The Oxford book of American short stories /
The Oxford book of American short stories / [print]
edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
- second edition.
- New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2013.
- xix, 873 pages ; 21 cm
Rip Van Winkle / Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / The Wives of the Dead / The Tell-Tale Heart / The Ghost in the Mill / The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Cannibalism in the Cars / The Middle Years / A White Heron / The Storm / Old Woman Magoun / The Sheriff's Children / The Yellow Wallpaper / A Journey / The Little Regiment / A Death in the Desert / The Strength of God / In a Far Country / The Girl with a Pimply Face / The Rats in the Walls / Blood-Burning Moon / An Alcoholic Case / That Evening Sun / Hills Like White Elephants / Red-Headed Baby / The Man Who Was Almost a Man / A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Where Is the Voice Coming From? / A Distant Episode / The Country Husband / Battle Royal / My Son the Murderer / The Lottery / There Will Come Soft Rains / Sonny's Blues / A Late Encounter with the Enemy / The Shawl / The School / The Persistence of Desire / Defender of the Faith / The Mud Below / Are These Actual Miles? / Heat / The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Give It Up for Billy / Under the Radar / Hunters in the Snow / The Things They Carried / The Reach / Filthy with Things / Today Will Be a Quiet Day / Fleur / The Drowned Life / Children as Enemies / How to Become a Writer / Good People / Mercy / Hell-Heaven / Edison, New Jersey / Washington Irving -- William Austin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Herman Melville -- Samuel Clemens -- Henry James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Kate Chopin -- Mary e. Wilkins Freeman -- Charles Chesnutt -- Charlotte E Perkins Gilman -- Edith Wharton -- Stephen Crane -- Willa Cather -- Sherwood Anderson -- Jack London -- William Carlos Williams -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Jean Toomer -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- William Faulkner -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Richard Wright -- Nelson Algren -- Eudora Welty -- Paul Bowles -- John Cheever -- Ralph Ellison -- Bernard Malamud -- Shirley Jackson -- Ray Bradbury -- James Baldwin -- Flannery O'Connor -- Cynthia Ozark -- Donald Barthelme -- John Updike -- Philip Roth -- Annie Proulx -- Raymond Carver -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Russell Banks -- Edmund White -- Richard Ford -- Tobias Wolff -- Tim O'Brien -- Stephen King -- T.C. Boyle -- Amy Hempel -- Louise Erdrich -- Jeffrey Ford -- Ha Jin -- Lorrie Moore -- David Foster Wallace -- Pinckney Benedict -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Junot Diaz.
In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
9780199744398
2012012423
PS648.O11.O946 2013 PS648
Rip Van Winkle / Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / The Wives of the Dead / The Tell-Tale Heart / The Ghost in the Mill / The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Cannibalism in the Cars / The Middle Years / A White Heron / The Storm / Old Woman Magoun / The Sheriff's Children / The Yellow Wallpaper / A Journey / The Little Regiment / A Death in the Desert / The Strength of God / In a Far Country / The Girl with a Pimply Face / The Rats in the Walls / Blood-Burning Moon / An Alcoholic Case / That Evening Sun / Hills Like White Elephants / Red-Headed Baby / The Man Who Was Almost a Man / A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Where Is the Voice Coming From? / A Distant Episode / The Country Husband / Battle Royal / My Son the Murderer / The Lottery / There Will Come Soft Rains / Sonny's Blues / A Late Encounter with the Enemy / The Shawl / The School / The Persistence of Desire / Defender of the Faith / The Mud Below / Are These Actual Miles? / Heat / The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Give It Up for Billy / Under the Radar / Hunters in the Snow / The Things They Carried / The Reach / Filthy with Things / Today Will Be a Quiet Day / Fleur / The Drowned Life / Children as Enemies / How to Become a Writer / Good People / Mercy / Hell-Heaven / Edison, New Jersey / Washington Irving -- William Austin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Herman Melville -- Samuel Clemens -- Henry James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Kate Chopin -- Mary e. Wilkins Freeman -- Charles Chesnutt -- Charlotte E Perkins Gilman -- Edith Wharton -- Stephen Crane -- Willa Cather -- Sherwood Anderson -- Jack London -- William Carlos Williams -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Jean Toomer -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- William Faulkner -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Richard Wright -- Nelson Algren -- Eudora Welty -- Paul Bowles -- John Cheever -- Ralph Ellison -- Bernard Malamud -- Shirley Jackson -- Ray Bradbury -- James Baldwin -- Flannery O'Connor -- Cynthia Ozark -- Donald Barthelme -- John Updike -- Philip Roth -- Annie Proulx -- Raymond Carver -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Russell Banks -- Edmund White -- Richard Ford -- Tobias Wolff -- Tim O'Brien -- Stephen King -- T.C. Boyle -- Amy Hempel -- Louise Erdrich -- Jeffrey Ford -- Ha Jin -- Lorrie Moore -- David Foster Wallace -- Pinckney Benedict -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Junot Diaz.
In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
9780199744398
2012012423
PS648.O11.O946 2013 PS648