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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 Sixth Edition
xix
 
Talking about Fiction
xxiii
 
Character and Setting
xxiii
 
Action, Plot, and Complication
xxiv
 
Point of View
xxvi
 
Indirection
xxviii
 
The Part and the Whole
xxx
 
Coherence
xxxi
 
General Questions
xxxiv
 
I Want to Know Why
1
7
Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
8
13
Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues
21
24
James Baldwin
Gorilla, My Love
45
5
Toni Cade Bambara
The Littoral Zone
50
8
Andrea Barrett
Me and Miss Mandible
58
9
Donald Barthelme
The Disappeared
67
19
Charles Baxter
Snow
86
2
Ann Beattie
Witness
88
13
Madison Smartt Bell
Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?
101
12
Gina Berriault
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
113
8
Ambrose Bierce
Silver Water
121
7
Amy Bloom
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
128
8
Jorge Luis Borges
The Veldt
136
11
Ray Bradbury
Pagan Night
147
9
Kate Braverman
The Gentleman from San Francisco
156
17
Ivan Bunin
Gina Berriault on ``The Gentleman from San Francisco''
172
1
Bread
173
13
Frederick Busch
Cathedral
186
11
Raymond Carver
The Rationing of Love
197
14
R. V. Cassill
Paul's Case
211
17
Willa Cather
Andrea Barrett On ``Paul's Case''
226
2
The Enormous Radio
228
9
John Cheever
The Lady with the Dog
237
12
Anton Chekhov
Gusev
249
12
Richard Bausch on ``Gusev''
259
2
The Story of an Hour
261
3
Kate Chopin
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
264
5
Samuel Clemens
Heart of Darkness
269
65
Joseph Conrad
Barry Hannah on ``Heart of Darkness''
331
3
The Babysitter
334
20
Robert Coover
A Continuity of Parks
354
2
Julio Cortazar
The Open Boat
356
20
Stephen Crane
Allan Gurganus on ``The Open Boat''
374
2
The Blule Hotel
376
21
Open Winter
397
17
H. L. Davis
Sorrow-Acre
414
24
Isak Dinesen
Tobias Wolf on ``Sorrow-Acre''
436
2
Public Appearances
438
11
Susan Dodd
The Intruder
449
10
Andre Dubus
We Didn't
459
9
Stuart Dybek
King of the Bingo Game
468
8
Ralph Ellison
Matchimanito
476
14
Louise Erdrich
Bran Burning
490
13
William Faulkner
The Bear
503
79
Dreams
582
15
Timothy Findley
Babylon Revisited
597
16
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Falls
613
12
Richard Ford
The Road from Colonus
625
9
E. M. Forster
A New England Nun
634
9
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Bernadette
643
18
Mavis Gallant
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
661
5
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wounded Soldier
666
9
George Garrett
Madison Smartt Bell on ``Wounded Soldier''
672
3
The Yellow Wallpaper
675
13
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Soldier's Embrace
688
11
Nadine Gordimer
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt
699
8
William Goyen
George Garrett on ``Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt''
705
2
Nativity, Caucasian
707
7
Allan Gurganus
Testimony of Pilot
714
19
Barry Hannah
Wedding Night
733
2
Tom Hawkins
Young Goodman Brown
735
10
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birthmark
745
12
Hills Like White Elephants
757
6
Ernest Hemingway
Frederick Busch on ``Hills Like White Elephants''
761
2
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
763
7
Amy Hempel
The Conscience of the Court
770
11
Zora Neale Hurston
The Lottery
781
7
Shirley Jackson
Greville Fane
788
13
Henry James
Passion
801
13
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Moving Pictures
814
4
Charles Johnson
A New Man
818
9
Edward P. Jones
The Pugilist at Rest
827
14
Thom Jones
Araby
841
4
James Joyce
A Little Cloud
845
10
The Dead
855
30
The Metamorphosis
885
33
Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist
918
7
Girl
925
2
Jamaica Kincaid
The Man Who Would Be King
927
25
Rudyard Kipling
Jewel of the Moon
952
10
William Kotzwinkle
My Life as a Mollusk
962
14
Patricia Landers
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
976
13
D. H. Lawrence
