"...American short stories...tend to be conveyed through a tone of voice that the author invents for that particular story alone -- a first-person narration that reminds us of the oral tradition that lies behind all stories. This anthology recognizes that uniquely American trait in short fiction and preserves it in a collection that should delight readers for many years to come."
Item details
ISBN:0393026191 :
ISBN:9780393026191
Physical Description:print 779 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Norton, c1988.
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note:
The speech of Polly Baker / Benjamin Franklin -- The devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut / Samuel L. Clemens -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- The middle years / Henry James -- Belles Demoiselles Plantation / George W. Cable -- The wonderful tar-baby story and how Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Gilman] -- Mammon and the archer / O. Henry -- Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Champion / Ring Lardner -- The man who saw through Heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- The baby in the icebox / James M. Cain -- Liquor makes you smart / Anita Loos -- The standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- The unicorn in the garden / James Thurber -- Becky / Jean Toomer -- The bridal party / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Wash / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Slave on the block / Langston Hughes -- Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- White on black / Tess Slesinger -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- My father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman -- Idiots first / Bernard Malamud -- In the zoo / Jean Stafford -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- A subject of childhood / Grace Paley -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Levitation / Cynthia Ozick -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme -- The babysitter / Robert Coover -- When everyone was pregnant / John Updike -- Revenge of the lawn / Richard Brautigan -- Victory over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Teller's ticket / Robert Flanagan -- Bridging / Max Apple -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin -- Herself in love / Marianne Wiggins -- Lechery / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Biograph / Michael Martone.
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