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- The Golden Argosy ed. Van H. Cartmell & Charles Grayson (The Dial Press, 1947, 656pp, hc); Pagination taken from 1955 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.
- v Foreword Van H. Cartmell & Charles Grayson fw
- 11 Im a Fool Sherwood Anderson ss The Dial Feb 22
- 21 The Happy Hypocrite Max Beerbohm nv The Yellow Book Oct, 1896
- 43 The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benét ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 36
- 56 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce ss Tales from New York Town Topics Dec 7, 1893
- 64 The Chink and the Child Thomas Burke ss Colours Oct 15
- 74 Pauls Case Willa Cather nv McClures May 05
- 91 Back for Christmas John Collier ss New Yorker, 1939
- 96 Youth Joseph Conrad nv Blackwoods Sep, 1898
- 122 The Bar Sinister Richard Harding Davis nv Scribners Mar 02
- 147 The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] Arthur Conan Doyle nv The Strand Aug, 1891
- 167 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner ss The Forum Apr 30
- 175 Old Man Minick Edna Ferber ss
- 192 The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald nv Redbook Jan 26 (+1)
- 223 The Celestial Omnibus E. M. Forster ss Albany Review Jan 08
- 237 The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy nv Longmans Mar, 1883
- 256 The Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- 265 The Killers Ernest Hemingway ss Scribners Mar 27
- 274 The Gift of the Magi O. Henry ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906
- 279 The Gioconda Smile Aldous Huxley nv The English Review Aug 21
- 304 The Monkeys Paw W. W. Jacobs ss Harpers Monthly Sep 02
- 313 The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling nv The Phantom Rickshaw, Allahabad: Wheeler, 1888
- 341 The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney Rudyard Kipling nv
- 362 Champion Ring Lardner ss Metropolitan Magazine Oct 16
- 380 To Build a Fire Jack London ss The Youths Companion May 29 02
- 394 The Fly Katherine Mansfield ss The Nation Mar 18 22
- 399 Rain W. Somerset Maugham nv, 1921
- 433 Big Blonde Dorothy Parker ss The Bookman Feb 29
- 453 The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] Edgar Allan Poe nv Grahams Ladys and Gentlemans Magazine Apr, 1841
- 481 The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe nv Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper Jun 21-28, 1843
- 510 Flowering Judas Katherine Anne Porter ss
- 521 Tobermory Saki ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 27 09
- 528 The Leader of the People John Steinbeck ss Argosy (UK) Aug 36
- 541 Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson ss The Broken Shaft: Unwins Christmas Annual, ed. Sir Henry Norman, London: Fisher Unwin, 1886
- 554 A Lodging for the Night Robert Louis Stevenson ss Temple Bar Oct, 1877
- 571 The Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton ss The Century Nov, 1882
- 577 Monsieur Beaucaire Booth Tarkington nv
- 606 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber ss New Yorker Mar 18 39
- 611 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain ss, 1867
- 617 The Other Wise Man Henry Van Dyke ss
- 636 Chickamauga Thomas Wolfe nv
- The Best American Short Stories 1986 ed. Raymond Carver & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-38398-6, 1986, $8.95, 325pp, tp)
- ix Publishers Note Misc. Material pr
- xi Introduction Raymond Carver in
- 1 Basil from Her Garden Donald Barthelme ss New Yorker Oct 21 85
- 10 Gryphon Charles Baxter ss Epoch, 1985
- 28 Janus Ann Beattie ss New Yorker May 27 85
- 34 The Convict James Lee Burke ss The Kenyon Review, 1985
- 48 Star Food Ethan Canin ss Chicago, 1985
- 66 Gossip Frank Conroy ss Esquire Aug 85
- 83 Communist Richard Ford ss Antæus, 1985
- 100 Bad Company Tess Gallagher ss Ploughshares, 1985
- 113 Today Will Be a Quiet Day Amy Hempel ss The Missouri Review, 1985
- 120 Doe Season David Michael Kaplan ss Atlantic Monthly Nov 85
- 136 Three Thousand Dollars David Lipsky ss New Yorker Nov 11 85
- 150 Sportsmen Thomas McGuane ss Playboy, 1985
- 155 All My Relations Christopher McIlroy nv TriQuarterly, 1985
- 180 Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux Alice Munro ss Grand Street, 1985
- 207 Skin Angels Jessica Neely ss New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 1985
- 219 Invisible Life Kent Nelson nv The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1985
- 241 Telling Grace Paley ss Mother Jones, 1985
- 258 Lawns Mona Simpson nv The Iowa Review, 1985
- 279 Health Joy Williams ss Tendril, 1985
- 289 The Rich Brother Tobias Wolff ss Vanity Fair, 1985
