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"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket.… (more)
A collection of white people (mostly) pottering about (mostly) and then, to REALLY mix things up a bit, a couple of stories about (horror of horrors) social an economic stress. Phew, that was intense.
A complete lack of imagination by the editor: these are no one's best short stories. ( )
This was quite a collection. Although there were misses, the talented writers of various stories really managed to make this collection shine. For those interested in short stories, especially American ones, I recommend this collection. It was worth the read.
Sez who? There were a few of the short stories that I enjoyed, but they were mostly from the 1980's and 1990's. I found a lot of the earlier stories to be fairly weak. ( )
Edward J. O'Brien was twenty-three years old, already a published poet and playwright, when he began work on the first volume of The Best American Short Stories. (Foreword)
These stories have been four times selected. (Introduction)
"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket.
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Anthology contains:
Introduction / John Updike
Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt
Little Selves / Mary Lerner
A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell
The Other Woman / Sherwood Anderson
The Golden Honeymoon / Ring Lardner
Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer
The Killers / Ernest Hemingway
Double Birthday / Willa Cather
Wild Plums / Grace Stone Coates
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter
That Evening Sun Go Down / William Faulkner
Here We Are / Dorothy Parker
Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Dead Brother Comes to America / Alexander Godin
Resurrection of a Life / William Saroyan
Christmas Gift / Robert Penn Warren
Bright and Morning Star / Richard Wright
The Hitch-Hikers / Eudora Welty
The Peach Stone / Paul Horgan
"That in Aleppo Once…" / Vladimir Nabokov
The Interior Castle / Jean Stafford
Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn
The Second Tree from the Corner / E.B. White
The Farmer's Children / Elizabeth Bishop
Death of a Favorite / J.F. Powers
The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin / Tennessee Williams
The Country Husband / John Cheever
Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
The Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers / Stanley Elkin
The German Refugee / Bernard Malamud
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates
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