Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Oxford book of American short stories

Oclc number

25282327

Responsibility statement

edited by Joyce Carol Oates

Table Of Contents

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- a white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The strength of God / Sherwood AndersonA death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The 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 -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles -- A late encounter with the enemy / Falnnery O'Connor -- Sony'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 WeltyThe lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- The death of Justina / John Cheever -- Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The school / Donald Barthelme / The persistence of desire / John Updike -- Alaska / Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Gravity / David LeavittThe house on Mango Street; What Sally said; Linoleum roses; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict

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