Full Description
For Introduction to the Short Story, Introduction to Fiction, and Creative Writing: Fiction.A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs. Intended to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, these selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. International in scope, it illustrates the development of short fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 130 traditional and contemporary works organized alphabetically by author.
Contents
Roses, Rhododendron, Alice Adams. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, Sherman Alexie. I Want to Know Why, Sherwood Anderson. Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin. The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara. Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth. Cores and Montezuma, Donald Barthelme. Antlers, Rick Bass. Janus, Ann Beattie. Looking for Mr. Greene, Saul Bellow. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce. The Demon Lover, Elizabeth Bowen. Astronomer's Wife, Kay Bowen. The Love of My Life, T. Corghessan Boyle. August 2002: Night Meeting, Ray Bradbury. The Guest, Albert Camus. Call If You Need Me, Cathedral, Raymond Carver. Paul's Case, Willa Cather. The Country Husband, John Cheever. The Darling, The Lady with the Dog, Anton Chekhov. The Storm, The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin. Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Samuel L. Clemens. Wild Plums, Grace Stone Coates. A Country Wedding, Laurie Colwin. Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad. The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Stephen Crane. Watch the Animals, Alice Elliott Dark. Kansas, Stephen Dobyns. A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle. Chemistry, Tom Drury. King of the Bingo Game, Ralph Ellison. Mauser, Louise Erdrich. Barn Burning, A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner. Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Reunion, Richard Ford. A New England Nun, Mary Wilkins Freeman. Aura, Carlos Fuentes. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If I Were a Man, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell. Dream Children, Gail Godwin. The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol. We, Mary Grimm. The Three Strangers, Thomas Hardy. Tennessee's Partner, Bret Harte. My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway. How to Talk to a Hunter, Pam Houston. Spunk, Zora Neal Hurston. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson. Four Meetings, The Real Thing, Henry James. A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett. In the Kindergarten, Ha Jin. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dorothy Johnson. Araby, The Dead, James Joyce. The Tip-Top Club, Garrison Keillor. The Man in the Black Suit, Stephen King. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, W.P. Kinsella. They, Rudyard Kipling. We Are Not in This Together, William Kittredge. The Horse Dealer's Daughter, D.H. Lawrence. Horse Camp, Ursula K. LeGuin. Wine, Doris Lessing. The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann. Her First Ball, Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield. Three Wheeler, Bobbie Ann Mason. The Necklace, Rust Guy de Maupassant. Lust, Susan Minot. How, Lorrie Moore. Menesteung, A Real Life, Alice Munro. Sredni Vashtar, H.H. Munro ("Saki"). Four Summers, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien. The Artificial Nigger, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor. Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor. I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olson. Big Blonde, Dorothy Parker. Surprise!, Robert Phillips. The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe. The Grave, Katherine Anne Porter. The Half-Skinned Deer, Annie Proulx. Coach, Mary Robison. Nadine at 35: A Synopsis, Jo Sapp. The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Irwin Shaw. Yellow Woman, Leslie Marmon Silko. Gimpel the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer. Missing Women, June Spence. The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck. Brooksmith by Henry James, Daniel Stern. No One's a Mystery, Elizabeth Tallent. Young Girl's Wish, Amy Tan. The Catbird Seat, James Thurber. The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy. Ten Miles West of Venus, Judy Troy. The Country Doctor, Ivan Turgenev. A&P, Separating, John Updike. The Hell with Dying, Alice Walker. Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty. My Baby, Dorothy West. The Columbus School for Girls, Liza Wieland. Taking Care, Joy Williams. The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams. The Golden Darters, Elizabeth Winthrop. Powder, Say Yes, Tobias Wolf. The Man Who Was Almost a Man, Richard Wright. Love Letters, Patricia Zelver. Biographical Notes. A Short Story Handbook. Chronological Table of Contents. Credits.
