Short Fiction ed. Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty (Prentice Hall, 1999, 0-13-460049-5, 1264pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- · Introduction · Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty · in
- · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975
- · A Bicycle · Iqbal Ahmad · ss (r)
- · I’m Working on My Charm · Dorothy Allison · ss (r)
- · I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919
- · Seeing Mrs. Landers · Thea Astley · ss (r)
- · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)
- · Hairball · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)
- · Gertrude Talks Back · Margaret Atwood · vi (r)
- · The Little Red Hen Tells All · Margaret Atwood · vi (r)
- · Awakening · Isaac Babel · ss (r)
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973
- · My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories · Russell Banks · ss Vanity Fair (US) 1987
- · ‘III’ from Three Simple Stories · Julian Barnes · ss (r)
- · Lost in the Funhouse · John Barth · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1967
- · A City of Churches · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 22 1972
- · The Chosen Vessel · Barbara Baynton · ss The Bulletin December 12 1896, as “The Tramp”
- · What Was Mine · Ann Beattie · ss Esquire November 1989
- · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- · The End of the Duel · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
- · The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979
revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905
- · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964
- · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925
- · Gooseberries · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Death of a Civil Servant · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”
- · Regret · Kate Chopin · ss The Century Magazine May 1895
- · A Respectable Woman · Kate Chopin · ss (r)
- · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).
- · The Other Wife · Colette · ss (r)
- · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)
- · The Magic Poker · Robert Coover · ss Esquire July 1969
- · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898
- · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- · The Lover and the Tell-Tale [Whilomville] · Stephen Crane · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1899
- · The Blue Jar · Isak Dinesen · ss (r)
- · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891
- · The Doctor · Andre Dubus · ss The New Yorker April 26 1969
- · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944
- · Dry September · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1931
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · A Scrap of Time · Ida Fink · ss The New Yorker May 25 1987
- · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931
- · Silence Dogood, No. 1 · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)
- · April Fish · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker February 10 1968
- · Tuesday Siesta · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss (r)
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- · The Life of the Imagination · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker November 9 1968
- · Two Gentle People · Graham Greene · ss May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene, Bodley Head, 1967
- · Argument and Persuasion · Donald Hall · ss (r)
- · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843
- · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- · Looking for a Rain God · Bessie Head · ss (r)
- · A Vermont Tale · Mark Helprin · ss The New Yorker March 3 1980
- · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927
- · Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer”
- · Who’s Passing for Who? · Langston Hughes · ss Laughing to Keep from Crying by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1952
- · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925
- · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- · Search and Destroy · Wayne Karlin · ss (r)
- · The Circling Hand · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The New Yorker November 21 1983
- · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- · Not a Good Girl · Perri Klass · ss Mademoiselle July 1983
- · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925
- · My Vocation · Mary Lavin · ss (r)
- · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926
- · A Place of Safety · Halldór Laxness · ss (r)
- · The Professor’s Houses · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker November 1 1982
- · A Sunrise on the Veld · Doris Lessing · ss African Stories by Doris Lessing, Michael Joseph, 1964
- · Small Causes · Primo Levi · ss (r)
- · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- · Half a Day · Naguib Mahfouz · ss (r)
- · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954
- · A Dill Pickle · Katherine Mansfield · ss The New Age October 4 1917, as “An Album Leaf”
- · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920
- · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- · The Outstation · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International June 1924
- · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966
- · A Father · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Charlie Chan Is Dead ed. Jessica Hagedorn, Viking Penguin, 1993
- · Friend of My Youth · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker January 22 1990
- · Boys and Girls · Alice Munro · ss (r)
- · The Passenger · Vladimir Nabokov · ss (r)
- · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- · Shopping · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ms. March 1987
- · The Creature · Edna O’Brien · ss (r)
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931
- · Do You Like It Here? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 18 1939
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- · War · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r)
- · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846
- · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849
- · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935
- · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930
- · The Valiant Woman · J. F. Powers · ss Accent Spring 1947
- · The Diver · V. S. Pritchett · ss Nova December 1970
- · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958
- · I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 · John Sayles · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1975
- · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.
- · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- · Souvenir · John Tavela · ss (r)
- · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942
- · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- · The Tryst · Ivan Turgenev · ss (r)
- · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- · The Verb to Kill · Luisa Valenzuela · ss (r)
- · The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985
- · Roselily · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973
- · To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r)
- · The Welcome Table · Alice Walker · ss (r)
- · Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · nv Cummington Press, 1946
- · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939
- · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941
- · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934
- · Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981
- · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933
- · Smokers · Tobias Wolff · ss (r)
- · Kew Gardens · Virginia Woolf · ss May 12 1919
- · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- · Writers on Writing
- · From an Interview by Graeme Gibson · Margaret Atwood · iv (r)
- · Interview by Joyce Carol Oates · Margaret Atwood · iv (r)
- · From Survival · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)
- · “Witches,” from Second Words · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)
- · Three Excerpts from His Letters · Anton Chekhov · lt (r)
- · On Stephen Crane and “The Blue Hotel” · Alfred Kazin · ar (r) [Ref. Stephen Crane]
- · Crane on His Life · Stephen Crane · ar (r)
- · Crane’s Letter to John Hilliard · Stephen Crane · lt (r)
- · Stephen Crane’s Own Story · Stephen Crane · ar (r)
- · Let Me Tell a Story Now… · Bessie Head · ar (r)
- · Biography of a Story · Shirley Jackson · ar (r)
- · To a Young Reader · Primo Levi · ar (r)
- · A Letter to Richard Murray · Katherine Mansfield · lt (r)
- · On Her Own Work · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- · The Brief Prose Tale · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r)
- · The Writing of “Flowering Judas” · Katherine Anne Porter · ar (r)
- · The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet · Alice Walker · ar (r)
- · Interview with Eudora Welty · Eudora Welty · iv (r)
- · From “Beyond the Peacock,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens · Eudora Welty · ar (r)
- · “Blackberry Winter”: A Recollection · Robert Penn Warren · ar (r)
- · Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? · Eudora Welty · ar Critical Inquiry September 1974
- · Writing About Fiction
- · Glossary · [uncredited] · ms
- · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg
- · Chronological List of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ms
- · Index of Titles · [uncredited] · ix
|