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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by: Bausch,Richard

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by: Bausch,Richard

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9780393926118
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0393926117
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/05/2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

Chronological Table of Contents

xiii

Preface

xvii

Writing about Fiction

xxi

Stories

Lee K. Abbott

One of Star Wars, One of Doom

(16)

Sherwood Anderson

I Want to Know Why

(7)

Margaret Atwood

Death by Landscape

(13)

Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write? 1620

James Baldwin

Sonny's Blues

(23)

Toni Cade Bambara

Gorilla, My Love

(5)

Related: Bambara, What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 1620

Andrea Barrett

The Littoral Zone

(8)

Related: Barrett on Willa Cather's Paul's Case 1680

Donald Barthelme

Me and Miss Mandible

(9)

Richard Bausch

Byron the Lyron

(14)

Related: Bausch on Anton Chekhov's Gusev 1681

Bausch, Letter to a Young Writer 1621

Charles Baxter

The Disappeared

(18)

Related: Baxter on William Maxwell's The Thistles in Sweden 1682

Ann Beattie

Snow

114

(2)

Related: Beattie on Peter Taylor's A Spinster's Tale 1683

Madison Smartt Bell

Witness

116

(12)

Related: Bell on George Garrett's Wounded Soldier 1684

Gina Berriault

Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?

128

(12)

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

140

(7)

Jorge Luis Borges

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

147

(8)

Ray Bradbury

The Veldt

155

(11)

Frederick Busch

Bread

166

(13)

Related: Busch on Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants 1685

Ethan Canin

The Year of Getting to Know Us

179

(13)

Truman Capote

Miriam

192

(9)

Raymond Carver

The Student's Wife

201

(5)

Cathedral

206

(11)

Related: Carver, From On Writing 1624

R. V. Cassill

The Rationing of Love

217

(13)

Willa Cather

A Wagner Matinee

230

(5)

Paul's Case

235

(15)

Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case 1680

John Cheever

The Enormous Radio

250

(8)

The Death of Justina

258

(8)

Anton Chekhov

Gusev

266

(10)

Anna on the Neck

276

(8)

The Lady with the Dog

284

(13)

Related: Richard Baush on Gusev 1681

Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich 1627

Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin 1628

Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour

297

(3)

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

300

(4)

The Invalid's Story

304

(6)

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

310

(61)

Related: Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 1629

Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark 1632

Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness 1692

C. P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness 1704

Julio Cortazar

A Continuity of Parks

371

(1)

Letter to a Young Lady in Paris

372

(7)

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

379

(17)

The Blue Hotel

396

(21)

Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard 1633

Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat 1689

Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] 1714

Edwidge Danticat

A Wall of Fire Rising

417

(12)

Isak Dinesen

Sorrow-Acre

429

(23)

Related: Tobias Wolff on Sorrow-Acre 1716

Susan Dodd

Public Appearances

452

(10)

Related: Dodd on Eudora Welty's A Worn Path 1687

Andre Dubus

The Intruder

462

(9)

Stuart Dybek

We Didn't

471

(9)

Stanley Elkin

I Look Out for Ed Wolfe

480

(19)

Ralph Ellison

King of the Bingo Game

499

(8)

Related: Ellison, An Interview 1633

Louise Erdrich

Matchimanito

507

(13)

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

520

(7)

Dry September

527

(8)

Barn Burning

535

(13)

Related: Faulkner, An Interview 1636

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Babylon Revisited

548

(16)

Richard Ford

Great Falls

564

(12)

Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief 1688

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A New England Nun

576

(9)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

585

(5)

George Garrett

Wounded Soldier

590

(7)

Related: Madison Smartt Bell on Wounded Soldier 1684

Garrett on William Goyen's Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

597

(12)

Nadine Gordimer

A Soldier's Embrace

609

(11)

William Goyen

Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt

620

(7)

Related: George Garrett on Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689

Allan Gurganus

Nativity, Caucasian

627

(7)

Related: Gurganus on Stephen Crane's The Open Boat 1689

Barry Hannah

Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa

634

(5)

Related: Hannah on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 1692

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

639

(9)

The Birthmark

648

(13)

Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702

Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants

661

(5)

Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants 1685

Hemingway, An Interview 1640

Amy Hempel

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

666

(7)

Alice Hoffman

The Wedding of Snow and Ice

673

(9)

Zora Neale Hurston

The Conscience of the Court

682

(11)

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

693

(7)

Henry James

Greville Fane

700

(13)

Related: James, The Art of Fiction 1643

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Passion

713

(13)

Charles Johnson

Moving Pictures

726

(5)

Edward P. Jones

A New Man

731

(10)

Related: Jones on Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation 1693

James Joyce

Araby

741

(4)

A Little Cloud

745

(10)

The Dead

755

(30)

Related: C. C. Loomis, Jr., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' 1694

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

785

(32)

A Hunger Artist

817

(8)

Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor 1686

Kafka, Letter to Max Brod 1645

Yasunari Kawabata

The White Horse

825

(3)

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl

828

(2)

Ring Lardner

Ex Parte

830

(9)

D. H. Lawrence

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

839

(12)

The Rocking-Horse Winner

851

(11)

Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters 1647

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

862

(5)

Doris Lessing

To Room Nineteen

867

(24)

Related: Lessing, An Interview 1648

John L'Heureux

Brief Lives in California

891

(9)

Sandra Tsing Loh

My Father's Chinese Wives

900

(10)

Bernard Malamud

Angel Levine

910

(8)

Thomas Mann

Death in Venice

918

(51)

Disorder and Early Sorrow

969

(23)

Related: David Luke, [Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving''] 1697

Mann, Letter to Paul Amann 1650

Katherine Mansfield

Bliss

992

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Shiloh

1002

(11)

Guy De Maupassant

Boule de Suif

1013

(27)

An Adventure in Paris

1040

(6)

Related: Maupassant, The Novel 1650

William Maxwell

The Thistles in Sweden

1046

(15)

Related: Charles Baxter on The Thistles in Sweden 1682

John Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709

Jill McCorkle

Intervention

1061

(12)

James Alan McPherson

Why I Like Country Music

1073

(12)

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

1085

(27)

Related: Leo Marx, Melville's Parable of the Walls 1699

Bharati Mukherjee

The Management of Grief

1112

(13)

Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief 1688

Mukherjee, A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 1652

Alice Munro

Royal Beatings

1125

(16)

Miles City, Montana

1141

(15)

Related: Munro, What Is Real? 1654

Sabina Murray

Position

1156

(9)

Vladimir Nabokov

Signs and Symbols

1165

(5)

Hua-Ling Nieh

The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien

1170

(6)

Joyce Carol Oates

How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again

1176

(12)

Related: Oates, The Art and Craft of Revision 1657

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

1188

(13)

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

1201

(11)

Good Country People

1212

(14)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

1226

(12)

Related: O'Connor, The Nature and Aim of Fiction 1658

Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708

Frank O'Connor

Guests of the Nation

1238

(9)

Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation 1693

Tillie Olsen

O Yes

1247

(13)

Luigi Pirandello

War

1260

(4)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

1264

(14)

The Purloined Letter

1278

(14)

Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition 1659

Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702

Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe 1715

Katherine Anne Porter

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1292

(6)

Flowering Judas

1298

(10)

Related: Porter, An Interview 1660

V. S. Pritchett

The Fall

1308

(9)

Agnes Rossi

Morpheus

1317

(5)

Philip Roth

The Conversion of the Jews

1322

(11)

Irwin Shaw

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

1333

(7)

Jean Shepherd

Lost at C

1340

(15)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gimpel the Fool

1355

(11)

Lee Smith

Intensive Care

1366

(19)

Related: Smith on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708

Elizabeth Spencer

Wisteria

1385

(4)

John Steinbeck

The Chrysanthemums

1389

(8)

Robert Stone

Under the Pitons

1397

(20)

Linda Svendsen

Marine Life

1417

(6)

Amy Tan

Rules of the Game

1423

(8)

Peter Taylor

A Spinster's Tale

1431

(16)

Related: Ann Beattie on A Spinster's Tale 1683

James Thurber

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1447

(5)

Related: Thurber, An Interview 1663

Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych

1452

(40)

Related: Gary Saul Morson, The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction 1701

Tolstoy, What Is Art? 1665

John Updike

A & P

1492

(5)

Brother Grasshopper

1497

(10)

Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal 1667

Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709

Helena Maria Viramontes

The Moths

1507

(5)

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

1512

(7)

Robert Penn Warren

Blackberry Winter

1519

(16)

Eudora Welty

Why I Live at the P.O.

