The best American short stories of the century /
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt
- Little selves / Mary Lerner
- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
- Other woman / Sherwood Anderson
- Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner
- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
- Killers / Ernest Hemingway
- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan
- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren
- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright
- Hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty
- Peach stone / Paul Horgan
- "That in Aleppo once..." / Vladimir Nabokov
- Interior castle / Jean Stafford
- Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn
- Second tree from the corner / E.B. White
- Farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop
- Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers
- Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams
- Country husband / John Cheever
- Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin
- German refugee / Bernard Malamud
- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
- Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell
- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson
- Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Cty of churches / Donald Barthelme
- How to win / Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey
- Silver dish / Saul Bellow
- Gesturing / John Updike
- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick
- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver
- Janus / Ann Beattie
- Way we live now / Susan Sontag
- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
- Meneseteung / Alice Munro
- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore
- I want to live ! / Thom Jones
- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark
- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell
- Birthmates / Gish Jen
- Soon / Pam Durban
- Half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.