The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by Bausch,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780393926118
• ISBN10: 0393926117
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393937756, 9780393975086
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

Table of Contents

Chronological Table of Contents	xiii
Preface	xvii
Writing about Fiction	xxi
Stories
Lee K. Abbott
One of Star Wars, One of Doom	1	(16)
Sherwood Anderson
I Want to Know Why	17	(7)
Margaret Atwood
Death by Landscape	24	(13)
Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write? 1620
James Baldwin
Sonny's Blues	37	(23)
Toni Cade Bambara
Gorilla, My Love	60	(5)
Related: Bambara, What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 1620
Andrea Barrett
The Littoral Zone	65	(8)
Related: Barrett on Willa Cather's Paul's Case 1680
Donald Barthelme
Me and Miss Mandible	73	(9)
Richard Bausch
Byron the Lyron	82	(14)
Related: Bausch on Anton Chekhov's Gusev 1681
Bausch, Letter to a Young Writer 1621
Charles Baxter
The Disappeared	96	(18)
Related: Baxter on William Maxwell's The Thistles in Sweden 1682
Ann Beattie
Snow	114	(2)
Related: Beattie on Peter Taylor's A Spinster's Tale 1683
Madison Smartt Bell
Witness	116	(12)
Related: Bell on George Garrett's Wounded Soldier 1684
Gina Berriault
Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?	128	(12)
Ambrose Bierce
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	140	(7)
Jorge Luis Borges
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	147	(8)
Ray Bradbury
The Veldt	155	(11)
Frederick Busch
Bread	166	(13)
Related: Busch on Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants 1685
Ethan Canin
The Year of Getting to Know Us	179	(13)
Truman Capote
Miriam	192	(9)
Raymond Carver
The Student's Wife	201	(5)
Cathedral	206	(11)
Related: Carver, From On Writing 1624
R. V. Cassill
The Rationing of Love	217	(13)
Willa Cather
A Wagner Matinee	230	(5)
Paul's Case	235	(15)
Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case 1680
John Cheever
The Enormous Radio	250	(8)
The Death of Justina	258	(8)
Anton Chekhov
Gusev	266	(10)
Anna on the Neck	276	(8)
The Lady with the Dog	284	(13)
Related: Richard Baush on Gusev 1681
Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich 1627
Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin 1628
Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour	297	(3)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	300	(4)
The Invalid's Story	304	(6)
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness	310	(61)
Related: Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 1629
Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark 1632
Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness 1692
C. P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness 1704
Julio Cortazar
A Continuity of Parks	371	(1)
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris	372	(7)
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat	379	(17)
The Blue Hotel	396	(21)
Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard 1633
Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat 1689
Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] 1714
Edwidge Danticat
A Wall of Fire Rising	417	(12)
Isak Dinesen
Sorrow-Acre	429	(23)
Related: Tobias Wolff on Sorrow-Acre 1716
Susan Dodd
Public Appearances	452	(10)
Related: Dodd on Eudora Welty's A Worn Path 1687
Andre Dubus
The Intruder	462	(9)
Stuart Dybek
We Didn't	471	(9)
Stanley Elkin
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe	480	(19)
Ralph Ellison
King of the Bingo Game	499	(8)
Related: Ellison, An Interview 1633
Louise Erdrich
Matchimanito	507	(13)
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily	520	(7)
Dry September	527	(8)
Barn Burning	535	(13)
Related: Faulkner, An Interview 1636
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babylon Revisited	548	(16)
Richard Ford
Great Falls	564	(12)
Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief 1688
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A New England Nun	576	(9)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	585	(5)
George Garrett
Wounded Soldier	590	(7)
Related: Madison Smartt Bell on Wounded Soldier 1684
Garrett on William Goyen's Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper	597	(12)
Nadine Gordimer
A Soldier's Embrace	609	(11)
William Goyen
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt	620	(7)
Related: George Garrett on Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689
Allan Gurganus
Nativity, Caucasian	627	(7)
Related: Gurganus on Stephen Crane's The Open Boat 1689
Barry Hannah
Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa	634	(5)
