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This collection of four stories, I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, what Ship?, O Yes, and Tell me a Riddle, had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers.

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title Tell Me a Riddle Women Writers New Brunswick NJ author - photo 1

title:Tell Me a Riddle Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.)
author:Olsen, Tillie.
publisher:Rutgers University Press
isbn10 | asin:081352136X
print isbn13:9780813521367
ebook isbn13:9780585002682
language:English
subjectCancer--Patients--Fiction, Married people--Fiction, Working class--Fiction, Aged women--Fiction, Olsen, Tillie.--Tell me a riddle.
publication date:1995
lcc:PS3565.L82T45 1995eb
ddc:813/.54
subject:Cancer--Patients--Fiction, Married people--Fiction, Working class--Fiction, Aged women--Fiction, Olsen, Tillie.--Tell me a riddle.
''Tell Me a Riddle"
Women Writers
Texts and Contexts
SERIES EDITORS
THOMAS L. ERSKINE
Salisbury State University
CONNIE L. RICHARDS
Salisbury State University
SERIES BOARD
MARTHA BANTA
University of California at Los Angeles
BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN
University of California at Berkeley
PAUL LAUTER
Trinity College

VOLUMES IN THE SERIES
Picture 2
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, ''The Yellow Wallpaper"
Edited by Thomas L. Erskine and Connie L. Richards, Salisbury
State University
Picture 3
JOYCE CAROL OATES, "Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?"
Edited by Elaine Showalter, Princeton University
Picture 4
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Edited by Frederick Asals, University of Toronto
Picture 5
TILLIE OLSEN, "Tell Me a Riddle"
Edited by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt, University of Maryland,
College Park
Picture 6
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, "Flowering Judas"
Edited by Virginia Spencer Carr, Georgia State University
Picture 7
LESLIE MARMON SILKO, "Yellow Woman"
Edited by Melody Graulich, University of New Hampshire
Picture 8
ALICE WALKER, "Everyday Use"
Edited by Barbara T. Christian, University of California,
Berkeley
Picture 9
HISAYE YAMAMOTO, "Seventeen Syllables"
Edited by King-Kok Cheung, University of California, Los
Angeles
''Tell Me a Riddle"
TILLIE OLSEN
Edited and with an introduction by
DEBORAH SILVERTON ROSENFELT
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olsen Tillie Tell me a - photo 10
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Olsen, Tillie.
Tell me a riddle / Tillie, Olsen; edited and with an introduction by
Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt.
p. cm. - (Women writers: texts and contexts)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8135-2136-X (cloth) - ISBN 0-8135-2137-8 (pbk.)
1. CancerPatientsUnited StatesFiction. 2. Married people
United StatesFiction. 3. Working classUnited States-Fiction.
4. Aged womenUnited StatesFiction. 5. Olsen, Tillie. Tell me a riddle.
I. Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton. II. Title. III. Series: Women writers
(New Brunswick, N.J.)
PS3565. L82T45 1995
813'.54-dc20
94-29813
CIP
British Cataloging-in-Publication information available
This collection copyright 1995 by Rutgers, The State University For copyrights to individual pieces please see first page of each essay. Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ All rights reserved
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Contents
Introduction
Picture 11
DEBORAH SILVERTON ROSENFELT
3
Picture 12
Chronology
27
Tell Me a Riddle
Picture 13
TILLIE OLSEN
33
Background to the Story
Picture 14
Silences in Literature
Picture 15
TILLIE OLSEN
87
Picture 16
Personal Statement
Picture 17
TILLIE OLSEN
105
Critical Essays
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