Initiation : stories and short novels on threethemes /
edited by Davis Thorburn.
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
- xi, 638 p. ; 21 cm.
Initiation: Hawthorne, N. My kinsman, Major Molineux. Joyce, J. An encounter. Babel, I. The story of my Dovecot. Hemingway, E. The killers. Ellison, R. Battle royal. O'Connor, F. Good country people. Barth, J. Lost in the funhouse. Conrad, J. The shadow-line.--Love: Chekhov, A. About love. James, H. The tone of time. Lawrence, D. H. The horse-dealers's daughter. Fitzgerald, F. S. Babylon revisited. Stafford, J. A country love story. Malamud, B. The magic barrel. Updike, J. Separating. Porter, K. A. Pale horse, pale rider.--Outsiders: Tolstoy, L. The three hermits. Anderson, S. Hands. Lessing, D. The second hut. Singer, I. B. Gimpel the Fool. Camus, A. The guest. Marquez, G. G. The last voyage of the ghost ship. Roth, P.'I always wanted you to admire my fasting'; or, Looking at Kafka. Kafka, F. The metamorphosis.--Questions for study and writing.