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- Classic Irish Short Stories ed. Frank O’Connor (Oxford University Press 0-192-81918-6, Mar ’90, $12.95, 335pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Great Cat Tales ed. Lesley O’Mara (Carroll & Graf 0-786-70765-8, Jun 2000, $12.95, 256pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Pop Goes the Story! Canadian Fiction Anthology ed. Rob Payne (Quarry Press 1550822330, Jan ’99, $12.95, 256pp, tp); Contents list from Yahoo Books.
- Short Stories by Present Day Authors ed. Raymond Woodbury Pence (Macmillan, 1927, 431pp, hc)
- Windward Crossings: A Treasury of Original Waterfowling Tales ed. Chuck Petrie (Willow Creek Press 1-572-23191-2, Nov ’98, $35.00, 144pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (9th edition) ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall College Div. 0-130-14328-6, Jun 2000, $49.00, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Preface • James H. Pickering • pr
- • His Women • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker May 15 ’95
- • I Want to Know Why • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Smart Set Nov ’19
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • The Lesson • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • Cortes and Montezuma • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • Antlers • Rick Bass • ss
- • Janus • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker May 27 ’85
- • Looking for Mr. Green • Saul Bellow • ss
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • The Demon Lover • Elizabeth Bowen • ss The Listener, 1941
- • Astronomer’s Wife • Kay Boyle • ss
- • August 2002: Night Meeting • Ray Bradbury • ss The Martian Chronicles, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950
- • The Guest • Albert Camus • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’57
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • I Could See the Smallest Things • Raymond Carver • ss
- • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love • Raymond Carver • ss
- • The Country Husband • John Cheever • nv New Yorker Nov 20 ’54
- • The Darling • Anton Chekhov • ss, 1925
- • The Lady with the Dog • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • Appetites • Kathryn Chetkovich • ss Zyzzyva, 1997
- • Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament • Kate Chopin • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug, 1896 (+1)
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • The Story of an Hour • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
- • The Witness for the Prosecution [“Traitor’s Hands”] • Agatha Christie • nv Flynn’s Jan 31 ’25
- • The House on Mango Street • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Samuel L. Clemens • ss, 1867
- • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • Samuel L. Clemens • na Harper’s Monthly Dec, 1899
- • My First Kill • Art Coelho • ss
- • A Country Wedding • Laurie Colwin • ss New Yorker Jan 23 ’84
- • Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad • ss
- • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • Youth • Joseph Conrad • nv Blackwood’s Sep, 1898
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • ss The Strand Jul, 1891
- • King of the Bingo Game • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • Mauser • Louise Erdrich • ss New Yorker Apr 8 ’91
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • Winter Dreams • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec ’22
- • Rock Springs • Richard Ford • ss Esquire Feb ’82
- • A New England Nun • Mary Wilkins Freeman • ss, 1891
- • Aura [1962] • Carlos Fuentes • nv, 1965
- • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss New American Review
- • If I Were a Man • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss Physical Culture Jul ’14
- • The Yellow Wall-Paper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • Dream Children • Gail Godwin • ss
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol • nv, 1842
- • Home • Nadine Gordimer • ss New Yorker Apr 25 ’88
- • We • Mary Grimm • ss New Yorker Oct 17 ’88
- • The Three Strangers • Thomas Hardy • nv Longman’s Mar, 1883
- • Tennessee’s Partner • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Oct, 1869
- • My Kinsman, Major Molineux • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Token, 1832
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • Hills Like White Elephants • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • How to Talk to a Hunter • Pam Houston • ss
- • Spunk • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed • John Irving • ss
- • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • Four Meetings • Henry James • ss Scribner’s Nov, 1877
- • The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance • Dorothy M. Johnson • ss
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • The Dead • James Joyce • ss
- • Sunday in the Park • Bel Kaufman • ss
- • The Tip-Top Club • Garrison Keillor • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’81
- • What Did We Do Wrong? • Garrison Keillor • ss New Yorker Sep 16 ’85
- • The Man in the Black Suit • Stephen King • ss New Yorker Oct 31 ’94
- • Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa • W. P. Kinsella • ss
- • “They” • Rudyard Kipling • nv Scribner’s Aug ’04
- • We Are Not in This Together • William Kittredge • ss
- • Haircut • Ring Lardner • ss Liberty Magazine Mar 28 ’25
- • The Horse Dealer’s Daughter • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review, 1923
- • Horse Camp • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Aug 25 ’86
- • Wine • Doris Lessing • ss
- • The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
- • Death in Venice • Thomas Mann • ss
- • Her First Ball • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Sphere Nov 28 ’21
- • Miss Brill • Katherine Mansfield • ss, 1922
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Rust • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • The Lightning-Rod Man • Herman Melville • ss Putnam’s Monthly Aug, 1856
