The best American short stories of the century /
The best American short stories of the century /
John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.
- Expanded ed.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
- xxiv, 835 p. ; 23 cm.
Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Zelig / Little selves / Jury of her peers / Other woman / Golden honeymoon / Blood-burning moon / Killers / Resurrection of a life / Christmas gift / Bright and morning star / Hitch-hikers / Peach stone / "That in Aleppo once..." / Interior castle / Miami-New York / Second tree from the corner / Farmer's children / Death of a favorite / Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Country husband / Greenleaf / Ledge / Defender of the faith / Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / German refugee / Where are you going, where have you been? / Rotifer / Gold Coast / Key / Cty of churches / How to win / Silver dish / Gesturing / Shawl / Where I'm calling from / Janus / Way we live now / Things they carried / Meneseteung / You're ugly, too / I want to live ! / In the gloaming / Proper library / Birthmates / Soon / Half-skinned steer / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Mary Lerner -- Susan Glaspell -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ring Lardner -- Jean Toomer -- Ernest Hemingway -- William Saroyan -- Robert Penn Warren -- Richard Wright -- Eudora Welty -- Paul Horgan -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Jean Stafford -- Martha Gellhorn -- E.B. White -- Elizabeth Bishop -- J.F. Powers -- Tennessee Williams -- John Cheever -- Flannery O'Connor -- Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Philip Roth -- Stanley Elkin -- Bernard Malamud -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Mary Ladd Gavell -- James Alan McPherson -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Donald Barthelme -- Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Saul Bellow -- John Updike -- Cynthia Ozick -- Raymond Carver -- Ann Beattie -- Susan Sontag -- Tim O'Brien -- Alice Munro -- Lorrie Moore -- Thom Jones -- Alice Elliott Dark -- Carolyn Ferrell -- Gish Jen -- Pam Durban -- Annie Proulx.
0395843685
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 20th century.
PS648.S5 / B45 2000
Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Zelig / Little selves / Jury of her peers / Other woman / Golden honeymoon / Blood-burning moon / Killers / Resurrection of a life / Christmas gift / Bright and morning star / Hitch-hikers / Peach stone / "That in Aleppo once..." / Interior castle / Miami-New York / Second tree from the corner / Farmer's children / Death of a favorite / Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Country husband / Greenleaf / Ledge / Defender of the faith / Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / German refugee / Where are you going, where have you been? / Rotifer / Gold Coast / Key / Cty of churches / How to win / Silver dish / Gesturing / Shawl / Where I'm calling from / Janus / Way we live now / Things they carried / Meneseteung / You're ugly, too / I want to live ! / In the gloaming / Proper library / Birthmates / Soon / Half-skinned steer / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Mary Lerner -- Susan Glaspell -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ring Lardner -- Jean Toomer -- Ernest Hemingway -- William Saroyan -- Robert Penn Warren -- Richard Wright -- Eudora Welty -- Paul Horgan -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Jean Stafford -- Martha Gellhorn -- E.B. White -- Elizabeth Bishop -- J.F. Powers -- Tennessee Williams -- John Cheever -- Flannery O'Connor -- Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Philip Roth -- Stanley Elkin -- Bernard Malamud -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Mary Ladd Gavell -- James Alan McPherson -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Donald Barthelme -- Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Saul Bellow -- John Updike -- Cynthia Ozick -- Raymond Carver -- Ann Beattie -- Susan Sontag -- Tim O'Brien -- Alice Munro -- Lorrie Moore -- Thom Jones -- Alice Elliott Dark -- Carolyn Ferrell -- Gish Jen -- Pam Durban -- Annie Proulx.
0395843685
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 20th century.
PS648.S5 / B45 2000