TY - BOOK AU - Hampl,Patricia ED - Houghton Mifflin Company. TI - The Houghton Mifflin anthology of short fiction SN - 9780395496954 (hbk) U1 - 808.831 PY - 1989/// CY - Boston, Mass. : PB - Houghton Mifflin Co., KW - Short stories N1 - 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 ER -