Includes bibliographical references and index.

Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Jason, who will be famous / Dorothy Allison -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Letter to the lady of the house / Richard Bausch -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Gusev / Anton Chekhov -- Story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- A wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Machimanito / Louise Erdrich -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Ice wagon coming down the street / Mavis Gallant -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathanial Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston -- Araby / James Joyce -- The Dead / James Joyce -- Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- White horse / Yasunari Kawabata -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Hell-Heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- An adventure in Paris / Guy de Maupassant -- Why I like country music / James Alan McPherson -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Royal beatings / Alice Munro -- Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro -- Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov -- How I contemplated the world / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- O yes / Tillie Olson -- Used-boy raisers / Grace Paley -- El Paso / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- What kind of furniture would Jesus buy? / Annie Proulx -- Victory lap / George Saunders -- Admission / Danzy Senna -- Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Chyrsanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Death of Ivan Illych / Leo Tolstoy -- A&P / John Updike -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- A&P / John Updike -- Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Wolf -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Writers on Writing -- Writing Fiction -- A Local Habitation and A Name: Meditations on Writing -- Reviews and Commentaries -- Authors in Depth.

One of the most celebrated writers and teachers of fiction, Richard Bausch, pairs his insight and inspiration with Norton's trusted editorial standards to deliver the finest teaching anthology available. This title features 73 works - many of them new to this edition - by 69 authors, offering a broad collection of short stories with the most thoughtful annotations and apparatus on the market.