The Coggios
989
3
Sharyn Layfield
Gravity
992
4
David Leavitt
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
996
5
Ursula K. Le Guin
To Room Nineteen
1001
24
Doris Lessing
Brief Lives in California
1025
9
John L'Heureux
My Father's Chinese Wives
1034
10
Sandra Tsing Loh
The Chevigny Man
1044
12
Robie Macauley
Angel Levine
1056
9
Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice
1065
48
Thomas Mann
Bliss
1113
10
Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh
1123
11
Bobbie Ann Mason
Boule de Suif
1134
28
Guy De Maupassant
The Thistles in Sweden
1162
16
William Maxwell
Charles Baxter on ``The Thistles in Sweden''
1177
1
Bartleby, the Scrivener
1178
28
Herman Melville
The Management of Grief
1206
14
Bharati Mukherjee
Richard Ford on ``The Management of Grief''
1218
2
Royal Beatings
1220
16
Alice Munro
Prue
1236
4
Signs and Symbols
1240
5
Vladimir Nabokov
The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien
1245
6
Hua-Ling Nieh
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
1251
12
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried
1263
14
Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
1277
13
Flannery O'Connor
Lee Smith on ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''
1289
1
Everything That Rises Must Converge
1290
11
Guests of the Nation
1301
11
Frank O'Connor
Edward P. Jones on ``Guests of the Nation''
1310
2
Tell Me a Riddle
1312
28
Tillie Olsen
War
1340
4
Luigi Pirandello
The Fall of the House of Usher
1344
14
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
1358
14
Flowering Judas
1372
10
Katherine Anne Porter
The Fall
1382
9
V. S. Pritchett
The Conversion of the Jews
1391
12
Philip Roth
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis
1403
2
Jo Sapp
The Eighty-Yard Run
1405
11
Irwin Shaw
Gimpel the Fool
1416
11
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Intensive Care
1427
19
Lee Smith
In the Zoo
1446
16
Jean Stafford
R. V. Cassill on ``In the Zoo''
1461
1
The Chrysanthemums
1462
9
John Steinbeck
Rules of the Game
1471
9
Amy Tan
A Spinster's Tale
1480
18
Peter Taylor
Ann Beattie on ``A Spinster's Tale''
1496
2
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1498
5
James Thurber
The Death of Ivan Ilych
1503
41
Leo Tolstoy
A & P
1544
6
John Updike
The Moths
1550
5
Helena Maria Viramontes
Everyday Use
1555
7
Alice Walker
Blackberry Winter
1562
16
Robert Penn Warren
Why I Live at the P.O.
1578
9
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
1587
8
Susan Dodd on ``A Worn Path''
1593
2
The Man Who Loved Levittown
1595
12
W. D. Wetherell
The Use of Force
1607
4
William Carlos Williams
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
1611
9
Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens
1620
6
Virginia Woolf
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1626
40
Richard Wright
Writing Papers about Fiction
1637
7
Richard Bausch
When You Write about Fiction
1644
9
R. V. Cassill
Writing Fiction
1653
12
Writers on Writing
1665
1
Why Do You Write?
1666
1
Margaret Atwood
What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow?
1666
1
Toni Cade Bambara
On Writing
1667
4
Raymond Carver
What Happened
1671
2
John Cheever
Selected Letters
1673
2
Anton Chekhov
A Familiar Preface
1675
3
Joseph Conrad
An Interview
1678
2
Ralph Ellison
Becoming a Writer
1680
13
Gail Godwin
An Interview
1693
3
Ernest Hemingway
The Art of Fiction
1696
3
Henry James
Why the Novel Matters
1699
1
D. H. Lawrence
An Interview
1700
2
Doris Lessing
The Novel
1702
2
Guy De Maupassant
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman
1704
2
Bharati Mukherjee
What Is Real?
1706
3
Alice Munro
The Nature and Aim of Fiction
1709
1
Flannery O'Connor
Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales
1710
2
Edgar Allan Poe
An Interview
1712
4
Katherine Anne Porter
An Interview
1716
1
James Thurber
What Is Art?
1717
2
Leo Tolstoy
An Interview
1719
3
Eudora Welty
Glossary of Critical Terms
1722
9
Permissions Acknowledgments
1731
6
Index of Titles
1737