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100 years of the best American short stories

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.

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Other Authors: Moore, Lorrie (Editor), Pitlor, Heidi (Editor), Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968, Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941, Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933, Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940, Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988, Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Cheever, John, Olsen, Tillie, Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Roth, Philip, O'Connor, Flannery, Updike, John, Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988, Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, Barthelme, Donald, Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995, Paley, Grace, Baxter, Charles, 1947-, Simpson, Mona, Ford, Richard, 1944-, Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, Louie, David Wong, 1954-, Munro, Alice, 1931-, Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, Kincaid, Jamaica, Sharma, Akhil, 1971-, Díaz, Junot, 1968-, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Packer, ZZ, Alexie, Sherman, 1966-, Jones, Edward P., Percy, Benjamin, Wolff, Tobias, 1945-, Englander, Nathan, Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, Saunders, George, 1958-, Groff, Lauren
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
American fiction > 20th century.
American fiction > 21st century.
Short stories.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS   1915-1920 1917 EDNA FERBER-The Gay Old Dog 1920-1930 1921 SHERWOOD ANDERSON-Brothers 1923 ERNEST HEMINGWAY-My Old Man 1925 RING LARDNER-Haircut 1930-1940 1931 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD-Babylon Revisited 1933 KATHERINE ANN PORTER-The Cracked Looking-Glass 1936 WILLIAM FAULKNER-That Will Be Fine 1940-1950 1942 NANCY HALE-These Are As Brothers 1948 EUDORA WELTY-The Whole World Knows 1948 JOHN CHEEVER-The Enormous Radio 1950-1960 1957 TILLIE OLSEN-I Stand Here Ironing 1958 JAMES BALDWIN-Sonny's Blues 1959 PHILIP ROTH-The Conversion of the Jews 1960-1970 1962 FLANNERY O'CONNOR-Everything That Rises Must Converge 1962 JOHN UPDIKE-Pigeon Feathers 1967 RAYMOND CARVER-Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 1969 JOYCE CAROL OATES-By the River 1970-1980 1975 DONALD BARTHELME-The School 1978 STANLEY ELKIN-The Conventional Wisdom 1980-1990 1980 GRACE PALEY-Friends 1982 CHARLES BAXTER-Harmony of the World 1986 MONA SIMPSON-Lawns 1986 RICHARD FORD-Communist 1988 ROBERT STONE-Helping 1989 DAVID WONG LOUIE-Displacement 1990-2000 1991 ALICE MUNRO-Friend of My Youth   1993 MARY GAITSKILL-The Girl on the Plane 1995 JAMAICA KINCAID-Xuela 1996 AKHIL SHARMA-If You Sing Like That For Me 1997 JUNOT DIAZ-Fiesta, 1980 2000-2010 2000 JHUMPA LAHIRI-The Third and Final Continent 2000 ZZ PACKER-Brownies 2004 EDWARD P. JONES-Old Boys, Old Girls 2005 SHERMAN ALEXIE-What You Pawn I Will Redeem 2006 BENJAMIN PERCY-Refresh, Refresh 2006 TOBIAS WOLFF-Awaiting Orders 2010-2015 2012 NATHAN ENGLANDER-What  We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 2012 JULIE OTSUKA- Diem Perdidi 2013 GEORGE SAUNDERS-The Semplica-Girl Diaries 2014 LAUREN GROFF-At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners Excerpted from 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Heidi Pitlor, Lorrie Moore All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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