R. V. Cassill - Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

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E. M. Forster: "The Road from Colonus" from The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster. Published 1947 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Larry French: "Merry Christmas God" copyright 1985 by Larry French. Originally appeared in Ascent. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Mavis Gallant: "My Heart Is Broken" from My Heart Is Broken by Mavis Gallant. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Copyright 1957 by Mavis Gallant.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" from Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia M^auez, translated by Gregory Rabassa. English translation 1971 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reprinted by permission of Hatper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" from Men without Women. Copyright 1927 Charles Scribner's Sons; copyright renewed 1955 Ernest Hemingway. Excerpt from In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright 1925, 1930 Charles Scribner's Sons; copyright renewed 1953 Ernest Hemingway. Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Amy Hempel: "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" from Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel. Copyright 1985 by Amy Hempel. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

William Hoffman: "Sea Treader" from Virginia Reels 1971 by William Hofitaan. Reprinted by permission of University of Illinois Press.

Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery" from The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Copyright 1948, 1949 by Shirley Jackson. Copyright renewed 1976, 1977 by Laurence Hyman, Barry Hyman, Mrs. Sarah Webster, and Mrs. Joanne Schnurer. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Henry James: "The Tree of Knowledge" from The Complete Tales of Henry James, 'Leon Edel, editor. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company. Reprinted by permission of Alexander R. James, Literary Executor. "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James is reprinted from volume 17 of The New York Edition of the works of Henry James. Copyright 1909 Charles Scribner's Sons; copyright renewed. By permission of the publisher.

James Joyce: "Araby," "A Little Cloud," and "The Dead" from Dubliners by James Joyce. Copyright 1916 by B. W. Huebsch. Definitive text copyright 1967 by the Estate of James Joyce. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, Inc. Franz Kafka: "The Metamorphosis" and "A Hunger Artist" reprinted by permission of Schocken Books, Inc. from The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Copyright 1948, 1976 by Schocken Books, Inc.

Ring Lardner: "Haircut" from The Love Nest and Other Stories by Ring Lardner. Copyright 1925 Ellis A. Lardner; copyright renewed. Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Margaret Laurence: "The Loons" copyright 1966 by Margaret Laurence: Reprinted from A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and by permission of the Canadian Publishers, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto.

D. H. Lawrence: "Tickets, Please" and "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" from The Complete Short Stories of D. H. Lawrence, Volume II. Copyright 1922 by Thomas Seltzer, Inc .Copyright renewed 1950 by Frieda Lawrence. "The Rocking-Horse Wirmer" from The Complete Short Stories of D. H. Lawrence, Volume III. Copyright 1934 by the Estate of D. H. Lawrence. Copyright renewed 1962 by Angelo RavagU and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, Inc.

Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" copyright 1973, 1975 by Ursula K. Le Guin; reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.

Doris Lessing: "To Room Nineteen" from A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing. Copyright 1958, 1962, 1963 by Doris Lessing. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Jonathan Clowes Ltd., London, on behalf of Doris Lessing.

Sara McAulay: "The Liar's Craft" first published 1977 in Intro 8 a pubUcation of Associated Writing Programs. Reprinted by permission of Associated Writing Programs.

James Alan McPherson: "The Gold Coast" from Hue and Cry by James Alan McPherson. Copyright 1968 by James Alan McPherson. By permission of Little, Brown and Company in association with Atlantic Monthly Press.

Bernard Malamud: "The Jewbird" from Idiots First by Bernard Malamud. Copyright 1963 by Bernard Malamud. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Thomas Mann: "Disorder and Early Sorrow," copyright 1936 and renewed 1964 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted from Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Katherine Mansfield: "Bliss" and "The Garden Party" copyright 1920, 1922 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and renewed 1948, 1950 by John Middleton Murry. Reprinted from The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield, by permission of the publisher.

Bobbie Ann Mason: "Shiloh" from Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright 1982 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

W. Somerset Maugham: "The Outstation" copyright 1924 by W. Somerset Maugham. Reprinted from The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham by permission of Doubleday & Company. Inc., the Executors of the Estate of W. Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann Ltd.

Yukio Mishima: "Patriotism" from Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Translated by Geoffrey Sargent. Copyright 1966 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Alice Munro: "Prue" from The Moons of Jupiter and Other Stories by Alice Munro. Copyright 1982 by Alice Munro. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Knopf, and Macmillan of Canada. A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation. "Royal Beatings" from The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro. Copyright 1977, 1978 by Alice Munro. Originally published in The New Yorker. Published in Canada under the title Who Do You Think You Are? by Macmillan Canada. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Virginia Barber Literary Agency, Inc.

Vladimir Nabokov: "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright 1948 by Vladimir Nabokov. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Joyce Carol Oates: "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" reprinted from The Wheel of Love by Joyce Carol Oates, by permission of the pubUsher, Vanguard Press, Inc. Copyright 1970,

1969. 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965 by Joyce Carol Gates.

Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" copyright 1953 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1981 by Regina O'Connor. Reprinted from A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "Parker's Back" from Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor. Copyright 1961, 1965 by Flannery O'Connor. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" from More Stories by Frank O'Connor. Copyright 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "My Oedipus Complex" from The Stories of Frank O'Connor by Frank O'Connor. Copyright 1959 by Frank O'Connor. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Joan Daves, and A. D. Peters & Co. Ltd.