Fiction 100 : An Anthology of Short Fiction

by Pickering, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780131825871
• ISBN10: 0131825879
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For Introduction to the Short Story, Introduction to Fiction, and Creative Writing: Fiction. A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs. Intended to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, these selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. International in scope, it illustrates the development of short fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 130 traditional and contemporary works organized alphabetically by author.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
A
ALICE ADAMS
Roses, Rhododendron	1	(10)
SHERMAN ALEXIE
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona	11	(9)
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
I Want to Know Why	20	(7)
B
JAMES BALDWIN
Sonny's Blues	27	(23)
TONI CADE BAMBARA
The Lesson	50	(6)
JOHN BARTH
Lost in the Funhouse	56	(17)
DONALD BARTHELME
Cortés and Montezuma	73	(6)
RICK BASS
Antlers	79	(8)
ANN BEATTIE
Janus	87	(4)
SAUL BELLOW
Looking for Mr. Green	91	(15)
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	106	(7)
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The Demon Lover	113	(5)
KAY BOYLE
Astronomer's Wife	118	(5)
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE
The Love of My Life	123	(13)
RAY BRADBURY
August 2002: Night Meeting	136	(6)
C
ALBERT CAMUS
The Guest	142	(10)
RAYMOND CARVER
Call If You Need Me	152	(8)
Cathedral	160	(11)
WILLA CATHER
Paul's Case	171	(15)
JOHN CHEEVER
The Country Husband	186	(19)
ANTON CHEKHOV
The Darling	205	(9)
The Lady with the Dog	214	(12)
KATE CHOPIN
The Storm	226	(5)
The Story of an Hour	231	(3)
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Witness for the Prosecution	234	(15)
SANDRA CISNEROS
The House on Mango Street	249	(2)
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	251	(5)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	256	(32)
GRACE STONE COATES
Wild Plums	288	(5)
LAURIE COLWIN
A Country Wedding	293	(8)
JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness	301	(59)
The Secret Sharer	360	(29)
STEPHEN CRANE
The Blue Hotel	389	(20)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	409	(8)
D
ALICE ELLIOTT DARK
Watch the Animals	417	(9)
STEPHEN DOBYNS
Kansas	426	(5)
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
A Scandal in Bohemia	431	(18)
TOM DRURY
Chemistry	449	(6)
E
RALPH ELLISON
King of the Bingo Game	455	(7)
LOUISE ERDRICH
Mauser	462	(7)
F
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Barn Burning	469	(14)
A Rose for Emily	483	(7)
E SCOTT FITZGERALD
Winter Dreams	490	(16)
RICHARD FORD
Reunion	506	(6)
MARY WILKINS FREEMAN
A New England Nun	512	(9)
CARLOS FUENTES
Aura	521	(22)
GABRIEL GARCIA MÁRQUEZ
A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings	543	(6)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
If I Were a Man	549	(5)
The Yellow Wall-Paper	554	(12)
SUSAN GLASPELL
A Jury of Her Peers	566	(15)
GAIL GODWIN
Dream Children	581	(10)
NIKOLAI GOGOL
The Overcoat	591	(22)
MARY GRIMM
We	613	(7)
H
THOMAS HARDY
The Three Strangers	620	(17)
BRET HARTE
Tennessee's Partner	637	(6)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	643	(13)
Young Goodman Brown	656	(10)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hills Like White Elephants	666	(4)
PAM HOUSTON
How to Talk to a Hunter	670	(5)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Spunk	675	(5)
I
WASHINGTON IRVING
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	680	(23)
Rip Van Winkle	703	(12)
J
SHIRLEY JACKSON
The Lottery	715	(7)
HENRY JAMES
Four Meetings	722	(21)
The Real Thing	743	(18)
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
A White Heron	761	(8)
HA JIN
In the Kindergarten	769	(7)
DOROTHY M. JOHNSON
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	776	(11)
JAMES JOYCE
Araby	787	(5)
The Dead	792	(31)
K
GARRISON KEILLOR
The Tip-Top Club	823	(9)
STEPHEN KING
The Man in the Black Suit	832	(16)
W. P. KINSELLA
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa	848	(10)
BUDYARD KIPLING
They	858	(16)
WILLIAM KITTREDGE
We Are Not in This Together	874	(17)
L
D. H. LAWRENCE
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	891	(12)
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Horse Camp	903	(3)
DORIS LESSING
Wine	906	(4)
M
BERNARD MALAMUD
The Magic Barrel	910	(13)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Her First Ball	923	(5)
Miss Brill	928	(4)
BOBBIE ANN MASON
Three-Wheeler	932	(8)
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
The Necklace	940	(7)
Rust	947	(5)
HERMAN MELVILLE
Bartleby the Scrivener	952	(26)
SUSAN MINOT
Lust	978	(7)
LORRIE MOORE
How	985	(6)
ALICE MUNRO
Meneseteung	991	(15)
A Real Life	1006	(17)
H. H. MUNRO ("SAKI")
Sredni Vashtar	1023	(4)
O
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Four Summers	1027	(13)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	1040	(13)
TIM O'BRIEN
The Things They Carried	1053	(14)
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The Artificial Nigger	1067	(15)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1082	(12)
FRANK O'CONNOR
Guests of the Nation	1094	(9)
TILLIE OLSEN
I Stand Here Ironing	1103	(6)
P
DOROTHY PARKER
Big Blonde	1109	(16)
ROBERT PHILLIPS
Surprise!	1125	(4)
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Cask of Amontillado	1129	(6)
The Fall of the House of Usher	1135	(14)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
The Grave	1149	(5)
ANNIE PROULX
The Half-Skinned Steer	1154	(12)
R
MARY ROBISON
Coach	1166	(11)
S
JO SAPP
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis	1177	(2)
IRWIN SHAW
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses	1179	(7)
LESLIE MARMÖN SILKO
Yellow Woman	1186	(8)
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
Gimpel the Fool	1194	(11)
JUNE SPENCE
Missing Women	1205	(6)
JOHN STEINBECK
The Chrysanthemums	1211	(9)
DANIEL STERN
Brooksmith by Henry James	1220	(7)
T
ELIZABETH TALLENT
No One's a Mystery	1227	(3)
JAMES THURBER
The Catbird Seat	1230	(7)
LEO TOLSTOY
The Death of Ivan Ilych	1237	(40)
JUDY TROY
Ten Miles West of Venus	1277	(4)
IVAN TURGENEV
The Country Doctor	1281	(7)
U
JOHN UPDIKE
A & P	1288	(5)
Separating	1293	(9)
ALICE WALKER
The Hell with Dying	1302	(5)
EUDORA WELTY
Why I Live at the P.O.	1307	(9)
DOROTHY WEST
My Baby	1316	(6)
LIZA WIELAND
The Columbus School for Girls	1322	(9)
JOY WILLIAMS
Taking Care	1331	(8)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
The Use of Force	1339	(3)
ELIZABETH WINTHROP
The Golden Darters	1342	(6)
TOBIAS WOLFF
Powder	1348	(3)
Say Yes	1351	(4)
RICHARD WRIGHT
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	1355	(9)
Z
PATRICIA ZELVER
Love Letters	1364	(9)
Biographical Notes	1373	(44)
A Short Story Handbook	1417	(18)
Chronological Table of
Contents	1435	(9)
Credits	1444

