The best American short stories of the century

The best American short stories of the century / John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.

"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time:...

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Other Authors: Updike, John, Kenison, Katrina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
American fiction > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt
  • Little selves / Mary Lerner
  • A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
  • The other woman / Sherwood Anderson
  • The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner
  • Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
  • The killers / Ernest Hemingway
  • Double birthday / Willa Cather
  • Wild plums / Grace Stone Oates
  • Theft / Katherine Anne Porter
  • That evening sun go down / William Faulkner
  • Here we are / Dorothy Parker
  • Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • My dead brother comes to America / Alexander Godin
  • Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan
  • Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren
  • Bright and morning star / Richard Wright
  • The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty
  • The peach stone / Paul Horgan
  • "That in Aleppo once ..." / Vladimir Nabokov
  • The interior castle / Jean Stafford
  • Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn
  • The second tree from the corner / E.B. White
  • The farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop
  • Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers
  • The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams
  • The country husband / John Cheever
  • Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
  • The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
  • Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
  • Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin
  • The German refugee / Bernard Malamud
  • Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
  • The rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell
  • Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson
  • The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • A city of churches / Donald Barthelme
  • How to win / Rosellen Brown
  • Roses, rhododendron / Alice Adams
  • Verona: a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey
  • A silver dish / Saul Bellow
  • Gesturing / John Updike
  • The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
  • Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver
  • Janus / Ann Beattie
  • The way we live now / Susan Sontag
  • The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
  • Meneseteung / Alice Munro
  • You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore
  • I want to live! / Thom Jones
  • In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark
  • Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell
  • Birthmates / Gish Jen
  • Soon / Pam Durban
  • The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.

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