- Stories by Contemporary Irish Women ed. Daniel J. & Linda M. Casey (Syracuse University Press 0-815-60249-9, Jun 90, $16.95, 221pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction R. V. Cassill (Norton 0-393-95619-9, Dec 87, $34.10, 527pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth Edition ed. R. V. Cassill & Richard Bausch (W. W. Norton & Co. 0-393-97508-8, 2000, $51.15, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Preface Misc. Material pr
- Preface to the Sixth Edition Misc. Material pr
- Talking about Fiction Misc. Material ar
- Character and Setting Misc. Material ar
- Action, Plot, and Complication Misc. Material ar
- Point of View Misc. Material ar
- Indirection Misc. Material ar
- The Part and the Whole Misc. Material ar
- Coherence Misc. Material ar
- General Questions Misc. Material ms
- I Want to Know Why Sherwood Anderson ss The Smart Set Nov 19
- Death by Landscape Margaret Atwood ss Saturday Night, 1989
- Sonnys Blues James Baldwin nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- Gorilla, My Love Toni Cade Bambara ss
- The Littoral Zone Andrea Barrett ss
- Me and Miss Mandible Donald Barthelme ss
- The Disappeared Charles Baxter ss Michigan Quarterly Review, 1990
- Snow Ann Beattie ss
- Witness Madison Smartt Bell ss Harpers Jan 90
- Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? Gina Berriault ss
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- Silver Water Amy Bloom ss
- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 1939] Jorge Luis Borges ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1962
- The Veldt [The World the Children Made] Ray Bradbury ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 50
- Pagan Night Kate Braverman ss
- The Gentleman from San Francisco Ivan Bunin ss The Dial Jan 22
- on The Gentleman from San Francisco Gina Berriault ar
- Bread Frederick Busch ss
- Cathedral Raymond Carver ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 81
- The Rationing of Love R. V. Cassill ss
- Pauls Case Willa Cather nv McClures May 05
- on Pauls Case Andrea Barrett ar
- The Enormous Radio John Cheever ss New Yorker May 17 47
- The Lady with the Dog Anton Chekhov ss
- Gusev Anton Chekhov ss
- on Gusev Richard Bausch ar
- The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin ss, 1894
- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Samuel Clemens ss, 1867
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad ss
- on Heart of Darkness Barry Hannah ar
- The Babysitter Robert Coover ss
- A Continuity of Parks [1956] Julio Cortázar vi End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
- The Open Boat Stephen Crane nv Scribners Jun, 1897
- on The Open Boat Allan Gurganus ar
- The Blue Hotel Stephen Crane nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- Open Winter H. L. Davis ss The Saturday Evening Post May 6 39
- Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen ss
- on Sorrow-Acre Tobias Wolf ar
- Public Appearances Susan Dodd ss
- The Intruder Andre Dubus ss
- We Didnt Stuart Dybek ss Antæus Spr 93
- King of the Bingo Game Ralph Ellison ss
- Matchimanito Louise Erdrich ss
- Barn Burning William Faulkner ss Harpers Jun 39
- The Bear William Faulkner ss The Saturday Evening Post May 9 42
- Dreams Timothy Findley nv Stones, Penguin Books Canada, 1988
- Babylon Revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 31
- Great Falls Richard Ford ss
- The Road from Colonus E. M. Forster ss The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911
- A New England Nun Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ss, 1891
- Bernadette Mavis Gallant ss New Yorker
- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Gabriel Garcia Marquez ss Playboy Nov 71
- Wounded Soldier George Garrett ss
- on Wounded Soldier Madison Smartt Bell ar
- The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- A Soldiers Embrace Nadine Gordimer ss
- Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt William Goyen ss Ghost and Flesh, Random House, 1952
- on Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt George Garrett ar
- Nativity, Caucasian Allan Gurganus ss Harpers Nov 90
- Testimony of Pilot Barry Hannah ss
- Wedding Night Tom Hawkins ss
- Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne ss The Pioneer Mar, 1843
- Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway ss
- on Hills Like White Elephants Frederick Busch ar
- In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried Amy Hempel ss
- The Conscience of the Court Zora Neale Hurston ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 50
- The Witch Shirley Jackson ss The Lottery, Farrar Strauss, 1949
- Greville Fane Henry James ss
- Passion Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ss
- Moving Pictures Charles Johnson ss New American Review Sep 85
- A New Man Edward P. Jones ss
- The Pugilist at Rest Thom Jones ss New Yorker Dec 2 91
- Araby James Joyce ss
- A Little Cloud James Joyce ss The Smart Set May 15
- The Dead James Joyce ss
- The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka nv, 1937; Weisse Blätter Oct 15.
