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| Material Type: | Fiction |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN: | 9780199744398 0199744394 |
| OCLC Number: | 777771923 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xix, 873 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / William Austin -- The Wives of the Dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Ghost in the Mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville -- Cannibalism in the Cars / Samuel Clemens -- The Middle Years / Henry James -- A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Storm / Kate Chopin -- Old Woman Magoun / Mary e. Wilkins Freeman -- The Sheriff's Children / Charles Chesnutt -- The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte E Perkins Gilman -- A Journey / Edith Wharton -- The Little Regiment / Stephen Crane -- A Death in the Desert / Willa Cather -- The Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- In a Far Country / Jack London -- The Girl with a Pimply Face / William Carlos Williams -- The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft -- Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- An Alcoholic Case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Red-Headed Baby / Langston Hughes -- The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright -- A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Nelson Algren -- Where Is the Voice Coming From? / Eudora Welty -- A Distant Episode / Paul Bowles -- The Country Husband / John Cheever -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- My Son the Murderer / Bernard Malamud -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- A Late Encounter with the Enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- The Shawl / Cynthia Ozark -- The School / Donald Barthelme -- The Persistence of Desire / John Updike -- Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth -- The Mud Below / Annie Proulx -- Are These Actual Miles? / Raymond Carver -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Russell Banks -- Give It Up for Billy / Edmund White -- Under the Radar / Richard Ford -- Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff -- The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- The Reach / Stephen King -- Filthy with Things / T. C. Boyle -- Today Will Be a Quiet Day / Amy Hempel -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- The Drowned Life / Jeffrey Ford -- Children as Enemies / Ha Jin -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- Good People / David Foster Wallace -- Mercy / Pinckney Benedict -- Hell-Heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Edison, New Jersey / Junot Diaz |
| Responsibility: | edited by Joyce Carol Oates. |
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<br>"a substantial and superb treasury that will deepen every fiction collection."- Booklist<p><br>"She's provided a roster of authors that is both inclusive and rooted in the desire to showcase some of the best stories Americans have to offer.While this book is most likely to wind up in the hands of students, there's a lot here to recommend to readers in general."--Shelf Awareness<br><p><br>Praise for the first edition: <br><p><br>"Joyce Carol Oates has cast her net further and deeper, drawing from American literature's impressive past and substantial cultural wealth.... Exceptional."--Booklist<br><p><br>"More than a survey of writing styles. It is a celebration of the diversity of American culture."--Denver Post<br><p><br>"Readers who take an encompassing view of American literature and culture will love this book, which brilliantly captures the range and heft of the remarkable American contribution to the short story genre. With penetrating introductions by Joyce Carol Oates to each writer, this is an anthology of the finest kind, a collection of stories dazzling in variety but unified by an editor of singular intelligence and vision."--Arnold Rampersad, Princeton University <br><p><br>"Joyce Carol Oates, a master fabulist who is also one of our finest critics, has given us a treasury that represents the astonishing range of the American short story. But instead of another showcase of 'greatest hits, ' Oates ventures further afield, to uncover a series of neglected but refulgent gems. This is a collection with guts--and brains. Best of all, it's a collection that unfolds, as its editor promises, the larger story of American writing, in all its hues and timbres."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University <br><p><br>"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. Oates has done an outstanding job in making this selection.... She does not always go for the well known st Read more...
