Stories: An Anthology and an Introduction ed. Eric S. Rabkin (Longman US, 1994, 0-06-045327-3, $58.00, 1500pp, tp, an)
- · On Reading Stories · Eric S. Rabkin · in
- · Bible
- · Genesis · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- · Jonah · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- · On Parables, (Mark 4) · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- · The Prodigal Son, (Luke 15) · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- · Taoism
- · A Ch’an Koan · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Outsides · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Smelling Essays · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Sufism
- · The Ancient Coffer of Nuri Bey · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · The Bequest · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · The Limitations of Dogma · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Girls at War · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972
- · A Southern Spelling Bee · Alice Adams · ss (r)
- · A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1952
- · Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral · Ama Ata Aidoo · ss (r)
- · In a Grove · Ryunosuke Akutagawa; translated by Takashi Kojima · ss Murder in Japan ed. John L. Apostolou & Martin H. Greenberg, Dembner, 1987; dated 1952.
- · The Whore of Mensa · Woody Allen · ss The New Yorker December 16 1974
- · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- · Reason [Mike Donovan; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ss Astounding Science-Fiction April 1941
- · The Resplendent Quetzal · Margaret Atwood · ss Short Story International #41, December 1983
- · Going to Meet the Man · James Baldwin · ss Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, Dial Press, 1965
- · The Death of Horatio Alger · Amiri Baraka · ss (r)
- · The Night We All Got Sick · Lynda Barry · ss (r)
- · Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire June 1966
- · The Piano Player · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker August 31 1963
- · Nightmare Number Three · Stephen Vincent Benét · pm The New Yorker July 27 1935
- · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- · Emma Zunz · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
- · Pierre Menard, Author of the “Quixote” · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”, Sur, May 1939).
- · Homage to the San Francisco YMCA · Richard Brautigan · ss Vogue July 1971
- · The Ballad of Rudolph Reed · Gwendolyn Brooks · ss (r)
- · Little Red Riding Hood · Olga Broumas · pm Beginning With O by Olga Broumas, Yale Univ. Press, 1977
- · The King · Dick Bruna · ss (r)
- · A Cap for Steve · Morley Callaghan · ss Esquire July 1952
- · Things I Did to Make It Possible · François Camoin · ss (r)
- · Viewfinder · Raymond Carver · ss (r)
- · The Joy of Nelly Deane · Willa Cather · ss The Century Magazine October 1911
- · The Miller’s Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer · ss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer, William Caxton, 1478
- · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964
- · Vanka · Anton Chekov · ss The Short Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekov, Modern Library, 1932
translated from the Russian.
- · Désirée’s Baby · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue January 1893
- · The Star [Star of Bethlehem] · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Infinity Science Fiction November 1955
- · The Other Wife · Colette · ss (r)
- · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)
- · The Brother · Robert Coover · ss (r)
- · A Continuity of Parks · Julio Cortázar · vi End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Pantheon Books, 1967; dated 1956.
- · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898
- · Fred the Teen-age Girl Pigeon · R. Crumb · cs (r)
- · Corona · Samuel R. Delany · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967
- · The Honest Thief · Feodor Dostoevsky · ss (r)
- · The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892
- · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream · Harlan Ellison · ss If March 1967
- · Chapter Two: 1932, Sita Kozka · Louise Erdrich · ss (r)
- · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939
- · Dry September · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1931
- · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · A Point in Morals · Ellen Glasgow · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1899
- · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- · Six Feet of the Country · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker May 23 1953
- · Rapunzel · The Brothers Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823
translated from the German (“Rapunzel”, 1812).
- · The Three Spinsters · The Brothers Grimm · ss (r)
- · The Little Red Cap · The Brothers Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823
translated from the German (“Rothkäppchen”, 1812).
