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Talking about fiction
Story form in our time/ Ernest Hemingway
Revenge/ Giraldis Cambrensis
Heart of darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parson
The owl who was God/ James Thurber
Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford
God's country and my people/ Wright Morris
The egg/ Sherwood Anderson
Death in the woods/ Sherwood Anderson
Karl-Yankel/ Isaac Babel
Sonny's blues/ Janes Baldwin
A passion in the desert/ Honoré de Balzac
Life-story/ John Barth
The glass mountain/ Donald Barthelme
Leaving the yellow house/ Saul Bellow
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of Quixote/ Jorge Luis Borges
Rest cure/ Kay Boyle
The exiles/ Ray Bradbury
Where the girls were different/ Erskine Caldwell
A tree of night/ Truman Capote
The biggest band/ R.V. Cassill
The old beauty/ Willa Cather
The fourth alarm/ John Cheever
The lady with the pet dog/ Anton Chekhov
A visit to friends/ Anton Chekhov
The darling/ Anton Chekhov
The star/ Arthur C. Clarke
The notorious jumping from of Calaveras county/ Sameul Clemens (Mark Twain)
Hearts fo darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The babysitter/ Robert Coover
Murphy's Xmas/ Mark Costello
The open boat/ Stephen Crane
The blue hotel/ Stephen Crane
Sorrow-acre/ Isak Dinesen
The peasant Marey/ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A scandal in Bohemia/ Arthur Conan Doyle
The NRACP/ George P. Elliott
King of the bingo game/ Ralph Ellison
A rose for Emily/ William Faulkner
Golden Land/ William Faulkner
Barn burning/ William Faulkner
Roar lion roar/ Irvin Faust
Babylon revisited/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The legend of Saint Julian the hospitaller/ Gustave Flaubert
The road from Colonus/ E.M. Forster
Acceptance of their ways/ Mavis Gallant
The hermit/ Maxim Gorky
Young Goodman Brown/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The birthmark/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway
The lottery/ Shirley Jackson
The tree of knowledge/ Henry James
White rat/ Gayl Jones
Araby/ James Joyce
A little cloud/ James Joyce
The dead/ James Joyce
A hunger Artist/ Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis/ Franz Kafka
Follow the eagle/ William Kotzwinkle
The horse dealer's daughter/ D.H. Lawrence
Tickets, please/ D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence
The new Atlantis/ Ursula K. Le Guin
The black Modonna/ Doris Lessing
The jockey/ Carson McCullers
A solo song: For doc/ James Alan McPherson
The jewbird/ Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow/ Thomas Mann
The garden-party/ Katherine Mansfield
The outstation/ W. Somerset Maugham
The necklace/ Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby the scivener/ Herman Melville
Patriotism/ Yukio Mishima
Signs and symbols/ Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again/ Joyce Carol Oates
A good man in hard to find/ Flannery O'Connor
Everything that rises must converge/ Flannery O'Connor
Parker's back/ Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation/ Frank O'Connor
Tell me a riddle/ Tillie Olsen
The used-boy raisers/ Grace Paley
Big blonde/ Dorothy Parker
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parsons
Call me Monty, and grovel freely/ S.J. Perelman
Fall of the House of Usher/ Edgar Allan Poe
Old mortality/ Katherine Anne Porter
The valiant woman/ J.F. Powers
The conversion of the Jew/ Philip Roth
Love, here is my hat/ William Saroyan
The girls in their summer dresses/ Irwin Shaw
The spinoza of Market street/ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Goin' to town/ Wallace Stegner
The chrysanthemums/ John Steinbeck
Dean of men/ Peter Taylor
The peaches/ Dylan Thomas
You could look it up/ James Thurber
God sees the truth, but waits/ Leo Tolstoy
A & P/ John Updike
The manned missiles/ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The worn path/ Eudora Welty
Powerhouse/ Eudora Welty
Taking care/ Joy Williams
The use of force/ William carlos Williams
Kew Gardens/ Virginia Woolf
The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright
A really good jazz piano/ Richard Yates

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English
Pages
1437

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Cover of: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
1978, W. W. Norton & Company
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Table of Contents

