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The Norton anthology of short fiction
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
Preface to the third edition
Talking about fiction
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac
Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
The veldt / Ray Bradbury
Now that April's here / Morley Callaghan
Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver
The father / R.V. Cassill
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The enormous radio / John Cheever
The fourth alarm / John Cheever
The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov
A visit to friends / Anton Chekhov
The darling / Anton Chekhov
Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin
The star / Arthur C. Clarke
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
The corset / Evan S. Connell
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
The babysitter / Robert Coover
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen
A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
Barn burning / William Faulkner
The bear / William Faulkner
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The legend of Saint Julian the hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert
The road from Colonus / E.M. Forster
The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Merry Christmas God / Larry French
My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant
The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
Sea treader / William Hoffman
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The Tree of Knowledge / Henry James
The jolly corner / Henry James
Araby / James Joyce
A little cloud / James Joyce
The dead / James Joyce
The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
Haircut / Ring Lardner
The loons / Margaret Laurence
Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing
The liar's craft / Sara McAulay
Gold coast / James Alan McPherson
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville
Patriotism / Yukio Mishima
Royal beatings / Alice Munro
Prue / Alice Munro
Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen
The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley
Emotion recollected in tranquility / Jonathan Penner
Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers
Coach / Mary Robison
The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw
Love and other lessons / Janet Beeler Shaw
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the zoo / Jean Stafford
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Miss Leonora when last seen / Peter Taylor
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
A & P / John Updike
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Powerhouse / Eudora Welty
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The muse's tragedy / Edith Wharton
The use of force / William Carlos Williams
Wasps / Robley Wilson, Jr.
In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff
Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Writing fiction
Glossary of critical terms.
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9780393954739
9780393959345
9780393966633
9780393959345
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