The Norton anthology of short fiction / [compiled by] R.V. Cassill.

Contributor(s): Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002 Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Norton, c1981. Edition: 2nd ed., shorterDescription: xxxiii, 1523 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0393951782; 0393951820; 9780393951783Subject(s): Short storiesDDC classification: 808.831 LOC classification: PN6120.2 | .N59 1981Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC A Giant Step for Mankind / Woody Allen -- The Egg / Sherwood Anderson -- I Want to Know Why / Sherwood Anderson -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- A Passion in the Desert / Honore de Balzac -- The Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Leaving the Yellow House / Saul Bellow -- An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- The Veldt / Ray Bradbury -- Let Me Promise You / Morley Callaghan -- The Biggest Band / R.V. Cassill -- Paul's Case / Willa Cather -- The Old Beauty / Willa Cather -- The Enormous Radio / John Cheever -- The Fourth Alarm / John Cheever -- The Lady with the Pet Dog / Anton Chekhov -- A visit to Friends / Anton Chekhov -- The Darling / Anton Chekhov -- Desiree Baby / Kate Chopin -- The Star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain) -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conard -- The Babysitter / Robert Coover -- Murphy's Xmas / Mark Costello -- The Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- The Blue Hotel / Stephen Crane -- Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen -- A Scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle -- King of the Bingo Game / Ralph Ellison -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Barn Burning / William Faulkner -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert -- The Road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- The Revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Acceptance of Their Ways / Mavis Gallant -- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The Hermit / Maxim Gorky -- A view of the Beach / James B. Hall -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorn -- The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorn -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The Monkey's Paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The Tree of Knowledge / Henry James -- The Jolly Corner / Henry James -- The Flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah Oorne Jewett -- Araby / James Joyce -- A little Cloud / James Joyce -- The Dead / James JOyce -- The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafta -- A Hunger Artist / Franz Kafta -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- The Loons / Margaret Laurence -- Tickets, Please / D.H. Lawrence -- The Horse Dealer's Daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The Marine Excursion of the Kknights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock -- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing -- The Jockey / Carson McCullers -- Gold Coast / 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 / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Royal Beatings / Aalice Munro -- Signs and Symbols / Vladimir Nabokov -- How I Contemplated the World from the Detriot House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again / Joyce Carol Oates -- A Goodman Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor -- Everything that Rises Must Converge / Flannery O'Connor -- Parker's Back / Flannery O'Connor -- Tell Me a Riddle / Tillie Olsen -- The Used-Boy Raisers / Grace Paley -- Big Blonde / Dorothy Parker -- A Boone Counrty Parable / William Peden -- Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Valiant Woman / J.F. Powers -- The Conversion of Jews / The Open Window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The Horsebreaker / Max Schott -- The Girls in Their Summer Dresses / Irwin Shaw -- The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- In the Zoo / Jean Stafford -- The Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Dean of Men / Peter Taylor -- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- God Sees the Truth, But Waits / Loe Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych -- A . P / John Uplike -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- A Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- The Muse's Tragedy / Edith Wharton -- A Game of Catch / Richard Wilbur -- The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright.

Summary: Summary: A one-volume source of models for students of fiction writing.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	808.31 CAN 1981 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		5860

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Includes index.

TOC A Giant Step for Mankind / Woody Allen --
The Egg / Sherwood Anderson --
I Want to Know Why / Sherwood Anderson --
Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin --
A Passion in the Desert / Honore de Balzac --
The Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme --
Leaving the Yellow House / Saul Bellow --
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges --
The Veldt / Ray Bradbury --
Let Me Promise You / Morley Callaghan --
The Biggest Band / R.V. Cassill --
Paul's Case / Willa Cather --
The Old Beauty / Willa Cather --
The Enormous Radio / John Cheever --
The Fourth Alarm / John Cheever --
The Lady with the Pet Dog / Anton Chekhov --
A visit to Friends / Anton Chekhov --
The Darling / Anton Chekhov --
Desiree Baby / Kate Chopin --
The Star / Arthur C. Clarke --
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain) --
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conard --
The Babysitter / Robert Coover --
Murphy's Xmas / Mark Costello --
The Open Boat / Stephen Crane --
The Blue Hotel / Stephen Crane --
Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen --
A Scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle --
King of the Bingo Game / Ralph Ellison --
A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
That Evening Sun / William Faulkner --
Barn Burning / William Faulkner --
Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert --
The Road from Colonus / E.M. Forster --
The Revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
Acceptance of Their Ways / Mavis Gallant --
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
The Hermit / Maxim Gorky --
A view of the Beach / James B. Hall --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorn --
The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorn --
Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
The Lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The Monkey's Paw / W.W. Jacobs --
The Tree of Knowledge / Henry James --
The Jolly Corner / Henry James --
The Flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah Oorne Jewett --
Araby / James Joyce --
A little Cloud / James Joyce --
The Dead / James JOyce --
The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafta --
A Hunger Artist / Franz Kafta --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
The Loons / Margaret Laurence --
Tickets, Please / D.H. Lawrence --
The Horse Dealer's Daughter / D.H. Lawrence --
The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The Marine Excursion of the Kknights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock --
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --
To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing --
The Jockey / Carson McCullers --
Gold Coast / 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 / Herman Melville --
Patriotism / Yukio Mishima --
Royal Beatings / Aalice Munro --
Signs and Symbols / Vladimir Nabokov --
How I Contemplated the World from the Detriot House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again / Joyce Carol Oates --
A Goodman Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor --
Everything that Rises Must Converge / Flannery O'Connor --
Parker's Back / Flannery O'Connor --
Tell Me a Riddle / Tillie Olsen --
The Used-Boy Raisers / Grace Paley --
Big Blonde / Dorothy Parker --
A Boone Counrty Parable / William Peden --
Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips --
The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
The Valiant Woman / J.F. Powers --
The Conversion of Jews / The Open Window / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The Horsebreaker / Max Schott --
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses / Irwin Shaw --
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
In the Zoo / Jean Stafford --
The Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Dean of Men / Peter Taylor --
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
God Sees the Truth, But Waits / Loe Tolstoy --
The Death of Ivan Ilych --
A . P / John Uplike --
Everyday Use / Alice Walker --
Powerhouse / Eudora Welty --
A Worn Path / Eudora Welty --
The Muse's Tragedy / Edith Wharton --
A Game of Catch / Richard Wilbur --
The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams --
Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf --
The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright.

Summary:
A one-volume source of models for students of fiction writing.

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