Fiction: A Pocket Anthology: Third Edition

by R.S. Gwynn (Editor)

he third edition of Fiction: A Pocket Anthology offers students a rich selection of both classic and contemporary short fiction, as well as a comprehensive introduction to the elements of that genre.

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Mother Savage / Guy de Maupassant --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
An upheaval / Anton Chekhov --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Eveline / James Joyce --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
Sweat 142 / Zora Neale Hurston --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright --
Livvie / Eudora Welty --
Reunion / John Cheever --
The guest / Albert Camus --
A party down at the square / Ralph Ellison --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --
Vandals / Alice Munro --
A & P / John Updike --
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
Died and gone to Vegas / Tim Gautreaux --
Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb --
Two kinds / Amy Tan --
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros --
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich --
How to talk to your mother (notes) / Lorrie Moore.

Genres: Fiction

436 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

R.S. Gwynn, known as a "new formalist" poet, received a BA from Davidson College, where he twice won the Vereen Bell Award for Creative Writing, and he earned both an MA and an MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he won the John Gould Fletcher Award for Poetry. Gwynn has also won the Michael Braude Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of several collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems 1970–2000; The Narcissiad (1982), a book-length satirical poem; and The Drive-In (1986), winner of the Breakthrough Award from the University of Missouri Press. Gwynn has taught at Lamar University since 1976. He lives in Beaumont, Texas.

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Been chipping away at this one for a hot sec — v glad that it’s had my back thru first year :’)

[林 · Rating 5 out of 5]

i really liked it. i thought it was comprehensive & yet succinct. there wasn't too much elaboration on technique, but for every short story in this collection, there is a neat author's background, which helped me understand a lot better how the respective short stories were written. i honestly felt inspired by some of them (:

[Jonathan]

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