| Description |
xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1915-1920. The gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- 1920-1930. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson; My old man / Ernest Hemingway; Haircut / Ring Lardner -- 1930-1940. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; The cracked looking-glass / Katherine Anne Porter; That will be fine / William Faulkner -- 1940-1950. Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale; The whole world knows / Eudora Welty; The enormous radio / John Cheever -- 1950-1960. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- 1960-1970. Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; Pigeon feathers / John Updike; Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver; By the river / Joyce Carol Oates -- 1970-1980. The school / Donald Barthelme; The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- 1980-1990. Friends / Grace Paley; Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter; Lawns / Mona Simpson; Communist / Richard Ford; Helping / Robert Stone; Displacement / David Wong Louie -- 1990-2000. Friend of my youth / Alice Munro; The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill; Xuela / Jamaica Kincaid; If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma; Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz -- 2000-2010. The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri; Brownies / ZZ Packer; What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie; Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones; Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy; Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff -- 2010-2015. What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander; Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka; The semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders; At the round Earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff. |
| Summary |
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 2099
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| Added Author |
Moore, Lorrie, editor.
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Pitlor, Heidi, editor.
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Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
Gay old dog.
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
Brothers.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
My old man.
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Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933.
Haircut.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Babylon revisited.
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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Cracked looking-glass.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
That will be fine.
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Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988.
Those are as brothers.
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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
Whole world knows.
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Cheever, John.
Enormous radio.
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Olsen, Tillie.
I stand here ironing.
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Sonny's blues.
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Roth, Philip.
Conversion of the Jews.
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O'Connor, Flannery.
Everything that rises must converge.
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Updike, John.
Pigeon feathers.
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Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.
Will you please be quiet, please?
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
By the river.
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Barthelme, Donald.
School.
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Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995.
Living end. Conventional wisdom.
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Paley, Grace.
Friends.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Harmony of the world.
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Simpson, Mona.
Lawns.
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Ford, Richard, 1944-
Communist.
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Stone, Robert, 1937-2015.
Helping.
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Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018.
Displacement.
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Munro, Alice, 1931-
Friend of my youth.
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Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
Girl on the plane.
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Kincaid, Jamaica.
Xuela.
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Sharma, Akhil, 1971-
If you sing like that for me.
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Díaz, Junot, 1968-
Fiesta, 1980.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Third and final continent.
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Packer, ZZ.
Brownies.
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
What you pawn I will redeem.
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Jones, Edward P.
Old boys, old girls.
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Percy, Benjamin.
Refresh, refresh.
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Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
Awaiting orders.
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Englander, Nathan.
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank.
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Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
Diem perdidi.
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Saunders, George, 1958-
Semplica-girl diaries.
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Groff, Lauren.
At the round Earth's imagined corners.
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| Added Title |
One hundred years of the best American short stories |
| ISBN |
9780547485850 (hardback) |
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0547485859 (hardback) |
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