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Tables of Contents for The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chronological Table of Contents
xi
Preface
xvii
Preface to the Fifth Edition
xix
Talking about Fiction
xxiii
Character and Setting
xxiii
Action, Plot, and Complication
xxv
Point of View
xxvi
Indirection
xxix
The Part and The Whole
xxxi
Coherence
xxxiii
I Want to Know Why
1
9
Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
10
15
Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues
25
27
James Baldwin
Gorilla, My Love
52
6
Toni Cade Bambara
Me and Miss Mandible
58
10
Donald Barthelme
Janus
68
5
Ann Beattie
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
73
9
Ambrose Bierce
Identity
82
9
Clark Blaise
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
91
9
Jorge Luis Borges
The Veldt
100
13
Ray Bradbury
Bigfoot Stole My Wife
113
3
Ron Carlson
I Am Bigfoot
116
3
Cathedral
119
12
Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From
131
13
The Father
144
20
R. V. Cassill
Paul's Case
164
18
Willa Cather
The Enormous Radio
182
9
John Cheever
The Five-Forty-Eight
191
12
The Lady with the Dog
203
14
Anton Chekhov
The Darling
217
11
The Story of an Hour
228
3
Kate Chopin
The Motor Car
231
16
Austin C. Clarke
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
247
6
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Heart of Darkness
253
71
Joseph Conrad
The Babysitter
324
22
Robert Coover
A Continuity of Parks
346
2
Julio Cortazar
The Open Boat
348
20
Stephen Crane
The Blue Hotel
368
24
Horizontal Snow
392
9
Rick DeMarinis
Sorrow-Acre
401
27
Isak Dinesen
The Lost Phoebe
428
13
Theodore Dreiser
King of the Bingo Game
441
9
Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito
450
15
Louise Erdrich
A Rose for Emily
465
8
William Faulkner
Barn Burning
473
15
The Bear
488
85
To Byzantium
573
12
Andrew Fetler
Dreams
585
18
Timothy Findley
Babylon Revisited
603
18
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Colonel
621
2
Carolyn Forche
Great Falls
623
14
Richard Ford
The Road from Colonus
637
10
E. M. Forster
A New England Nun
647
11
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
My Heart Is Broken
658
7
Mavis Gallant
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
665
6
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Evening Performance
671
8
George Garrett
The Yellow Wallpaper
679
15
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Soldier's Embrace
694
13
Nadine Gordimer
Testimony of Pilot
707
21
Barry Hannah
Wedding Night
728
2
Tom Hawkins
Young Goodman Brown
730
11
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birthmark
741
14
Hills Like White Elephants
755
5
Ernest Hemingway
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
760
8
Amy Hempel
Brilliant Silence
768
2
Spencer Holst
The Conscience of the Court
770
12
Zora Neale Hurston
The Lottery
782
8
Shirley Jackson
The Tree of Knowledge
790
13
Henry James
Araby
803
5
James Joyce
A Little Cloud
808
11
The Dead
819
35
The Metamorphosis
854
38
Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist
892
8
Girl
900
2
Jamaica Kincaid
The Man Who Would Be King
902
28
Rudyard Kipling
The Loons
930
9
Margaret Laurence
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
939
14
D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner
953
14
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
967
6
Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen
973
28
Doris Lessing
The Fifth Story
1001
3
Clarice Lispector
Gold Coast
1004
19
James Alan McPherson
Angel Levine
1023
9
Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice
1032
54
Thomas Mann
Bliss
1086
11
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden-Party
1097
13
Shiloh
1110
13
Bobbie Ann Mason
The Necklace
1123
8
Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the Scrivener
1131
31
Herman Melville
Patriotism
1162
21
Yukio Mishima
The Management of Grief
1183
14
Bharati Mukherjee
Royal Beatings
1197
18
Alice Munro
Prue
1215
5
Signs and Symbols
1220
6
Vladimir Nabokov
Lucielia Louise Turner
1226
13
Gloria Naylor
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
1239
14
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried
1253
15
Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
1268
13
Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge
1281
13
Parker's Back
1294
17
Guests of the Nation
1311
10
Frank O'Connor
My Oedipus Complex
1321
10
Tell Me a Riddle
1331
32
Tillie Olsen
The Used-Boy Raisers
1363
6
Grace Paley
War
1369
4
Luigi Pirandello
The Fall of the House of Usher
1373
16
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
1389
16
Theft
1405
6
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
1411
11
The Conversion of the Jews
1422
13
Philip Roth
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis
1435
3
Jo Sapp
Gimpel the Fool
1438
12
Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the Zoo
1450
18
Jean Stafford
The Chrysanthemums
1468
10
John Steinbeck
Rules of the Game
1478
10
Amy Tan
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1488
5
James Thurber
The Death of Ivan Ilych
1493
47
Leo Tolstoy
A & P
1540
7
John Updike
Reunion
1547
11
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Everyday Use
1558
8
Alice Walker
Voke-Tech
1566
11
Theodore Weesner
Why I Live at the P.O.
1577
10
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
1587
8
The Use of Force
1595
4
William Carlos Williams
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
1599
10
Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens
1609
6
Virginia Woolf
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1615
38
Richard Wright
Writing about Fiction
1627
11
Reviewing a Story
1628
2
Critical Concentration
1630
4
The Hand-to-Hand Engagement
1634
4
Writing Fiction
1638
14
Imitation and Comparison
1639
4
Story-Generating Models
1643
2
Models for Revision
1645
7
Writers on Writing
1652
1
Why Do You Write?
1653
1
Margaret Atwood
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?
1653
1
Toni Cade Bambara
On Writing
1654
4
Raymond Carver
What Happened
1658
5
John Cheever
Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
1661
2
A Familiar Preface
1663
6
Joseph Conrad
An Interview with Ralph Ellison
1666
3
Who's Who---and Why
1669
5
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Interview with Ernest Hemingway
1671
3
The Art of Fiction
1674
3
Henry James
Why the Novel Matters
1677
4
D. H. Lawrence
An Interview with Doris Lessing
1678
3
The Novel
1681
2
Guy de Maupassant
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman
1683
2
Bharati Mukherjee
What Is Read?
1685
4
Alice Munro
The Nature and Aim of Fiction
1689
1
Flannery O'Connor
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales
1690
8
Edgar Allan Poe
An Interview with Katherine Anne Porter
1693
3
An Interview with James Thurber
1696
2
What is Art?
1698
5
Leo Tolstoy
An Interview with Eudora Welty
1700
3
Glossary of Critical Terms
1703
14
Index of Titles
1717