Talking about fiction
Story form in our time/ Ernest Hemingway
Revenge/ Giraldis Cambrensis
Heart of darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parson
The owl who was God/ James Thurber
Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford
God's country and my people/ Wright Morris
The egg/ Sherwood Anderson
Death in the woods/ Sherwood Anderson
Karl-Yankel/ Isaac Babel
Sonny's blues/ Janes Baldwin
A passion in the desert/ Honoré de Balzac
Life-story/ John Barth
The glass mountain/ Donald Barthelme
Leaving the yellow house/ Saul Bellow
An occurrence at owl creek bridge/ Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of Quixote/ Jorge Luis Borges
Rest cure/ Kay Boyle
The exiles/ Ray Bradbury
Where the girls were different/ Erskine Caldwell
A tree of night/ Truman Capote
The biggest band/ R.V. Cassill
The old beauty/ Willa Cather
The fourth alarm/ John Cheever
The lady with the pet dog/ Anton Chekhov
A visit to friends/ Anton Chekhov
The darling/ Anton Chekhov
The star/ Arthur C. Clarke
The notorious jumping from of Calaveras county/ Sameul Clemens (Mark Twain)
Hearts fo darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The babysitter/ Robert Coover
Murphy's Xmas/ Mark Costello
The open boat/ Stephen Crane
The blue hotel/ Stephen Crane
Sorrow-acre/ Isak Dinesen
The peasant Marey/ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A scandal in Bohemia/ Arthur Conan Doyle
The NRACP/ George P. Elliott
King of the bingo game/ Ralph Ellison
A rose for Emily/ William Faulkner
Golden Land/ William Faulkner
Barn burning/ William Faulkner
Roar lion roar/ Irvin Faust
Babylon revisited/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The legen of Saint Julian the hospitaller/ Gustave Flaubert
The road from Colonus/ E.M. Forster
Acceptance of their ways/ Mavis Gallant
The hermit/ Maxim Gorky
Young Goodman Brown/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The birthmark/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway
The lottery/ Shirley Jackson
The tree of knowledge/ Henry James
White rat/ Gayl Jones
Araby/ James Joyce
A little cloud/ James Joyce
The dead/ James Joyce
A hunger Artist/ Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis/ Franz Kafka
Follow the eagle/ William Kotzwinkle
The horse dealer's daughter/ D.H. Lawrence
Tickets, please/ D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence
The new Atlantis/ Ursula K. Le Guin
The black Modonna/ Doris Lessing
The jockey/ Carson McCullers
A solo song: For doc/ James Alan McPherson
The jewbird/ Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow/ Thomas Mann
The garden-party/ Katherine Mansfield
The outstation/ W. Somerset Maugham
The necklace/ Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby the scivener/ Herman Melville
Patriotism/ Yukio Mishima
Signs and symbols/ Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again/ Joyce Carol Oates
A good man in hard to find/ Flannery O'Connor
Everything that rises must converge/ Flannery O'Connor
Parker's back/ Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation/ Frank O'Connor
Tell me a riddle/ Tillie Olsen
The used-boy raisers/ Grace Paley
Big blonde/ Dorothy Parker
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parsons
Call me Monty, and grovel freely/ S.J. Perelman
The fall of the house of usher/ Edgar Allan Poe
Old mortality/ Katherine Anne Porter
The valiant woman/ J.F. Powers
The conversion of the Jew/ Philip Roth
Love, here is my hat/ William Saroyan
The girls in their summer dresses/ Irwin Shaw
The spinoza of Market street/ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Goin' to town/ Wallace Stegner
The chrysanthemums/ John Steinbeck
Dean of men/ Peter Taylor
The peaches/ Dylan Thomas
You could look it up/ James Thurber
God sees the truth, but waits/ Leo Tolstoy
A & P/ John Updike
The manned missiles/ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The worn path/ Eudora Welty
Powerhouse/ Eudora Welty
Taking care/ Joy Williams
The use of force/ William carlos Williams
Kew Gardens/ Virginia Woolf
The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright
A really good jazz piano/ Richard Yates

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Copyright Date
1978

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83/1
Library of Congress
PZ1 .N834 1978, PN6014 .N834 1978

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxxiv, 1437 p. ;
Number of pages
1437

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4544452M
ISBN 10
0393090728
ISBN 13
9780393090727
LCCN
77011970
OCLC/WorldCat
31434576, 3223769
Library Thing
225237
Goodreads
2885949

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