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| Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oxford book of American short stories. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)609979734 Online version: Oxford book of American short stories. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)623005853 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN: | 0195070658 9780195070651 0192824066 9780192824066 9780195092622 0195092627 |
| OCLC Number: | 25282327 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 768 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- A death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The 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 -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles. A 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 -- The lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- The death of Justina / John Cheever -- Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The persistence of desire / John Updike -- Alaska / Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Gravity / David Leavitt -- The house on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict. |
| Other Titles: | American short stories. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Joyce Carol Oates. |
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'this is a meaty, widespreading anthology and good value at the price'Brian Fallon, Irish Times 'anthologies continue to thrive and this is an excellent example, chosen by one of the leading living practitioners'Observer 'instead of settling for widely anthologised work, she has chosen rarer pieces that she feels are more representative of their authors ... They form a broad spectrum of idiosyncratic voices that together reflect 56 different perspectives of the American experience.'Christie Hickman, Midweek 'A pleasant surprise awaits. About half are entirely readable and some are very affecting.'Carla McKay, The Daily Mail 'consistently good collection ... Joyce Carol Oates, has put together a powerful anthology spanning 173 years'Martyn Bedford, The Oxford Times `This is a splendid volume of short stories which reflect the wealth of brilliance built up over the years by a wide ranging field of American writers. Joyce Carol Oates has done an outstanding job in making this selection ... She does not always go for the well known stories but delights us with some that have remained somewhat obscure.'Yorkshire Gazette & Herald `To a short story lover it is hard to think of a book that could give more pleasure.'Scotland on Sunday Read more...
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