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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
by
Richard Bausch (Goodreads Author)
The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.
Paperback, Seventh Edition, 1734 pages
Published
January 5th 2006
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1978)
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This was a great grouping of fiction from the US and Europe. I have to admit that I read the first edition, a beaten up thrift store find, over the period of five years, picking it up in earnest and putting it down when other duties called, only to pick it up again. In fact, I could probably start over at the beginning now and enjoy getting re-familiar with the works at the front of the anthology. Reading this collection gave me the chance to read some short fiction that is not usually included...more
Ah yes, I found a fun and cute story, by Jean Shepherd, the author of the well known story," A Christmas Story," called, "Lost at C." It is told from the perspective of a kid and is hilariously funny. It reminded me of my school days.
Want to read more Flannery O'Connor. She has a nice southern story tellers voice. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find." It was good, suspenseful, yet as with most short stories, has a disturbing ending!Doesn't anyone write short stories with satisfying, or positive end...more
Want to read more Flannery O'Connor. She has a nice southern story tellers voice. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find." It was good, suspenseful, yet as with most short stories, has a disturbing ending!Doesn't anyone write short stories with satisfying, or positive end...more
Yet another in my collection of Norton Anthologies—a veritable mountain of them at his point. This one is the standard for a reason…everything you're looking for that is in the mainstream (i.e., not esoteric or too-arthouse) is in this anthology. For everything else (too-new, too avant-garde), look somewhere else.
I added this particular collection to my bookshelf because it's the best summation of short fiction canon that I've come across. Of course, that is not to say that these are the only short stories worth reading, but it has the widest variety and spans the most time. It was also comes with biographies of the authors and footnotes.
My personal favorites of this collection include "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, and Philip Roth's "Conversion of t...more
My personal favorites of this collection include "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, and Philip Roth's "Conversion of t...more
anthologies, of course, are a great way to get introduced to writers you never heard of. this one is a little heavy on american writers, but i guess that's inevitable with two american editors. on the whole though, a nice broad coverage. there is an interesting section in the back called 'writers on writing': some of the featured writers thoughts on the craft through essays or interviews. another neat feature is a cross referencing of related materials: after a story, you are referred to another...more
A wonderful compilation of short fiction. This covers the spectrum of short fiction and has short fiction of every type.
Oct 02, 2009
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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction by Richard Bausch (2006)
Lots of great stories.
See my comment for the NA of AA Lit
Dec 05, 2012
Marija
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nice
This compilation is expertly put together. From Hemingway to Malamud, Tolstoy to Beattie, it encompasses all aspects of human existance.
Picking the stories I want to read. I will be reading this for the rest of my life.
Aug 08, 2010
Brian Godsey
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I've read less than a quarter of this anthology, but I'll already say that it's brilliant. Or, perhaps every anthology of fiction is this brilliant. It's got bits of everything.
Highlights:
Gabriel García Márquez's story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is a masterpiece. It's like One Hundred Years of Solitude distilled into its purest spirit, fit onto just a few pages.
Highlights:
Gabriel García Márquez's story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is a masterpiece. It's like One Hundred Years of Solitude distilled into its purest spirit, fit onto just a few pages.
All I get to read these days is what I'm teaching, and I'm so lucky to get to teach a senior elective on reading and writing short stories. We're going to read as much of this book as possible, and I don't think there's a story in it that doesn't belong. I'd add thousands more, but this is as good a place as any for them to get a real taste of my favorite art form.
soooo good.
a fantastic array of authors (tim o'brien, capote, faulkner, chopin, etc) - it's a good way to dip into authors you've been interested in reading. i enjoyed the selection of stories by authors i'd read before, and was pleasantly satisfied with the ones i hadn't.
definitely a "good read".
also, i'll always have a special place in my heart for norton's.
a fantastic array of authors (tim o'brien, capote, faulkner, chopin, etc) - it's a good way to dip into authors you've been interested in reading. i enjoyed the selection of stories by authors i'd read before, and was pleasantly satisfied with the ones i hadn't.
definitely a "good read".
also, i'll always have a special place in my heart for norton's.
I used to own a huge pile of anthologies that my father got for me over the years. I didn't use them very often, so I donated most of them to my school. I did keep a few which contained stories I kept going back to. This book had stories I pulled out to use with my sophomores. If I remember correctly, I used "Everyday Use" and "The Veldt" from this book.
I'm embracing the short story this summer. This is a book from college and I remember being horrified at the fact that we read so few of the stories after buying it (the book is monstrous!). Favorite so far "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
Okay, I didn't read all of this book, but I have read all that I am going to be reading. At least for the time being. Some of the stories I read in class were alright some of them even good. However, there were some pretty bad ones as well.
Re-reading Amy Tan's Rules of the Game. Loved this short, the first time I read it, now I don't remember why it affected me so much. Maybe it was just pertinent for the time.
Oct 15, 2010
Deana
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Using this in a fiction class now. I like it, especially the thin pages, although it's annoying to carry around - it's a typical Norton.
I actually own the regular Sixth Edition, not the Shorter. I don't know why Goodreads doesn't have the full-length edition.
Oct 27, 2007
Laurel
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a great overview of one of my favorite genres: the short story. i think it's a necessary addition to your book collection.
good stories, but this version seems incomplete. will use longer version next semester.
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter 7th Edition by Richard Bausch (2006)
The Norton anthology of short fiction by R. V. Cassill (1986)
Such a great anthology! Must have for any budding writer.
A very big, but not very good, collection of short stories.
Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth Edition (2000)
Getting a taste of a lot of different authors.
Gak, I am all short story collection-ed out.
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An acknowledged master of the short story form, Richard Bausch's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Narrative, Gentleman's Quarterly. Playboy, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Stories; and they have been widely anthologized, including The Granta Book of the Ame...more
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