The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction

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1 The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction Convention and Innovation Dean Baldwin Venn State Erie The Behrend College SDERSACI STAATS.U.13MV.- B13LI0THEK GOTTINGEN Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York

2 Contents Preface xi Introduction: Convention and Innovation in the Short Story xv PART ONE Stories JOSEPH BRUCHAC, Gluskabe and the Four Wishes 3 AESOP, Town Mouse and Country Mouse 5 THEOPHRASTUS, Garrulity 6 OVID, Daedalus and Icarus 7 ST. LUKE, The Good Samaritan 9 GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Fiammetta's Story 10 CHARLES PERRAULT, Fairy Tale: The Blue Beard 15 ERNST THEODOR AMADEUS HOFFMAN, The Sandman 19 Sidebar: Exploring Sub-Genres The Horror Story 42 WASHINGTON IRVING, Rip Van Winkle 45 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, My Kinsman, Major Molineux 57 CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND (MARY CLAVERS), Henry Beckworth 71 EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Murders in the Rue Morgue 76 Sidebar: Exploring Sub-Genres The Detective Story 100 EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Tell-Tale Heart 104 NIKOLAI VASILIEVICH GOGOL, The Overcoat 107 Sidebar: Exploring Critical Issues Social Criticism and the Short Story 129 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, Uncle Lot 133 Sidebar: Exploring Critical Issues Popular versus Literary Short Stories 152 ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL, Lizzie Leigh 155 Sidebar: Exploring Sub-Genres The Love Story 178 IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV, Yermolai and the Miller's Wife 181 Vll

3 viii CONTENTS HERMAN MELVILLE, Bartleby, the Scrivener 191 HENRY JAMES, A Landscape Painter 218 GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, A Simple Soul 243 GUY DE MAUPASSANT, Bellflower 266 GUY DE MAUPASSANT, Two Little Soldiers 270 RUBEN DARIO, The Ruby 275 H. RIDER HAGGARD, Hunter Quatermain's Story 280 Sidebar: Exploring Sub-Genres The Adventure Story 292 AMBROSE BIERCE, Chickamauga 295 MARY E. WILKENS FREEMAN, The Revolt of "Mother" 301 MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS), Luck 313 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 317 KATE CHOPIN, Desiree's Baby 332 STEPHEN CRANE, The Open Boat 337 ANTON CHEKHOV, Easter Eve 356 ANTON CHEKHOV, The Lady with the Dog 364 JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness 376 O. HENRY (WILLIAM SIDNEY PORTER), The Gift of the Magi 436 SAKI (H. H. MUNRO), Sredni Vashtar 441 JAMES JOYCE, Araby 445 D. H. LAWRENCE, The Prussian Officer 450 Sidebar: Exploring Critical Issues Psychoanalysis and the Short Story 466 SUSAN GLASPELL, A fury of Her Peers 472 SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Hands 488 VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens 493 KATHERINE MANSFIELD, The Daughters of the Late Colonel 499 KATHERINE MANSFIELD, Miss Brill 514 WILBUR DANIEL STEELE, Footfalls 518 HORACIO QUIROGA, The Wilderness 533 AGATHA CHRISTIE, The Case of the Perfect Maid 545 W SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Letter 555 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Babylon Revisited 579 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, Floweringfudas 595 WILLIAM FAULKNER, Dry September 604 CONRAD AIKEN, Silent Snow, Secret Snow,.614 JUAN BOSCH, The Woman 627

4 CONTENTS i LANGSTON HUGHES, Cora Unashamed 630 ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 637 ZORA NEALE HURSTON, The Gilded Six-Bits 660 RAYMOND CHANDLER, The Curtain 669 V. S. PRITCHETT, Sense of Humour 698 EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 711 EUDORA WELTY, A Still Moment 721 JORGE LUIS BORGES, The Garden of Forking-Paths 730 SHIRLEY JACKSON, The Lottery 738 HISAYE YAMAMOTO, Seventeen Syllables 745 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, The Little Shoemakers FLANNERY O'CONNOR, Good Country People 773 GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo 788 PHILIP ROTH, The Conversion ofthefews 793 HERBERT ERNEST BATES, Great Uncle Crow 805 GRACE PALEY, The Loudest Voice 811 ERNEST J. GAINES, The Sky Is Gray 816 YASUNARI KAWABATA, Immortality 837 JOYCE CAROL OATES, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 840 DORIS LESSING, The Black Madonna 853 YUKIO MISHIMA (KIMITAKE HIRAOKA), Swaddling Clothes 864 DONALD BARTHELME, The Balloon 869 ROBERT COOVER, The Babysitter 873 OCTAVIO PAZ, The Blue Bouquet 895 MARGARET LAURENCE, To Set Our House in Order 897 AMA ATA AIDOO, No Sweetness Here 909 TONI CADE BAMBARA, Gorilla, My Love 921 CHINUA ACHEBE, Vengeful Creditor 926 PATRICIA GRACE, At the River 938 RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA, In the Mountains 942 LYDIA DAVIS, A Few Things. Wrong with Me 954 JAMAICA KINCAID, At the Bottom of the River 958 ANGELA CARTER, The Bloody Chamber 967 CARLOS FUENTES, These Were Palaces 995 PAULE BARTON, Emilie Plead Choose One Egg 1009

5 X CONTENTS RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral 1011 ALICE WALKER, Nineteen Fifty-Five 1022 NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, The Time and the Place 1033 MARGARET ATWOOD, Bluebeard's Egg 1039 MARGARET ATWOOD, Happy Endings 1059 ALICE MUNRO, The Progress of Love 1061 LOUISE ERDRICH, Snares 1081 LORRIE MOORE, You're Ugly, Too 1089 AMY TAN, Two Kinds 1104 ISABEL ALLENDE, And of Clay Are We Created 1113 NADINE GORDIMER, Spoils 1121 ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, JR., "Jealous Husband Returns in Form ofparrot" 1131 PART TWO A Brief History of the Short Story 1137 Early Forms of Short Fiction: Precursors to the Short Story 1139 The Short Story: A Brief History 1144 PART THREE Reading and Writing About Short Fiction 1161 Reading Fiction Actively 1163 JOHN UPDIKE, Lucid Eye in Silver Town 1164 The Elements of Fiction 1177 CHARACTER 1177 SETTING 1185 THEME 1187 PLOT 1192 POINT OF VIEW 1188 STYLE 1193 ; FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 1194 Writing about Short Stories 1196 PART FOUR Reference 1213 A Glossary of Literary Terms 1215 A Selective Bibliography for Students: Works for Further Reading and Reference 1226 Author/Title Index 1235