Fiction 100 : An Anthology of Short Stories with Reader's Guide

by James H. Pickering

Edition:

8th

ISBN13:

9780137550920

ISBN10:

0137550928

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/1/1997

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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Fiction 100 supplies a broad, representative selection of good short fiction in a convenient, useful, and uncluttered format. Contains 125 short stories illustrating the history and development of the short story in America and in Europe. Includes 18 New Stories -- by Alice Adams, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, Sandra Cisneros, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert F. Hever, John Irving, Henry James, Stephen King, Guy de Maupassant, Alice Munro, Robert Phillips, Daniel Stern, Amy Tan, John Updike, Liza Welland, and Joy Williams.

Preface

His Women

(8)

Alice Adams

I Want to Know Why

(7)

Sherwood Anderson

The Oranging of America

(11)

Max Apple

Sonny's Blues

(23)

James Baldwin

The Lesson

(6)

Toni Cade Bambara

Cortes and Montezuma

(7)

Donald Barthelme

Antlers

(8)

Rick Bass

Janus

(4)

Ann Beattie

Looking for Mr. Green

(15)

Saul Bellow

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

(7)

Ambrose Bierce

The Demon Lover

(5)

Elizabeth Bowen

Astronomer's Wife

102

(5)

Kay Boyle

August 2002: Night Meeting

107

(6)

Ray Bradbury

The Guest

113

(10)

Albert Camus

Cathedral

123

(11)

Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

134

(9)

The Country Husband

143

(19)

John Cheever

The World of Apples

162

(10)

The Darling

172

(9)

Anton Chekhov

Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament

181

(23)

Kate Chopin

The Storm

204

(4)

Witness for the Prosecution

208

(15)

Agatha Christie

The House on Mango Street

223

(2)

Sandra Cisneros

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

225

(5)

Samuel L. Clemens

My First Kill

230

(5)

Art Coelho

Heart of Darkness

235

(59)

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer

294

(29)

The Blue Hotel

323

(20)

Stephen Crane

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

343

(8)

A Scandal in Bohemia

351

(18)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

369

(18)

King of the Bingo Game

387

(7)

Ralph Ellison

Mauser

394

(7)

Louise Erdrich

Barn Burning

401

(13)

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

414

(7)

Winter Dreams

421

(16)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rock Springs

437

(15)

Richard Ford

A New England Nun

452

(9)

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Aura

461

(22)

Carlos Fuentes

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

483

(5)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Yellow Wall-Paper

488

(12)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Jury of Her Peers

500

(15)

Susan Glaspell

Dream Children

515

(10)

Gail Godwin

The Overcoat

525

(22)

Nikolai Gogol

Home

547

(10)

Nadine Gordimer

The Three Strangers

557

(17)

Thomas Hardy

Tennessee's Partner

574

(7)

Bret Harte

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

581

(13)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

594

(10)

Hills Like White Elephants

604

(4)

Ernest Hemingway

Mr. Stanfield's Memo

608

(4)

Robert F. Hever

How to Talk to a Hunter

612

(5)

Pam Houston

Spunk

617

(5)

Zora Neale Hurston

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

622

(9)

John Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

631

(24)

Washington Irving

The Lottery

655

(7)

Shirley Jackson

Daisy Miller

662

(43)

Henry James

Four Meetings

705

(21)

The Real Thing

726

(18)

A White Heron

744

(8)

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

752

(11)

Dorothy M. Johnson

Araby

763

(5)

James Joyce

The Dead

768

(31)

A Little Cloud

799

(10)

Sunday in the Park

809

(3)

Bel Kaufman

The Tip-Top Club

812

(9)

Garrison Keillor

The Man in the Black Suit

821

(16)

Stephen King

They

837

(16)

Rudyard Kipling

We Are Not in This Together

853

(17)

William Kittredge

Haircut

870

(8)

Ring Lardner

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

878

(12)

D. H. Lawrence

Horse Camp

890

(3)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Wine

893

Doris Lessing

To Build a Fire

877

(31)

Jack London

The Magic Barrel

908

(12)

Bernard Malamud

Death in Venice

920

(48)

Thomas Mann

The Fly

968

(5)

Katherine Mansfield

Shiloh

973

(11)

Bobbie Ann Mason

The Necklace

984

(7)

Guy De Maupassant

Rust

991

(5)

Bartleby the Scrivener

996

(27)

Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man

1023

(6)

Lust

1029

(7)

Susan Minot

Meneseteung

1036

(15)

Alice Munro

A Real Life

1051

(17)

Wild Swans

1068

(8)

Something Special

1076

(13)

Iris Murdoch

Four Summers

1089

(13)

Joyce Carol Oates

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

1102

(13)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

1115

(11)

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

1126

(12)

Guests of the Nation

1138

(9)

Frank O'Connor

I Stand Here Ironing

1147

(6)

Tillie Olson

A Conversation with My Father

1153

(5)

Grace Paley

Big Blonde

1158

(16)

Dorothy Parker

Surprise!

1174

(4)

Robert Phillips

The Cask of Amontillado

1178

(6)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

1184

(14)

The Purloined Letter

1198

(14)

The Grave

1212

(5)

Katherine Anne Porter

Coach

1217

(11)

Mary Robinson

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

1228

(7)

Irwin Shaw

Yellow Woman

1235

(8)

Leslie Silko

Gimpel the Fool

1243

(10)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Chrysanthemums

1253

(8)

John Steinbeck

Brooksmith

1261

(7)

Henry James

Daniel Stern

No One's A Mystery

1268

(3)

Elizabeth Tallent

Young Girl's Wish

1271

(13)

Amy Tan

The Death of Ivan Ilych

1284

(40)

Leo Tolstoy

The Country Doctor

1324

(7)

Ivan Turgenev

A & P

1331

(5)

John Updike

Playing with Dynamite

1336

(6)

Separating

1342

(9)

To Hell with Dying

1351

(5)

Alice Walker

Watching Me, Watching You

1356

(10)

Fay Weldon

Why I Live at the P. O.

1366

(9)

Eudora Welty

Wherever That Great Heart May Be

1375

(13)

W. D. Wetherell

The Columbus School for Girls

1388

(10)

Liza Wieland

Taking Care

1398

(8)

Joy Williams

The Golden Darters

1406

(6)

Elizabeth Winthrop

Say Yes

1412

(4)

Tobias Wolff

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

1416

(9)

Richard Wright

Love Letters

1425

(9)

Patricia Zelver

Biographical Notes

1434

(42)

A Short Story Handbook

1476

(19)

Chronological Table of Contents

1495

(8)

Credits

1503

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