Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by R. V. Cassill

• ISBN13: 9780393954739
• ISBN10: 0393954730
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-02-01
• Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated

Table of Contents

Chronological Table of Contents	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Preface to the Sixth Edition	p. xix
Talking about Fiction	p. xxiii
Character and Setting	p. xxiii
Action, Plot, and Complication	p. xxiv
Point of View	p. xxvi
Indirection	p. xxviii
The Part and the Whole	p. xxx
Coherence	p. xxxi
General Questions	p. xxxiv
I Want to Know Why	p. 1
Death by Landscape	p. 8
Sonny's Blues	p. 21
Gorilla, My Love	p. 45
The Littoral Zone	p. 50
Me and Miss Mandible	p. 58
The Disappeared	p. 67
Snow	p. 86
Witness	p. 88
Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?	p. 101
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	p. 113
Silver Water	p. 121
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	p. 128
The Veldt	p. 136
Pagan Night	p. 147
The Gentleman from San Francisco	p. 156
Gina Berriault on "the Gentleman from San Francisco"	p. 172
Bread	p. 173
Cathedral	p. 186
The Rationing of Love	p. 197
Paul's Case	p. 211
Andrea Barrett on "Paul's Case"	p. 226
The Enormous Radio	p. 228
The Lady with the Dog	p. 237
Gusev	p. 249
Richard Bausch on "Gusev"	p. 259
The Story of an Hour	p. 261
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	p. 264
Heart of Darkness	p. 269
Barry Hannah on "Heart of Darkness"	p. 331
The Babysitter	p. 334
A Continuity of Parks	p. 354
The Open Boat	p. 356
Allan Gurganus on "the Open Boat"	p. 374
The Blue Hotel	p. 376
Open Winter	p. 397
Sorrow-Acre	p. 414
Tobias Wolf on "Sorrowacre"	p. 436
Public Appearances	p. 438
The Intruder	p. 449
We Didn't	p. 459
King of the Bingo Game	p. 468
Matchimanito	p. 476
Barn Burning	p. 490
The Bear	p. 503
Dreams	p. 582
Babylon Revisited	p. 597
Great Falls	p. 613
The Road from Colonus	p. 625
A New England Nun	p. 634
Bernadette	p. 643
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	p. 661
Wounded Soldier	p. 666
Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded Soldier"	p. 672
The Yellow Wallpaper	p. 675
A Soldier's Embrace	p. 688
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt	p. 699
George Garrett on "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt"	p. 705
Nativity, Caucasian	p. 707
Testimony of Pilot	p. 714
Wedding Night	p. 733
Young Goodman Brown	p. 735
The Birthmark	p. 745
Hills Like White Elephants	p. 757
Frederick Busch on "Hills Like White Elephants"	p. 761
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried	p. 763
The Conscience of the Court	p. 770
The Lottery	p. 781
Greville Fane	p. 788
Passion	p. 801
Moving Pictures	p. 814
A New Man	p. 818
The Pugilist at Rest	p. 827
Araby	p. 841
A Little Cloud	p. 845
The Dead	p. 855
The Metamorphosis	p. 885
A Hunger Artist	p. 918
Girl	p. 925
The Man Who Would Be King	p. 927
Jewel of the Moon	p. 952
My Life as a Mollusk	p. 962
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	p. 976
The Coggios	p. 989
Gravity	p. 992
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	p. 996
To Room Nineteen	p. 1001
Brief Lives in California	p. 1025
My Father's Chinese Wives	p. 1034
The Chevigny Man	p. 1044
Angel Levine	p. 1056
Death in Venice	p. 1065
Bliss	p. 1113
Shiloh	p. 1123
Boule de Suif	p. 1134
The Thistles in Sweden	p. 1162
Charles Baxter on "the Thistles in Sweden"	p. 1177
Bartleby, the Scrivener	p. 1178
The Management of Grief	p. 1206
Richard Ford on "the Management of Grief"	p. 1218
Royal Beatings	p. 1220
Prue	p. 1236
Signs and Symbols	p. 1240
The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien	p. 1245
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again	p. 1251
The Things They Carried	p. 1263
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	p. 1277
Lee Smith on "a Good Man is Hard to Find"	p. 1289
Everything That Rises Must Converge	p. 1290
Guests of the Nation	p. 1301
Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the Nation"	p. 1310
Tell Me a Riddle	p. 1312
War	p. 1340
The Fall of the House of Usher	p. 1344
The Purloined Letter	p. 1358
Flowering Judas	p. 1372
The Fall	p. 1382
The Conversion of the Jews	p. 1391
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis	p. 1403
The Eighty-Yard Run	p. 1405
Gimpel the Fool	p. 1416
Intensive Care	p. 1427
In the Zoo	p. 1446
R. V. Cassill on "in the Zoo"	p. 1461
The Chrysanthemums	p. 1462
Rules of the Game	p. 1471
A Spinster's Tale	p. 1480
Ann Beattie on "a Spinster's Tale"	p. 1496
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	p. 1498
The Death of Ivan Ilych	p. 1503
A and P	p. 1544
The Moths	p. 1550
Everyday Use	p. 1555
Blackberry Winter	p. 1562
Why I Live at the P.O.	p. 1578
A Worn Path	p. 1587
Susan Dodd on "a Worn Path"	p. 1593
The Man Who Loved Levittown	p. 1595
The Use of Force	p. 1607
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs	p. 1611
Kew Gardens	p. 1620
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	p. 1626
Writing Papers about Fiction	p. 1637
When You Write about Fiction	p. 1644
Writing Fiction	p. 1653
Writers on Writing	p. 1665
Why Do You Write?	p. 1666
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?	p. 1666
On Writing	p. 1667
What Happened	p. 1671
Selected Letters	p. 1673
A Familiar Preface	p. 1675
An Interview	p. 1678
Becoming a Writer	p. 1680
The Art of Fiction	p. 1696
Why the Novel Matters	p. 1699
The Novel	p. 1702
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman	p. 1704
What Is Real?	p. 1706
The Nature and Aim of Fiction	p. 1709
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales	p. 1710
What Is Art?	p. 1717
Glossary of Critical Terms	p. 1722
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 1731
Index of Titles	p. 1737
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