New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
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- Includes index.
- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving — Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / William Austin — The Wives of the Dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne — The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe — The Ghost in the Mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe — The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville — Cannibalism in the Cars / Samuel Clemens — The Middle Years / Henry James — A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett — The Storm / Kate Chopin — Old Woman Magoun / Mary e. Wilkins Freeman — The Sheriff’s Children / Charles Chesnutt — The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte E Perkins Gilman — A Journey / Edith Wharton — The Little Regiment / Stephen Crane — A Death in the Desert / Willa Cather — The Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson — In a Far Country / Jack London — The Girl with a Pimply Face / William Carlos Williams — The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft — Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer — An Alcoholic Case / F. Scott Fitzgerald — That Evening Sun / William Faulkner — Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway — Red-Headed Baby / Langston Hughes — The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright — A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Nelson Algren — Where Is the Voice Coming From? / Eudora Welty — A Distant Episode / Paul Bowles — The Country Husband / John Cheever — Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison — My Son the Murderer / Bernard Malamud — The Lottery / Shirley Jackson — There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury — Sonny’s Blues / James Baldwin — A Late Encounter with the Enemy / Flannery O’Connor — The Shawl / Cynthia Ozark — The School / Donald Barthelme — The Persistence of Desire / John Updike — Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth — The Mud Below / Annie Proulx — Are These Actual Miles? / Raymond Carver — Heat / Joyce Carol Oates — The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Russell Banks — Give It Up for Billy / Edmund White — Under the Radar / Richard Ford — Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff — The Things They Carried / Tim O’Brien — The Reach / Stephen King — Filthy with Things / T. C. Boyl
- In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many different, unexpected gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
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