This new 10th edition of FICTION 100: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION is a cause for celebration. With it's publication, FICTION 100 has been in print for thirty years, and from the beginning, it has continued to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence. The stories included in this 10th Edition represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style as well as a broad selection of newer and contemporary stories. This collection of stories "speak to each other," to the classroom, and to the student and suggests the direction in which short fiction is moving as we slip into and through the first decade of the new millennium.

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• NEW - 20 stories—Featuring stories by Alice Adams, Sherman Alexie, John Barth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Raymond Carver, Grace Stone Coates, Alice Elliott Dark, Stephen Dobyns, Tom Drury, Richard Ford, Ha Jin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Lorrie Moore, H.H. Munro (“Saki”), Tom O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Annie Proulx, June Spence, Dorothy West, and Tobias Wolf.

  • Gives students an excellent selection of new material in a clear, compelling format.

• NEW - Revised Reader's Guide to the Short Story for students—Comes free with every text.

  • Gives students a detailed discussion of how to read and write about short fiction.

• NEW - Revised Instructor's Manual —Contains a discussion of the three most frequently-used approaches to short fiction—the analytical, the thematic, and the historical; a discussion of student response to literature and additional activities; a discussion of electronic resources for teachers; brief critical commentaries on the stories themselves; and a comprehensive bibliography of short story criticism keyed to the stories in the text.

  • Provides instructors with valuable course support.

• Short story handbook at end.

  • Provides students with a comprehensive, at-hand glossary for studying literature; and includes updated “Biographical Notes” that introduce students to the life and times of the authors presented.

• Chronologically organized Table of Contents—Presented at the back of the text.

  • Offers flexibility for students and instructors.