Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 6e

Chronological Table of Contents xi Preface xvii Preface to the Sixth Edition xix Talking about Fiction xxiii Character and Setting xxiii Action, Plot, and Complication xxiv Point of View xxvi Indirection xxviii The Part and the Whole xxx Coherence xxxi General Questions xxxiv I Want to Know Why 1(7) Sherwood Anderson Death by Landscape 8(13) Margaret Atwood Sonny's Blues 21(24) James Baldwin Gorilla, My Love 45(5) Toni Cade Bambara The Littoral Zone 50(8) Andrea Barrett Me and Miss Mandible 58(9) Donald Barthelme The Disappeared 67(19) Charles Baxter Snow 86(2) Ann Beattie Witness 88(13) Madison Smartt Bell Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? 101(12) Gina Berriault An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 113(8) Ambrose Bierce Silver Water 121(7) Amy Bloom Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 128(8) Jorge Luis Borges The Veldt 136(11) Ray Bradbury Pagan Night 147(9) Kate Braverman The Gentleman from San Francisco 156(17) Ivan Bunin Gina Berriault on ``The Gentleman from San Francisco'' 172(1) Bread 173(13) Frederick Busch Cathedral 186(11) Raymond Carver The Rationing of Love 197(14) R. V. Cassill Paul's Case 211(17) Willa Cather Andrea Barrett On ``Paul's Case'' 226(2) The Enormous Radio 228(9) John Cheever The Lady with the Dog 237(12) Anton Chekhov Gusev 249(12) Richard Bausch on ``Gusev'' 259(2) The Story of an Hour 261(3) Kate Chopin The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 264(5) Samuel Clemens Heart of Darkness 269(65) Joseph Conrad Barry Hannah on ``Heart of Darkness'' 331(3) The Babysitter 334(20) Robert Coover A Continuity of Parks 354(2) Julio Cortazar The Open Boat 356(20) Stephen Crane Allan Gurganus on ``The Open Boat'' 374(2) The Blule Hotel 376(21) Open Winter 397(17) H. L. Davis Sorrow-Acre 414(24) Isak Dinesen Tobias Wolf on ``Sorrow-Acre'' 436(2) Public Appearances 438(11) Susan Dodd The Intruder 449(10) Andre Dubus We Didn't 459(9) Stuart Dybek King of the Bingo Game 468(8) Ralph Ellison Matchimanito 476(14) Louise Erdrich Bran Burning 490(13) William Faulkner The Bear 503(79) Dreams 582(15) Timothy Findley Babylon Revisited 597(16) F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Falls 613(12) Richard Ford The Road from Colonus 625(9) E. M. Forster A New England Nun 634(9) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Bernadette 643(18) Mavis Gallant The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World 661(5) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wounded Soldier 666(9) George Garrett Madison Smartt Bell on ``Wounded Soldier'' 672(3) The Yellow Wallpaper 675(13) Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Soldier's Embrace 688(11) Nadine Gordimer Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 699(8) William Goyen George Garrett on ``Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt'' 705(2) Nativity, Caucasian 707(7) Allan Gurganus Testimony of Pilot 714(19) Barry Hannah Wedding Night 733(2) Tom Hawkins Young Goodman Brown 735(10) Nathaniel Hawthorne The Birthmark 745(12) Hills Like White Elephants 757(6) Ernest Hemingway Frederick Busch on ``Hills Like White Elephants'' 761(2) In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried 763(7) Amy Hempel The Conscience of the Court 770(11) Zora Neale Hurston The Lottery 781(7) Shirley Jackson Greville Fane 788(13) Henry James Passion 801(13) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Moving Pictures 814(4) Charles Johnson A New Man 818(9) Edward P. Jones The Pugilist at Rest 827(14) Thom Jones Araby 841(4) James Joyce A Little Cloud 845(10) The Dead 855(30) The Metamorphosis 885(33) Franz Kafka A Hunger Artist 918(7) Girl 925(2) Jamaica Kincaid The Man Who Would Be King 927(25) Rudyard Kipling Jewel of the Moon 952(10) William Kotzwinkle My Life as a Mollusk 962(14) Patricia Landers The Horse Dealer's Daughter 