1535

(9)

A Worn Path

1544

(6)

Related: Susan Dodd on A Worn Path 1687

Welty, An Interview 1668

W. D. Wetherell

The Man Who Loved Levittown

1550

(12)

Edith Wharton

Xingu

1562

(18)

Thomas Williams

Goose Pond

1580

(10)

William Carlos Williams

The Use of Force

1590

(4)

Tobias Wolff

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

1594

(9)

Related: Wolff on Isak Dineson's Sorrow-Acre 1716

Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens

1603

(6)

Richard Wright

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

1609

(10)

Writers on Writing

1619

(51)

Margaret Atwood

Why Do You Write?

1620

(1)

Toni Cade Bambara

What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?

1620

(1)

Richard Bausch

Letter to a Young Writer

1621

(3)

Raymond Carver

From On Writing

1624

(3)

Anton Chekhov

Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886

1627

(1)

Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888

1628

(1)

Joseph Conrad

Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''

1629

(3)

Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918

1632

(1)

Stephen Crane

Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895[?]

1633

(1)

Ralph Ellison

An Interview

1633

(3)

William Faulkner

An Interview

1636

(4)

Ernest Hemingway

An Interview

1640

(3)

Henry James

The Art of Fiction

1643

(2)

Franz Kafka

Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922

1645

(2)

D. H. Lawrence

Why the Novel Matters

1647

(1)

Doris Lessing

An Interview

1648

(2)

Thomas Mann

Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915

1650

(1)

Guy De Maupassant

The Novel

1650

(2)

Bharati Mukherjee

A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman

1652

(2)

Alice Munro

What Is Real?

1654

(3)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Art and Craft of Revision

1657

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

The Nature and Aim of Fiction

1658

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philosophy of Composition

1659

(1)

Katherine Anne Porter

An Interview

1660

(3)

James Thurber

An Interview

1663

(2)

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

1665

(2)

John Updike

Accepting the Howells Medal

1667

(1)

Eudora Welty

An Interview

1668

(2)

Writing Fiction

1670

(10)

Reviews and Commentaries

1680

(38)

Andrea Barrett

Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case''

1680

(1)

Richard Bausch

Anton Chekhov's ``Gusev''

1681

(1)

Charles Baxter

William Maxwell's ``The Thistles in Sweden''

1682

(1)

Ann Beattie

Peter Taylor's ``A Spinster's Tale''

1683

(1)

Madison Smartt Bell

George Garrett's ``Wounded Soldier''

1684

(1)

Frederick Busch

Ernest Hemingway's ``Hills Like White Elephants''

1685

(1)

Stanley Corngold

Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor

1686

(1)

Susan Dodd

Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path''

1687

(1)

Richard Ford

Bharati Mukherjee's ``The Management of Grief''

1688

(1)

George Garrett

William Goyen's ``Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt''

1689

(1)

Allan Gurganus

Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat''

1689

(3)

Barry Hannah

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

1692

(1)

Edward P. Jones

Frank O'Connor's ``Guests of the Nation''

1693

(1)

C. C. Loomis, Jr.

Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead''

1694

(3)

David Luke

[Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving'']

1697

(2)

Leo Marx

Melville's Parable of the Walls

1699

(2)

Gary Saul Morson

The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction

1701

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales

1702

(2)

C. P. Sarvan

Racism and the Heart of Darkness

1704

(4)

Lee Smith

Flannery O'Connor's ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''

1708

(1)

John Updike

Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell]

1709

(5)

Charles C. Walcutt

[Stephen Crane: Naturalist]

1714

(1)

Richard Wilbur

The House of Poe

1715

(1)

Tobias Wolff

Isak Dinesen's ``Sorrow-Acre''

1716

(2)

Glossary of Critical Terms

1718

(7)

Permissions Acknowledgments

1725

(8)

Index of Titles

1733

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