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The Best American Short Stories
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Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT... read more
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Characters/People edit
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- Martha
- Greenspahn
- Woody
- Bessie
- Mrs. Hale
- Mr. Greenleaf
- Frank Martin
- Magda
- Mrs. Peters
- Joel
- Reva
- Harris
- Albert
- Francis
- Jason
- Quentin
- Jake
- Howard
- Rosa
- Zoe
- Margot
- Fishbein
- Oskar
- Leo
- Julia
- Halpern
- Connie
- Nancy
- Richard
- Kate
- Evan
- Christopher
- Father Philbert
- Mrs. Skoglund
- Emily
- Stella
- Max
- Stephen
- Emerson
- George
- Harriet
- Ruth
- Margolis
- Shirley
- Gordon
- Wesley
- Hartsell
Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- Paris
- Chicago
- America
- Louisa
- Washington
- Park
- Florida
- Pacific
- Germany
- Rome
- Shady Hill
- Europe
- Allegheny
- Heaven
- Michigan
- London
- Kiowa
- Tin Head
- Almeda
- Russia
- Boston
- Illinois
- St. Louis
- Jupiter
- Miami
- New Jersey
- Paolo
- Halina
- Memphis
- Caddy
- Augusta
- Roswell
- California
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Massachusetts
- Pearl Street
- South Carolina
- Scaly Mountain
- Minnesota
- Broadway
- Texas
- Trenton
- Minneapolis
Table of Contents edit
Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt --
Little selves / Mary Lerner --
Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
Other woman / Sherwood Anderson --
Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner --
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer --
Killers / Ernest Hemingway --
Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan --
Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren --
Bright and morning star / Richard Wright --
Hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty --
Peach stone / Paul Horgan --
"That in Aleppo once ..." / Vladimir Nabokov --
Interior castle / Jean Stafford --
Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn --
Second tree from the corner / E.B. White --
Farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop --
Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers --
Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams --
Country husband / John Cheever --
Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor --
Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall --
Defender of the faith / Philip Roth --
Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin --
German refugee / Bernard Malamud --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell --
Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson --
Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Cty of churches / Donald Barthelme --
How to win / Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey --
Silver dish / Saul Bellow --
Gesturing / John Updike --
Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver --
Janus / Ann Beattie --
Way we live now / Susan Sontag --
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
Meneseteung / Alice Munro --
You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore --
I want to live! / Thom Jones --
In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark --
Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell --
Birthmates / Gish Jen --
Soon / Pam Durban --
Half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Best American Short Stories. (standard series)
This book is in Best American Series. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Katrina Kenison (Editor)
- John Updike (Editor)
Other Contributors:
- Benjamin Rosenblatt (Contributor)
- Mary Lerner (Contributor)
- Susan Glaspell (Contributor)
- Sherwood Anderson
- Ring Lardner (Contributor)
- Jean Toomer (Contributor)
- Ernest Hemingway (Contributor)
- William Saroyan
- Robert Penn Warren (Contributor)
- Richard Wright (Contributor)
- Eudora Welty (Contributor)
- Paul Horgan (Contributor)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor)
- Jean Stafford (Contributor)
- Martha Gellhorn (Contributor)
- E. B. White (Contributor)
- Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor)
- J. F. Powers (Contributor)
- Tennessee Williams (Contributor)
- John Cheever (Contributor)
- Flannery O'Connor
- Lawrence Sargent Hall (Contributor)
- Philip Roth (Contributor)
- Stanley Elkin (Contributor)
- Bernard Malamud (Contributor)
- Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor)
- Mary Ladd Gavell (Contributor)
- James Alan McPherson (Contributor)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (Contributor)
- Donald Barthelme (Contributor)
- Harold Brodkey (Contributor)
- Saul Bellow (Contributor)
- John Updike (Contributor)
- Cynthia Ozick (Contributor)
- Raymond Carver (Contributor)
- Ann Beattie (Contributor)
- Susan Sontag (Contributor)
- Tim O'Brien (Contributor)
- Alice Munro (Contributor)
- Lorrie Moore (Contributor)
- Thom Jones (Contributor)
- Alice Elliott Dark (Contributor)
- Carolyn Ferrell (Contributor)
- Gish Jen (Contributor)
- Pam Durban (Contributor)
- Annie Proulx (Contributor)
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Collections & Readers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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