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America, v. 152, April 27, 1985. © 1985. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. American Imago, v. 26, Summer, 1969. Copyright 1969 by The Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. American Literature, v. XLII, March, 1970. Copyright © 1970 Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission. Arizona Quarterly, v. 35, 1979 for ‘‘Henry James's 'The Jolly Corner': The Writer's Fable and the Deeper Matter’’ by Jesse Bier. Copyright © 1979 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author. College Literature, v. 24, June, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission. Essays in Literature, v. VI, Spring, 1979. Copyright 1979, Western Illinois University. Reproduced by permission. The Explicator, v. 40, Spring, 1982. Copyright 1982 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. The Henry James Review, Vol. 13, Winter, 1992. © 1992. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. The Hudson Review, v. XXXVIII, Summer, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission. Kansas Quarterly, v. 9, Spring, 1977 for ‘‘The Vagaries of Taste and Peter Taylor's 'A Spinster's Tale'’’ by Jan Pinkerton. © copyright 1977 by the Kansas Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author. The Mississippi Quarterly, v. 49, Spring, 1996. Copyright 1996 Mississippi State University. Reproduced by permission. Modern Fiction Studies, v. XI, Summer, 1965. Copyright© 1965 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, v. XVIII, Spring, 1985. © Mosaic 1985. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made. The New York Times Book Review, September 23,1984. Copyright© 1984 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission. Philosophy and Literature, v. 14, April, 1990. © 1990. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. San Jose Studies, v. 9, Winter, 1983 for ‘‘The Importance of Food in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’’ by Alfred Cismaru. © San Jose State University Foundation, 1983. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author. Slavic and East-European Journal, v. 21, Spring, 1977. © 1977 by AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc. Reproduced by permission. The Slavic Review, v. 30, December, 1971. Copyright© 1971 by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. Soviet Studies, v. XVI, July, 1964. © 1964 The University of Glasgow. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. Studies in Short Fiction, v. XI, Spring, 1974; v. 23, Fall, 1986; v. 25, Winter, 1988; v. 29, Fall, 1992. Copyright 1974, 1986, 1988, 1992 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission. University of Hartford Studies in Literature, v. VI, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by the University of Hartford. Reproduced by permission.

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Debreczeny, Paul. From The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin's Prose Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1983. © 1983 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Reproduced by permission. Green, Mary Jean. From Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers and the Thirties. University Press of New England, 1986. © 1986 by Trustees of Dartmouth College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. Hardy, Barbara. From '‘‘The Jolly Corner'’’ in Henry James-The Shorter Fiction : Reassessments. Edited by N. H. Reeve. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1997. © Barbara Hardy 1997. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan, London and Basingstoke. In North American by St. Martin's Press, LLC. Pohl, Frederick. From ‘‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, John M. Kean, eds. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, John M. Kean. Reproduced by permission. Rudy, Stephen. From ' 'The Garden of and in Borges' 'Garden of Forking Paths'’’ in The Structural Analysis of Narrative Texts. Edited by Andrej Kodjak, Michael J. Connolly, and Krystyna Pomorska. Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1980. Copyright © 1980 by each author for his or her article. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author. Yarrow, Ralph. From ' 'Irony Grows in My Garden: Generative Processes in Borges's 'The Garden of Forking Paths'’’ in The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts: Selected Essays from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Edited by Donald E. Morse. Greenwood Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Donald E. Morse. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.

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Beattie, Anne, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.

Bierce, Ambrose, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

Borges, Jorge Luis, photograph. The Library of Congress.

Center of Rottendam, Holland, 1940, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

Child at piano, photograph, photograph by Robert J. Huffman/Field Mark Publications. Reproduced by permission.

Children playing on Saline School playground, Ford Rouge Plant is in the background, photograph by Millard Berry. Reproduced by permission.

Cornet Wilkin of the 1 1th Hussars, 1855, during the Crimean War, the Crimea, Russia, photograph by Roger Fenton. CORBIS. Reproduced by permission.

Gilchrist, Ellen, photograph by Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.

Glasgow, Ellen, photograph. Library of Congress.

Gondola and bridge of sighs, Venice, Italy, photograph by Susan Rock. Reproduced by permission.

Hemingway, Ernest, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

James, Henry, photograph. The Library of Congress.

Kahl, David, illustrator. From the cover of If I Should Die Before I Wake, by Han Nolan. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. Cover illustration copyright © 1994 by David Kahl. Reproduced by permission of David Kahl.

Kuhlman, Gilda. From a cover of Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges. Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Maurois. New Directions, 1964. Copyright© 1962, 1964, renewed 1992 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reproduced by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Log cabin homestead, Arches National Park, Utah, photograph by Robert J. Huffman/Field Mark Publications. Reproduced by permission.

Mahfouz, Naguib, 1984, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

Mann, Thomas, photograph. The Library of Congress.

Map of Russia and Siberia, illustration by XNR Productions. Gale Research.

Mushroom cloud rising from atomic bomb, 1945, Nagasaki, Japan, photograph. National Archives and Records Administration.

Pushkin, Alexander, photograph of a painting. The Library of Congress.

Russian slave laborers building the ‘‘Stalin Canal,’’ photograph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.

Sartre, Jean Paul, photograph. AP/Wide World Photo. Reproduced by permission.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

Tan, Amy Ruth, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

Temple, Shirley, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

The original Colt's Revolver, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

Times Tower, photograph, Archives Photos. Reproduced by permission.

Two drunken men passed out on sidewalk, photograph. Archive Photos/Lass. Reproduced by permission.

Two men with pack mule, photograph by S. J. Morrow. National Archives and Records Administration.

View of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the Atom Bomb, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, photograph. UPI/ Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

Wright, Richard, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.