The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Subtitle: Shorter Seventh Edition
By: Richard Bausch, R.V. Cassill.
Contributors: Bausch, Richard, 1945-; Cassill, R. V. 1919-
Edition: Shorter 7th ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 931
ISBN-13: 9780393926125
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Short stories.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chronological table of contents; title: Preface; title: Writing about fiction; title: Stories; title: I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson; title: Death by Landscape; title: Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: Gorilla, my love; title: Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Snow / Ann Beattie; title: Occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges; title: Miriam /Truman Capote; title: Cathedral; title: Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver; title: Paul's case; title: Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: Enormous radio / John Cheever; title: Lady with the dog; title: Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich; title: Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov; title: Story of an hour / Kate Chopin; title: Heart of darkness; title: Related: 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 Joyce; title: Metamorphosis; title: Hunger artist; title: Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor; title: Kafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz Kafka; title: White horse / Yasunari Kawabata; title: Girl / Jamaica Kincaid; title: Horse dealer's daughter; title: Rocking horse winner; title: Related: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH Lawrence; title: Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le Guin; title: Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud; title: Disorder and early sorrow; title: Related: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas Mann; title: Bliss / Katherine Mansfield; title: Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Adventure in Paris; title: Related: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De Maupassant; title: Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson; title: Bartleby, the Scrivener; title: Related: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman Melville; title: Management of grief; title: Related: Richard Ford on the Management of grief; title: Mukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Royal beatings; title: Related: Munro, What is real? / Alice Munro; title: Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov; title: How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again; title: Related: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Things they carried / Tim O'Brien; title: Good man is hard to find; title: Everything that rises must converge; title: Related: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fiction; title: Lee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: Guests of the nation; title: Related: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor; title: O yes / Tillie Olsen; title: Fall of the house of usher; title: Related: Poe, the Philosophy of composition; title: Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales; title: Richard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Jilting of Granny Weatherall; title: Related: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne Porter; title: Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth; title: Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck; title: Rules of the game / Amy Tan; title: Secret life of Walter Mitty; title: Related: Thurber, an interview / James Thurber; title: Death of Ivan Ilych; title: Related: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction; title: Tolstoy, What is art? / Leo Tolstoy; title: A & P; title: Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike; title: Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes; title: Everyday use / Alice Walker; title: Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren; title: Worn path; title: Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn path; title: Welty, an interview / Eudora Welty; title: Use of force / William Carlos Williams; title: In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff; title: Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf; title: Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright; title: Writers On Writing; title: Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood; title: What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch; title: from On writing / Raymond Carver; title: Letter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886; title: Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov; title: Preface 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 Barrett; title: Ernest 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 Dodd; title: Bharati Mukherjee's The management of grief'' / Richard Ford -- Stephen Crane's The open boat / Allan Gurganus; title: Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Barry Hannah; title: Frank O'Connor's Guests of the nation'' / Edward P Jones -- Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / C C Loomis, Jr; title: Melville's Parable of the walls / Leo Marx; title: Reader as voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul Morson; title: Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Racism and the heart of darkness / C P Sarvan; title: Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find'' / Lee Smith; title: [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Charles C Walcutt; title: From the house of Poe / Richard Wilbur; title: Glossary of critical terms; title: Permissions acknowledgments; title: Index of titles