbs (1926- ): Cousin Lewis\u003cbr\u003eEdna O'Brien (1930- ): A Journey\u003cbr\u003eAlice Munro (1931- ): The Office\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates (1938- ): In the Region of Ice\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Drabble (1939- ): The Gifts of War\u003cbr\u003eJulie Hayden (1939-1981): Day-Old Baby Rats\u003cbr\u003eAlice Walker (1944- ): Everyday Use\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302625562853,"sku":"NP9780451528278","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451528278.jpg?v=1767744473","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/women-and-fiction-isbn-9780451528278","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}