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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 • I’m 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 • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- 91 • Back for Christmas • John Collier • ss New Yorker, 1939
- 96 • Youth • Joseph Conrad • nv Blackwood’s Sep, 1898
- 122 • The Bar Sinister • Richard Harding Davis • nv Scribner’s 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 Longman’s Mar, 1883
- 256 • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- 265 • The Killers • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s 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 Monkey’s Paw • W. W. Jacobs • ss Harper’s 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 Youth’s 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 Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s 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: Unwin’s 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 • Publisher’s 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
- • Sonny’s 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 Harper’s 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
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • on “Paul’s 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 Scribner’s 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 Didn’t • Stuart Dybek • ss Antæus Spr ’93
- • King of the Bingo Game • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • Matchimanito • Louise Erdrich • ss
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s 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 Soldier’s 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 Harper’s 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 Dealer’s 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 L’Heureux • ss Fiction v6 #2 ’80
- • My Father’s 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 Putnam’s 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 O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • 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 O’Connor • ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- • Guests of the Nation • Frank O’Connor • 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 Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
- • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s 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 Harper’s Oct ’37
- • Rules of the Game • Amy Tan • ss Seventeen Nov ’86
- • A Spinster’s Tale • Peter Taylor • ss
- • on “A Spinster’s 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 I’m 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 O’Connor • ar
- • Review of Hawthorne’s 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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