The Harper Anthology of Fiction ed. Sylvan Barnet (HarperCollins, 1991, 0-673-39634-7, $61.00, 1300pp, tp, an)
- · I. Getting Started
- · 1. Reading and Responding · [uncredited] · ms
- · 2. Plot, Character, Theme · [uncredited] · ms
- · 3. Narrative Point of View · [uncredited] · ms
- · 4. Allegory and Symbolism · [uncredited] · ms
- · II. An Anthology of Fiction
- · My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”
- · The Maypole of Merry Mount · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”
- · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846
- · The Short Prose Narrative · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r)
- · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, 1877
translated from the French (“Un coeur simple”, Trois contes, G. Charpentier, 1877).
- · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- · The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).
- · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- · Daisy Miller · Henry James · na The Cornhill Magazine June 1878 (+1)
- · A Letter about Daisy Miller · Henry James · ar (r)
- · The House of Fiction · Henry James · ar (r)
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · Miss Tempy’s Watchers · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1888
- · Hautot and His Son · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
- · The Awakening · Kate Chopin · n. Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899
- · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969
- · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)
- · The Lady with the Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · Letters on Fiction · Anton Chekhov · ar (r)
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898
- · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905
- · The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial March 1920, as “The Triumph of the Egg”
- · I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919
- · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- · Old Man and Old Woman · Chewing Blackbones · ss (r)
- · Medicine · Lu Xun · ss (r)
- · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · Clay · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · Solid Objects · Virginia Woolf · ss The Athenaeum October 22 1920
- · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921
- · Lappin and Lapinova · Virginia Woolf · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2722, April 1939
- · Modern Fiction · Virginia Woolf · ar (r)
- · Han’s Crime · Shiga Naoya · ss (r)
- · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- · A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss (r)
- · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922
- · The Blind Man · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review July 1920
- · 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
- · He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927
- · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929
- · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930
- · Especially “Flowering Judas” · Katherine Anne Porter · ar (r)
- · You Were Perfectly Fine · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 23 1929
- · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939
- · I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931
- · Comments on “A Rose for Emily” · William Faulkner · ar (r)
- · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927
- · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941
- · The Lottery in Babylon · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“La lotería en Babilonia”, Sur, January 1941).
- · The Intruder · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“La intrusa”, El Aleph (3rd edition), 1966).
- · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The New Yorker October 23 1971
translated from the Spanish (“El evangelio según Marcos”, La Nación, August 1970).
- · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931
- · The Importance of Theme · Frank O’Connor · ar (r)
- · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)
- · On Saying Versus Showing · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar (r)
- · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- · Livvie · Eudora Welty · ss (r)
- · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941
- · Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? · Eudora Welty · ar Critical Inquiry September 1974
- · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947
- · The Fourth Alarm · John Cheever · ss Esquire April 1970
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944
- · Battle Royal · Ralph Ellison · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1947
- · My Life with the Wave · Octavio Paz · ss (r)
- · A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · August 2004: There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950, as “There Will Come Soft Rains”
- · Yoneko’s Earthquake · Hisaye Yamamoto · ss Furioso Winter 1951
- · Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970
- · A Man Told Me the Story of His Life · Grace Paley · ss (r)
- · The Aquatic Uncle · Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver · ss Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, tr. William Weaver, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968
translated from the Italian (“Lo zio acquatico”, Le Cosmicomiche, Einaudi, 1965).
- · About Cosmicomics · Italo Calvino · ar (r)
- · The Train from Rhodesia · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)
- · The Brother · Robert Coover · ss (r)
- · The Man, The Snake, and the Stone: An Islamic Fable · Idries Shah · ss (r)
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964
- · A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- · Gift of Grass · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker November 8 1969
- · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- · Death Constant Beyond Love · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1973
- · The Shawl · Cynthia Ozick · ss The New Yorker May 26 1980
- · What Literature Means · Cynthia Ozick · ar (r)
- · The Fifty-Dollar Bill · Donald Hall · ss (r)
- · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- · A Note on “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r)
- · Sunday in the Park · Bel Kaufman · ss (r)
- · Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- · Lost in the Funhouse · John Barth · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1967
- · The Spirit of Place · John Barth · ar (r)
- · The Balloon · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 16 1966
- · In the Great War · Fay Weldon · ss (r)
- · Boys and Girls · Alice Munro · ss (r)
- · How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss (r)
- · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- · Traveler · Ellen Gilchrist · ss (r)
- · Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r)
- · Popular Mechanics · Raymond Carver · ss (r)
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · Errand · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker June 1 1987
- · Talking About Stories · Raymond Carver · ar (r)
- · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- · My Man Bovanne · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Black World October 1971, as “Mama Hazel Takes to Her Bed”
- · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)
- · The Man from Mars · Margaret Atwood · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1977
- · Style and Sexuality · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)
- · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- · Heroes and Ordinary People · Bobbie Ann Mason · ar (r)
- · The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981
- · The Stolen Party · Liliana Heker · ss (r)
- · El Tonto del Barrio · José Armas · ss (r)
- · To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r)
- · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- · Remembering Mr. Sweet · Alice Walker · ar (r)
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- · The Burning House · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 11 1979
- · Storyteller · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss (r)
- · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- · Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981
- · Today Will Be a Quiet Day · Amy Hempel · ss The Missouri Review 1985
- · Two Kinds · Amy Tan · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1989
- · Territory · David Leavitt · ss The New Yorker May 31 1982
- · Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986
- · The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985
- · Appendix A: A Very Short History of Short Fiction · [uncredited] · ms
- · Appendix B: Writing About Fiction · [uncredited] · ms
- · Appendix C: A Glossary of Critical Terms · [uncredited] · ms
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