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The Oxford book of American short stories / edited by Joyce Carol Oates. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1994.Description: xiv, 768 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780192824066
  • 9780195070651
  • 9780195092622
  • 9781439508015
Other title:
  • Book of American short stories
  • American short stories
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS648
  • PS648.O11.O946 1994
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man William Austin -- Wives of the dead Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids Herman Melville -- Tell-tale heart Edgar Allan Poe -- Ghost in the mill Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars Samuel Clemens -- White heron Sarah Orne Jewett -- Storm Kate Chopin -- Sheriff's children Charles Chesnutt -- Yellow wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Middle years Henry James -- In a far country Jack London -- Old woman Magoun Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Little regiment Stephen Crane -- Journey Edith Wharton -- Strength of God Sherwood Anderson.
Death in the desert Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon Jean Toomer -- Clean, well-lighted place Ernest Hemingway -- Alcoholic case F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Girl with a pimply face William Carlos Williams -- He Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun William Faulkner -- Sweat Zora Neale Hurston -- Red-headed baby Langston Hughes -- Man who was almost a man Richard Wright -- Distant episode Paul Bowles -- Late encounter with the enemy Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues James Baldwin -- Battle Royal Ralph Ellison -- There will come soft rains Ray Bradbury -- Rain in the heart Peter Taylor -- Where is the voice coming from? Eudora Welty.
Lecture Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by Saul Bellow -- Death of Justina John Cheever -- Texts Ursula K. Le Guin -- School Donald Barthelme Persistence of desire John Updike -- Alaska Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman Leslie Marmon Silko -- Shawl Cynthia Ozick -- Heat Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow Tobias Wolff -- Things they carried Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever John Edgar Wideman -- Management of grief Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds Amy Tan -- Fleur Louise Erdrich -- Gravity David Leavitt --
House on Mango Street ; -- What Sally said ; -- Linoleum roses ; -- House of my own Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes Pinckney Benedict.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PS648.S5O94 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001478193

Includes author index.

Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man William Austin -- Wives of the dead Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids Herman Melville -- Tell-tale heart Edgar Allan Poe -- Ghost in the mill Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars Samuel Clemens -- White heron Sarah Orne Jewett -- Storm Kate Chopin -- Sheriff's children Charles Chesnutt -- Yellow wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Middle years Henry James -- In a far country Jack London -- Old woman Magoun Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Little regiment Stephen Crane -- Journey Edith Wharton -- Strength of God Sherwood Anderson.

Death in the desert Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon Jean Toomer -- Clean, well-lighted place Ernest Hemingway -- Alcoholic case F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Girl with a pimply face William Carlos Williams -- He Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun William Faulkner -- Sweat Zora Neale Hurston -- Red-headed baby Langston Hughes -- Man who was almost a man Richard Wright -- Distant episode Paul Bowles -- Late encounter with the enemy Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues James Baldwin -- Battle Royal Ralph Ellison -- There will come soft rains Ray Bradbury -- Rain in the heart Peter Taylor -- Where is the voice coming from? Eudora Welty.

Lecture Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by Saul Bellow -- Death of Justina John Cheever -- Texts Ursula K. Le Guin -- School Donald Barthelme Persistence of desire John Updike -- Alaska Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman Leslie Marmon Silko -- Shawl Cynthia Ozick -- Heat Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow Tobias Wolff -- Things they carried Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever John Edgar Wideman -- Management of grief Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds Amy Tan -- Fleur Louise Erdrich -- Gravity David Leavitt --

House on Mango Street ; -- What Sally said ; -- Linoleum roses ; -- House of my own Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes Pinckney Benedict.

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