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The Norton anthology of short fiction
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Publication Date
c1978
Language
English
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1st ed.: The egg
Death in the woods
Karl-Yankel
Sonny's blues
A passion in the desert
Life-story
The glass mountain
Leaving the yellow house
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
Rest cure
The exiles
Where the girls were different
A tree of night
The biggest band
The old beauty
The fourth alarm
The lady with the pet dog
A visit to friends
The darling
The star
The notorius jumping frog of Calaveras County
Heart of darkness
The babysitter
Murphy's Xmas
The open boat
The blue hotel
Sorrow-acre
The peasant Marey
A scandal in Bohemia
The NRACP
King of the bingo game
A rose for Emily
Golden land
Barn burning
Roar lion roar
Babylon Revisited.
The legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller
The road from Colonus
Acceptance of their ways
The hermit
Young Goodman Brown
The birthmark
Hills like white elephants
The lottery
The tree of knowledge
White rat
Araby
A little cloud
The dead
A hunger artist
The metamorphosis
Follow the eagle
The horse dealer's daughter
Tickets, please
The rocking-horse winner
The new Atlantis
The black Madonna
The jockey
A solo song: for doc
The jewbird
Disorder and early sorrow
The garden-party
The outstation
The necklace
Bartleby the scrivener
Patriotism.
Signs and symbols
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again
A good man is hard to find
Everything that rises must converge
Parker's back
Guests of the nation
Tell me a riddle
The used-boy raisers
Big blonde
The nightingales sing
Call me Monty, and grovel freely
The fall of the House of Usher
Old mortality
The valiant woman
The conversion of the jews
Love, here is my hat
The girls in their summer dresses
The Spinoza of Market Street
A life in the day of a writer
In the zoo
Goin' to town
The chrysanthemums
Dean of men
The peaches
You could look it up
God sees the truth, but waits
A & P
The manned missiles
A worn path
Powerhouse
Taking care
The use of force
Kew Gardens
The man who was almost a man
A really good jazz piano.
7th ed. One of star wars, one of doom / Lee K. Abbott
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
death by landscape / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara
the littoral zone / Andrea Barrett
me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme
Byron the Lyron / Richard Bausch
the disappeared / Charles Baxter
snow / Ann Beattie
witness / Madison Smartt Bell
who is it can tell me who I am? / Gina Berriault
an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of the / Jorge Luis Borges
the veldt / Ray Bradbury
bread / Frederick Busch
the year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin
Miriam / Truman Capote
the student's wife, cathedral / Raymond Carver
the rationing of love / R.V. Cassill
a wagner matinee, Paul's case / Willa Carter
the enormous radio, the death of Justina / John Cheever
Gusev, Anna on the neck, the lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
the story of an hour / Kate Chopin
the notorious jumping frog of Calaveras Country, the invalid's story / Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain)
heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
a continuity of parks, letter to a young lady in Paris / Julio Cortazar
the open boat, the blue hotel / Stephen Crane
a wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat
sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen
public appearances / Susan Dodd
the intruder / Andre Dubus
we didn't / Stuart Dybek
I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin
king of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison
matchimanito / Louise Erdrich
a rose for Emily, dry September, barn burning / William Faulkner
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fritzgerald
great falls / Richard Ford
a New Endland nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
the handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wounded soldier / George Garrett
the yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
a soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer
ghost and flesh, water and dirt / William Goyen
nativity, caucasian / Allan Gurganus
constant pain in Tuscaloosa / Barry Hannah
young Goodman Brown, the birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
in the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
the wedding of snow and ice / Alice Hoffman
the conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston
the lottery / Shirley Jackson
Greville Fane / Henry James
passion / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
moving pictures / Charles Johnson
a new man / Edward P. Jones
Araby, a little cloud, the dead / James Joyce
the metamorphosis, a hunger artist / Franz Kafka
the white horse / Yasunari Kawabata
girl / Jamaica Kincaid
ex parte / Ring Lardner
the horse dealer's daughter, the rocking horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
the ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
to room nineteen / Doris Lessing
brief lives in California / John L'Heureux
my father's Chinese wives / Sandra Tsing Loh
Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud
death in Venice, disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann
bliss / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Boule de Suif, an adventure in Paris / Guy De Maupassant
the thisles in Sweden
intervention / Jill McCorkle
why I like country music / James Alan McPherson
Bartleby, the Scrivener
the management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
royal beatings, Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro
position / Sabina Murray
signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov
the several blessings of Wang Ta-nien / Hua-Ling Nieh
how I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life all over again / Joyce Carol Oates
the things they carried / Tim O'Brien
a good man is hard to find, good country people, everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
O yes / Tillie Olsen
war / Luigi Pirandello
the fall of the House of Usher, the Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
the jilting of Granny Weatherall, flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
the fall / V.S. Pritchett
morpheus / Agnes Rossi
the conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
the girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw
lost at C / Jean Shepherd
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
intensive care / Lee Smith
wisteria / Elizabeth Spencer
the chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
under the Pitons / Robert Stone
marine life / Linda Svendsen
rules of the game / Amy Tan
a spinster's tale / Peter Taylor
the secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
the death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
A & P, brother grasshopper / John Updike
the moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
everyday use / Alice Walker
blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren
why I live at the P.O., a worn path / Eudora Welty
the man who loved Levittown / W.D. Wetherell
xingu / Edith Wharton
goose pond / Thomas Williams
the use of force / William Carlos Williams
in the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens / Virgina Woolf
the 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
on writing / Raymond Carver
letter to D.V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886, letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov
Preface to the nigger of the "Narcissus", letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918 / Joseph Conrad
letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1985[?] / Stephen Crane
an interview / Ralph Ellison
an interview / William Faulkner
an interview / Ernest Hemingway
the art of fiction / Henry James
letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 / Franz Kafka
why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence
an interview / Doris Lessing
letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 / Thomas Mann
the novel / Guy De Maupassant
a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee
what is real? / Alice Munro
the art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates
the nature and aim of fiction / Flannery O'Connor
the philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe
an interview / Katherine Anne Porter
an interview / James Thurber
what is art? / Leo Tolstoy
acepting the Howells medal / John Updike
an interview / Eudora Welty.
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