TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oates,Joyce Carol
TI  - The Oxford book of American short stories
SN  - 9780199744398 (pbk.)
AV  - PS648.S5 O94 2012
U1  - 813/.0108 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Short stories, American
N1  - Includes index; Rip Van Winkle; Washington Irving --; Peter Rugg, the Missing Man; William Austin --; The Wives of the Dead; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; The Tell-Tale Heart; Edgar Allan Poe --; The Ghost in the Mill; Harriet Beecher Stowe --; The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids; Herman Melville --; Cannibalism in the Cars; Samuel Clemens --; The Middle Years; Henry James --; A White Heron; Sarah Orne Jewett --; The Storm; Kate Chopin --; Old Woman Magoun; Mary e. Wilkins Freeman --; The Sheriff's Children; Charles Chesnutt --; The Yellow Wallpaper; Charlotte E Perkins Gilman --; A Journey; Edith Wharton --; The Little Regiment; Stephen Crane --; A Death in the Desert; Willa Cather --; The Strength of God; Sherwood Anderson --; In a Far Country; Jack London --; The Girl with a Pimply Face; William Carlos Williams --; The Rats in the Walls; H. P. Lovecraft --; Blood-Burning Moon; Jean Toomer --; An Alcoholic Case; F. Scott Fitzgerald --; That Evening Sun; William Faulkner --; Hills Like White Elephants; Ernest Hemingway --; Red-Headed Baby; Langston Hughes --; The Man Who Was Almost a Man; Richard Wright --; A Bottle of Milk for Mother; Nelson Algren --; Where Is the Voice Coming From?; Eudora Welty --; A Distant Episode; Paul Bowles --; The Country Husband; John Cheever --; Battle Royal; Ralph Ellison --; My Son the Murderer; Bernard Malamud --; The Lottery; Shirley Jackson --; There Will Come Soft Rains; Ray Bradbury --; Sonny's Blues; James Baldwin --; A Late Encounter with the Enemy; Flannery O'Connor --; The Shawl; Cynthia Ozark --; The School; Donald Barthelme --; The Persistence of Desire; John Updike --; Defender of the Faith; Philip Roth --; The Mud Below; Annie Proulx --; Are These Actual Miles?; Raymond Carver --; Heat; Joyce Carol Oates --; The Child Screams and Looks Back at You; Russell Banks --; Give It Up for Billy; Edmund White --; Under the Radar; Richard Ford --; Hunters in the Snow; Tobias Wolff --; The Things They Carried; Tim O'Brien --; The Reach; Stephen King --; Filthy with Things; T. C. Boyle --; Today Will Be a Quiet Day; Amy Hempel --; Fleur; Louise Erdrich --; The Drowned Life; Jeffrey Ford --; Children as Enemies; Ha Jin --; How to Become a Writer; Lorrie Moore --; Good People; David Foster Wallace --; Mercy; Pinckney Benedict --; Hell-Heaven; Jhumpa Lahiri --; Edison, New Jersey; Junot Diaz
N2  - In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers
ER  -