The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story

by Caroline Gordon (Editor), Allen Tate (Editor)

Second edition. A Simple Heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Shadow / Hans Christian Andersen -- Byézhin Meadow / Ivan Turgenev -- On the Road / Anton Chekhov -- The Story of a Farm Girl / Guy de Maupassant -- The Beast in the Jungle / Henry James -- The Dead / James Joyce -- The Hunter Gracchus / Franz Kafka -- The Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- Old Mortality / Katherine Anne Porter -- Spotted Horses / William Faulkner -- Lions, Harts, Leaping Does / J.F. Powers -- The Headless Hawk / Truman Capote -- A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- Tabusse and His Dogs / André Chamson -- The Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Where a Man Dwells / Herbert Gold -- The Proud Suitor / James Buechler

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Anthologies

469 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

Caroline Gordon was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934.