- • Lust • Susan Minot • ss The Paris Review, 1984
- • Meneseteung • Alice Munro • nv New Yorker, 1988
- • A Real Life • Alice Munro • ss New Yorker Feb 10 ’92
- • Four Summers • Joyce Carol Oates • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • 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
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Big Blonde • Dorothy Parker • ss The Bookman Feb ’29
- • Surprise! • Robert Phillips • ss
- • The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] • 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
- • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
- • The Grave • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Coach • Mary Robison • ss
- • Nadine at 35: A Synopsis • Jo Sapp • ss
- • The Girls in Their Summer Dresses • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss, 1974
- • Gimpel the Fool • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • Brooksmith by Henry James • Daniel Stern • ss
- • A Little Burst • Elizabeth Strout • ss New Yorker Jun 1 ’98
- • No One’s a Mystery • Elizabeth Tallent • ss Harper’s Aug ’85
- • Young Girl’s Wish • Amy Tan • ss New Yorker Oct 2 ’95
- • The Death of Ivan Ilych • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Ten Miles West of Venus • Judy Troy • ss New Yorker Jun 27 ’94
- • The Country Doctor • Ivan Turgenev • ss
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • Here Come the Maples • John Updike • ss
- • Separating • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 23 ’75
- • To Hell with Dying • Alice Walker • ss
- • Why I Live at the P.O. • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’41
- • Wherever That Great Heart May Be • W. D. Wetherell • ss
- • The Columbus School for Girls • Liza Wieland • ss
- • Taking Care • Joy Williams • ss
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • The Golden Darters • Elizabeth Winthrop • ss
- • Nightingale • Tobias Wolff • ss New Yorker Jan 6 ’97
- • Say Yes • Tobias Wolff • ss
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • Love Letters • Patricia Zelver • ss
- • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- • A Short Story Handbook • Misc. Material • ms
- • Chronological Table of Contents • Misc. Material • ms
- Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall 0-02-395555-4, 1993, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- • Preface • James H. Pickering • pr
- • I. Reading and Studying the Short Story
- • Plot
- • My Kinsman, Major Molineux • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Token, 1832
- • Character
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Setting
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • Point of View
- • Dream Children • Gail Godwin • ss
- • Theme
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • Symbol and Allegory
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • Style and Tone
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • II. Stones
- • Roses, Rhododendron • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker Jan 27 ’75
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Cortes and Montezuma • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • Janus • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker May 27 ’85
- • The Garden of Forking Paths • Jorge Luis Borges • ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1962
- • Astronomer’s Wife • Kay Boyle • ss
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • The Country Husband • John Cheever • nv New Yorker Nov 20 ’54
- • The Darling • Anton Chekhov • ss, 1925
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • The Witness for the Prosecution [“Traitor’s Hands”] • Agatha Christie • nv Flynn’s Jan 31 ’25
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Samuel L. Clemens • ss, 1867
- • Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad • ss
- • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • ss The Strand Jul, 1891
- • King of the Bingo Game • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • Mauser • Louise Erdrich • ss New Yorker Apr 8 ’91
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • The Yellow Wall-Paper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol • nv, 1842
- • Hills Like White Elephants • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • Spunk • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Four Meetings • Henry James • ss Scribner’s Nov, 1877
- • The Dead • James Joyce • ss
- • The Tip-Top Club • Garrison Keillor • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’81
- • We Are Not in This Together • William Kittredge • ss
- • The Horse Dealer’s Daughter • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review, 1923
- • Horse Camp • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Aug 25 ’86
- • Wine • Doris Lessing • ss
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • Thanks for the Ride • Alice Munro • ss
- • Four Summers • Joyce Carol Oates • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • The Artificial Nigger • Flannery O’Connor • ss
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] • 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
- • The Grave • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss, 1974
- • The Death of Ivan Ilych • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Nineteen Fifty-Five • Alice Walker • ss
- • Why I Live at the P.O. • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’41
- • Wherever That Great Heart May Be • W. D. Wetherell • ss
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • Love Letters • Patricia Zelver • ss
- • III. Writing About the Short Story
- • Reading Critically. Reading and Writing. Quotation and Documentation • Misc. Material • ms
- • IV. Short Story Handbook • Misc. Material • ms
- • V. Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- • VI. Chronological Table of Contents • Misc. Material • ms
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