The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

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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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W)/ Arthur Conan Doyle The NRACP/ George P. Elliott King of the bingo game/ Ralph Ellison [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner Golden Land/ William Faulkner [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W)/ 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway The lottery/ Shirley Jackson The tree of knowledge/ Henry James White rat/ Gayl Jones [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W)/ James Joyce [A little cloud](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179222W)/ James Joyce [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W)/ 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)/ 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)/ 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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