The best American short stories of the century

Updike, John. (editor,, author of introduction.). Kenison, Katrina. (editor.).

Summary: A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable writers.

Item details

ISBN: 0395843677
ISBN: 9780395843673
ISBN: 0395843685
ISBN: 9780395843680
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 835 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2000.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Little selves / Mary Lerner -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- "That in Aleppo once ..." / Vladimir Nabokov -- Interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn -- Second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop -- Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers -- Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams -- Country husband / John Cheever -- Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin -- German refugee / Bernard Malamud -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Cty of churches / Donald Barthelme -- How to win / Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Gesturing / John Updike -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- Way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- I want to live! / Thom Jones -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- Birthmates / Gish Jen -- Soon / Pam Durban -- Half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston.

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