The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The black cat ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe -- The son's veto / Thomas Hardy -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- An upheaval / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Araby ; Eveline / James Joyce -- The doll's house ; The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Seventeen Syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Immortality / Yasunari Kawabata -- Wants / Grace Paley -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro -- The palace at 4 a.m. / Donald Barthelme -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- A visit / Steven Millhauser -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolf -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Emergency / Denis Johnson -- Young lions / Edward P. Jones -- My Lucy friend who smells like corn / Sandra Cisneros -- The third dumpster / Gish Jen -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- Sea oak -- George Saunders -- Bed and breakfast / Helen Simpson -- Do you know where I am? / Sherman Alexie -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Grandpa's story / Shaun Tan.
Summary:
"This selection of 45 stories, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sherman Alexie, shows the range of short fiction in the past 150 years. This third edition includes more works from the past 20 years and a greater representation of American authors; new to this edition are works by Katherine Anne Porter, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Edward P. Jones, Gish Jen, and George Saunders, among others. Stories are organized chronologically, annotated, and prefaced by engaging short introductions. Also included is a glossary of basic critical terms"--Publisher's description.
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