- A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka ss
- Girl Jamaica Kincaid ss
- The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling nv The Phantom Rickshaw, Allahabad: Wheeler, 1888
- Jewel of the Moon William Kotzwinkle ss Jewel of the Moon, Putnam, 1985
- My Life as a Mollusk Patricia Landers ss
- The Horse Dealers Daughter D. H. Lawrence ss The English Review, 1923
- The Coggios Sharyn Layfield ss
- Gravity David Leavitt ss
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- To Room Nineteen Doris Lessing ss
- Brief Lives in California John LHeureux ss Fiction v6 #2 80
- My Fathers Chinese Wives Sandra Tsing Loh ss
- The Chevigny Man Robie Macauley ss The Kenyon Review, 1956
- Angel Levine Bernard Malamud ss The Magic Barrel, Farrar, 1958
- Death in Venice Thomas Mann ss
- Bliss Katherine Mansfield ss, 1920
- Shiloh Bobbie Ann Mason ss New Yorker Oct 20 80
- Boule de Suif Guy de Maupassant ss
- The Thistles in Sweden William Maxwell ss
- on The Thistles in Sweden Charles Baxter ar
- Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville nv Putnams Monthly, 1853
- The Management of Grief Bharati Mukherjee ss Fiction Network, 1988
- on The Management of Grief Richard Ford ar
- Royal Beatings Alice Munro ss, 1977
- Prue Alice Munro ss New Yorker Mar 30 81
- Signs and Symbols Vladimir Nabokov ss New Yorker May 15 48
- The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien Hua-Ling Nieh ss
- How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Joyce Carol Oates ss TriQuarterly Spr 69
- The Things They Carried Tim OBrien ss Esquire Aug 86
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery OConnor ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- on A Good Man Is Hard to Find Lee Smith ar
- Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery OConnor ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- Guests of the Nation Frank OConnor ss
- on Guests of the Nation Edward P. Jones ar
- Tell Me a Riddle Tillie Olsen nv New World Writing #16, NAL, 1960
- War Luigi Pirandello ss
- The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe ss Burtons Gentlemens Magazine Sep, 1839
- The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] Edgar Allan Poe nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Years Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
- Flowering Judas Katherine Anne Porter ss
- The Fall V. S. Pritchett ss
- The Conversion of the Jews Philip Roth ss The Paris Review Spr 58
- Nadine at 35: A Synopsis Jo Sapp ss
- The Eighty-Yard Run Irwin Shaw ss Playboy May 55
- Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer ss
- Intensive Care Lee Smith ss
- In the Zoo Jean Stafford ss New Yorker, 1955
- on In the Zoo R. V. Cassill ar
- The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck ss Harpers Oct 37
- Rules of the Game Amy Tan ss Seventeen Nov 86
- A Spinsters Tale Peter Taylor ss
- on A Spinsters Tale Ann Beattie ar
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber ss New Yorker Mar 18 39
- The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy ss
- A & P John Updike ss
- The Moths Helena María Viramontes ss
- Everyday Use Alice Walker ss
- Blackberry Winter Robert Penn Warren ss, 1931
- Why I Live at the P.O. Eudora Welty ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 41
- A Worn Path Eudora Welty ss Atlantic Monthly, 1941
- on A Worn Path Susan Dodd ar
- The Man Who Loved Levittown W. D. Wetherell ss Atlantic Monthly Oct 79
- The Use of Force William Carlos Williams ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec 33
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Tobias Wolff ss Antæus #37 80
- Kew Gardens Virginia Woolf ss May 12 19
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright ss
- Writing Papers about Fiction Richard Bausch ar
- When You Write about Fiction R. V. Cassill ar
- Writing Fiction R. V. Cassill ar
- Writers on Writing R. V. Cassill ar
- Why Do You Write? Margaret Atwood ar
- What Is It I Think Im Doing Anyhow? Toni Cade Bambara ar
- On Writing Raymond Carver ar
- What Happened John Cheever ar
- Selected Letters Anton Chekhov lt
- A Familiar Preface Joseph Conrad ar
- An Interview Ralph Ellison iv
- Becoming a Writer Gail Godwin ar
- An Interview Ernest Hemingway iv
- The Art of Fiction Henry James ar
- Why the Novel Matters D. H. Lawrence ar
- An Interview Doris Lessing iv
- The Novel Guy de Maupassant ar
- A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman Bharati Mukherjee ar
- What Is Real? Alice Munro ar
- The Nature and Aim of Fiction Flannery OConnor ar
- Review of Hawthornes Twice-Told Tales Edgar Allan Poe br [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- An Interview Katherine Anne Porter iv
- An Interview James Thurber iv
- What Is Art? Leo Tolstoy ar
- An Interview Eudora Welty iv
- Glossary of Critical Terms Misc. Material ms
- Index of Titles Misc. Material ix
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