The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 7e Shorter

Chronological Table of Contents vii Preface xi Writing about Fiction xv Stories Sherwood Anderson I Want to Know Why 1(7) Margaret Atwood Death by Landscape 8(13) Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write? 836 James Baldwin Sonny's Blues 21(23) Toni Cade Bambara Gorilla, My Love 44(5) Related: Bambara, What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 836 Ann Beattie Snow 49(2) Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 51(7) Jorge Luis Borges Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 58(8) Truman Capote Miriam 66(9) Raymond Carver Cathedral 75(11) Related: Carver, From On Writing 840 Willa Cather Paul's Case 86(15) Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case 892 John Cheever The Enormous Radio 101(9) Anton Chekhov The Lady with the Dog 110(13) Related: Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich 843(1) Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin 844 Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour 123(3) Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 126(61) Related: Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 845(3) Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark 848(51) Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness 899(10) C. P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness 909 Julio Cortazar A Continuity of Parks 187(2) Stephen Crane The Open Boat 189(18) Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard 849(48) Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat 897(18) Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] 915 Edwidge Danticat A Wall of Fire Rising 207(12) Andre Dubus The Intruder 219(9) Ralph Ellison King of the Bingo Game 228(8) Related: Ellison, An Interview 849 Louise Erdrich Matchimanito 236(13) William Faulkner Barn Burning 249(13) A Rose for Emily 262(7) Related: Faulkner, An Interview 852 F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited 269(16) Richard Ford Great Falls 285(12) Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief 896 Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World 297(5) Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper 302(12) Nadine Gordimer A Soldier's Embrace 314(11) Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown 325(10) Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 907 Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants 335(5) Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants 893 Hemingway, An Interview 856 Zora Neale Hurston The Conscience of the Court 340(11) James Joyce Araby 351(4) The Dead 355(31) Related: C. C. Loomis, Jr., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' 901 Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis 386(32) A Hunger Artist 418(8) Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor 894 Kafka, Letter to Max Brod 859 Yasunari Kawabata The White Horse 426(3) Jamaica Kincaid Girl 429(2) D. H. Lawrence The Horse Dealer's Daughter 431(12) The Rocking Horse Winner 443(11) Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters 860 Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 454(5) Bernard Malamud Angel Levine 459(8) Thomas Mann Disorder and Early Sorrow 467(23) Related: Mann, Letter to Paul Amann 862 Katherine Mansfield Bliss 490(10) Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh 500(11) Guy De Maupassant An Adventure in Paris 511(6) Related: Maupassant, The Novel 862 James Alan Mcpherson Why I Like Country Music 517(12) Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener 529(27) Related: Leo Marx, Melville's Parable of the Walls 905 Bharati Mukherjee The Management of Grief 556(13) Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief 896 Mukherjee, A Fout-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 864 Alice Munro Royal Beatings 569(17) Related: Munro, What Is Real? 866 Vladimir Nabokov Signs and Symbols 586(5) Joyce Carol Oates How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again 591(12) Related: Oatesx, The Art and Craft of Revision 869 Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried 603(13) Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 616(11) Everything That Rises Must Converge 627(12) Related: O'Connor, The Nature and Aim of Fiction 870(44) Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find 914 Frank O'Connor Guests of the Nation 639(9) Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation 900 Tillie Olsen O Yes 648(13) Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher 661(14) Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition 871(36) Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 907(9) Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe 916 Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 675(7) Related: Porter, An Interview 872 Philip Roth The Conversion of the Jews 682(11) Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool 693(11) John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums 704(8) Amy Tan Rules of the Game 712(8) James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 720(5) Related: Thurber, An Interview 875 Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych 725(40) Related: Gary Saul Morson, The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction 907 Tolstoy, What Is Art? 876 John Updike A & P 765(6) Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal 879 Helena Maria Viramontes The Moths 771(5) Alice Walker Everyday Use 776(7) Robert Penn Warren Blackberry Winter 783(16) Eudora Welty A Worn Path 799(7) Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn Path 895 Welty, An Interview 880 William Carlos Williams The Use of Force 806(4) Tobias Wolff In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 810(9) Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens 819(6) Richard Wright The Man Who Was Almost a Man 825(10) Writers on Writing 835(47) Margaret Atwood Why Do You Write? 836(1) Toni Cade Bambara What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 836(1) Richard Bausch Letter to a Young Writer 837(3) Raymond Carver From On Writing 840(3) Anton Chekhov Letter to D.V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886 843(2) Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888 844(1) Joseph Conrad Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 845(3) Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918 848(1) Stephen Crane Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895 [?] 849(1) Ralph Ellison An Interview 849(3) William Faulkner An Interview 852(4) Ernest Hemingway An Interview 856(3) Franz Kafka Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 859(1) D. H. Lawrence Why the Novel Matters 860(2) Thomas Mann Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 862(1) Guy De Maupassant The Novel 862(2) Bharati Mukherjee A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 864(2) Alice Munro What Is Real? 866(3) Joyce Carol Oates The Art and Craft of Revision 869(1) Flannery O'Connor The Nature and Aim of Fiction 870(1) Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition 871(1) Katherine Anne Porter An Interview 872(3) James Thurber An Interview 875(1) Leo Tolstoy What Is Art? 876(3) John Updike Accepting the Howells Medal 879(1) Eudora Welty An Interview 880(2) Writing Fiction 882(10) Reviews and Commentaries 892(26) Andrea Barrett Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case'' 892(1) Frederick Busch Ernest Hemingway's ``Hills Like White, Elephants'' 893(1) Stanley Corngold Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor 894(1) Susan Dodd Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path'' 895(1) Richard Ford Bharati Mukherjee's ``The Management of Grief'' 896(1) Allan Gurganus Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat'' 897(2) Barry Hannah Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 899(1) Edward P. Jones Frank O'Connor's ``Guests of the Nation'' 900(1) C. C. Loomis, Jr. Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' 901(4) Leo Marx Melville's Parable of the Walls 905(2) Gary Saul Morson The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction 907(1) Edgar Allan Poe Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 907(2) C. P. Sarvan Racism and the Heart of Darkness 909(5) Lee Smith Flannery O'Connor's ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' 914(1) Charles C. Walcutt [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] 915(1) Richard Wilbur From The House of Poe 916(2) Glossary of Critical Terms 918(7) Permissions Acknowledgments 925(6) Index of Titles 931