Book

The Oxford book of American short stories / edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0195070658
Physical Description: xiv, 768 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Oxford University Press, 1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes author index.

Includes index. In Memory of John Stoika from Marie Thomas and Linda Thomas.

Formatted Contents Note:

House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; House of my own / Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict.

Lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- Death of Justina / John Cheever -- Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin -- School / Donald Barthelme / Persistence of desire / John Updike -- Alaska / Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Gravity / David Leavitt --

Death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Girl with a pimply face / William Carlos Williams -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Red-headed baby / Langston Hughes -- Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Distant episode / Paul Bowles -- Late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty.

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- Wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Storm / Kate Chopin -- Sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Little regiment / Stephen Crane -- Journey / Edith Wharton -- Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson.