A short story anthology containing one selection from each of 63 American authors. Arranged chronologically from Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" through Ann Beattie's "A Reasonable Man," which was written in 1976.
Item details
ISBN:0385171390 :
ISBN:9780385171397
Physical Description:print xvii, 748 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1981.
Contents / Notes
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
The legend of Sleepy Hollow /- Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The 1,000,000 bank-note / Mark Twain -- The gentleman of La Porte / Bret Harte -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The real thing / Henry James -- The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A shameful affair / Kate Chopin -- The world and the door / O. Henry -- After Holbein / Edith Wharton -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The god of his fathers / Jack London -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The baby party / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- The light of the world / Ernest Hemingway -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- One for the road / John O'Hara -- A walk with Raschid / Josephine Jacobsen -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The night club in the woods / Hortense Calisher -- Torch Song / John Cheever -- The snowfall / Jean Garrigue -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- The valiant woman / J. F. Powers -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Three heroines / Peter Taylor -- An old-fashioned story / Jane Mayhall -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Happy families / A. C. Hoffmann -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote -- The last voyage / Tom Filer -- The Grandmother / John Hawkes -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Light Timber / Nancy Potter -- Voice of the town / Curtis Harnack -- Sand / W. S. Merwin -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- Concerning the bodyguard / Donald Barthelme -- The Bulgarian Poetess / John Updike -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- A man who writes / Russell Edson -- In the region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- A matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson -- The farm / Joy Williams -- A reasonable man / Ann Beattie.
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