The Houghton Mifflin anthology of short fiction

Hampl, Patricia.

The Houghton Mifflin anthology of short fiction Anthology of short fiction / by Patricia Hampl; Houghton Mifflin Company. - Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1989. - xviii, 1287 pages ; 24 cm

Chike's school days / Chinua Achebe --
Snow / Alice Adams --
The wild swans / Hans Christian Andersen --
The grave of the famous poet / Margaret Atwood --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara --
Gryphon / Charles Baxter --
Snow / Ann Beattie --
The dignity of life / Carol Bly --
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges --
The South / Jorge Luis Borges --
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen --
Ivy Gripped the steps / Elizabeth Bowen --
The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle --
I sing the body electric? / Ray Bradbury --
One of the three is still alive / Italo Calvino --
Summer: moon and GNAC / Italo Calvino --
Star food / Ethan Canin --
Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote --
The bloody chamber / Angela Carter --
The withered arm / Thomas Hardy --
The artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin --
In another country / Ernest Hemingway --
Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston --
The beast in the jungle / Henry James --
The turn of the screw / Henry James --
The dead / James Joyce --
In the penal colony / Franz Kafka --
The gardener / Rudyard Kipling --
Edward and God / Milan Kundera --
The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The lady of Moge / Ursula Le Guin --
The black Madonna / Doris Lessing --
The last Mohican / Bernard Malamud --
Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
Prelude / Katherine Mansfield --
The book-bag / W. Somerset Maugham --
The olive grove / Guy De Maupassant --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima --
The beggar maid / Alice Munro --
Oh, what avails / Alice Munro --
Titus Hoyt, I.A. / V.S. Naipaul --
Naga / R.K. Narayan --
The lady with the pet dog / Joyce Carol Oates --
Raven's Wing / Joyce Carol Oates --
A rose in the heart of New York / Edna O'Brien --
Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
The artificial Nigger / Flannery O'Connor --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor --
Lovers of the lake / Sean O'Faolain --
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --
The best place for it / Richard Powers --
The salamander / Merce Rodoreda --
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The way we live now / Susan Sontag --
Minutes of glory / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o --
August Saturday / William Trevor --
The news from Ireland / William Trevor --
Museums and women / John Updike --
I'm your horse in the night / Luisa Valenzuela --
Drummer / Guy Vanderhaeghe --
To Hell with dying / Alice Walker --
Circe / Eudora Welty --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
The other two / Edith Wharton --
The symbol / Virginia Woolf --
How Wang-Fo was saved / Marguerite Yourcenar.

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