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The Norton book of American short stories  Cover Image Book Book

The Norton book of American short stories

Prescott, Peter S. (Added Author).

Summary:

"...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."

Contents:

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780393026191
  • ISBN: 0393026191 :
  • Physical Description: 779 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • 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.
Subject: USA
United States Social life and customs Fiction
Kurzgeschichte
Geschichte
Anthologie
Nouvelles américaines Anthologies
Short stories, American

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