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Fiction: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics)

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pp.31 YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
pp.44 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER--Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
pp.63 MOTHER SAVAGE--Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
pp.70 THE STORY OF AN HOUR--Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
pp.73 AN UPHEAVAL--Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
pp.81 ROMAN FEVER--Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
pp.94 PAUL'S CASE--Willa Cather (1873-1947)
pp.113 EVELINE--James Joyce (1882-1941)
pp.118 THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER--D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
pp.133 THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL--Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980)
pp.142 SWEAT--Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
pp.154 A ROSE FOR EMILY--William Faulkner (1897-1961)
pp.164 HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
pp.169 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK--Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
pp.175 THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS--John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
pp.186 THE MAN WHO WAS ALMOST A MAN--Richard Wright (1908-1960)
pp.198 LIVVIE--Eudora Welty (B. 1909)
pp.212 REUINON--John Cheever (1912-1982)
pp.215 THE GUEST--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
pp.228 A PARTY DOWN AT THE SQUARE--Ralph Ellison (1914-1995)
pp.235 THE LOTTERY--Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)
pp.244 A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND--Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
pp.260 A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS--Gabriel García Márquez (B. 1928)
pp.267 DEAD MAN'S PATH--Chinua Achebe (B. 1930)
pp.271 VANDALS--Alice Munro (B. 1931)
pp.297 A & P--John Updike (B. 1932)
pp.304 A SMALL, GOOD THING--Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
pp.327 WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?--Joyce Carol Oates (B. 1938)
pp.344 HAPPY ENDINGS--Margaret Atwood (B. 1939)
pp.348 SHILOH--Bobbie Ann Mason (B. 1940)
pp.362 EVERYDAY USE--Alice Walker (B. 1944)
pp.371 DIED AND GONE TO VEGAS--Tim Gautreaux (B. 1947)
pp.388 LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE--Dagoberto Gilb (B. 1950)
pp.399 TWO KINDS--Amy Tan (B. 1952)
pp.410 BARBIE-Q--Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954)
pp.412 THE RED CONVERTIBLE--Louise Erdrich (B. 1954)
pp.422 HOW TO TALK TO YOUR MOTHER (NOTES)--Lorrie Moore (B. 1954)

I bought this anthology used and it was obviously a former text book. I really enjoy it. While I greatly appreciate and adore full-length classic literature, short stories are a wonderful compromise for the times you don't want to be fully involved in a novel and neither want to read twaddle. Great authors with little commitment.

Editor R.S. Gwynn has chosen really wonderful samplings from a rather wide range of writers. Many women, non-whites, non-English-speakers... et cetera, should that aspect concern you. Each piece is prefaced with a short, non-intrusive biography of the author.

Certainly, authors/stories are absent, but I don't think it detracts from the value of this collection. It really is a lovely little book into which to nestle.

The collected works here are fantastic. Unfortunately it is well over-priced. This anthology is required reading for a class I am taking so in order to save frustration in searching out each individual title I purchased the book. But had it been available at the library I would have checked it out instead.

Wonderful collection of the most important short stories in this century.

The delivery is late, though! But I'm in Asia, so it's fine.

Highly recommended!