The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by CASSILL R. V.

• ISBN13: 9780393975093
• ISBN10: 0393975096
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure and unencumbered by excessive editorial commentary. This new Sixth Shorter Edition continues to abide by R.V. Cassill's initial plan: "to put together a very large group of stories that would, in detail and overall design, express both the living tradition of short fiction and the culture of which it is a part."

Table of Contents

Chronological Table of Contents	ix
Preface	xiii
Preface to the Sixth Edition	xv
Talking about Fiction	xix
Character and Setting	xix
Action, Plot, and Complication	xx
Point of View	xxii
Indirection	xxiv
The Part and the Whole	xxvi
Coherence	xxvii
General Questions	xxx
I Want to Know Why	1	(8)
Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape	9	(13)
Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues	22	(24)
James Baldwin
Snow	46	(2)
Ann Beattie
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	48	(8)
Ambrose Bierce
Cathedral	56	(11)
Raymond Carver
Paul's Case	67	(17)
Willa Cather
Andrea Barrett on ``Paul's Case''	82	(2)
The Enormous Radio	84	(9)
John Cheever
The Lady with the Dog	93	(13)
Anton Chekhov
The Story of an Hour	106	(3)
Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness	109	(65)
Joseph Conrad
Barry Hannah on ``Heart of Darkness''	171	(3)
A Continuity of Parks	174	(2)
Julio Cortazar
The Open Boat	176	(22)
Stephen Crane
Allan Gurganus on ``The Open Boat''	195	(3)
The Intruder	198	(10)
Andre Dubus
King of the Bingo Game	208	(8)
Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito	216	(14)
Louise Erdrich
Barn Burning	230	(92)
William Faulkner
The Bear	243	(79)
Babylon Revisited	322	(16)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Falls	338	(12)
Richard Ford
Wounded Soldier	350	(9)
George Garrett
Madison Smartt Bell on ``Wounded Soldier''	356	(3)
The Yellow Wallpaper	359	(13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Soldier's Embrace	372	(11)
Nadine Gordimer
Nativity, Caucasian	383	(7)
Allan Gurganus
Young Goodman Brown	390	(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills Like White Elephants	400	(6)
Ernest Hemingway
Frederick Busch on ``Hills Like White Elephants''	404	(2)
The Lottery	406	(7)
Shirley Jackson
The Pugilist at Rest	413	(14)
Thom Jones
Araby	427	(44)
James Joyce
A Little Cloud	431	(10)
The Dead	441	(30)
The Metamorphosis	471	(34)
Franz Kafka
Girl	505	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	507	(13)
D. H. Lawrence
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	520	(5)
Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen	525	(25)
Doris Lessing
Angel Levine	550	(20)
Bernard Malamud
Boule de Suif	570	(28)
Guy De Maupassant
The Thistles in Sweden	598	(16)
William Maxwell
Charles Baxter on ``The Thistles in Sweden''	613	(1)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	614	(28)
Herman Melville
Royal Beatings	642	(17)
Alice Munro
Signs and Symbols	659	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again	664	(12)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried	676	(13)
Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	689	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
``A Good Man is Hard to Find''	701	(1)
Lee Smith
Guests of the Nation	702	(11)
Frank O'Connor
``Guests of the Nation''	711	(2)
Edward P. Jones
Tell Me a Riddle	713	(28)
Tillie Olsen
The Fall of the House of Usher	741	(14)
Edgar Allan Poe
Flowering Judas	755	(10)
Katherine Anne Porter
Intensive Care	765	(19)
Lee Smith
In the Zoo	784	(16)
Jean Stafford
``In the Zoo''	799	(1)
R. V. Cassill
The Chrysanthemums	800	(9)
John Steinbeck
Rules of the Game	809	(9)
Amy Tan
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	818	(5)
James Thurber
The Death of Ivan Ilych	823	(41)
Leo Tolstoy
A & P	864	(6)
John Updike
The Moths	870	(5)
Helena Maria Viramontes
Everyday Use	875	(7)
Alice Walker
Why I Live at the P.O.	882	(10)
Eudora Welty
The Man Who Loved Levittown	892	(12)
W. D. Wetherell
The Use of Force	904	(4)
William Carlos Williams
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs	908	(9)
Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens	917	(6)
Virginia Woolf
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	923	(39)
Richard Wright
Writing Papers about Fiction	933	(7)
Richard Bausch
When You Write about Fiction	940	(9)
R. V. Cassill
Writing Fiction	949	(12)
Writers on Writing	961	(1)
Why Do You Write?	962
Margaret Atwood