The Norton anthology of short fiction
/ [compiled by] Richard Bausch, R.V. Cassill.
- 7th ed
- New York : W.W. Norton , c2006.
- xxix, 1734 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One of star wars, one of doom / Lee K. Abbott -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Littoral zone / Andrea Barrett -- Me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme -- Byron the lyon / Richard Bausch -- Disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- Witness / Madison Smartt Bell -- Who is it can tell me who I am? / Gina Berriault -- Occurance at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Veldt / Ray Bradbury -- Bread / Frederick Busch -- Year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Student's wife -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Rationing of love / R. V. Cassill -- Wagner matinee -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Enormous radio -- Death of Justina / John Cheever -- Gusev -- Anna on the neck -- Lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov. Story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Notorious jumping frog of Calaveras -- County -- Invalid's story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Coninuity of parks -- Letter to a young lady in Paris / Julio Cortazar -- Open boat -- Blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen -- Public appearances / Susan Dodd -- Intruder / Andre Dubus -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich -- Rose for Emily -- Dry september -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Great Falls / Richard Ford -- New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Wounded soldier / George Garrett -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer -- Ghost and flesh, water and dirt / William Goyen. Nativity, caucasian / Alan Gurganus -- Constan pain in Tuscaloosa -- Young Goodman Brown -- Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- In the cemetery wher Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Wedding of snow and ice / Alice Hoffman -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neal Hurston -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Greville Fane / Henry James -- Passion / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Moving pictures / Charles Johnson -- New man / Edward P. Jones -- Araby -- Little cloud -- Dead / James Joyce -- Metamorphosis -- Hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- White horse / Yasunari Kawabata -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Ex parte / Ring Lardner -- Horse dealer's daughter -- Rocking horse winner / D. H. Lawrence -- Ones who walk away from omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- To room nineteen / Doris Lessing -- Brief lives in California / John L'Heurex -- My father's chinese wives / Sandra Tsin Loh -- Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud -- Death in Venice -- Disroder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Boule de suif -- Adventure in Paris / Guy De Maupassant -- Thistles in Sweden / William Maxwell. Intervention / Jill McCorkle -- Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Royal beatings -- Miles city, Montana / Alice Munro -- Position / Sabina Murray -- Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov -- Several blessing of Wang Ta-nien / Hua-Ling Nieh -- How I contemplates the wrold from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Good man is hard to find -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- O yes / Tillie Olsen -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- Fall of the house of Usher -- Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Fall / V. S. Pritchett -- Morpheus / Agnes Rossi -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth. Girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Intensive care / Lee Smith -- Wisteria / Elizabeth Spencer -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Under the Pitons / Robert Stone -- Marine life / Linda Svendsen -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Spinner's tale / Peter Taylor -- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- A & P 1492 -- Brother grasshopper / John Updike -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Everyday use / Aloce Walker -- Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren -- Why I live at the P.O. 1519 -- Worn path / Eudora Welty -- Man who loved Levittown / W. D. Wetherell -- Xingu / Edith Wharton -- Goose pond / Thomas Williams -- Use of force / William Carlos Williams - In the garden of North Maerican martyrs / Tobias Wolfe -- Kew gardens / Virgina Wolfe -- Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright.