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American Short Stories 7/e
Bert Hitchcock
Current-Garcia
Virginia M. Kouidis
Published December 2001 by Longman
Copyright 2002, 784 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-08056-4
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$61.00
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Summary

With its historical thrust, chronological organization, and attention to "classic" works, American Short Stories offers a discriminating collection of both canonical and recent stories in a brief anthology made all the more flexible by its streamlined apparatus. KEY TOPICS: Enriched Selection of Stories and Authors: more contemporary authors and an increased representation of ethnically diverse writers, with two stories per major author. The introductions of the five time periods clarify the two-hundred year history of the American short story, its developing forms, and enduring themes. Head notes introduce each writer. New author quotes, commentary, and biographical information help readers place the authors in relation to his/her time period, in relation to other writers, and to American literature in general. MARKET: For anyone interested in fiction or American literature.

Features

  • Organized Chronologically. The seventh edition is divided into five historical periods: 1820-1890; 1890-1920; 1920-1940; 1940-1980; 1980-present.
  • Enriched Selection of Stories and Authors. Representing a wide range of forms, themes, and genres, the stories range from journey stories to encounters with mysterious strangers, the coming-of-age tale, ghost stories, race against time stories, studies in the grotesque, stories in the detective genre, the absurd, Old Southwestern humor, social satire, the familiar, the exotic...it's all here.
  • NEW - NEW! More Contemporary Stories. The contemporary section of the anthology has the largest selection, four more stories than in the previous edition.
  • NEW - NEW! Increased Representation of Ethnically Diverse Writers. The stories included in the seventh edition reflect a rich array of writers and themes in terms of gender, ethnical, regional, and racial diversity.
  • NEW - NEW! Enhanced Introductions and Headnotes. The introductions of the five time periods clarify the two-hundred year history of the American short story, its developing forms, and enduring themes. Head notes introduce each writer. New author quotes, commentary, and biographical information help students place the authors in relation to his/her time period, in relation to other writers, and to American literature in general.
  • NEW - NEW! Improved Suggestions for Discussion and Writing Questions. While retaining its useful but non-intrusive apparatus, the questions in this new edition stimulate fruitful class discussion and writing exercises.
Table of Contents

(* Denotes stories that are new to this anthology.)

I. Section One (1820-1890)—Romanticism and Realism.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (1783-1859).

Young Goodman Brown, The Birth Mark,* Nathaniel Hawthorne (1809-1864).

The Black Cat, The Purloined Letter,* Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville (1819-1891).

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910).

The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Bret Harte (1835-1902).

Europe, Henry James (1843-1916).

A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909).

The Passing of Grandison, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932).



II. Section Two (1890-1920)—Maturation and Seasoning.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914).

The Storm, At the 'Cadian Ball,* Kate Chopin (1851-1904).

The Revolt of 'Mother',* Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930).

The Yellow Wallpaper,* Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).

The Caballero's Way, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910).

The Other Two, Edith Wharton (1862-1937).

The Blue Hotel,* Stephen Crane (1871-1900).

Paul's Case, Willa Cather (1873-1947).

To Build a Fire, Jack London (1876-1916).

Paper Pills,* Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).

A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948).



III. Section Three (1920-1940)—Modernist Voices.

The Use of Force,* William Carlos Williams (1883-1963).

The Grave, Katherine Anne Porter (1896-1986).

The Gilded Six-Bits, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960).

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber (1894-1961).

Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).

Barn Burning, William Faulkner (1897-1962).

Hills Like White Elephants,* Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).

The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck (1902-1968).

Thank You, Ma'm, Langston Hughes (1902-1967).

Big Boy Leaves Home,* Richard Wright (1908-1960).



IV. Section Four (1940-1980)—Tradition and Innovation.

The Hitch-Hikers*, Eudora Welty (1909-).

The Swimmer, John Cheever (1912-1982).

The Magic Barrel,* Bernard Malamud (1914-1986).

Samuel, Grace Paley (1922-).

Sonny's Blues,* James Baldwin (1924-1987).

Revelation,* Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,* Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-).

The School, Donald Barthelme (1931-1989).

Cartoon,* Robert Coover (1932-).

A & P, John Updike (1932-).

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates (1938-).

A Girl's Story, Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995).



V. Section Five (1980-present)—Contemporary Diversity.

Boxes, Raymond Carver (1938-1988).

Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-).

Nineteen Fifty-Five,* Alice Walker (1944-).

Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolff (1945-).

The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1946-).

Gryphon, Charles Baxter (1947-).

The Reach,* Stephen King (1947-).

The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists,* Lydia Davis (1947-).

De Rerum Natura,* T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948).

Cheers, Jayne Anne Phillips (1952-).

Pet Fly,* Walter Mosley (1952-).

Fleur, Louise Erdrich (1954-).

Cariboo Café,* Helena María Viramontes (1954-).

Cíudad Juárez,* Elizabeth Tallent (1954-).

Birthmates,* Gish Jen (1956-).

This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,* Sherman Alexie (1966-).

This Blessed House,* Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-).
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