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1. Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
2. The Wives of the Dead, Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, Herman Melville
4. The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Ghost in the Mill, Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. Cannibalism in the Cars, Mark Twain
7. The Storm, Kate Chopin
8. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Gilman Perkins
9. The Middle Years, Henry James
10. In a Far Country, Jack London
11. The Little Regiment, Stephen Crane
12. A Journey, Edith Wharton
13. A Death in the Desert, Willa Carter
14. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway
15. An Alcoholic Case, F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. The Girl with the Pimply Face, William Carlos Williams
17. He, Katherine Anne Porter
18. Red-Headed Baby, Langston Hughes
19. A Late Encounter with the Enemy, Flannery O'Connor
20. Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin
21. There will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury
22. Where is the Voice Coming From, Eudora Welty
23. The Lecture, Isaac Beshevis Singer
24. My Son the Murderer, Bernard Malamud
25. Something to Remember Me By, Saul Bellow
26. The Death of Justina, John Cheever
27. Texts, Ursula Le Guin
28. The Persistence of Desire, John Updike
29. Are These Actual Miles?, Raymond Carver
30. Heat, Joyce Carol Oates
Title: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
University Press
Item Number: 9780195092622
Publication Date: September 1994
Product Description: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
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Rating: 3.8/5 based on 27 Reviews
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Jussara Giolo Silva
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on June 06, 2017I finally did it! I feel incredibly accomplished haha
It's a great collection that introduced me to new (to me) authors and reminded me of some favorites. Really recommend this especially if you've already read a bunch of what's considered the core classics of short stories. This offers alternative stories by some of the most well-known authors that often get overlooked in favor of their most famous works. I really enjoyed my journey through this beast of a book. I finally did it! I feel incredibly accomplished haha
It's a great collection that introduced me to new (to me) authors and reminded me of some favorites. Really recommend this especially if you've already read a bunch of what's considered the core classics of short stories. This offers alternative stories by some of the most well-known authors that often get overlooked in favor of their most famous works. I really enjoyed my journey through this beast of a book.
Jason Schwab
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 13, 2012Finally! I began reading this book quite a while ago and am happy to report that I've finished. Overall, I was curious to see the evolution of short story writing in America from its dawning to the late 1980's. I have to admit, I didn't begin to enjoy the stories until I read the ones that came after the Civil War. The stories I thought were most exceptional--in voice, in language, in characterization--were written during or after the Harlem Renaissance. These stories include:
"Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty
"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
"My Son the Murderer" by Bernard Malamud
"Battle Royal" by Ralph Elison
"Something to Remember Me By" by Saul Bellow
"Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff
"The Girl with the Pimply Face" by William Carlos Williams
"Red-Headed Baby" by Langston Hughes
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Callahan
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on August 30, 2015A cool (not-so) little anthology, curated by Joyce Carol Oates. I'm not gonna give it a star-rating, because I never know how to rate anthologies, but it's certainly good reading. Oates put together a collection of little-known stories by America's most well-known writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to Junot Diaz. My only real complaint is that Oates made the odd choice of including her own work in the collection, putting her story alongside Hemingway's and Carver's.
Jean Serrano
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 29, 2008I
am
finished...
finally.
I read this book over the course of several years in between novels. After teaching American Literature for 5 years a while back, I enjoyed reading a few old favorites, but mostly being exposed to new stuff. Although there were a couple that were hard to get through, most of the stories were great, with standouts from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Louise Erdrich.
Johnson Adigun
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on March 30, 2020This is a great collection, well chosen, with up to a page of illuminating intro to each story from the editor. The stories span a couple of centuries, with writers I knew well and others I'd never heard of, classic tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, The Yellow Wallpaper) and ones wholly obscure. There's a 13-page introduction and an author index, with the stories arranged chronologically.
There is great variety in setting, theme and language, reflecting the history and breadth of America as a land and This is a great collection, well chosen, with up to a page of illuminating intro to each story from the editor. The stories span a couple of centuries, with writers I knew well and others I'd never heard of, classic tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, The Yellow Wallpaper) and ones wholly obscure. There's a 13-page introduction and an author index, with the stories arranged chronologically.
