The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology ed. Ann Charters (Bedford Books, August 1999, 0-312-19176-6, $54.70, xvii+1499pp, tp, an)
- v · Preface · Ann Charters · pr
- 1 · Some Precursors of the American Short Story · Ann Charters · in
- _2 · The Smith-Pocahontas Legend · John Smith · ex from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, Michael Sparkes, 1624
- _5 · The Origin of the Creek Confederacy · Chekilli · ss 1735
- _9 · The Theft of Fire · Roland Dixon · ex from “Shasta Myths”, The Journal of American Folklore #23, 1911
- _10 · Concerning the League · John Arthur Gibson; translated by Hanni Woodbury, Henry Webster & Harry Webster · ex from The Iroquois League Tradition as Dictated in Onondaga, Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, 1992
translated from the Onondaga.
- _11 · The Arrival of the Dutch · John Heckewelder · ss 1765
- _15 · All God’s Chillen Had Wings · John Bennett · ex from “Folk Tales from Old Charleston”, The Yale Review Summer 1943
- _17 · Sunrise in My Pocket · Davy Crockett · ss Ben Hardin’s Crockett Almanac 1842
- _18 · Peter Klaus the Goatherd · J. C. C. Nachtigal; translated by Thomas Roscoe · ss The German Novelists ed. & tr. Thomas Roscoe, H. Colburn, 1826
translated from the German (“Der Ziegenhirt”, Folkssagen, Nacherzhaht von Otmar, Bremen, 1800, as by Otmar).
- · Stories
- 25 · Early Nineteenth Century: 1819-1860 · Ann Charters · si
- 36 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- 50 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · ss New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell
- _58 · Further Account of Peter Rugg · William Austin · ss Tales for Winter Nights, James B. Smith, 1855, as by Jonathan Dunwell
previously published as “Some Further Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New-England” (New England Galaxy 10-Sep-1824 as by Jonathan Dunwell), and “Arrival of Mr. Peter Rugg in Boston” (New England Galaxy 19-Jan-1827 as by J. Dunwell).
- 74 · The Indian Hater · James Hall · ss Western Souvenir for 1829 ed. James Hall, N. and G. Guilford, 1830
- 83 · Cacoethes Scribendi · Catharine Maria Sedgwick · ss The Atlantic Souvenir 1831, 1829
- 95 · The Dance · Augustus Baldwin Longstreet · ss The Southern Recorder 1833
- 104 · The Minister’s Black Veil · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”
- 117 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- 131 · The Big Bear of Arkansas · Thomas Bangs Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841
- 143 · Slavery’s Pleasant Homes · Lydia Maria Child · ss The Liberty Bell 1843
- 149 · The Land-Fever · Caroline Kirkland · ss Western Clearings by Caroline Kirkland, Wiley and Putnam, 1845
- 158 · The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee · William Gilmore Simms · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book February 1840
- 178 · The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The New York Evangelist June 12 1851 (+1)
- 189 · The Angel Over the Right Shoulder · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · ss Warren P. Draper, 1852
- 197 · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- 227 · The Two Offers · Frances E. W. Harper · ss The Anglo-African Magazine 1859
- 236 · Circumstance · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1860, uncredited.
- 246 · Late Nineteenth Century: 1861-1899 · Ann Charters · si
- 256 · Life in the Iron-Mills, or The Korl Woman · Rebecca Harding Davis · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1861, uncredited.
- 285 · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss The Californian December 16 1865
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).
- 291 · The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly August 1868
- 300 · Belles Demoiselles Plantation · George Washington Cable · ss Scribner’s Monthly April 1874
- 314 · Rodman the Keeper · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1877
- 336 · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888
- 347 · The Return of a Private · Hamlin Garland · nv The Arena July 1890
- 361 · The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1890, as by Mary E. Wilkins
- 374 · How Celia Changed Her Mind · Rose Terry Cooke · ss Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills by Rose Terry Cooke, Houghton, Mifflin, 1891
- 391 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- 405 · The Queen’s Twin · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1899
- 420 · The Little Room · Madeline Yale Wynne · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1895
- 431 · Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1)
- 457 · The Wife of His Youth · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1898
- 467 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898
- 476 · Tony’s Wife · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899
- 481 · Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1940 · Ann Charters · si
- 493 · The Trial Path · Zitkala-Sä · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine October 1901
- 497 · The Duplicity of Hargraves · O. Henry · ss The Junior Munsey February 1902
- 509 · A Wagner Matinée · Willa Cather · ss Everybody’s Magazine March 1904
- 515 · The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904
- 532 · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905
- 548 · The Walking Woman · Mary Austin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1907
- 555 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908
- 582 · Its Wavering Image · Sui Sin Far · ss Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far, A. C. McClurg, 1912
- 588 · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- 594 · The Lost Phbe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916
- 607 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- 625 · My Own People · Anzia Yezierska · ss Metropolitan February 1921
- 636 · Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv MacLean’s November 15 1922
- 655 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922
- 669 · Miss Furr and Miss Skeene · Gertrude Stein · ss Vanity Fair (US) July 1923
