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Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in this quintessentially American literary genre. This expanded edition includes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 to round out the century, as well as an index including every story published in the series.
Of all the writers whose work has appeared in the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of the last five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his most recent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison to choose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is "extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of this country's immeasurable pains and near-infinite hopes" (Boston Globe).
Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction by John Updike xv
1915 • BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT. Zelig 1
1916 • MARY LERNER. Little Selves 7
1917 • SUSAN GLASPELL. A Jury of Her Peers 18
1920 • SHERWOOD ANDERSON. The Other Woman 38
1922 • RING LARDNER. The Golden Honeymoon 45
1923 • JEAN TOOMER. Blood-Burning Moon 60
1927 • ERNEST HEMINGWAY. T h e Killers 68
1929 • WILLA CATHER. Double Birthday 77
1929 • GRACE STONE COATES. Wild PlumS 100
1930 • KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. T h e f t IO5
1931 • WILLIAM FAULKNER. That Evening Sun Go Down 111
1931 • DOROTHY PARKER. Here We A r e 127
1933 • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Crazy Sunday 136
1934 • ALEXANDER GODIN. My Dead Brother Comes to America 153
1935 • WILLIAM SAROYAN. Resurrection of a Life 159
1938 ' ROBERT PENN WARREN. Christmas Gift 169
1939 • RICHARD WRIGHT. Bright and Morning Star 179
1940 • EUDORA WELTY. T h e Hitch-Hikers 211
1943 • PAUL HORGAN. The Peach Stone 224
1944 • VLADIMIR NABOKOV. "That in Aleppo Once ..." 241
1947 • JEAN STAFFORD. The Interior Castle 250
1948 • MARTHA GELLHORN. Miami-New York 264
1948 • E. B. WHITE. The Second Tree from the Corner 281
1949 ' ELIZABETH BISHOP. The Farmer's Children 286
1951 • j. F. POWERS. Death of a Favorite 295
1951 • TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin 312
1955 ' JOHN CHEEVER. The Country Husband 325
1957 • FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Greenleaf 348
i960 • LAWRENCE SARGENT HALL. The Ledge 369
i960 • PHILIP ROTH. Defender of the Faith 384
1962 • STANLEY ELKIN. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers 411
1964 • BERNARD MALAMUD. The German Refugee 438
1967 • JOYCE CAROL OATES. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 450
1968 • MARY LADD GAVELL. T h e Rotifer 466
1969 • JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON. Gold Coast 477
1 9 7 0 • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. T h e K e y 4 9 3
1973 • DONALD BARTHELME. A City of Churches 503
1 9 7 5 • ROSELLEN BROWN. H o w t o W i n 5 0 7
1976 • ALICE ADAMS. Roses, Rhododendron 520
1978 • HAROLD BRODKEY. Verona: A Young Woman Speaks 533
1979 • SAUL BELLOW. A Silver Dish 539
1980 • JOHN UPDIKE. Gesturing 565
1981 • CYNTHIA OZICK. T h e Shawl 576
1983 • RAYMOND CARVER. Where I'm Calling From 581
1986 • ANN BEATTIE. Janus 595
1987 • SUSAN SONTAG. T h e Way We Live N o w 600
1987 • TIM O'BRIEN. The Things They Carried 616
1989 • ALICE MUNRO. Meneseteung 633
1990 • LORRIE MOORE. You're Ugly, Too 652
1993 • THOM JONES. I Want to Live! 671
1994 • ALICE ELLIOTT DARK. In the G l o a m i n g 688
1994 • CAROLYN FERRELL. Proper Library 705
1995 • GISH JEN. Birthmates 720
1997 • PAM DURBAN. Soon 735
1998 • ANNIE PROULX. The Half-Skinned Steer 754
1999 • PAM HOUSTON. The Best Girlfriend You Never Had 769
Biographical Notes 789
Index of the Best American Short Stories, 1915-1999 797
Foreword
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