Short Fiction ed. Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty (Prentice Hall 0-13-460049-5, 1999, 1264pp, tp)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- Introduction · Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty · in
- Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss
- Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker Jan 27 1975
- A Bicycle · Iqbal Ahmad · ss
- I’m Working on My Charm · Dorothy Allison · ss
- I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set Nov 1919
- Seeing Mrs. Landers · Thea Astley · ss
- Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss
- Hairball · Margaret Atwood · ss
- Gertrude Talks Back · Margaret Atwood · vi Good Bones, Coach House 1992
- The Little Red Hen Tells All · Margaret Atwood · vi
- Awakening · Isaac Babel · ss
- Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957
- The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook Jan 1973
- My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories · Russell Banks · ss Vanity Fair 1987
- ‘III’ from Three Simple Stories · Julian Barnes · ss
- Lost in the Funhouse · John Barth · ss Atlantic Monthly Nov 1967
- A City of Churches · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Apr 22 1972
- The Chosen Vessel · Barbara Baynton · ss The Bulletin 1901
- What Was Mine · Ann Beattie · ss Esquire Nov 1989
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890
- The End of the Duel · Jorge Luis Borges · ss
- The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales, London: Gollancz 1979; revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 1981
- Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905
- The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1964
- The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925
- Gooseberries · Anton Chekhov · ss
- The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss
- The Death of a Civil Servant · Anton Chekhov · ss
- The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue Dec 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”
- Regret · Kate Chopin · ss The Century Magazine May 1895
- A Respectable Woman · Kate Chopin · ss
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Clemens · ss 1867
- The Other Wife · Colette · ss
- The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Aug-Sep 1910
- The Magic Poker · Robert Coover · ss Esquire Jul 1969
- The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Nov 26 1898
- The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897
- The Lover and the Tell-Tale [Whilomville Stories] · Stephen Crane · ss Harper’s Monthly Oct 1899
- The Blue Jar · Isak Dinesen · ss
- The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Aug 1891
- The Doctor · Andre Dubus · ss
- King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss
- Dry September · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Jan 1931
- A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum Apr 1930
- A Scrap of Time · Ida Fink · ss
- Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931
- Silence Dogood, No. 1 · Benjamin Franklin · ss
- April Fish · Mavis Gallant · ss
- Tuesday Siesta · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss
- The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892
- The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · nv 1842
- The Life of the Imagination · Nadine Gordimer · ss
- Two Gentle People · Graham Greene · ss
- Argument and Persuasion · Donald Hall · ss
- The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843
- Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835
- Looking for a Rain God · Bessie Head · ss
- A Vermont Tale · Mark Helprin · ss The New Yorker Mar 3 1980
- Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition Aug 1927
- Indian Camp · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review Apr 1924, as “Work in Progress”
- Who’s Passing for Who? · Langston Hughes · ss
- Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss
- Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book 1819
- The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker Jun 26 1948
- The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black and White Apr 16 1892
- A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss 1886
- Araby · James Joyce · ss
- The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · nv 1937; Weisse Blätter Oct ’15.
- Search and Destroy · Wayne Karlin · ss
- The Circling Hand · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The New Yorker Nov 21 1983
- Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss
- Not a Good Girl · Perri Klass · ss Mademoiselle Jul 1983
- Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty Mar 28 1925
- My Vocation · Mary Lavin · ss
- The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson 1926
- A Place of Safety · Halldór Laxness · ss
- The Professor’s Houses · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker Nov 1 1982
- A Sunrise on the Veld · Doris Lessing · ss African Stories, London: Michael Joseph 1964
- Small Causes · Primo Levi · ss
- To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- Half a Day · Naguib Mahfouz · ss
- The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss The Paris Review Nov/Dec 1954
- A Dill Pickle · Katherine Mansfield · ss
- Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss 1922
- Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980
- The Outstation · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International Jun 1924
- The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss
- Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly 1853
- Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire Apr 1966
- A Father · Bharati Mukherjee · ss
- Friend of My Youth · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker Jan 22 1990
- Boys and Girls · Alice Munro · ss
- The Passenger · Vladimir Nabokov · ss
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll 1966
- Shopping · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ms. Mar 1987
- The Creature · Edna O’Brien · ss
- The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986
- Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL 1961
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon 1953
- Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss
- Do You Like It Here? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker Feb 18 1939
- I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss Tell Me a Riddle, Delacorte 1956
- A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13 1971
- War · Luigi Pirandello · ss
- The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov 1846
- The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep 1839
- Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union Mar 17 1849
- The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
- Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
- The Valiant Woman · J. F. Powers · ss Accent 1947
- The Diver · V. S. Pritchett · ss
- The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review Spr 1958
- I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 · John Sayles · ss Atlantic Monthly May 1975
- Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss
- The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct 1937
- No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Harper’s Aug 1985
- A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss
- Souvenir · John Tavela · ss
- The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Nov 14 1942
- The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na
- The Tryst · Ivan Turgenev · ss
- A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jul 22 1961
- The Verb to Kill · Luisa Valenzuela · ss
- The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss
- Roselily · Alice Walker · ss
- To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss
- The Welcome Table · Alice Walker · ss
- Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · ss 1931
- Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review 1939
- A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly 1941
- Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty Nov 10 1934
- Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss
- The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec 1933
- Smokers · Tobias Wolff · ss
- Kew Gardens · Virginia Woolf · ss May 12 1919
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss
- WRITERS ON WRITING:
- From an Interview by Graeme Gibson · Margaret Atwood · iv
- Interview by Joyce Carol Oates · Margaret Atwood · iv
- From Survival · Margaret Atwood · ar
- "Witches," from Second Words · Margaret Atwood · ar
- Three excerpts from his letters · Anton Chekhov · lt
- On Stephen Crane and “The Blue Hotel” · Alfred Kazin · ar [Stephen Crane]
- Crane on his life · Stephen Crane · ar
- Crane’s letter to John Hilliard · Stephen Crane · lt
- Stephen Crane’s Own Story · Stephen Crane · ar
- Let Me Tell a Story Now... · Bessie Head · ar
- Biography of a Story · Shirley Jackson · ar
- To a Young Reader · Primo Levi · ar
- A Letter to Richard Murray · Katherine Mansfield · lt
- On Her Own Work · Flannery O’Connor · ar
- The Brief Prose Tale · Edgar Allan Poe · ar
- The Writing of “Flowering Judas” · Katherine Anne Porter · ar
- The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet · Alice Walker · ar
- Interview with Eudora Welty · Eudora Welty · iv
- From “Beyond the Peacock,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens · Eudora Welty · ar
- "Blackberry Winter": A Recollection · Robert Penn Warren · ar
- Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? · Eudora Welty · ar
- WRITING ABOUT FICTION
- Glossary · [Misc.] · ms
- Biographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg
- Chronological List of Authors and Titles · [Misc.] · ms
- Index of Titles · [Misc.] · ix
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