40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology by James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Yusuf Idris, Amy Tan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Toni Cade Bambara, Tim O'Brien, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie, William Faulkner, Haruki Murakami, Stephen Crane, Beverly Lawn, Kate Chopin

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Yusuf Idris, Amy Tan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Toni Cade Bambara, Tim O'Brien, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie, William Faulkner, Haruki Murakami, Stephen Crane, Beverly Lawn, Kate Chopin

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546 pages | first published 2000

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Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.

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