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Edition: 7th
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Copyright: 01/17/2006
Publisher: W W NORTON
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Summary

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

vii

Preface

Writing about Fiction

Stories

Sherwood Anderson

I Want to Know Why

(7)

Margaret Atwood

Death by Landscape

(13)

Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write?

836

James Baldwin

Sonny's Blues

(23)

Toni Cade Bambara

Gorilla, My Love

(5)

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

836

Ann Beattie

Snow

(2)

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

(7)

Jorge Luis Borges

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

(8)

Truman Capote

Miriam

(9)

Raymond Carver

Cathedral

(11)

Related: Carver, From On Writing

840

Willa Cather

Paul's Case

(15)

Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case

892

John Cheever

The Enormous Radio

101

(9)

Anton Chekhov

The Lady with the Dog

110

(13)

Related: Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich

843

(1)

Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin

844

Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour

123

(3)

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

126

(61)

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

845

(3)

Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark

848

(51)

Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness

899

(10)

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

909

Julio Cortazar

A Continuity of Parks

187

(2)

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

189

(18)

Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard

849

(48)

Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat

897

(18)

Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist]

915

Edwidge Danticat

A Wall of Fire Rising

207

(12)

Andre Dubus

The Intruder

219

(9)

Ralph Ellison

King of the Bingo Game

228

(8)

Related: Ellison, An Interview

849

Louise Erdrich

Matchimanito

236

(13)

William Faulkner

Barn Burning

249

(13)

A Rose for Emily

262

(7)

Related: Faulkner, An Interview

852

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Babylon Revisited

269

(16)

Richard Ford

Great Falls

285

(12)

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

896

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

297

(5)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

302

(12)

Nadine Gordimer

A Soldier's Embrace

314

(11)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

325

(10)

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

907

Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants

335

(5)

Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants

893

Hemingway, An Interview

856

Zora Neale Hurston

The Conscience of the Court

340

(11)

James Joyce

Araby

351

(4)

The Dead

355

(31)

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

901

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

386

(32)

A Hunger Artist

418

(8)

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

894

Kafka, Letter to Max Brod

859

Yasunari Kawabata

The White Horse

426

(3)

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl

429

(2)

D. H. Lawrence

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

431

(12)

The Rocking Horse Winner

443

(11)

Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters

860

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

454

(5)

Bernard Malamud

Angel Levine

459

(8)

Thomas Mann

Disorder and Early Sorrow

467

(23)

Related: Mann, Letter to Paul Amann

862

Katherine Mansfield

Bliss

490

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Shiloh

500

(11)

Guy De Maupassant

An Adventure in Paris

511

(6)

Related: Maupassant, The Novel

862

James Alan Mcpherson

Why I Like Country Music

517

(12)

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

529

(27)

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

905

Bharati Mukherjee

The Management of Grief

556

(13)

Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief

896

Mukherjee, A Fout-Hundred-Year-Old Woman

864

Alice Munro

Royal Beatings

569

(17)

Related: Munro, What Is Real?

866

Vladimir Nabokov

Signs and Symbols

586

(5)

Joyce Carol Oates

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

591

(12)

Related: Oatesx, The Art and Craft of Revision

869

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

603

(13)

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

616

(11)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

627

(12)

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

870

(44)

Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find

914

Frank O'Connor

Guests of the Nation

639

(9)

Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation

900

Tillie Olsen

O Yes

648

(13)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

661

(14)

Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition

871

(36)

Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales

907

(9)

Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe

916

Katherine Anne Porter

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

675

(7)

Related: Porter, An Interview

872

Philip Roth

The Conversion of the Jews

682

(11)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gimpel the Fool

693

(11)

John Steinbeck

The Chrysanthemums

704

(8)

Amy Tan

Rules of the Game

712

(8)

James Thurber

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

720

(5)

Related: Thurber, An Interview

875

Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych

725

(40)

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

907

Tolstoy, What Is Art?

876

John Updike

A & P

765

(6)

Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal

879

Helena Maria Viramontes

The Moths

771

(5)

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

776

(7)

Robert Penn Warren

Blackberry Winter

783

(16)

Eudora Welty

A Worn Path

799

(7)

Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn Path

895

Welty, An Interview

880

William Carlos Williams

The Use of Force

806

(4)

Tobias Wolff

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

810

(9)

Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens

819

(6)

Richard Wright

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

825

(10)

Writers on Writing

835

(47)

Margaret Atwood

Why Do You Write?

836

(1)

Toni Cade Bambara

What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?

836

(1)

Richard Bausch

Letter to a Young Writer

837

(3)

Raymond Carver

From On Writing

840

(3)

Anton Chekhov

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

843

(2)

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

844

(1)

Joseph Conrad

Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''

845

(3)

Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918

848

(1)

Stephen Crane

Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895 [?]

849

(1)

Ralph Ellison

An Interview

849

(3)

William Faulkner

An Interview

852

(4)

Ernest Hemingway

An Interview

856

(3)

Franz Kafka

Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922

859

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Why the Novel Matters

860

(2)

Thomas Mann

Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915

862

(1)

Guy De Maupassant

The Novel

862

(2)

Bharati Mukherjee

A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman

864

(2)

Alice Munro

What Is Real?

866

(3)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Art and Craft of Revision

869

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

The Nature and Aim of Fiction

870

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philosophy of Composition

871

(1)

Katherine Anne Porter

An Interview

872

(3)

James Thurber

An Interview

875

(1)

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

876

(3)

John Updike

Accepting the Howells Medal

879

(1)

Eudora Welty

An Interview

880

(2)

Writing Fiction

882

(10)

Reviews and Commentaries

892

(26)

Andrea Barrett

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

892

(1)

Frederick Busch

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

893

(1)

Stanley Corngold

Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor

894

(1)

Susan Dodd

Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path''

895

(1)

Richard Ford

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

896

(1)

Allan Gurganus

Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat''

897

(2)

Barry Hannah

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

899

(1)

Edward P. Jones

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

900

(1)

C. C. Loomis, Jr.

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

901

(4)

Leo Marx

Melville's Parable of the Walls

905

(2)

Gary Saul Morson

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

907

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales

907

(2)

C. P. Sarvan

Racism and the Heart of Darkness

909

(5)

Lee Smith

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

914

(1)

Charles C. Walcutt

[Stephen Crane: Naturalist]

915

(1)

Richard Wilbur

From The House of Poe

916

(2)

Glossary of Critical Terms

918

(7)

Permissions Acknowledgments

925

(6)

Index of Titles

931

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