The Norton anthology of short fiction

Preface to the third edition

Talking about fiction

I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson

Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin

A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac

Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow

An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce

Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges

The veldt / Ray Bradbury

Now that April's here / Morley Callaghan

Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver

The father / R.V. Cassill

Paul's case / 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

Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin

The star / Arthur C. Clarke

The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

The corset / Evan S. Connell

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad

The babysitter / Robert Coover

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

Barn burning / William Faulkner

The bear / 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

Merry Christmas God / Larry French

My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant

The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel

Sea treader / William Hoffman

The lottery / Shirley Jackson

The Tree of Knowledge / Henry James

The jolly corner / Henry James

Araby / James Joyce

A little cloud / James Joyce

The dead / James Joyce

The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka

A hunger artist / Franz Kafka

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 ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin

To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing

The liar's craft / Sara McAulay

Gold coast / James Alan McPherson

The jewbird / Bernard Malamud

Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann

Bliss / Katherine Mansfield

The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield

Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason

The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham

The necklace / Guy de Maupassant

Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville

Patriotism / Yukio Mishima

Royal beatings / Alice Munro

Prue / Alice Munro

Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov

How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates

A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor

Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor

Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor

Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor

My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor

Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen

The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley

Emotion recollected in tranquility / Jonathan Penner

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

Coach / Mary Robison

The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth

The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)

The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw

Love and other lessons / Janet Beeler Shaw

The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the zoo / Jean Stafford

The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck

Miss Leonora when last seen / Peter Taylor

The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber

The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy

A & P / John Updike

Everyday use / Alice Walker

Powerhouse / Eudora Welty

A worn path / Eudora Welty

The muse's tragedy / Edith Wharton

The use of force / William Carlos Williams

Wasps / Robley Wilson, Jr.

In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff

Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf

The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright

Writing fiction

Glossary of critical terms.