Worlds of Fiction ed. Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson (MacMillan College Division, January 1993, 0-024-04185-8, $60.00, 1472pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog and Amazon.com.
- · Introduction · Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson · in (r)
- · From The Thousand and One Nights: The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni · translated by Edward William Lane · ss (r)
- · Girls at War · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972
- · Two Sisters · Ama Ata Aidoo · ss (r)
- · Within a Grove · Akutagawa Ryunosuke; translated by James O’Brien · ss (r)
- · The Kugelmass Episode · Woody Allen · ss The New Yorker May 2 1977
- · And of Clay Are We Created · Isabel Allende; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss (r)
- · The Unseeing Eye · Hanan Al-Shaykh; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies · ss (r)
- · B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca · Rudolfo Anaya · ss (r)
- · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926
- · Dancing Girls · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)
- · My First Goose · Isaac Babel; translated by Walter Morison · ss (r)
- · Spilled Salt · BarbaraNeely · ss Breaking In: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction ed. Terry McMillan, Viking Penguin, 1990
- · The Burning House · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 11 1979
- · The Black Dog · J. Bernlef; translated by Frank Scimone · ss (r)
- · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- · The Laugher · Heinrich Böll; translated by Leila Vennewitz · ss (r)
- · Death and the Compass · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luís Borges, Dutton, 1970
translated from the Spanish (“La Muerte y la Brújula”, Sur, May 1942).
- · The Falling Girl · Dino Buzzati; translated by Lawrence Venuti · ss Restless Nights by Dino Buzzati, North Point Press, 1983; dated 1966.
- · A Sign in Space · Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver · ss Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Harcourt Brace World, 1968
translated from the Italian (“Un segno nello spazio”, Le Cosmicomiche, Einaudi, 1965).
- · The Guest · Albert Camus; translated by Justin O’Brien · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1957
- · Where I’m Calling From · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker March 15 1982
- · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905
- · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964
- · The Kiss · Anton Chekhov; translated by Constance Garnett · ss (r)
- · The Seamstress · Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette; translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge & Enid McLeod · ss (r)
- · Amy Foster · Joseph Conrad · nv The Illustrated London News December 14 1901 (+2)
- · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- · The Sailor-Boy’s Tale · Isak Dinesen · ss Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942
- · Sarzan · Birago Diop; translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy · ss (r)
- · Paseo · José Donoso; translated by Lorraine O’Grady Freeman · ss (r)
- · The Night Between the Second and the Third · Margareta Ekström; translated by Eva Claeson · ss (r)
- · Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944
- · Love Medicine · Louise Erdrich · ss (r)
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · The Street-Sweeping Show · Feng Jicai; translated by Susan Wilff Chen · ss (r)
- · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931
- · The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller · Gustave Flaubert · nv (r)
translated from the French (“La légende de saint Julien l’Hospitalier”, Trois Contes, G. Charpentier, 1877).
- · The Doll Queen · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss Antæus #13/14, Spring/Summer 1974
translated from the Spanish (1969).
- · Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by J. S. Bernstein · ss No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez, Jonathan Cape, 1968
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Mother · Natalia Ginzburg; translated by Isabel Quigley · ss Italian Short Stories ed. Raleigh Trevelyan, Penguin, 1965
translated from the Italian.
- · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol; translated by Constance Garnett · na Atlantis Press, 1947
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- · A Soldier’s Embrace · Nadine Gordimer · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1976
- · Boys at the Rodeo · Judy Grahn · ss (r)
- · Karl Katz · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)
- · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843
- · The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses · Bessie Head · ss (r)
- · The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber · Ernest Hemingway · nv Cosmopolitan September 1936
- · Thank You, Ma’am · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958
- · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · A Story for Children · Svava Jakobsdóttir; translated by Dennis Auburn Hill · ss (r)
- · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · Another Holiday for the Prince · Elizabeth Jolley · ss (r)
- · Eveline · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka; translated by Edwin Muir & Willa Muir · nv The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Schocken, 1948
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- · A Hand in the Grave · Ghassan Kanafani; translated by Hilary Kilpatrick · ss (r)
- · Platonic Love · Kanai Mieko; translated by Amy Vladeck Heinrich · ss (r)
- · Betel Nut Is Bad Magic for Airplanes · John Kasaipwalova · ss (r)
- · The Gold-Legged Frog · Khamsing Srinawk; translated by Domnern Garden · ss (r)
- · The Children’s Campaign · Pär Lagerkvist; translated by Alan Blair · ss (r)
- · A Bird in the House · Margaret Laurence · ss (r)
- · Happiness · Mary Lavin · ss The New Yorker December 14 1968
- · “Tickets, Please!” · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Strand Magazine April 1919
- · Sur · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker February 1 1982
- · A Woman on the Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- · Or Else, the Lightning God · Catherine Lim · ss (r)
- · The Story of Hair · Lu Xun; translated by William A. Lyell · ss (r)
- · The Lemon · Arnost Lustig; translated by Jeanne Nemcova · ss (r)
- · Half a Day · Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies · ss (r)
- · The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter April 11 1963
- · The Infant Prodigy · Thomas Mann; translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter · ss (r)
- · Her First Ball · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Sphere November 28 1921
- · Island of Manhattan · René Marqéus; translated by Faye Edwards & Gladys Ortiz · ss (r)
- · Brooklyn · Paule Marshall · ss 1961
- · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- · The Appointment in Samarra · William Somerset Maugham · ss The Star July 9 1936
- · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie · ss The House of Madame Tellier by Guy de Maupassant, Everyman's Library, 1934
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
- · My Mother’s Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame · Richard McCann · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1986
- · Lush Life · John McClusky · ss (r)
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · The One Who Goes Farthest Away · Katherine Min · ss (r)
- · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984
- · Swaddling Clothes · Yukio Mishima; translated by Ivan Morris · ss (r)
- · Tumbling · Kermit Moyer · ss (r)
- · Mrs. Plum · Es’kia Mphahlele · ss (r)
- · The Elephant · Slawomir Mrozek; translated by Konrad Syrop · ss Mademoiselle May 1963
- · A Father · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Charlie Chan Is Dead ed. Jessica Hagedorn, Viking Penguin, 1993
- · The Office · Alice Munro · ss Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro, Ryerson Press, 1968
- · One Out of Many · V. S. Naipaul · ss (r)
- · And We Sold the Rain · Carmen Naranjo; translated by Jo Anne Engelbert · ss (r)
- · A Horse and Two Goats · R. K. Narayan · ss The New Yorker January 23 1965
- · A Meeting in the Dark · Ngugi Wa Thiong’o · ss (r)
- · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- · The Pale Fox · Minako Oba; translated by Stephen W. Kohl · ss (r)
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Aghwee the Sky Monster · Kenzaburō Ōe; translated by John Nathan · nv Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Press, 1977
- · Black Girl · Sembene Ousmane; translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy · ss (r)
- · Nomad and Viper · Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange & Philip Simpson · ss (r)
- · The Revolver · Emilia Pardo-Bazán; translated by Angel Flores · ss (r)
- · The Blue Bouquet · Octavio Paz; translated by Lysander Kemp · ss (r)
- · Insomnia · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer · ss (r)
- · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846
- · Rope · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, Harcourt Brace, 1930
- · The Proof · Rodrigo Rey Rosa; translated by Paul Bowles · ss (r)
- · The Move · Gabrielle Roy; translated by Joyce Marshall · ss (r)
- · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May/June 1953
- · Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher · María Theresa Solari; translated by John Benson · ss Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real ed. Celia Correas de Zapata, Arte Público Press, 1990
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · The Story of Jumping Mouse · Hyemeyohsts Storm · ss (r)
- · Learning to Swim · Graham Swift · ss Learning to Swim and Other Stories by Graham Swift, London Magazine Editions, 1982
- · Half and Half · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy; translated by Louise Maude & Aylmer Maude · na (r)
- · The Complete Gentleman · Amos Tutuola · ex The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola & ed. George Braziller, Faber and Faber, 1952
- · Luck · Mark Twain · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1891
- · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- · Strange Things Happen Here · Luisa Valenzuela · ss (r)
- · Sunday · Mario Vargas Llosa · ss (r)
- · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941
- · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934
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