Related: Hannah on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 1692
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown	639	(9)
The Birthmark	648	(13)
Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants	661	(5)
Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants 1685
Hemingway, An Interview 1640
Amy Hempel
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried	666	(7)
Alice Hoffman
The Wedding of Snow and Ice	673	(9)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Conscience of the Court	682	(11)
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery	693	(7)
Henry James
Greville Fane	700	(13)
Related: James, The Art of Fiction 1643
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Passion	713	(13)
Charles Johnson
Moving Pictures	726	(5)
Edward P. Jones
A New Man	731	(10)
Related: Jones on Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation 1693
James Joyce
Araby	741	(4)
A Little Cloud	745	(10)
The Dead	755	(30)
Related: C. C. Loomis, Jr., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' 1694
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis	785	(32)
A Hunger Artist	817	(8)
Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor 1686
Kafka, Letter to Max Brod 1645
Yasunari Kawabata
The White Horse	825	(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl	828	(2)
Ring Lardner
Ex Parte	830	(9)
D. H. Lawrence
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	839	(12)
The Rocking-Horse Winner	851	(11)
Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters 1647
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	862	(5)
Doris Lessing
To Room Nineteen	867	(24)
Related: Lessing, An Interview 1648
John L'Heureux
Brief Lives in California	891	(9)
Sandra Tsing Loh
My Father's Chinese Wives	900	(10)
Bernard Malamud
Angel Levine	910	(8)
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice	918	(51)
Disorder and Early Sorrow	969	(23)
Related: David Luke, [Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving''] 1697
Mann, Letter to Paul Amann 1650
Katherine Mansfield
Bliss	992	(10)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Shiloh	1002	(11)
Guy De Maupassant
Boule de Suif	1013	(27)
An Adventure in Paris	1040	(6)
Related: Maupassant, The Novel 1650
William Maxwell
The Thistles in Sweden	1046	(15)
Related: Charles Baxter on The Thistles in Sweden 1682
John Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709
Jill McCorkle
Intervention	1061	(12)
James Alan McPherson
Why I Like Country Music	1073	(12)
Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1085	(27)
Related: Leo Marx, Melville's Parable of the Walls 1699
Bharati Mukherjee
The Management of Grief	1112	(13)
Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief 1688
Mukherjee, A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 1652
Alice Munro
Royal Beatings	1125	(16)
Miles City, Montana	1141	(15)
Related: Munro, What Is Real? 1654
Sabina Murray
Position	1156	(9)
Vladimir Nabokov
Signs and Symbols	1165	(5)
Hua-Ling Nieh
The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien	1170	(6)
Joyce Carol Oates
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again	1176	(12)
Related: Oates, The Art and Craft of Revision 1657
Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried	1188	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1201	(11)
Good Country People	1212	(14)
Everything That Rises Must Converge	1226	(12)
Related: O'Connor, The Nature and Aim of Fiction 1658
Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708
Frank O'Connor
Guests of the Nation	1238	(9)
Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation 1693
Tillie Olsen
O Yes	1247	(13)
Luigi Pirandello
War	1260	(4)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher	1264	(14)
The Purloined Letter	1278	(14)
Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition 1659
Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702
Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe 1715
Katherine Anne Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	1292	(6)
Flowering Judas	1298	(10)
Related: Porter, An Interview 1660
V. S. Pritchett
The Fall	1308	(9)
Agnes Rossi
Morpheus	1317	(5)
Philip Roth
The Conversion of the Jews	1322	(11)
Irwin Shaw
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses	1333	(7)
Jean Shepherd
Lost at C	1340	(15)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel the Fool	1355	(11)
Lee Smith
Intensive Care	1366	(19)
Related: Smith on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708
Elizabeth Spencer
Wisteria	1385	(4)
John Steinbeck
The Chrysanthemums	1389	(8)
Robert Stone
Under the Pitons	1397	(20)
Linda Svendsen
Marine Life	1417	(6)
Amy Tan
Rules of the Game	1423	(8)
Peter Taylor
A Spinster's Tale	1431	(16)