- 674 · Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923
- 682 · Soldier’s Home · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925
- 688 · He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927
- 698 · You Were Perfectly Fine · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 23 1929
- 702 · Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931
- 718 · A Summer Tragedy · Arna Bontemps · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life June 1933
- 727 · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933
- 738 · Red-Headed Baby · Langston Hughes · ss The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes, Alfred A Knopf, 1934
- 743 · Seventy Thousand Assyrians · William Saroyan · ss Story #21, April 1934
- 752 · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933
- 756 · The Snake · John Steinbeck · ss The Monterey Beacon June 22 1935
- 765 · In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937
- 773 · He Is Thousands · Jack Conroy · ss New Masses May 1932
- 779 · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2732, January 1940, as “Almos’ a Man”
- 789 · Mid-Twentieth Century: 1941-1965 · Ann Charters · si
- 799 · His Own Country · Pearl S. Buck · ss Cosmopolitan October 1935
- 820 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941
- 827 · The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt · Mary McCarthy · nv Partisan Review July/August 1941
- 856 · A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud · Carson McCullers · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1942
- 864 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942
- 872 · Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944
- 889 · We’re the Only Colored People Here · Gwendolyn Brooks · ss The Portfolio Summer 1945
- 892 · Winter Night · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 19 1946
- 902 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947
- 911 · The Petrified Woman · Caroline Gordon · ss Mademoiselle September 1947
- 923 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- 931 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- 938 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review Summer 1957
- 964 · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958
- 978 · Promise of Rain · Peter Taylor · ss Happy Families Are All Alike by Peter Taylor, McDowell, Obolensky, 1959
- 998 · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961
- 1011 · The Sharks · John O’Hara · ss Assembly by John O'Hara, Random House, 1961
- 1019 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961
- 1025 · Where Is the Voice Coming From? · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker July 6 1963
- 1030 · Late Twentieth Century: 1966-Present · Ann Charters · si
- 1040 · In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · nv New American Review #1, September 1967
- 1062 · Title · John Barth · ss The Yale Review Winter 1968
- 1068 · The Police Band · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker August 22 1964
- 1072 · How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · nv TriQuarterly #15, Spring 1969
- 1085 · 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 · Richard Brautigan · ss Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan, Simon & Schuster, 1971
- 1090 · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- 1095 · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”
- 1103 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- 1111 · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- 1120 · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975
- 1130 · Big Bertha Stories · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Mother Jones April 1985
- 1143 · In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983
- 1150 · The Tenant · Bharati Mukherjee · ss The Literary Review 1986
- 1162 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- 1178 · Miss Clairol · Helena María Viramontes · ss Chicana Creativity and Criticism ed. María Herrera-Sobek & Helena María Viramontes, Arte Público Press, 1988
- 1183 · Second Question · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 10 1991
- 1196 · Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990
- 1199 · Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies · John Edgar Wideman · ss The Stories of John Edgar Wideman by John Edgar Wideman, Knopf, 1992
- 1205 · The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore · Sherman Alexie · ss Full Court ed. Dennis Trudell, Breakaway Books, 1996
- 1212 · Tiny, Smiling Daddy · Mary Gaitskill · ss The Threepenny Review #53, Spring 1993
- 1223 · Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens · Lorrie Moore · ss The New York Times 1993
- 1232 · Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? · Gina Berriault · ss Ploughshares Winter 1995/1996
- 1246 · New York Day Women · Edwidge Danticat · ss Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat, Soho Press, 1995
- 1251 · Saul and Patsy Are in Labor · Charles Baxter · ss American Short Fiction 1997
- 1265 · Water Names · Lan Samantha Chang · ss Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang, W.W. Norton, 1998
- 1269 · The Bunchgrass Edge of the World · Annie Proulx · nv The New Yorker November 30 1998
- · Commentaries
- 1290 · Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman · Paula Gunn Allen · ar The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen, Aunt Lute Books, 1983
- 1291 · Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar from A Story Teller’s Story, B.W. Huebsch, 1924
- 1293 · Regionalism in American Fiction · Mary Austin · ar The English Journal February 1932
- 1298 · Autobiographical Notes · James Baldwin · bg from Notes of a Native Son, Beacon Press, 1955
- 1302 · It’s a Short Story · John Barth · ar Mississippi Review Spring 1993
- 1313 · Hemingway’s Short Stories · H. E. Bates · ar from The Modern Short Story, Thomas Nelson, July 1941 [Ref. Ernest Hemingway]
- 1316 · Where Characters Come From · Ann Beattie · ar Mississippi Review Spring 1993
- 1320 · On Jean Toomer and Cane · Arna Bontemps · ar Anger and Beyond ed. Herbert Hill, Harper & Row, 1966 [Ref. Jean Toomer]
