The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

by R.V. Cassill (Editor)

A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure and unencumbered by excessive editorial commentary. This new Sixth Edition continues to abide by R.V. Cassill's initial plan: "to put together a very large group of stories that would, in detail and overall design, express both the living tradition of short fiction and the culture of which it is a part."

Contents:

I want to know why by Sherwood Anderson
Death by landscape by Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues by James Baldwin
Gorilla, my love by Toni Cade Bambara
The littoral zone by Andrea Barrett
Me and Miss Mandible by Donald Barthelme
The disappeared by Charles Baxter
Snow by Ann Beattie
Witness by Madison Smartt Bell
Who is it can tell me who I am? by Gina Berriault
An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Silver Water by Amy Bloom
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
The veldt by Ray Bradbury
Pagan night by Kate Braverman
The gentleman from San Francisco by Ivan Bunin
Gina Berriault on "The gentleman of San Francisco"
Bread by Frederick Busch
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The rationing of love by R. V. Cassill
Paul's case by Willa Cather
Andrea Barrett on "Paul's case"
The enormous radio by John Cheever
The lady with the dog ; Gusev by Anton Chekhov
Richard Bausch on "Gusev"
The story of an hour by Kate Chopin
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad
Barry Hannah on "Heart of darkness"
The babysitter by Robert Coover
A continuity of parks by Julio Cortázar
The open boat by Stephen Crane
Allan Gurganus on "The open boat"
The blue hotel by Stephen Crane
Open winter by H. L. Davis
Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dineson
Tobias Wolf on "Sorrow-Acre"
Public appearances by Susan Dodd
The intruder by Andre Dubus
We didn't by Stuart Dybek
King of the bingo game by Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito by Louise Erdrich
Barn burning ; The bear by William Faulkner
Dreams by Timothy Findley
Babylon revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Falls by Richard Ford
The road from Colonus by E. M. Forster
A New England nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Bernadette by Mavis Gallant
The handsomest drowned man in the world by Gabriel García Márquez
Wounded soldier by George Garrett
Madison Smartt Bell on "Wounded soldier"
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A soldier's embrace by Nadine Gordimer
Ghost and flesh, water and dirt by William Goyen
George Garrett on "Ghost and flesh, water and dirt"
Nativity, Caucasian by Allan Gurganus
Testimony of a pilot by Barry Hannah
Wedding night by Tom Hawkins
Young Goodman Brown ; The birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemingway
[cont.] Frederick Busch on "Hills like white elephants"
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried by Amy Hempel
The conscience of the court by Zora Neale Hurston
The lottery by Shirley Jackson
Greville Fane by Henry James
Passion by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Moving pictures by Charles Johnson
A new man by Edward P. Jones
The pugilist at rest by Thom Jones
Araby ; A little cloud ; The dead by James Joyce
The metamorphosis ; A hunger artist by Franz Kafka
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
The man who would be king by Rudyard Kipling
Jewel of the moon by William Kotzwinkle
My life as a mollusk by Patricia Landers
The horse dealer's daughter by D.H. Lawrence
The Coggios by Sharyn Layfield
Gravity by David Leavitt
The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
To room nineteen by Doris Lessing
Brief lives in California by John L'Heureux
My father's Chinese wives by Sandra Tsing Loh
The Chevigny man by Robie Macauley
Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
Boule de suif by Guy de Maupassant
The thistles in Sweden by William Maxwell
Charles Baxter on "The thistles in Sweden"
Bartleby, the scrivener by Herman Melville
The management of grief by Bharati Mukherjee
Richard Ford on "The management of grief"
Royal beatings ; Prue by Alice Munro
Signs and symbols by Vladimir Nabokov
The several blessings of Want Ta-nien by Hua-Ling Nieh
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again by Joyce Carol Oates
The things they carried by Tim O'Brien
A good man is hard to find by Flannery O'Connor
Lee Smith on "A good man is hard to find"
Everything that rises must converge by Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation by Frank O'Connor
Edward P. Jones on "Guests of the nation"
Tell me a riddle by Tillie Olsen
War by Luigi Pirandello
The fall of the house of Usher ; The purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter
The fall by V. S. Pritchett
The conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth
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Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Anthologies, Textbooks, Literary Fiction, Classics

Paperback

Published February 1, 2000

About the author

Ronald Verlin Cassill, Professor of English at Brown University, was a novelist and anthologist.

Reviews

[Hafeez · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a sampling!

[Laurel · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great overview of one of my favorite genres: the short story. i think it's a necessary addition to your book collection.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

en211 fiction (boshoff)

[Ellis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gak, I am all short story collection-ed out.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

one of my fave anthologies

[Albie]

Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth Edition (2000)

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-reading Amy Tan's Rules of the Game. Loved this short, the first time I read it, now I don't remember why it affected me so much. Maybe it was just pertinent for the time.

[Rafael Sanchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

good stories, but this version seems incomplete. will use longer version next semester.