Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, (Penguin Academics Series)

pp.31 YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)pp.44 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER--Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)pp.63 MOTHER SAVAGE--Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)pp.70 THE STORY OF AN HOUR--Kate Chopin (1851-1904)pp.73 AN UPHEAVAL--Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)pp.81 ROMAN FEVER--Edith Wharton (1862-1937)pp.94 PAUL'S CASE--Willa Cather (1873-1947)pp.113 EVELINE--James Joyce (1882-1941)pp.118 THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER--D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)pp.133 THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL--Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980)pp.142 SWEAT--Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)pp.154 A ROSE FOR EMILY--William Faulkner (1897-1961)pp.164 HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)pp.169 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK--Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)pp.175 THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS--John Steinbeck (1902-1968)pp.186 THE MAN WHO WAS ALMOST A MAN--Richard Wright (1908-1960)pp.198 LIVVIE--Eudora Welty (B. 1909)pp.212 REUINON--John Cheever (1912-1982)pp.215 THE GUEST--Albert Camus (1913-1960)pp.228 A PARTY DOWN AT THE SQUARE--Ralph Ellison (1914-1995)pp.235 THE LOTTERY--Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)pp.244 A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND--Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)pp.260 A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS--Gabriel García Márquez (B. 1928)pp.267 DEAD MAN'S PATH--Chinua Achebe (B. 1930)pp.271 VANDALS--Alice Munro (B. 1931)pp.297 A & P--John Updike (B. 1932)pp.304 A SMALL, GOOD THING--Raymond Carver (1938-1988)pp.327 WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?--Joyce Carol Oates (B. 1938)pp.344 HAPPY ENDINGS--Margaret Atwood (B. 1939)pp.348 SHILOH--Bobbie Ann Mason (B. 1940)pp.362 EVERYDAY USE--Alice Walker (B. 1944)pp.371 DIED AND GONE TO VEGAS--Tim Gautreaux (B. 1947)pp.388 LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE--Dagoberto Gilb (B. 1950)pp.399 TWO KINDS--Amy Tan (B. 1952)pp.410 BARBIE-Q--Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954)pp.412 THE RED CONVERTIBLE--Louise Erdrich (B. 1954)pp.422 HOW TO TALK TO YOUR MOTHER (NOTES)--Lorrie Moore (B. 1954)I bought this anthology used and it was obviously a former text book. I really enjoy it. While I greatly appreciate and adore full-length classic literature, short stories are a wonderful compromise for the times you don't want to be fully involved in a novel and neither want to read twaddle. Great authors with little commitment.Editor R.S. Gwynn has chosen really wonderful samplings from a rather wide range of writers. Many women, non-whites, non-English-speakers... et cetera, should that aspect concern you. Each piece is prefaced with a short, non-intrusive biography of the author. Certainly, authors/stories are absent, but I don't think it detracts from the value of this collection. It really is a lovely little book into which to nestle.