The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition
Pages: 1088
|Published: 24 Jan 2006
Description
Chronological table of contents
Preface
Writing about fiction
Stories
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Gorilla, my love
Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Snow / Ann Beattie
Occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
Miriam /Truman Capote
Cathedral
Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver
Paul's case
Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather
Enormous radio / John Cheever
Lady with the dog
Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich
Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov
Story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heart of darkness
Related: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark -- Barry Hannah on heart of darkness -- C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open boat -- Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard -- Allan Gurganus on the open boat -- Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane -- Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- Intruder / Andre Dubus -- King of the bingo game -- Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison -- Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich -- Barn burning -- Rose for Emily -- Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald -- Great falls -- Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's -- Management of grief / Richard Ford -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown -- Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants -- Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants -- Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston -- Araby -- Dead -- Related: C C Loomis, Jr. , structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James Joyce
Metamorphosis
Hunger artist
Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor
Kafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz Kafka
White horse / Yasunari Kawabata
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Horse dealer's daughter
Rocking horse winner
Related: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH Lawrence
Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le Guin
Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow
Related: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas Mann
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Adventure in Paris
Related: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De Maupassant
Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Related: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman Melville
Management of grief
Related: Richard Ford on the Management of grief
Mukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee
Royal beatings
Related: Munro, What is real? / Alice Munro
Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again
Related: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Good man is hard to find
Everything that rises must converge
Related: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fiction
Lee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation
Related: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
O yes / Tillie Olsen
Fall of the house of usher
Related: Poe, the Philosophy of composition
Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales
Richard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan Poe
Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Related: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne Porter
Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Rules of the game / Amy Tan
Secret life of Walter Mitty
Related: Thurber, an interview / James Thurber
Death of Ivan Ilych
Related: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction
Tolstoy, What is art? / Leo Tolstoy
A & P
Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike
Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren
Worn path
Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn path
Welty, an interview / Eudora Welty
Use of force / William Carlos Williams
In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff
Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Writers On Writing
Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch
from On writing / Raymond Carver
Letter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886
Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov
Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark, Ma. . .
Preface
Writing about fiction
Stories
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Gorilla, my love
Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Snow / Ann Beattie
Occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
Miriam /Truman Capote
Cathedral
Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver
Paul's case
Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather
Enormous radio / John Cheever
Lady with the dog
Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich
Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov
Story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heart of darkness
Related: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark -- Barry Hannah on heart of darkness -- C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open boat -- Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard -- Allan Gurganus on the open boat -- Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane -- Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- Intruder / Andre Dubus -- King of the bingo game -- Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison -- Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich -- Barn burning -- Rose for Emily -- Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald -- Great falls -- Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's -- Management of grief / Richard Ford -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown -- Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants -- Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants -- Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston -- Araby -- Dead -- Related: C C Loomis, Jr. , structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James Joyce
Metamorphosis
Hunger artist
Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor
Kafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz Kafka
White horse / Yasunari Kawabata
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Horse dealer's daughter
Rocking horse winner
Related: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH Lawrence
Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le Guin
Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow
Related: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas Mann
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Adventure in Paris
Related: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De Maupassant
Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Related: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman Melville
Management of grief
Related: Richard Ford on the Management of grief
Mukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee
Royal beatings
Related: Munro, What is real? / Alice Munro
Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again
Related: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Good man is hard to find
Everything that rises must converge
Related: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fiction
Lee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation
Related: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
O yes / Tillie Olsen
Fall of the house of usher
Related: Poe, the Philosophy of composition
Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales
Richard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan Poe
Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Related: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne Porter
Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Rules of the game / Amy Tan
Secret life of Walter Mitty
Related: Thurber, an interview / James Thurber
Death of Ivan Ilych
Related: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction
Tolstoy, What is art? / Leo Tolstoy
A & P
Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike
Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren
Worn path
Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn path
Welty, an interview / Eudora Welty
Use of force / William Carlos Williams
In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff
Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Writers On Writing
Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch
from On writing / Raymond Carver
Letter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886
Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov
Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark, Ma. . .