Related: Ann Beattie on A Spinster's Tale 1683
James Thurber
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	1447	(5)
Related: Thurber, An Interview 1663
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych	1452	(40)
Related: Gary Saul Morson, The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction 1701
Tolstoy, What Is Art? 1665
John Updike
A & P	1492	(5)
Brother Grasshopper	1497	(10)
Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal 1667
Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709
Helena Maria Viramontes
The Moths	1507	(5)
Alice Walker
Everyday Use	1512	(7)
Robert Penn Warren
Blackberry Winter	1519	(16)
Eudora Welty
Why I Live at the P.O.	1535	(9)
A Worn Path	1544	(6)
Related: Susan Dodd on A Worn Path 1687
Welty, An Interview 1668
W. D. Wetherell
The Man Who Loved Levittown	1550	(12)
Edith Wharton
Xingu	1562	(18)
Thomas Williams
Goose Pond	1580	(10)
William Carlos Williams
The Use of Force	1590	(4)
Tobias Wolff
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs	1594	(9)
Related: Wolff on Isak Dineson's Sorrow-Acre 1716
Virginia Woolf
Kew Gardens	1603	(6)
Richard Wright
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	1609	(10)
Writers on Writing	1619	(51)
Margaret Atwood
Why Do You Write?	1620	(1)
Toni Cade Bambara
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?	1620	(1)
Richard Bausch
Letter to a Young Writer	1621	(3)
Raymond Carver
From On Writing	1624	(3)
Anton Chekhov
Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886	1627	(1)
Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888	1628	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''	1629	(3)
Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918	1632	(1)
Stephen Crane
Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895[?]	1633	(1)
Ralph Ellison
An Interview	1633	(3)
William Faulkner
An Interview	1636	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
An Interview	1640	(3)
Henry James
The Art of Fiction	1643	(2)
Franz Kafka
Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922	1645	(2)
D. H. Lawrence
Why the Novel Matters	1647	(1)
Doris Lessing
An Interview	1648	(2)
Thomas Mann
Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915	1650	(1)
Guy De Maupassant
The Novel	1650	(2)
Bharati Mukherjee
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman	1652	(2)
Alice Munro
What Is Real?	1654	(3)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Art and Craft of Revision	1657	(1)
Flannery O'Connor
The Nature and Aim of Fiction	1658	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Philosophy of Composition	1659	(1)
Katherine Anne Porter
An Interview	1660	(3)
James Thurber
An Interview	1663	(2)
Leo Tolstoy
What Is Art?	1665	(2)
John Updike
Accepting the Howells Medal	1667	(1)
Eudora Welty
An Interview	1668	(2)
Writing Fiction	1670	(10)
Reviews and Commentaries	1680	(38)
Andrea Barrett
Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case''	1680	(1)
Richard Bausch
Anton Chekhov's ``Gusev''	1681	(1)
Charles Baxter
William Maxwell's ``The Thistles in Sweden''	1682	(1)
Ann Beattie
Peter Taylor's ``A Spinster's Tale''	1683	(1)
Madison Smartt Bell
George Garrett's ``Wounded Soldier''	1684	(1)
Frederick Busch
Ernest Hemingway's ``Hills Like White Elephants''	1685	(1)
Stanley Corngold
Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor	1686	(1)
Susan Dodd
Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path''	1687	(1)
Richard Ford
Bharati Mukherjee's ``The Management of Grief''	1688	(1)
George Garrett
William Goyen's ``Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt''	1689	(1)
Allan Gurganus
Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat''	1689	(3)
Barry Hannah
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness	1692	(1)
Edward P. Jones
Frank O'Connor's ``Guests of the Nation''	1693	(1)
C. C. Loomis, Jr.
Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead''	1694	(3)
David Luke
[Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving'']	1697	(2)
Leo Marx
Melville's Parable of the Walls	1699	(2)
Gary Saul Morson
The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction	1701	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales	1702	(2)
C. P. Sarvan
Racism and the Heart of Darkness	1704	(4)
Lee Smith
Flannery O'Connor's ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''	1708	(1)
John Updike
Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell]	1709	(5)
Charles C. Walcutt
[Stephen Crane: Naturalist]	1714	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The House of Poe	1715	(1)
Tobias Wolff
Isak Dinesen's ``Sorrow-Acre''	1716	(2)
Glossary of Critical Terms	1718	(7)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1725	(8)
Index of Titles	1733