American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Readings and abstracts of criticism: Rip Van Winkle / W. Irving -- Ligeia / E. A. Poe -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / N. …”

Masters of the modern short story /

Table of Contents: “…Youth / Joseph Conrad -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- Brother Death / Sherwood Anderson -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- The road from Colonus / E.M. …”

Great American short stories /

Antología de la novela corta norteamericana /

Contemporary short stories : representative selections /

Table of Contents: “…/ Ring Lardner ; Your obituary, well written / Conrad Aiken ; Rope / Katherine Anne Porter ; The day the Dam Broke / James Thurber ; The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet ; The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan ; Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; The hunted / Maurice Baudin, Jr.…”

Children of the night : the best short stories by black writers : 1967 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…The tale of Gorgik / Samuel Delany -- Meditations on history / Sherley Anne Williams -- Damballah / John Edgar Wideman -- Louisiana : 1850 / Jewelle Gomez -- Remember him a outlaw / Alexis DeVeaux -- Mother / Andrea Lee -- Long distances / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- After dreaming of President Johnson / Howard Gordon -- Neighbors / Diana Oliver -- The witness / Ann Petry -- Steady going up / Maya Angelou -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- Second-Hand man / Rita Dove -- Crusader rabbit / Jess Mowry -- Silences / Helen Elaine Lee -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- The diary of an african nun / Alice Walker -- In a house of Wooden Monkeys / Shay Youngblood -- Young reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin -- By the way of morning fire / Michael Weaver -- China / Charles Johnson -- Blackness / Jamaica Kincaid -- Lost in the city / Edward P. …”