There is great variety in setting, theme and language, reflecting the history and breadth of America as a land and a society. I read The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories a few years ago, and despite a few stand-out pieces, my overriding impression was of cramped, grey, repetitive tales (perhaps a fair reflection of Britain!). The present volume is, refreshingly, the complete opposite. A particular strength is the inclusion of numerous stories in regional vernacular that immerse the reader not only in a place and time but a way of seeing the world.
The Melville story here continues to haunt me, an elusive and enigmatic thing that seems to speak at a tangent to its surface events. The Henry James was sobering, the Twain hilarious. There were so many more that stuck in my mind, even if I've lost track of names and titles.
I would have welcomed more of a nod to science fiction, a form that thrives on short stories, and in the US; and an opportunity to rectify this in the work of Ursula Le Guin was, I felt, squandered on a fairly slight tale (Texts, where The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas would have been an obvious choice). Aside from this, I really have no complaints and, given another lifetime, I would eagerly pursue the wider works of many of these writers.
Mary C Hudspeth
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 02, 2018An anthology of "canon" literature full of over-read, over-analyzed short stories. needed it for a college course. an anthology of "canon" literature full of over-read, over-analyzed short stories. needed it for a college course.
Kimberly Holmes
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on November 06, 2020Another short story anthology that I've been reading for years and have now finished. Lots of great stories. Here are my favorites:
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
My Son the Murderer by Bernard Malamud
The School by Donald Barthelme Another short story anthology that I've been reading for years and have now finished. Lots of great stories. Here are my favorites:
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
My Son the Murderer by Bernard Malamud
The School by Donald Barthelme
William R. Snoddy Jr.
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 10, 2019I'm enjoying this anthology a lot. It covers the well-known names such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, etc. (but not including O. Henry and John Steinbeck). I like it includes immigrants such as Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, etc. Then there are authors I've never heard of. 59 stories in total.
Some of the stories I especially like (in the order they appear in the book):
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
my review
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man by William Austin
my review
A I'm enjoying this anthology a lot. It covers the well-known names such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, etc. (but not including O. Henry and John Steinbeck). I like it includes immigrants such as Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, etc. Then there are authors I've never heard of. 59 stories in total.
Some of the stories I especially like (in the order they appear in the book):
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
my review
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man by William Austin
my review
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
A girl's adventure (adventure is not just for boys, you know) and an intriguing ending. Her shyness and the old country setting make the story even more endearing.
Old Woman Magoun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
I guess we can call this a feminist story, but it's hard to pinpoint its charm. I can see it expanded to a novella. (How did the lawyer's wife--who has lost her own child--respond to the news of Lily's death? Could she figure out what really happened? If she could, how would she related to grandmother Magoun? And her husband the lawyer, who seems to be a kind and intelligent man?)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
my review
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
My second time to read this. my review I still don't think this is particularly scary, and I'm scared my taste may be different from others.
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
I like that these genre fiction works are included in this anthology, but I'm not sure if this is the best example of Bradbury. It's beautiful writing, but it's only a scene, and he wrote a lot of short fictions that have the beginning, the middle, and the end.
A Late Encounter with the Enemy by Flannery O'Connor
Humorous and sad, which is hard to achieve at the same time.
The School by Donald Barthelme
Rhythmic prose, sad-funny escalation, and the ending!
Chad Casey
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on April 05, 2017As a short story collection this anthology contains a wide variety of authors with a quick comprehensive overview of each author included. Throughout this entire anthology I was annoyed however because Dates in her forward explicitly said she hand-picked works which weren't the authors best known pieces and then not only began with the most known Poe but in her snippets about the author on more than a fourth of them said this piece is this authors best know or most reprinted. That wouldn't have As a short story collection this anthology contains a wide variety of authors with a quick comprehensive overview of each author included. Throughout this entire anthology I was annoyed however because Dates in her forward explicitly said she hand-picked works which weren't the authors best known pieces and then not only began with the most known Poe but in her snippets about the author on more than a fourth of them said this piece is this authors best know or most reprinted. That wouldn't have bothered me if she hadn't also said she was not going to print those and instead look for more less known representations of the author's works. If you're looking for a comprehensive short story collection containing American authors this is your book, if you want to find more obscure printings of the well known American authors you will need to look elsewhere.
