Download or read book By the North Gate written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications. This book was released on 1963 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Oates's] stories concern themselves with problems and situations that youth knows: the conflict between the hope of the young and the pessimism of the old; the realization of the injustices of the civilized order; the horror of the senseless cruelty condoned by society; the reality of evil, existing even in the good and the loving; brutality without motivation -- the ultimate horror; the senseless machinations of fate that condition all of life. And above all, man standing at the north gate -- the boundary between civilization and wilderness, both borne in his heart -- and striving toward the victory of which he is capable."--Dust jacket flap.