Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories

by Pickering, James H

• ISBN13: 9780137550920
• ISBN10: 0137550928
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: PEARSON

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
His Women	1	(8)
Alice Adams
I Want to Know Why	9	(7)
Sherwood Anderson
The Oranging of America	16	(11)
Max Apple
Sonny's Blues	27	(23)
James Baldwin
The Lesson	50	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
Cortes and Montezuma	56	(7)
Donald Barthelme
Antlers	63	(8)
Rick Bass
Janus	71	(4)
Ann Beattie
Looking for Mr. Green	75	(15)
Saul Bellow
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	90	(7)
Ambrose Bierce
The Demon Lover	97	(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