The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition

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Stories I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson Death by Landscape Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin Gorilla, my love Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara Snow / Ann Beattie [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges Miriam /Truman Capote Cathedral Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver Paul's case Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather Enormous radio / John Cheever Lady with the dog Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov [Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Heart of darkness Related: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' Letter to Barrett H Clark Barry Hannah on heart of darkness C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar Open boat Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard Allan Gurganus on the open boat Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat Intruder / Andre Dubus King of the bingo game Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) [Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald Great falls Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's Management of grief / Richard Ford Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) [Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) Related: C C Loomis, Jr., structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James Joyce Metamorphosis Hunger artist Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor Kafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz Kafka White horse / Yasunari Kawabata Girl / Jamaica Kincaid Horse dealer's daughter Rocking horse winner Related: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH Lawrence Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le Guin Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud Disorder and early sorrow Related: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas Mann Bliss / Katherine Mansfield Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason Adventure in Paris Related: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De Maupassant Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) Related: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman Melville Management of grief Related: Richard Ford on the Management of grief Mukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee Royal beatings Related: Munro, What is real? / Alice Munro Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again Related: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates Things they carried / Tim O'Brien Good man is hard to find Everything that rises must converge Related: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fiction Lee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation Related: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor O yes / Tillie Olsen [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Related: Poe, the Philosophy of composition Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales Richard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan Poe Jilting of Granny Weatherall Related: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne Porter Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Rules of the game / Amy Tan Secret life of Walter Mitty Related: Thurber, an interview / James Thurber Death of Ivan Ilych Related: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction Tolstoy, What is art? / Leo Tolstoy A & P Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes Everyday use / Alice Walker Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren Worn path Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn path Welty, an interview / Eudora Welty Use of force / William Carlos Williams In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Writers On Writing Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch from On writing / Raymond Carver Letter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886 Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus'' Letter to Barrett H Clark, May 14, 1918 / Joseph Conrad Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895 / Stephen Crane Interview / Ralph Ellison Interview / William Faulkner Interview / Ernest Hemingway Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 / Franz Kafka Why the novel matters / D H Lawrence Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 / Thomas Mann Novel / Guy De Maupassant Four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee What is real /Alice Munro Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates Nature and aim of fiction / Flannery O'Connor Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe Interview / Katherine Anne Porter Interview / James Thurber What is art? / Leo Tolstoy Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike Interview / Eudora Welty Writing Fiction Reviews And Commentaries Willa Cather's Paul's case'' / Andrea Barrett Ernest Hemingway's Hills like white, elephants'' / Frederick Busch Kafka's the Metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold Eudora Welty's A worn path'' / Susan Dodd Bharati Mukherjee's The management of grief'' / Richard Ford Stephen Crane's The open boat / Allan Gurganus Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Barry Hannah Frank O'Connor's Guests of the nation'' / Edward P Jones Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / C C Loomis, Jr Melville's Parable of the walls / Leo Marx Reader as voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul Morson Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Edgar Allan Poe Racism and the heart of darkness / C P Sarvan Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find'' / Lee Smith [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Charles C Walcutt From the house of Poe / Richard Wilbur Glossary of critical terms Permissions acknowledgments Index of titles