Excerpts

This new tenth edition ofFiction 100is a cause for both celebration and reflection. With its publication,Fiction 100has been in print for thirty years--most of a professional lifetime. That is an honor in and of itself--and for that I have my colleagues and my students to thank. It is gratifying to know that others who enjoy reading and teaching the short story as I do continue to find the book interesting and useful.Fiction 100is not, of course, the book it was in 1974. Neither is its editor. Both of us have grown and changed with the decades, as the world of short fiction has grown and changed. Despite the loss of many of the large-circulation magazines that once provided an outlet for short fiction, the short story as a distinctive literary genre is most certainly alive and well and flourishing. As I discover with each passing revision, the quality of the new short fiction from which I have to choose is extraordinarily high. Some of the new selections in each edition come and go. But a surprisingly large number, I find, have extraordinary staying power, in terms of both their artistry and intellectual impact, reflecting the fact that the canon of short fiction has expanded dramatically over the past three decades, making the task of doing it the justice it deserves more and more of a challenge. It is here that my colleagues have played a much larger or more important role than they can possibly imagine. Your feedback has been both wise and generous. For that I thank you. There are also my students, particularly those I have taught in recent years at the University of Houston. You have graciously--and with good humor--allowed me to inflict my enthusiasms on you in the classroom. Please know it is your likes and dislikes, and your perceptive comments about the stories we have read and studied together, that have helped to shape this new edition ofFiction 100,as they have helped shape editions past. One thing that has not changed significantly over the years, however, is the basic operating principles that underlie the selection process. These can be simply stated. First of all I have insisted that the stories included not only have literary merit but be interesting. This is where my students have played such a decisive role. Four decades of teaching the short story to college students have persuaded me that any story, if it is to "work" in the classroom, must engage the curiosity, imagination, and intelligence of students and provide them with a reading experience they find pleasurable. In addition, I have tried to assemble a collection of stories, international in scope, that represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style, and that, at the same time, serve to illustrate the development of short fiction--its continuity, durability, and tradition--from its identifiable beginnings in the early years of the nineteenth century to the present. To the extent possible, I have also asked that the stories "speak to one another" by way of theme and technique to make possible classroom discussion that turns on comparison and contrast. Roughly a third of the anthology is reserved for older, well-established stories--the so-called classics that are integral to the historical growth and development of the genre. They are offered without apology, for good stories, no matter how often anthologized, are a source of endless pleasure and discovery that no amount of rereading, classroom discussion, or critical analysis can ever exhaust. On the other hand, I have also tried to make certain thatFiction 100presents a broad selection of newer and contemporary stories to suggest the direction in which short fiction is moving as we slip into and through the first decade of the new millennium. The book's editorial apparatus also has not changed. It has been kept to a minimum to makeFiction 100as usable