Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction

by Pickering, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780130143280
• ISBN10: 0130143286
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Also new to this edition is the addition of an Online study resource—The COMPANION WEBSITE™ www.prenhall.com/pickering This site is a comprehensive resource that is organized alphabetically by the author's last name and features a variety of learning and teaching modules:

• Reference Modules contain Web Destinations and Net Search options that provide the opportunity to expand upon information presented in the text.
• Study Guide Modules contain a variety of exercises and features designed to help students with self-study. These modules include:
• —Essay questions
• —Multiple choices
• —A built-in e-mail routing option that gives students the ability to forward essay responses and graded quizzes to their instructors
• Communication Modules that include tools such as Live Chat and Message Board to facilitate online collaboration and communication
• A "Living timeline" for literature that gives students' perspectives on historical, political, and cultural information.

The COMPANION WEBSITE™ makes integrating the Internet into your course exciting and easy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
His Women	1	(8)
Alice Adams
I Want to Know Why	9	(7)
Sherwood Anderson
Sonny's Blues	16	(23)
James Baldwin
The Lesson	39	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
Cortes and Montezuma	45	(7)
Donald Barthelme
Antlers	52	(8)
Rick Bass
Janus	60	(5)
Ann Beattie
Looking for Mr. Green	65	(15)
Saul Bellow
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	80	(7)
Ambrose Bierce
The Demon Lover	87	(5)
Elizabeth Bowen
Astronomer's Wife	92	(5)
Kay Boyle
August 2002: Night Meeting	97	(6)
Ray Bradbury
The Guest	103	(10)
Albert Camus
Cathedral	113	(11)
Raymond Carver
I Could See the Smallest Things	124	(3)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	127	(9)
The Country Husband	136	(19)
John Cheever
The Darling	155	(9)
Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog	164	(12)
Appetites	176	(8)
Kathryn Chetkovich
Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament	184	(23)
Kate Chopin
The Storm	207	(5)
The Story of an Hour	212	(3)
Witness for the Prosecution	215	(15)
Agatha Christie
The House on Mango Street	230	(2)
Sandra Cisneros
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	232	(5)
Samuel L. Clemens
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	237	(33)
My First Kill	270	(5)
Art Coelho
A Country Wedding	275	(8)
Laurie Colwin
Heart of Darkness	283	(59)
Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer	342	(29)
Youth	371	(24)
The Blue Hotel	395	(20)
Stephen Crane
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	415	(8)
A Scandal in Bohemia	423	(18)
Arthur Conan Doyle
King of the Bingo Game	441	(7)
Ralph Ellison
Mauser	448	(7)
Louise Erdrich
Barn Burning	455	(14)
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily	469	(8)
Winter Dreams	477	(16)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rock Springs	493	(16)
Richard Ford
A New England Nun	509	(9)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Aura	518	(22)
Carlos Fuentes
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	540	(6)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If I Were a Man	546	(5)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wall-Paper	551	(13)
A Jury of Her Peers	564	(15)
Susan Glaspell
Dream Children	579	(10)
Gail Godwin
The Overcoat	589	(22)
Nikolai Gogol
Home	611	(10)
Nadine Gordimer
We	621	(8)
Mary Grimm
The Three Strangers	629	(17)
Thomas Hardy
Tennessee's Partner	646	(7)
Bret Harte
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	653	(14)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown	667	(11)
Hills Like White Elephants	678	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
How to Talk to a Hunter	682	(5)
Pam Houston
Spunk	687	(5)
Zora Neale Hurston
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed	692	(9)
John Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	701	(24)
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle	725	(12)
The Lottery	737	(7)
Shirley Jackson
Four Meetings	744	(21)
Henry James
The Real Thing	765	(18)
A White Heron	783	(8)
Sarah Orne Jewett
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	791	(11)
Dorothy M. Johnson
Araby	802	(5)
James Joyce
The Dead	807	(31)
Sunday in the Park	838	(3)
Bel Kaufman
The Tip-Top Club	841	(9)
Garrison Keillor
What Did We Do Wrong?	850	(7)
The Man in the Black Suit	857	(16)
Stephen King
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa	873	(10)
W. P. Kinsella
They	883	(16)
Rudyard Kipling
We Are Not in This Together	899	(17)
William Kittredge
Haircut	916	(8)
Ring Lardner
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	924	(12)
D. H. Lawrence
Horse Camp	936	(4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Wine	940	(4)
Doris Lessing
The Magic Barrel	944	(13)
Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice	957	(48)
Thomas Mann
Her First Ball	1005	(5)
Katherine Mansfield
Miss Brill	1010	(4)
Shiloh	1014	(11)
Bobbie Ann Mason
The Necklace	1025	(7)
Guy de Maupassant
Rust	1032	(5)
Bartleby the Scrivener	1037	(27)
Herman Melville
The Lightning-Rod Man	1064	(6)
Lust	1070	(7)
Susan Minot
Meneseteung	1077	(15)
Alice Munro
A Real Life	1092	(17)
Four Summers	1109	(13)
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	1122	(13)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1135	(12)
Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the Nation	1147	(9)
Frank O'Connor
I Stand Here Ironing	1156	(6)
Tillie Olson
Big Blonde	1162	(16)
Dorothy Parker
Surprise!	1178	(4)
Robert Phillips
The Cask of Amontillado	1182	(6)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher	1188	(15)
The Purloined Letter	1203	(14)
The Grave	1217	(5)
Katherine Anne Porter
Coach	1222	(11)
Mary Robison
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis	1233	(2)
Jo Sapp
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses	1235	(7)
Irwin Shaw
Yellow Woman	1242	(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Gimpel the Fool	1250	(10)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Chrysanthemums	1260	(8)
John Steinbeck
Brooksmith by Henry James	1268	(7)
Daniel Stern
A Little Burst	1275	(9)
Elizabeth Strout
No One's A Mystery	1284	(3)
Elizabeth Tallent
Young Girl's Wish	1287	(13)
Amy Tan
The Death of Ivan Ilych	1300	(40)
Leo Tolstoy
Ten Miles West of Venus	1340	(4)
Judy Troy
The Country Doctor	1344	(7)
Ivan Turgenev
A & P	1351	(5)
John Updike
Here Come the Maples	1356	(9)
Separating	1365	(9)
To Hell with Dying	1374	(5)
Alice Walker
Why I Live at the P.O.	1379	(10)
Eudora Welty
Wherever That Great Heart May Be	1389	(13)
W. D. Wetherell
The Columbus School for Girls	1402	(10)
Liza Wieland
Taking Care	1412	(8)
Joy Williams
The Use of Force	1420	(3)
William Carlos Williams
The Golden Darters	1423	(6)
Elizabeth Winthrop
Nightingale	1429	(6)
Tobias Wolff
Say Yes	1435	(4)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	1439	(9)
Richard Wright
Love Letters	1448	(9)
Patricia Zelver
Biographical Notes	1457	(40)
A Short Story Handbook	1497	(20)
Chronological Table of Contents	1517	(10)
Credits	1527