- · The Gutting of Couffignal [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask December 1925
- · I’m Shaking to Death · Barry Hannah · ss (r)
- · The Son’s Veto · Thomas Hardy · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1891
- · The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Francis Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869
- · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine”
- · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- · Rapunzel · Sara Henderson Hay · pm Story Hour by Sara Henderson Hay, Univ. of Arkansas Press, 1982
- · Stage to Lordsburg · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s April 10 1937
- · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933
- · A Midsummer Knight’s Dream · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World July 23 1905
- · Springtime à la Carte · O. Henry · vi The (New York) Sunday World April 2 1905
- · The Whispering Tree · Gilberto Hernandez · ss (r)
- · The Zebra Storyteller · Spencer Holst · vi The Language of Cats and Other Stories by Spencer Holst, McCall Publishing Company, 1971
- · The Altar of the Dead · Henry James · na Terminations by Henry James, Harper, 1895
- · The Tree of Knowledge · Henry James · ss The Soft Side by Henry James, Methuen, 1900
- · The Turn of the Screw [Turn of the Screw] · Henry James · na Collier’s Weekly January 27 1898 (+11)
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · Counterparts · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · A Common Confusion · Franz Kafka · ss 1931
- · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- · One Arm · Yasunari Kawabata; translated by Edward Seidensticker · nv House of Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata, Kodansha International, 1969
translated from the Japanese.
- · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- · Rain · Tommaso Landolfi · ss (r)
- · Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review June 1911
- · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926
- · The Day Before the Revolution [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1974
- · Prince Ferrix and Princess Crystal · Stanislaw Lem; translated by Michael Kandel · ss The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, tr. Michael Kandel, Seabury Press, 1974
translated from the Polish (“Z dzieła cyfrotikon, czyli o dewijacyach, superfiksacyach a waryacyach serdecznych: o Królewiczu Ferrycym i Królewnie Krystali”, Cyberiada, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1965).
- · Pleasure · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- · The German Refugee · Bernard Malamud · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 14 1963, as “The Refugee”
- · The Doll’s House · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation and Athenaeum February 4 1922
- · A New-Wave Format · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1982
- · The Jewels · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Holland Pub. Co., 1895, as “False Gems”
translated from the French (“Les Bijoux”, Gil Blas, March 27, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse).
- · Mother Savage · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La mère Sauvage”, Le Gaulois, March 3, 1884).
- · Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend · Winsor McCay · ss (r)
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966
- · How · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)
- · Royal Beatings · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker March 14 1977
- · Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955
- · My Oedipus Complex · Frank O’Connor · ss Magpie September 1951
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · Metamorphoses · Ovid · ss (r)
- · Wants · Grace Paley · ss Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974
- · The Last Tea · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 11 1926
- · A Life for a Life · Alan Paton · ss (r)
- · Little Red Riding-Hood · Charles Perrault · vi (r)
translated from the French (“Le Petit Chaperon rouge”, Histoires ou Contes du temps passé, Paris, 1697).
- · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843
- · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845
- · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935
- · She Has No Place in Paradise · Nawal El Saadawi · ss (r)
- · Yellow Woman · Leslie Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- · Yentl the Yeshiva Boy · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)
- · Prisoner on the Hell Planet · Art Spiegelman · cs (r)
- · Miss Furr and Miss Skeene · Gertrude Stein · ss Vanity Fair (US) July 1923
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · The Harness · John Steinbeck · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1938
- · The Thief · Junichiro Tanizaki; translated by Howard Hibbett · ss Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki, Knopf, 1963
- · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939
- · The Death of Ivan Ilyich · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- · Becky · Jean Toomer · ss (r)
- · The Diary of Adam and Eve · Mark Twain · ss (r)
- · Should Wizard Hit Mommy? · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 13 1959
- · Something Under the Bed Is Drooling · Bill Watterson · ss (r)
- · The Star · H. G. Wells · ss The Graphic Christmas 1897
- · The Time Machine [Time Machine] · H. G. Wells · na Heinemann, 1895
- · Lily Daw and the Three Ladies · Eudora Welty · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1937
- · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939
- · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934
- · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- · Chronicle of Mulberry Tree Village · Xiaoping Zhu · ss (r)
- · The Elements of Narrative · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Keeping a Reading Journal · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Writing About Narratives · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Filmography · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Glossary of Literary Terms · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Questions for Contrast and Comparison · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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