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Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories with Reader's Guide
Fiction 100 An Anthology of Short Stories with Reader's Guide Author:James H. Pickering (Compiler) A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories, the best-selling Fiction 100 ignites readers' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence. This outstanding selection of 130 stories is presented in an attractive format, and is available for an excellent price. These selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, lite... more »rary technique, and style. International in scope, it contains fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 130 traditional and contemporary works. This collection is suitable for any reader who enjoys short works of fiction with literary merit.
His women / Alice Adams --
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson --
The oranging of America / Max Apple --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme --
Antlers / Rick Bass --
Janus / Ann Beattie --
Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow --
An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen --
Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle --
August 2002 : night meeting / Ray Bradbury --
The guest / Albert Camus --
Cathedral ; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver --
The country husband ; The world of apples / John Cheever --
The darling / Anton Chekhov --
Athénaïse : a story of a temperament ; The storm / Kate Chopin --
Witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie --
The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens --
My first kill / Art Coelho --
Heart of darkness ; The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The blue hotel ; The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --
A scandal in Bohemia ; The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle. King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --
Mauser / Louise Erdrich --
Barn burning ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Rock Springs / Richard Ford --
A New England nun / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
Aura / Carols Fuentes --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez --
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
Dream children / Gail Godwin --
The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol --
Home / Nadine Gordimer --
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy --
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
My kinsman, Major Molineux ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
Mr. Stanfield's memo / Robert F. Hever --
How to talk to a hunter / Pam Houston --
Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston --
Trying to save Piggy Sneed / John Irving --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Daisy Miller ; Four meetings ; The real thing / Henry James --
A whiter heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
The man who shot Liberty Valance / Dorothy M. Johnson --
Araby ; The dead ; A little cloud / James Joyce. Sunday in the park / Bel Kaufman --
The Tip-Top Club / Garrison Keillor --
The man in the black suit / Stephen King --
They / Rudyard Kipling --
We are not in this together / William Kittredge --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence --
Horse Camp / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Wine / Doris Lessing --
To build a fire / Jack London --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
Death in Venice / Thomas Mann --
The fly / Katherine Mansfield --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
The necklace ; Rust / Guy De Maupassant --
Bartleby the scrivener ; The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville --
Lust / Susan Minot --
Meneseteung ; A real life ; Wild swans / Alice Munro --
Something special / Iris Murdoch --
Four summers ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Everything that rises must converge ; A god man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olson. A conversation with my father / Grace Paley --
Big blonde / Dorothy Parker --
Surprise! / Robert Phillips --
The cask of Amontillado ; The fall of the House of Usher ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter --
Coach / Mary Robinson --
The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw --
Yellow woman / Leslie Silko --
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Brooksmith by Henry James / Daniel Stern --
No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent --
Young girls' wish / Amy Tan --
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy --
The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev --
A & P ; Playing with dynamite ; Separating / John Updike --
To hell with dying / Alice Walker --
Watching me, watching you / Fay Weldon --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
Wherever that great heart may be / W.D. Wetherell --