The best American short stories of the century
By: John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.
Contributors: Updike, John.; Kenison, Katrina.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 775
Subjects: Short stories, American.; American fiction -- 20th century.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Table of contents: title: Zelig -- Benjamin Rosenblatt; title: Little selves -- Mary Lerner; title: Jury of her peers -- Susan Glaspell; title: Other woman -- Sherwood Anderson; title: Golden honeymoon -- Ring Lardner; title: Blood-burning moon -- Jean Toomer; title: Killers -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Resurrection of a life -- William Saroyan; title: Christmas gift -- Robert Penn Warren; title: Bright and morning star -- Richard Wright; title: Hitch-hikers -- Eudora Welty; title: Peach stone -- Paul Horgan; title: "That in Aleppo once..." -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: Interior castle -- Jean Stafford; title: Miami-New York -- Martha Gellhorn; title: Second tree from the corner -- E.B. White; title: Farmer's children -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Death of a favorite -- J.F. Powers; title: Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin -- Tennessee Williams; title: Country husband -- John Cheever; title: Greenleaf -- Flannery O'Connor; title: Ledge -- Lawrence Sargent Hall; title: Defender of the faith -- Philip Roth; title: Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers -- Stanley Elkin; title: German refugee -- Bernard Malamud; title: Where are you going, where have you been? -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Rotifer -- Mary Ladd Gavell; title: Gold Coast -- James Alan McPherson; title: Key -- Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Cty of churches -- Donald Barthelme; title: How to win -- Rosellen speaks / -- Harold Brodkey; title: Silver dish -- Saul Bellow; title: Gesturing -- John Updike; title: Shawl -- Cynthia Ozick; title: Where I'm calling from -- Raymond Carver; title: Janus -- Ann Beattie; title: Way we live now -- Susan Sontag; title: Things they carried -- Tim O'Brien; title: Meneseteung -- Alice Munro; title: You're ugly, too -- Lorrie Moore; title: I want to live ! -- Thom Jones; title: In the gloaming -- Alice Elliott Dark; title: Proper library -- Carolyn Ferrell; title: Birthmates -- Gish Jen; title: Soon -- Pam Durban; title: Half-skinned steer -- Annie Proulx.