Synopses & Reviews
Economical in both size and price,
40 Short Stories offers a well-chosen array of popular and significant stories, enhanced by unobtrusive but effective editorial features.
This volume in Bedford/St. Martins series of Portable Anthologies and Portable Guides offers the series trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers of literature and composition and their cost-conscious students.
Synopsis
Forty highly popular and teachable short stories are gathered in this portable and economical volume.
About the Author
BEVERLY LAWN (Ph.D. SUNY-Stony Brook), Professor of English Emerita, taught introductory fiction courses at Adelphi University for almost three decades. Editor or co-editor several literature anthologies, including
Literature: A Portable Anthology, she is also the author of
Throat of Feathers, a book of poems.
Table of Contents
Preface Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Edgar Allan Poe, A Cask of Amontillado
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
* Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
* Anton Chekhov, A Blunder
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Willa Cather, Pauls Case
James Joyce, Araby
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
* D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
* Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
James Baldwin, Sonnys Blues
* Flannery OConnor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
* Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
John Updike, A & P
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
* Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
* Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Tim OBrien, The Things They Carried
* Zoe Wicomb, You Cant Get Lost in Capetown
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
* Murthan Mungan, Muradhan and Selvihan or The Tale of the Crystal Kiosk
* Ha Jin, The Bridegroom
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
* Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
* Edwidge Danticat, Night Women
* Writing about Short Stories
Biographical Notes on the Authors Glossary of Literary Terms Index of Authors and Titles
* new to this edition