Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in this quintessentially American literary genre. This expanded edition includes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 to round out the century, as well as an index including every story published in the series.
Of all the writers whose work has appeared in the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of the last five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his most recent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison to choose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is "extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of this country's immeasurable pains and near-infinite hopes" (Boston Globe).

INDEX:

1915 • BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT. Zelig
1916 • MARY LERNER. Little Selves
1917 • SUSAN GLASPELL. A Jury of Her Peers
1920 • SHERWOOD ANDERSON. The Other Woman
1922 • RING LARDNER. The Golden Honeymoon
1923 • JEAN TOOMER. Blood-Burning Moon
1927 • ERNEST HEMINGWAY. T h e Killers
1929 • WILLA CATHER. Double Birthday
1929 • GRACE STONE COATES. Wild PlumS
1930 • KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. T h e f t
1931 • WILLIAM FAULKNER. That Evening Sun Go Down
1931 • DOROTHY PARKER. Here We A r e
1933 • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Crazy Sunday
1934 • ALEXANDER GODIN. My Dead Brother Comes to America
1935 • WILLIAM SAROYAN. Resurrection of a Life
1938 • ROBERT PENN WARREN. Christmas Gift
1939 • RICHARD WRIGHT. Bright and Morning Star
1940 • EUDORA WELTY. T h e Hitch-Hikers
1943 • PAUL HORGAN. The Peach Stone
1944 • VLADIMIR NABOKOV. "That in Aleppo Once ..."
1947 • JEAN STAFFORD. The Interior Castle
1948 • MARTHA GELLHORN. Miami-New York
1948 • E. B. WHITE. The Second Tree from the Corner
1949 • ELIZABETH BISHOP. The Farmer's Children
1951 • J. F. POWERS. Death of a Favorite
1951 • TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin
1955 • JOHN CHEEVER. The Country Husband
1957 • FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Greenleaf
1960 • LAWRENCE SARGENT HALL. The Ledge
1960 • PHILIP ROTH. Defender of the Faith
1962 • STANLEY ELKIN. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
1964 • BERNARD MALAMUD. The German Refugee
1967 • JOYCE CAROL OATES. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
1968 • MARY LADD GAVELL. T h e Rotifer
1969 • JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON. Gold Coast
1970 • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. T h e K e y
1973 • DONALD BARTHELME. A City of Churches
1975 • ROSELLEN BROWN. H o w t o W i n
1976 • ALICE ADAMS. Roses, Rhododendron
1978 • HAROLD BRODKEY. Verona: A Young Woman Speaks
1979 • SAUL BELLOW. A Silver Dish
1980 • JOHN UPDIKE. Gesturing
1981 • CYNTHIA OZICK. T h e Shawl
1983 • RAYMOND CARVER. Where I'm Calling From
1986 • ANN BEATTIE. Janus
1987 • SUSAN SONTAG. T h e Way We Live N o w
1987 • TIM O'BRIEN. The Things They Carried
1989 • ALICE MUNRO. Meneseteung
1990 • LORRIE MOORE. You're Ugly, Too
1993 • THOM JONES. I Want to Live!
1994 • ALICE ELLIOTT DARK. In the G l o a m i n g
1994 • CAROLYN FERRELL. Proper Library
1995 • GISH JEN. Birthmates
1997 • PAM DURBAN. Soon
1998 • ANNIE PROULX. The Half-Skinned Steer
1999 • PAM HOUSTON. The Best Girlfriend You Never Had

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