Points of View Author:James Moffett (Editor), Kenneth R. McElheny (Editor) The range of this collection is vast, and the 41 short stories which comprise it are not the familiar anthology pieces; they offer the reader fresh contact with masters of the short-story form. Equally important is the anthology's unique arrangement: editors Moffett and McElheny have grouped the stories according to narrative method, providing a... more » total spectrum of the diverse fictional techniques inherent in the use of point of view. As the editors point out, "Our ways of sharing and apprehending experience are themselves a crucial part of what we call experience."
A Partial Listing of the Contents:
Flowers for Algernon.................Daniel Keyes
My Side of the Matter................Truman Capote
A and P......................................John Updike
The Use of Force.......................William Carlos Williams
Bad Characters..........................Jean Stafford
Johnny Bear...............................John Steinbeck
Patricia, Edith, and Arnold.........Dylan Thomas
The Prison.................................Bernard Malamud
The Five-Forty-Eight.................John Cheever
A Father-To-Be........................Saul Bellow
The Lottery...............................Shirley Jackson« less