Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction, 13th edition
Published by Pearson (June 23, 2011) © 2012
- James H. Pickering
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For Introduction to the Short Story and Introduction to Fiction.
A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs. Intended to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, these selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. International in scope, it illustrates the development of short fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 128 traditional and contemporary works organized alphabetically by author.
What kind of selections do you look for in a fiction anthology?
- NEW! 21 New selections.
- The new edition features stories by Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, and Gish Jen to list a few.
- An outstanding selection of 128 stories (alphabetically arranged) presented in an attractive format.
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- Selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style.
- The format of presentation is deliberately open-ended and non-directive.
What type of tools do you use to ensure student comprehension of the material and of short stories?
- Questions for Study accompany each story.
- Invite students to think about and interpret what they have just read.
- Short story handbook at end.
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Provides students with a comprehensive, at-hand glossary for studying literature; and includes updated “Biographical Notes” that introduce students to the life and times of the authors presented.
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Chronologically organized Table of Contents–Presented at the back of the text.
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Offers flexibility for students and instructors.
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Real life student writing
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NEW MLA Format--Based on the suggestions of James Pickering's students, real life student writing was added to help model excellent student writing with new MLA formatting.
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Do you want your students to approach writing about and discussing new stories with openness and freshness without being swayed by others' critical commentary? Do you prefer apparatus to remain unobtrusive so that it is there if you need it, but still allows you to decide what to use?
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Reader's Guide to the Short Story for students–Can be packaged at no additional charge with the text.
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Provides detailed discussion on how to read short fiction, introduces students to the elements of fiction, and provides extensive guidance on how to write about fiction, with sample student essays.
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- Comprehensive Instructor's Manual –Contains a discussion of the three most frequently-used approaches to short fiction: analytical, thematic, and historical; a discussion of student response to literature and additional activities; a discussion of electronic resources for teachers; brief critical commentaries on the stories themselves; and a comprehensive bibliography of short story criticism keyed to the stories in the text.
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Provides instructors with valuable course support while giving them the flexibility to decide what to use.
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- 24 new selections added to the book including classic (Dickens, Doyle) to contemporary (Lahiri, Boyle).
- 3 new graphic novels (Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home; Lynda Berry, “Two Questions”; Shaun Tan, From The Arrival )
- Revised and updated headnotes
- Updated Reader’s Guide
- Updated Instructor’s Manual
- A new Note to Instructors to highlight our online resources such as the Instructor’s Manual and MyLiteratureLab.
Louisa May Alcott, “Contraband”
Sherman Alexie, “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
Sherwood Anderson, “The Egg”
Margaret Atwood, “Rape Fantasies”
Mary Hunter Austin, “The Basket Maker”
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Andrea Barrett, “The Littoral Zone”
John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse”
Rick Bass, “Antlers” *
Ann Beattie, “Janus”
Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home *
Saul Bellow, “Looking for Mr. Green”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”
Kay Boyle, “Astronomer’s Wife”
T. Coraghessan Boyle, “Greasy Lake” *
Ray Bradbury, “August 2002: Night Meeting”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”
John Cheever, “The Swimmer” *
Anton Chekhov, “The Darling”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Kate Chopin, “The Storm”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
Samuel L. Clemens, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Grace Stone Coates, “Wild Plums”
Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”
Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel”
Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Charles Dickens, “The Signal-Man” *
E.L. Doctorow, "Wakefield"
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” *
Fedor Dostoevski, “The Grand Inquisitor”
Anne Enright, “Natalie” *
Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game”
Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
E. M. Forster, “The Road from Colonus”
Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “If I Were a Man”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers”
Nickolai Gogol, “The Overcoat”
Nadine Gordimer, “A Beneficiary”
Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers”
Bret Harte, “Tennessee’s Partner”
Nathaniel Hawthorne “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
Pam Houston, “How to Talk to a Hunter”
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
W. W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”
Henry James, “The Real Thing”
Gish Jen, “In the American Society”
Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron”
Ha Jin, “Saboteur”
James Joyce, “Araby”
James Joyce, “The Dead”
Bel Kaufman, “Sunday in the Park”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” *
W. P. Kinsella, “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa”
Rudyard Kipling, “They”
William Kittredge, “We Are Not in This Together”
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies” *
D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” *
Ursula K. Le Guin, “Horse Camp”
Doris Lessing, “Wine”
Jack London, “To Build a Fire”
Katherine Mansfield, “Her First Ball”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
Bobbie-Ann Mason, “Shiloh” *
Guy De Maupassant, “The Necklace”
Guy De Maupassant, “Rust”
Maile Meloy, “Travis, B.”
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Alice Munro, “Passion” *
H. H. Munro (“Saki”), “The Open Window”
H.H. Munro (“Saki”), “Sredni Vashtar”
Joyce Carol Oates, “The Lady with the Pet Dog”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” *
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Katherine Anne Porter, “The Grave”
Annie Proulx, “Them Old Cowboy Songs” *
Annette Sanford, “Nobody Listens When I Talk”
George Saunders, “Puppy” *
Irwin Shaw, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “Yellow Woman”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”
John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums”
Robert Louis Stevenson, “Markheim”
Bram Stoker, “Dracula’s Guest” *
Amy Tan, “Two Kinds” *
Shaun Tan, From The Arrival *
James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat”
Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych”
Judy Troy, “The Order of Things” *
Ivan Turgenev, “The Country Doctor”
John Updike, “A&P” *
John Updike, “Separating”
Alice Walker, “Nineteen Fifty-Five” *
Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”
Dorothy West, “My Baby”
Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever” *
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force”
Tobias Wolff, “Powder”
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
Patricia Zelver, "Love Letters"
Biographical Notes
A Short Story Handbook
Credits
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