100 years of the best American short stories

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xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm

One hundred years of the best American short stories

1915-1920. The gay old dog / Edna Ferber
1920-1930. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson ; My old man / Ernest Hemingway ; Haircut / Ring Lardner
1930-1940. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The cracked looking-glass / Katherine Anne Porter ; That will be fine / William Faulkner
1940-1950. Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale ; The whole world knows / Eudora Welty ; The enormous radio / John Cheever
1950-1960. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen ; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
1960-1970. Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor ; Pigeon feathers / John Updike ; Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver ; By the river / Joyce Carol Oates
1970-1980. The school / Donald Barthelme ; The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin
1980-1990. Friends / Grace Paley ; Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter ; Lawns / Mona Simpson ; Communist / Richard Ford ; Helping / Robert Stone ; Displacement / David Wong Louie
1990-2000. Friend of my youth / Alice Munro ; The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill ; Xuela / Jamaica Kincaid ; If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma ; Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz
2000-2010. The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri ; Brownies / ZZ Packer ; What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie ; Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones ; Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy ; Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff
2010-2015. What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander ; Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka ; The semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders ; At the round Earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Brothers
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Gay old dog
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Babylon revisited
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. My old man
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Haircut
Moore, Lorrie, editor
Pitlor, Heidi, editor