976(13) D. H. Lawrence The Coggios 989(3) Sharyn Layfield Gravity 992(4) David Leavitt The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 996(5) Ursula K. Le Guin To Room Nineteen 1001(24) Doris Lessing Brief Lives in California 1025(9) John L'Heureux My Father's Chinese Wives 1034(10) Sandra Tsing Loh The Chevigny Man 1044(12) Robie Macauley Angel Levine 1056(9) Bernard Malamud Death in Venice 1065(48) Thomas Mann Bliss 1113(10) Katherine Mansfield Shiloh 1123(11) Bobbie Ann Mason Boule de Suif 1134(28) Guy De Maupassant The Thistles in Sweden 1162(16) William Maxwell Charles Baxter on ``The Thistles in Sweden'' 1177(1) Bartleby, the Scrivener 1178(28) Herman Melville The Management of Grief 1206(14) Bharati Mukherjee Richard Ford on ``The Management of Grief'' 1218(2) Royal Beatings 1220(16) Alice Munro Prue 1236(4) Signs and Symbols 1240(5) Vladimir Nabokov The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien 1245(6) Hua-Ling Nieh How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again 1251(12) Joyce Carol Oates The Things They Carried 1263(14) Tim O'Brien A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1277(13) Flannery O'Connor Lee Smith on ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' 1289(1) Everything That Rises Must Converge 1290(11) Guests of the Nation 1301(11) Frank O'Connor Edward P. Jones on ``Guests of the Nation'' 1310(2) Tell Me a Riddle 1312(28) Tillie Olsen War 1340(4) Luigi Pirandello The Fall of the House of Usher 1344(14) Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter 1358(14) Flowering Judas 1372(10) Katherine Anne Porter The Fall 1382(9) V. S. Pritchett The Conversion of the Jews 1391(12) Philip Roth Nadine at 35: A Synopsis 1403(2) Jo Sapp The Eighty-Yard Run 1405(11) Irwin Shaw Gimpel the Fool 1416(11) Isaac Bashevis Singer Intensive Care 1427(19) Lee Smith In the Zoo 1446(16) Jean Stafford R. V. Cassill on ``In the Zoo'' 1461(1) The Chrysanthemums 1462(9) John Steinbeck Rules of the Game 1471(9) Amy Tan A Spinster's Tale 1480(18) Peter Taylor Ann Beattie on ``A Spinster's Tale'' 1496(2) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1498(5) James Thurber The Death of Ivan Ilych 1503(41) Leo Tolstoy A & P 1544(6) John Updike The Moths 1550(5) Helena Maria Viramontes Everyday Use 1555(7) Alice Walker Blackberry Winter 1562(16) Robert Penn Warren Why I Live at the P.O. 1578(9) Eudora Welty A Worn Path 1587(8) Susan Dodd on ``A Worn Path'' 1593(2) The Man Who Loved Levittown 1595(12) W. D. Wetherell The Use of Force 1607(4) William Carlos Williams In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 1611(9) Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens 1620(6) Virginia Woolf The Man Who Was Almost a Man 1626(40) Richard Wright Writing Papers about Fiction 1637(7) Richard Bausch When You Write about Fiction 1644(9) R. V. Cassill Writing Fiction 1653(12) Writers on Writing 1665(1) Why Do You Write? 1666(1) Margaret Atwood What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 1666(1) Toni Cade Bambara On Writing 1667(4) Raymond Carver What Happened 1671(2) John Cheever Selected Letters 1673(2) Anton Chekhov A Familiar Preface 1675(3) Joseph Conrad An Interview 1678(2) Ralph Ellison Becoming a Writer 1680(13) Gail Godwin An Interview 1693(3) Ernest Hemingway The Art of Fiction 1696(3) Henry James Why the Novel Matters 1699(1) D. H. Lawrence An Interview 1700(2) Doris Lessing The Novel 1702(2) Guy De Maupassant A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 1704(2) Bharati Mukherjee What Is Real? 1706(3) Alice Munro The Nature and Aim of Fiction 1709(1) Flannery O'Connor Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1710(2) Edgar Allan Poe An Interview 1712(4) Katherine Anne Porter An Interview 1716(1) James Thurber What Is Art? 1717(2) Leo Tolstoy An Interview 1719(3) Eudora Welty Glossary of Critical Terms 1722(9) Permissions Acknowledgments 1731(6) Index of Titles 1737