Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of TheBest American Short Stories have launched literary careers,showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmedfor all time the significance of the short story in our nationalliterature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURYbrings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories thatrepresent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in thisquintessentially American literary genre. This expanded editionincludes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 toround out the century, as well as an index including every storypublished in the series. Of all the writers whose work has appearedin the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of thelast five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his mostrecent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison tochoose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is"extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of thiscountry's immeasurable pains and near-infinite hopes" (BostonGlobe).
【目录】
Foreword vii
Introduction by John Updike xv
1915 " BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT. Zelig
1916 " MARY LERNER. Little Selves
1917 " SUSAN GLASPELL. A Jury of Her Peers
192o SHERWOOD ANDERSON. The Other Woman
1922 RING LARDNER. The Golden Honeymoon
1923 JEAN TOOMER. Blood-Burning Moon
1927 ERNEST HEMINGWAY. The Killers
1929 WlLLA CATHER. Double Birthday
1929 GRACE STONE COATES. Wild Plums
1930 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. Theft
1931 WILLIAM FAULKNER. That Evening Sun Go Down
1931 DOROTHY PARKER. Here We Are
1933 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Crazy Sunday
1934 ALEXANDER GODIN. My Dead Brother Comes to America
1935 WILLIAM SAROYAN. Resurrection of a Life
1938 ROBERT PENN WARREN. Christmas Gift
1939 RICHARD WRIGHT. Brigl~t and Morning Star
194o EUDORA WELTY. The Hitch-Hikers
1943 PAUL HORGAN. The Peach Stone
1944 VLADIMIR NABOKOV. "That in Aleppo Once.. "
1947 JEAN STAFFORD. The Interior Castle
1948 MARTHA GELLHORN. Miami-New York
1948 E. B. WHITE. The Second Tree from the Corner
1949 ELIZABETH BISHOP. The Farmer's Children
1951 J.r. VOWERS. Death of aFavorite
1951 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. The Resemblance Between a Violin Case anda Coffin
1955 JOHN ClaEEVER. The Country Husband
1957 FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Greenleaf
196o LAWRENCE SARCENT HALL. The Ledge
196o PHILIP ROTH. Defender of the Faith
1962 STANLEY ELKIN. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers andCriers
1964 BERNARD MALAMUD. The German Refugee
1967 JOYCE CAROL OATES. Where Are You Going, Where Have YouBeen?
1968 MARY LADD GAVELL. The Rotifer
1969 JAMES ALAN McPHERSON. Gold Coast
197o ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. The Key
1973 DONALD BARTHELME. A City of Churches
1975 ROSELLEN BROWN. How to Win
1976 ALICE ADAMS. Roses, Rhododendron
1978 HAROLD BRODKEY. Verona: A Young Woman Speaks
1979 SAUL BELLOW. A Silver Dish
1980 JOHN UPDIKE. Gesturing
1981 CYNTHIA ozmK. The Shawl
1983 RAYMOND CARVER. Where I'm Calling From
1986 ANN BEATTIE. Janus
1987 SUSAN SONTAG. The Way We Live Now
1987 TIM O'BRIEN. The Things They Carried
1989 ALICE MUNRO. Meneseteung
199o LORRIE MOORE. You're Ugly, Too
1993 WHOM JONES. I Want to Live!
1994 ALICE ELLIOTT DARK. In the Gloaming
1994 CAROLYN FERRELL. Proper Library
1995 GISH JEN. Birthmates
1997 PAM DURBAN. Soon
1998 ANNIE VROULX. The Half-Skinned Steer
1999 PAM HOUSTON. The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
Biographical Notes
Index of the Best American Short Stories, 1915-1999
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