The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by Cassill, R. V.

• ISBN13: 9780393966633
• ISBN10: 0393966631
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Chronological Table of Contents	xi
Preface	xvii
Preface to the Fifth Edition	xix
Talking about Fiction	xxiii
Character and Setting	xxiii
Action, Plot, and Complication	xxv
Point of View	xxvi
Indirection	xxix
The Part and The Whole	xxxi
Coherence	xxxiii
I Want to Know Why	1	(9)
Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape	10	(15)
Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues	25	(27)
James Baldwin
Gorilla, My Love	52	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
Me and Miss Mandible	58	(10)
Donald Barthelme
Janus	68	(5)
Ann Beattie
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	73	(9)
Ambrose Bierce
Identity	82	(9)
Clark Blaise
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	91	(9)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Veldt	100	(13)
Ray Bradbury
Bigfoot Stole My Wife	113	(3)
Ron Carlson
I Am Bigfoot	116	(3)
Cathedral	119	(12)
Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From	131	(13)
The Father	144	(20)
R. V. Cassill
Paul's Case	164	(18)
Willa Cather
The Enormous Radio	182	(9)
John Cheever
The Five-Forty-Eight	191	(12)
The Lady with the Dog	203	(14)
Anton Chekhov
The Darling	217	(11)
The Story of an Hour	228	(3)
Kate Chopin
The Motor Car	231	(16)
Austin C. Clarke
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	247	(6)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Heart of Darkness	253	(71)
Joseph Conrad
The Babysitter	324	(22)
Robert Coover
A Continuity of Parks	346	(2)
Julio Cortazar
The Open Boat	348	(20)
Stephen Crane
The Blue Hotel	368	(24)
Horizontal Snow	392	(9)
Rick DeMarinis
Sorrow-Acre	401	(27)
Isak Dinesen
The Lost Phoebe	428	(13)
Theodore Dreiser
King of the Bingo Game	441	(9)
Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito	450	(15)
Louise Erdrich
A Rose for Emily	465	(8)
William Faulkner
Barn Burning	473	(15)
The Bear	488	(85)
To Byzantium	573	(12)
Andrew Fetler
Dreams	585	(18)
Timothy Findley
Babylon Revisited	603	(18)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Colonel	621	(2)
Carolyn Forche
Great Falls	623	(14)
Richard Ford
The Road from Colonus	637	(10)
E. M. Forster
A New England Nun	647	(11)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
My Heart Is Broken	658	(7)
Mavis Gallant
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	665	(6)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Evening Performance	671	(8)
George Garrett
The Yellow Wallpaper	679	(15)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Soldier's Embrace	694	(13)
Nadine Gordimer
Testimony of Pilot	707	(21)
Barry Hannah
Wedding Night	728	(2)
Tom Hawkins
Young Goodman Brown	730	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birthmark	741	(14)
Hills Like White Elephants	755	(5)
Ernest Hemingway
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried	760	(8)
Amy Hempel
Brilliant Silence	768	(2)
Spencer Holst
The Conscience of the Court	770	(12)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Lottery	782	(8)
Shirley Jackson
The Tree of Knowledge	790	(13)
Henry James
Araby	803	(5)
James Joyce
A Little Cloud	808	(11)
The Dead	819	(35)
The Metamorphosis	854	(38)
Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist	892	(8)
Girl	900	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Man Who Would Be King	902	(28)
Rudyard Kipling
The Loons	930	(9)
Margaret Laurence
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	939	(14)
D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner	953	(14)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	967	(6)
Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen	973	(28)
Doris Lessing
The Fifth Story	1001	(3)
Clarice Lispector
Gold Coast	1004	(19)
James Alan McPherson
Angel Levine	1023	(9)
Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice	1032	(54)
Thomas Mann
Bliss	1086	(11)
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden-Party	1097	(13)
Shiloh	1110	(13)
Bobbie Ann Mason
The Necklace	1123	(8)
Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1131	(31)
Herman Melville
Patriotism	1162	(21)
Yukio Mishima
The Management of Grief	1183	(14)
Bharati Mukherjee
Royal Beatings	1197	(18)
Alice Munro
Prue	1215	(5)
Signs and Symbols	1220	(6)
Vladimir Nabokov
Lucielia Louise Turner	1226	(13)
Gloria Naylor
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again	1239	(14)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried	1253	(15)
Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1268	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge	1281	(13)
Parker's Back	1294	(17)
Guests of the Nation	1311	(10)
Frank O'Connor
My Oedipus Complex	1321	(10)
Tell Me a Riddle	1331	(32)
Tillie Olsen
The Used-Boy Raisers	1363	(6)
Grace Paley
War	1369	(4)
Luigi Pirandello
The Fall of the House of Usher	1373	(16)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter	1389	(16)
Theft	1405	(6)
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas	1411	(11)
The Conversion of the Jews	1422	(13)
Philip Roth
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis	1435	(3)
Jo Sapp
Gimpel the Fool	1438	(12)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the Zoo	1450	(18)
Jean Stafford
The Chrysanthemums	1468	(10)
John Steinbeck
Rules of the Game	1478	(10)
Amy Tan
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	1488	(5)
James Thurber
The Death of Ivan Ilych	1493	(47)
Leo Tolstoy
A & P	1540	(7)
John Updike
Reunion	1547	(11)
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Everyday Use	1558	(8)
Alice Walker
Voke-Tech	1566	(11)
Theodore Weesner
Why I Live at the P.O.	1577	(10)
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path	1587	(8)
The Use of Force	1595	(4)
William Carlos Williams
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs	1599	(10)
Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens	1609	(6)
Virginia Woolf
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	1615	(38)
Richard Wright
Writing about Fiction	1627	(11)
Reviewing a Story	1628	(2)
Critical Concentration	1630	(4)
The Hand-to-Hand Engagement	1634	(4)
Writing Fiction	1638	(14)
Imitation and Comparison	1639	(4)
Story-Generating Models	1643	(2)
Models for Revision	1645	(7)
Writers on Writing	1652	(1)
Why Do You Write?	1653	(1)
Margaret Atwood
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?	1653	(1)
Toni Cade Bambara
On Writing	1654	(4)
Raymond Carver
What Happened	1658	(5)
John Cheever
Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov	1661	(2)
A Familiar Preface	1663	(6)
Joseph Conrad
An Interview with Ralph Ellison	1666	(3)
Who's Who---and Why	1669	(5)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Interview with Ernest Hemingway	1671	(3)
The Art of Fiction	1674	(3)
Henry James
Why the Novel Matters	1677	(4)
D. H. Lawrence
An Interview with Doris Lessing	1678	(3)
The Novel	1681	(2)
Guy de Maupassant
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman	1683	(2)
Bharati Mukherjee
What Is Read?	1685	(4)
Alice Munro
The Nature and Aim of Fiction	1689	(1)
Flannery O'Connor
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales	1690	(8)
Edgar Allan Poe
An Interview with Katherine Anne Porter	1693	(3)
An Interview with James Thurber	1696	(2)
What is Art?	1698	(5)
Leo Tolstoy
An Interview with Eudora Welty	1700	(3)
Glossary of Critical Terms	1703	(14)
Index of Titles	1717