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Modern Short Stories: the uses of imagination

Arthur Mizener

Mizener, Arthur;

Modern Short Stories: the uses of imagination

Compiled by Arthur Mizener

Norton, 1967, 744 pages

topics: |  fiction-short | anthology


JOSEPH CONRAD :         Heart of darkness
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD :   Babylon revisited
MARY MCCARTHY :         Artists in uniform
DYLAN THOMAS :          A story
FRANK O'CONNOR :        My Oedipus complex
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER : The grave
JOHN UPDIKE :           Sense of shelter
DORIS LESSING :         The day Stalin died
FLANNERY O'CONNOR :     The artificial nigger
HENRY JAMES :           The tone of time
                        The jolly corner
                        The lesson of the master
EDITH WHARTON :         Roman fever
ERNEST HEMINGWAY :      The gambler, the nun, and the radio
JAMES THURBER :         A couple of hamburgers
PHILIP ROTH :           Defender of the faith
J. F. POWERS :          A losing game
DAN JACOBSON :          Beggar my neighbor
JAMES AGEE :            The waiting
D. H. LAWRENCE :        The odor of chrysanthemums
                        The shadow in the rose garden
                        The white stocking
VLADIMIR NABOKOV :      Pnin
SHERWOOD ANDERSON :     The egg
JAMES JOYCE :           Araby
KATHERINE MANSFIELD :   Her first ball
BERNARD MALAMUD :       Take pity
RUDYARD KIPLING :       The gardner
WILLIAM FAULKNER :      The fire and the hearth
                        Delta autumn
                        Raid
ROBERT PENN WARREN :    When the light gets green
CAROLINE GORDON :       Old red
EUDORA WELTY :          A worn path
ANDREW LYTLE :          Mister McGregor
PETER TAYLOR :          What you hear from 'Em?
REYNOLDS PRICE :        Uncle Grant


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009