An edition of 100 years of the best American short stories
(2015)
100 years of the best American short stories
by Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, and Alice Munro
- 10 Want to read
- 1 Currently reading
Share
×Close
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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Times
20th century, 21st century| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
100 years of the best American short stories
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
hardcover
in English
0547485859 9780547485850
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
054405606X 9780544056060
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
| January 20, 2024 | Edited by bitnapper | merge authors |
| January 20, 2022 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Edited without comment. |
| January 20, 2022 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Added new cover |
| January 20, 2022 | Edited by AgentSapphire | add details from linked copy |
| July 19, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | import new book |