Joseph Armond
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on December 11, 2016Most of the stories were good but some got on the boring side
Elishia Brooks
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on November 06, 2020Excellent collection of American short stories - this collection of 56 short tales combines many different classic works with different topics from different period of time in late 19th to late 20th century in America. It includes a lot of masterpieces from women and minority writes which is something I really appreciate. You gonna see a lot of perspectives and thoughts that have been so well written, some shocked your mind in just few pages of words. I remember one about the pandemic that happe Excellent collection of American short stories - this collection of 56 short tales combines many different classic works with different topics from different period of time in late 19th to late 20th century in America. It includes a lot of masterpieces from women and minority writes which is something I really appreciate. You gonna see a lot of perspectives and thoughts that have been so well written, some shocked your mind in just few pages of words. I remember one about the pandemic that happened in America before but told you exactly what is happening right now in America and it surrounded world.
My favourites are: Cannibalism in the Cars, The Yellow Wallpaper (kind of remind me of the Hill's house on Netflix), Old Woman Magoun, A Death in the Desert (made myself raising some questions about what made a great artist), Blood-Burning Moon (that is a hell of story of blood and love between white and black people), Sonny's Blues (a sad look into a struggled life of a talent artist), The Lecture (a Jew who about to give a lecture and things suddenly happened to him), Something To Remember Me By (a small adventure of a teenager boy when things collapsed around him), Alaska (or two stories of those 2 black and white cleaners), Heat (dead of the twin), The Things They Carried (back to the Vietnam War where and when American soldiers have to be there when they were to young to understand what they were doing), Fever (so relevant to what we have right now with the pandemic), The management of Grief (how immigrants struggle in new place also on how people cope on with grief), Two kinds (Mother and daughter's relationship), Fleur (love this one as I always love Native American' stories).
Highly recommend this beautiful but heavy - you feel like you are holding 2kgs of something every time you read - book anyway to everyone.
Jose Torres
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on January 03, 2018There will always be standards and staples we're told are divine, definitive, or otherwise distinct in the realms of genre or generation. Often, they're substantively applauded or admonished; but it is the institution or branding which propel them into the public eye and therefore, public opinion. They're widely read or recommended so, one might assume acculturation. Even if something is terrible, you're expected to know of and about it. Likewise, if it's amazing. I can say The Oxford Book of Am There will always be standards and staples we're told are divine, definitive, or otherwise distinct in the realms of genre or generation. Often, they're substantively applauded or admonished; but it is the institution or branding which propel them into the public eye and therefore, public opinion. They're widely read or recommended so, one might assume acculturation. Even if something is terrible, you're expected to know of and about it. Likewise, if it's amazing. I can say The Oxford Book of American Short Stories is not of the latter.
The prose reads as pretentious because every narrative is less forthright than flagrant. Characters are glib and singular with little, if any critical consideration; which wouldn't be a nuisance if it weren't for the absence of catharsis. This applies in tale after tale. Moreover, the "big names" of its constituents contrive it that much more as a vanity project. The "distinctions" of this book are unsurprising given those involved, since each writer (notably, the editor) bring brands which are bolstered under the banner of Oxford.
If one is inclined to conform to the power of suggestion, I recommend reading library copies so as to engage with whatever references may arise at literary parties where one may also be inclined to gulp at goblets and munch on artisan cheese. I would describe specific segments, but they all [equally] left me utterly unmoved. There is nothing particularly noteworthy about this collection other than its testament to commodity fetishism, where mediocrity may be mantled.
