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Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law
Legal Fictions Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law Author:Jay Wishingrad (Editor) Thirty contemporary short stories--from such prominent authors as Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Isabel Allende, and others--celebrate the law-and-literature connection that continues to fascinate both writers and readers. The tender offer / Louis Auchincloss About Boston / Ward Just The balloon of William Fuer... more »st / Lowell B. Komie The contract / Harvey Jacobs Still life / Marian Thurm After you've gone / Alice Adams Weight / Margaret Atwood Puttermesser : her work history, her ancestry, her afterlife / Cynthia Ozick Centaurs / J.S. Marcus Discipline / Larry Brown Witness / Madison Smartt Bell Earthly justice / E.S. Goldman The most outrageous consequences / James Reid Parker The colonel's foundation / Louis Auchincloss Justice is blind / Thomas Wolfe Triumph of justice / Irwin Shaw The paradise of bachelors / Herman Melville The web of circumstance / Charles W. Chesnutt Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Congress in crisis : the proximity bill / Garrison Keillor Szyrk v. Village of Tatamount et al. / William Gaddis Coyote v. Acme / Ian Frazier Before the law / Franz Kafka The litigants / Isaac Bashevis Singer Crimes of conscience / Nadine Gordimer A few selected sentences / B.S. Johnson Heart of a judge / R. Sarif Easmon Joy and the law / Giuseppe Di Lampedusa The condemned man's last night / Benjamin PeÌret Legal aid / Frank O'Connor General Bellomo / Paul West The clairvoyant / Karel CÌapek The case for the defence / Graham Greene Rumpole for the prosecution / John Mortimer The judge's wife / Isabel Allende« less
Good collection of short stories, ranging from say mid-20th-C favorites to somewhat more current. Nice mix of big names and lessed known, good balance of women writers, not all stories about trials but plenty about professional lawyers.