- 1326 · Creative Writing 101 · Raymond Carver · ar On Being a Novelist by John Gardner, W.W. Norton, 1993
- 1330 · Miss Jewett · Willa Cather · ar Not Under Forty by Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922 [Ref. Sarah Orne Jewett]
- 1333 · On Certain Brisk, Bright Days · Kate Chopin · ar St. Louis Dispatch November 1899
- 1335 · Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle · Robert Coles · ar That Red Wheelbarrow by Robert Coles, University of Iowa Press, 1988 [Ref. Tillie Olsen]
- 1340 · Crazy for Stories · Richard Ford · ar New York Times Book Review August 9 1992
- 1344 · Local Color in Art · Hamlin Garland · ar Crumbling Idols by Hamlin Garland, Stone and Kimball, 1894
- 1348 · From Preface to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · pr Harper & Row, 1968
- 1352 · A Feminist Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, Yale Univ. Press, 1979 [Ref. Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
- 1354 · Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ex from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Appleton-Century, 1936
- 1356 · The Rise of the “Short Story” · Bret Harte · ar The Cornhill Magazine July 1899
- 1362 · Preface to Twice-Told Tales · Nathaniel Hawthorne · pr Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Stationers, 1837
- 1365 · Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories · William Dean Howells · ar The Atlantic Monthly May 1900 [Ref. Charles W. Chesnutt]
- 1368 · What White Publishers Won’t Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar I Love Myself by Zora Neale Hurston, Feminist Press, 1979
- 1373 · Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 · Washington Irving · lt (r)
- 1375 · The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery” · Shirley Jackson · ar Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson, Viking, 1968, as “Biography of a Story”
- 1378 · Hawthorne · Henry James · ex Macmillan, December 1879 [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- 1382 · Looking Back on Girlhood · Sarah Orne Jewett · ar The Youth’s Companion January 7 1892
- 1385 · How to Write Short Stories · Ring Lardner · ex Scribner’s, 1924
- 1388 · From Short Story Theory at a Crossroads · Susan Lohafer · ar Short Story Theory at a Crossroads ed. Susan Lohafer & Jo Ellyn Clarey, Louisiana State University Press, 1989
- 1394 · Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” · James Russell Lowell · bg Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine February 1845, as “From Our Contributors.—No. XVII. Edgar Allan Poe” [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- 1397 · On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” · Bobbie Ann Mason · is You’ve Got to Read This ed. Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard, HarperPerennial, 1994
- 1398 · The Philosophy of the Short-Story · Brander Matthews · ar Lippincott’s Magazine October 1885
- 1401 · Edgar Allan Poe—Critical Context · Charles E. May · ex from Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Short Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1991 [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- 1407 · Hawthorne and His Mosses · Herman Melville · ex Literary World August 17 1850 (+1), uncredited. [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- 1411 · A Deconstructive Reading of Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” · J. Hillis Miller · ar Versions of Pygmalion by J. Hillis Miller, Harvard University Press, 1990, as “Who Is He? Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”” [Ref. Herman Melville]
- 1416 · Stories of American Life · Mary Russell Mitford · pr Stories of American Life ed. Mary Russell Mitford, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830
- 1417 · Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction · Flannery O’Connor · ar Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
- 1424 · The Lonely Voice · Frank O’Connor · ex World Publishing Co., 1963
- 1430 · A Conversation with Ann Charters · Grace Paley · iv Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974 [Ref. Ann Charters]
- 1435 · The Short Story, Through a Couple of the Ages · Dorothy Parker · ar The New Yorker December 17 1927
- 1438 · Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1842 (+1) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- 1443 · On James Thurber and The New Yorker · Earl Rovit · ar The American Short Story, Volume 2 ed. Calvin Skaggs, Dell, 1980 [Ref. James Thurber]
- 1447 · Writing Stories · William Saroyan · pr The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan, Random House, 1934
- 1449 · On F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Stories · Charles Scribner, III · ar The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989 [Ref. F. Scott Fitzgerald]
- 1452 · Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner” · Floyd Stovall · ar Nineteenth Century Fiction March 1966 [Ref. Henry James]
- 1455 · The Short Story · Ruth Suckow · ar The Saturday Review of Literature November 19 1927
- 1459 · How to Tell a Story · Mark Twain · ar The Youth’s Companion October 3 1895
- 1464 · Twisted Apples: On Winesburg, Ohio · John Updike · ar Harper’s Magazine March 1984 [Ref. Sherwood Anderson]
- 1469 · Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View · Alice Walker · ar In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983 [Ref. Zora Neale Hurston]
- 1471 · The Sense of Place in Faulkner’s “Spotted Horses” · Eudora Welty · ar Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty, Random House, 1974 [Ref. William Faulkner]
- 1473 · Every Subject Must Contain Within Itself Its Own Dimensions · Edith Wharton · ar The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925
- 1475 · Notes on “A Beginning on the Short Story” · William Carlos Williams · ar Selected Essays by William Carlos Williams, Random House, 1954
- 1479 · Selected Annotated Bibliography: The American Short Story and Its Cultural Background · [uncredited] · bi
- 1487 · Appendix: Chronological List of Stories with Their Original Date and Place of Publication · [uncredited] · bi
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