Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women (Signet Classics)
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Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women (Signet Classics)
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.