Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction: Fourth Edition

by Jon Stott

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville --
A whisper in the dark / Lousia May Alcott --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Araby / James Joyce --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant --
At the rendezous of victory / Nadine Gordimer --
The loons / Margaret Laurence --
Wild swans / Alice Munro --
Foghound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath --
The conversation of the Jews / Philip Roth --
The motor car / Austin C. Clarke --
Hazel / Carol Shields --
The boat / Alistair MacLeod --
The resplendent quetzal / Margaret Atwood --
Joseph's justice, interview with Maria Campbell / Maria Campbell --
Borders / Thomas King --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
The naked man / Greg Hollingshead --
The prophet's hair / Salman Rushdie --
Summit with Sedna, the mother of sea beasts / Aloootook Ipellie --
Cages / Guy Vanderhaeghe --
Two kinds / Amy Tan --
Squatter / Rohinton Mistry.

397 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Thalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a well balanced anthology with the editors taking great care to vary the types of short stories selected and the authors represented. Indeed I have found some promising new material to follow up on.