The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates

• ISBN13: 9780195092622
• ISBN10: 0195092627
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

One of our greatest living writers offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction. Joyce Carol Oates' collection of 56 tales combines classic works by writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe with many "different, unexpected" gems, inviting readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.

Author Biography

Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's preeminent writers. Since 1978, she has been on the faculty of Princeton University and is a co-editor of The Ontario Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Rip Van Winkle	p. 17
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man	p. 33
The Wives of the Dead	p. 62
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids	p. 69
The Tell-Tale Heart	p. 91
The Ghost in the Mill	p. 97
Cannibalism in the Cars	p. 109
A White Heron	p. 118
The Storm	p. 129
The Sheriff's Children	p. 136
The Yellow Wallpaper	p. 153
The Middle Years	p. 170
In a Far Country	p. 190
Old Woman Magoun	p. 206
The Little Regiment	p. 225
A Journey	p. 244
The Strength of God	p. 256
A Death in the Desert	p. 264
Blood-Burning Moon	p. 285
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	p. 295
An Alcoholic Case	p. 301
The Girl with a Pimply Face	p. 310
He	p. 323
That Evening Sun	p. 334
Sweat	p. 352
Red-Headed Baby	p. 365
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	p. 371
A Distant Episode	p. 384
A Late Encounter with the Enemy	p. 397
Sonny's Blues	p. 408
Battle Royal	p. 440
There Will Come Soft Rains	p. 456
Rain in the Heart	p. 463
Where Is the Voice Coming From?	p. 481
The Lecture	p. 488
My Son the Murderer	p. 504
Something To Remember Me By	p. 511
The Death of Justina	p. 541
Texts	p. 552
The School	p. 556
The Persistence of Desire	p. 560
Alaska	p. 571
Are These Actual Miles?	p. 582
Yellow Woman	p. 591
The Shawl	p. 601
Heat	p. 607
Hunters in the Snow	p. 620
The Things They Carried	p. 636
Big Bertha Stories	p. 655
Fever	p. 671
The Management of Grief	p. 697
Two Kinds	p. 714
Fleur	p. 727
Gravity	p. 741
The House on Mango Street	p. 746
What Sally Said	p. 748
Linoleum Roses	p. 749
A House of My Own	p. 749
Town Smokes	p. 750
Author Index	p. 765
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