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description: Chronological table of contentsPrefaceWriting about fictionStoriesI want to know why / Sherwood AndersonDeath by LandscapeRelated: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret AtwoodSonny's blues / James BaldwinGorilla, my loveRelated: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade BambaraSnow / Ann BeattieOccurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose BiercePierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis BorgesMiriam /Truman CapoteCathedralRelated: Carver, From on writing / Raymond CarverPaul's caseRelated: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa CatherEnormous radio / John CheeverLady with the dogRelated: Chekhov, Letter to DV GrigorovichLetter to A S Suvorin / Anton ChekhovStory of an hour / Kate ChopinHeart of darknessRelated: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark -- Barry Hannah on heart of darkness -- C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open boat -- Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard -- Allan Gurganus on the open boat -- Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane -- Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- Intruder / Andre Dubus -- King of the bingo game -- Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison -- Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich -- Barn burning -- Rose for Emily -- Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald -- Great falls -- Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's -- Management of grief / Richard Ford -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown -- Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants -- Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants -- Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston -- Araby -- Dead -- Related: C C Loomis, Jr., structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James JoyceMetamorphosisHunger artistRelated: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphorKafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz KafkaWhite horse / Yasunari KawabataGirl / Jamaica KincaidHorse dealer's daughterRocking horse winnerRelated: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH LawrenceOnes who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le GuinAngel Levine / Bernard MalamudDisorder and early sorrowRelated: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas MannBliss / Katherine MansfieldShiloh / Bobbie Ann MasonAdventure in ParisRelated: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De MaupassantWhy I like country music / James Alan McphersonBartleby, the ScrivenerRelated: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman MelvilleManagement of griefRelated: Richard Ford on the Management of griefMukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati MukherjeeRoyal beatingsRelated: Munro, What is real? / Alice MunroSigns and symbols / Vladimir NabokovHow I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over againRelated: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol OatesThings they carried / Tim O'BrienGood man is hard to findEverything that rises must convergeRelated: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fictionLee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'ConnorGuests of the nationRelated: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'ConnorO yes / Tillie OlsenFall of the house of usherRelated: Poe, the Philosophy of compositionPoe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told talesRichard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan PoeJilting of Granny WeatherallRelated: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne PorterConversion of the Jews / Philip RothGimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis SingerChrysanthemums / John SteinbeckRules of the game / Amy TanSecret life of Walter MittyRelated: Thurber, an interview / James ThurberDeath of Ivan IlychRelated: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fictionTolstoy, What is art? / Leo TolstoyA &amp; PRelated: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John UpdikeMoths / Helena Maria ViramontesEveryday use / Alice WalkerBlackberry winter / Robert Penn WarrenWorn pathRelated: Susan Dodd on a Worn pathWelty, an interview / Eudora WeltyUse of force / William Carlos WilliamsIn the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias WolffKew gardens / Virginia WoolfMan who was almost a man / Richard WrightWriters On WritingWhy do you write? / Margaret AtwoodWhat is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade BambaraLetter to a young writer / Richard Bauschfrom On writing / Raymond CarverLetter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton ChekhovPreface to the Nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark, May 14, 1918 / Joseph Conrad -- Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895 / Stephen Crane -- Interview / Ralph Ellison -- Interview / William Faulkner -- Interview / Ernest Hemingway -- Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 / Franz Kafka -- Why the novel matters / D H Lawrence -- Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 / Thomas Mann -- Novel / Guy De Maupassant -- Four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee -- What is real /Alice Munro -- Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates -- Nature and aim of fiction / Flannery O'Connor -- Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Interview / Katherine Anne Porter -- Interview / James Thurber -- What is art? / Leo Tolstoy -- Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike -- Interview / Eudora Welty -- Writing Fiction -- Reviews And Commentaries -- Willa Cather's Paul's case'' / Andrea BarrettErnest Hemingway's Hills like white, elephants'' / Frederick Busch -- Kafka's the Metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold -- Eudora Welty's A worn path'' / Susan DoddBharati Mukherjee's The management of grief'' / Richard Ford -- Stephen Crane's The open boat / Allan GurganusJoseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Barry HannahFrank O'Connor's Guests of the nation'' / Edward P Jones -- Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / C C Loomis, JrMelville's Parable of the walls / Leo MarxReader as voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul MorsonReview of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Edgar Allan PoeRacism and the heart of darkness / C P SarvanFlannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find'' / Lee Smith[Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Charles C WalcuttFrom the house of Poe / Richard WilburGlossary of critical termsPermissions acknowledgmentsIndex of titles
language: English
title: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition
titlecomplete: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition
genres: Fiction, Writing, Reference, Short Stories, Anthologies, School, Literature, Classics, Teaching
ratings_count: 165
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company