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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology by Beverly Lawn; Joanne Diaz - Sixth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store
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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

Sixth  Edition|©2021  Beverly Lawn; Joanne Diaz

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An affordable collection of the best classic and modern stories
40 Short Stories, part of the highly successful Bedford/St. Martin's portable series of anthologies and guides, continues to offer a diverse selection of classic and contemporary short fiction for a low price. The stories are arranged chronologically to help you trace the evolution of the short story genre, while editorial features — such as instruction on how to write about fiction, a new student essay, and a glossary of literary terms — are located in the back of the book so the focus can remain on the stories. New additions to the sixth edition include celebrated contemporary writers George Saunders, ZZ Packer, Ted Chiang, and Neel Patel.

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Contents

Table of Contents

[[New selections indicated with an asterisk]]

Preface for Instructors
Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
*Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
James Joyce, “Araby”
*Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
*Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
*John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
*Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
*George Saunders, “Sticks”
*Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
*ZZ Packer, “Brownies”
*Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong”
Lauren Groff, “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
*Ramona Ausubel, “You Can Find Love Now”
Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
*Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi”
*Grace Oluseyi, “A Modern Marriage”
*Meron Hadero, “The Suitcase”

Reading Short Stories Closely
Writing about Short Stories
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of Authors and Titles

Authors

Beverly Lawn

Beverly Lawn (PD, SUNY-Stony Brook), Professor of English Emerita, taught undergraduate and graduate fiction and poetry courses for over three decades. She is editor or coeditor several literature anthologies, including Literature: A Portable Anthology, and is also the author of Throat of Feathers, a book of poems.


Joanne Diaz

Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, and with Ian Morris, she is the co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. She is a Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.


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Diverse classic and contemporary fiction, at an affordable price

An affordable collection of the best classic and modern stories
40 Short Stories, part of the highly successful Bedford/St. Martin's portable series of anthologies and guides, continues to offer a diverse selection of classic and contemporary short fiction for a low price. The stories are arranged chronologically to help you trace the evolution of the short story genre, while editorial features — such as instruction on how to write about fiction, a new student essay, and a glossary of literary terms — are located in the back of the book so the focus can remain on the stories. New additions to the sixth edition include celebrated contemporary writers George Saunders, ZZ Packer, Ted Chiang, and Neel Patel.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

[[New selections indicated with an asterisk]]

Preface for Instructors
Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
*Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
James Joyce, “Araby”
*Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
*Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
*John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
*Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
*George Saunders, “Sticks”
*Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
*ZZ Packer, “Brownies”
*Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong”
Lauren Groff, “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
*Ramona Ausubel, “You Can Find Love Now”
Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
*Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi”
*Grace Oluseyi, “A Modern Marriage”
*Meron Hadero, “The Suitcase”

Reading Short Stories Closely
Writing about Short Stories
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of Authors and Titles

Beverly Lawn

Beverly Lawn (PD, SUNY-Stony Brook), Professor of English Emerita, taught undergraduate and graduate fiction and poetry courses for over three decades. She is editor or coeditor several literature anthologies, including Literature: A Portable Anthology, and is also the author of Throat of Feathers, a book of poems.


Joanne Diaz

Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, and with Ian Morris, she is the co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. She is a Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.


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