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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (Shorter Fifth Edition)
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction - Shorter Fifth Edition Author:R. V. Cassill (Editor) A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure and unencumbered by excessive editorial commentary. — Character and setting. story from In our time / Ernest Hemingway Action, plot,... more » and complication. Revenge / Giraldis Cambrensis Point of view. from Everyday use / Alice Walker ; from Everything rises much converge / Flannery O'Connor ; from A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Indirection. Important things / Barbara L. Greenberg The part and the whole. Traveling through the dark / William Stafford Coherence. story from God's country and my people / Wright Morris I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara Janus / Ann Beattie An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce Bigfoot stole my wife ; I am bigfoot / Ron Carlson Cathedral ; Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The enormous radio / John Cheever The lady with the pet dog ; The darling / Anton Chekhov The story of an hour / Kate Chopin Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad The open boat / Stephen Crane King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily ; The bear / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman A soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway Brilliant silence / Spencer Holst The lottery / Shirley Jackson The tree of knowledge / Henry James Araby ; The dead / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The loons / Margaret Laurence The horse dealer's daughter ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence To room nineteen / Doris Lessing Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Royal beatings / Alice Munro 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 ; Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter Gimpel the fool / Issac Bashevis Singer The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Rules of the game / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Reunion / Guy Vanderhaeghe Everyday use / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty The use of force / William Carlos Williams Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara On writing / Raymond Carver What happened / John Cheever A familiar premise / Joseph Conrad Who's who and why / F. Scott Fitzgerald The art of fiction / Henry James The novel / Guy de Maupassant What is real? / Alice Munro The nature and aim of fiction / Flannery O'Connor review of Hawthorne's Twice told tales / Edgar Allan Poe What is art? / Leo Tolstoy« less