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“The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus builds upon a terrific selection of classic stories, and the inclusion of more contemporary forms such as sudden fiction and graphic stories makes this anthology stand out. It is up-to-date and reflective of recent developments in the genre. A great resource for the teaching and reading of the short story.”
—Marcia Aldrich, Editor of Fourth Genre, and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University
This collection breaks new ground as a resource for the variety and richness the short story form has to offer. Thirty-nine selections, in four categories: short stories, sudden fiction, novellas, and graphic stories. These stories, spanning a century and a half, are among the
greatest ever written.
Complete with discussion questions and brief author biographies, the Short Story Omnibus is an ideal text for book groups as well as literature and creative writing courses.
The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus
Daniel Born, Judith McCue, and Donald H. Whitfield, Eds.
ISBN# 978-1-880323-73-1
Softcover, 704 pages, $32.95
Available: March 2009
Table of contents
Short Stories
- A Passion in the Desert
- Honoré de Balzac
- The Black Cat
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Real Thing
- Henry James
- A Lady with a Dog
- Anton Chekhov
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Her First Ball
- Katherine Mansfield
- Indian Camp
- Ernest Hemingway
- The Diver
- V. S. Pritchett
- Gimpel the Fool
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Wall
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Country Husband
- John Cheever
- The Ledge
- Lawrence Sargent Hall
- Looking for Mr. Green
- Saul Bellow
- Sonny’s Blues
- James Baldwin
- Argument and Persuasion
- Donald Hall
- The Professor’s Houses
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Lost in the Funhouse
- John Barth
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth
- John Updike
- Cathedral
- Raymond Carver
- The Man from Mars
- Margaret Atwood
- The Pugilist at Rest
- Thom Jones
- Greasy Lake
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Baby
- Mary Gordon
- The Collectors
- Rohinton Mistry
- You’re Ugly, Too
- Lorrie Moore
Sudden Fiction
- The Country Where Nobody Ever Grew Old and Died
- William Maxwell, Jr.
- Wants
- Grace Paley
- A City of Churches
- Donald Barthelme
- True Love
- Don Shea
- Bullet
- Kim Church
- The Doctor
- Ann Hood
- Blind Fish
- Melanie Rae Thon
- My Date With Neanderthal Woman
- David Galef
- After Caravaggio’s Sacrifice of Isaac
- Rachel Cusk
Novellas
- Benito Cereno
- Herman Melville
- Tom Outland’s Story
- Willa Cather
Graphic Stories
- Flies on the Ceiling
- Jaime Hernandez
- Palestine (Chapter One)
- Joe Sacco
- A Happy Death (from Fun Home)
- Alison Bechdel
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