Juan Castaneda
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on July 05, 2019Interesting collection, but Oates doesn't seem to have decided what she wants it to be. If you are looking for something to use to teach the American short story, this won't be all that useful'she often picks odd, and not particularly good, stories from major figures, and she doesn't include some of the most important short story writers in America, like Stephen Vincent Benet, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara. She tries to include some genre writing, with samplings of horror and sci-fi, but Interesting collection, but Oates doesn't seem to have decided what she wants it to be. If you are looking for something to use to teach the American short story, this won't be all that useful'she often picks odd, and not particularly good, stories from major figures, and she doesn't include some of the most important short story writers in America, like Stephen Vincent Benet, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara. She tries to include some genre writing, with samplings of horror and sci-fi, but completely ignores the detective/mystery and romance genres; plus, the story she includes by Stephen King is hardly his best, and seems to be chosen more because it is closer to "literary" than his best horror stories are. In short, the collection tries to be a number of different things'to include rare instead of canonical stories for some well-known authors, to focus on the standards for others, to include genre fiction but only that which seems almost literary. The collection does include some less familiar stories, so if you're not interested in a classroom text but just something to read it's okay. But in that case, it would have been more interesting to go for the more obscure and less often anthologized stories for all the writers, not just some of them.
Lace Allenius
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on June 02, 2020In The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories there are multiple diverse short stories by different authors. One story that I loved was called The Reach. The Reach is by Stephen King. This short story is about a 95 year old woman named Stella Flanders. She lived in Goat Island and she was in fact the oldest resident. Ever since she was young she never thought about crossing the body of water that separates Goat island from the mainland of New York. Stella started to see her dead husband and her h In The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories there are multiple diverse short stories by different authors. One story that I loved was called The Reach. The Reach is by Stephen King. This short story is about a 95 year old woman named Stella Flanders. She lived in Goat Island and she was in fact the oldest resident. Ever since she was young she never thought about crossing the body of water that separates Goat island from the mainland of New York. Stella started to see her dead husband and her husband told her to go across the water so she did. At that point she knew it was her time to go . She made it across the water and she then passed away. A friend recommended this book and that's why I chose it. I did not like how the majority of the stories in this book are very dark.
Thomas Potvin
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on July 02, 2018A collection that spans almost more than 100 years of American writers and their short stories. I discovered some authors I didn't know and whose work I enjoyed. I reread some old favorites. And, of course, some I didn't care for. I appreciated JCO's introductory biographical and literary analysis comments.
Eric Carroll
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on August 03, 2020Although I did not love every writer or story, I was incredibly grateful for the description of each writer, a small bit of history, and why that short story was chosen. It read like a crash course in American Short Stories.
Cameron Roets
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on August 03, 2013Great selection of stories and interesting introductions by Joyce Carol Oates.
Kimberly Shickel
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on November 03, 2018Great read. Found at a yard sale. Lots of great authors and works. Helps you go deeper into the writings of the ones you like. Well put together.
Kevin Pangborn
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on January 15, 2019If you like short stories, there are plenty to enjoy in this book.
Matthew Smith
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on February 09, 2019There's a typo in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron', on page 124, 6 lines from the bottom. It reads 'towards' instead of 'towered'. Therefore do not use this edition to quote this passage. There's a typo in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron', on page 124, 6 lines from the bottom. It reads 'towards' instead of 'towered'. Therefore do not use this edition to quote this passage.
Jeff Johnson
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 31, 2019I read this book for a 3-week "minimester" class and I learned that I really enjoy short stories. I enjoyed most of the stories and definitely will be reading more from some of these authors.
Sergio Gonzalez
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on June 01, 2020There is some great stuff in here - a couple I wasn't as keen on, but that's to be expected. There is some great stuff in here - a couple I wasn't as keen on, but that's to be expected.
Master Young
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on June 28, 2020I don't know why I've never thought of reading a textbook-like book such as this one!
Shellina Rush
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on May 27, 2011Just read Willa Cather's A Death in the Desert. I love the way that woman writes!!
6-2-2011
I'm going to keep a list of the short stories I read before this anthology goes back to the library (I'm sure I won't have time to read it cover-to-cover).
Rip van Winkle, by Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, by William Austin
The Wives of the Dead, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe
The Ghost in the Mill, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A White Heron, by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Storm, by Kate Chopin --Ugh! Not my cup of tea.
A Death in the Desert, by Willa Cather
A Late Encounter with the Enemy, by Flannery O'Connor --This one had me laugh out loud a couple times!
There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury
The Sheriff's Children, by Charles Chesnutt
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'll have to check this anthology out from the library again sometime. I enjoyed what I was able to read in the time I borrowed it.
Brandon Lau
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on January 18, 2010Not a perfect anthology, but the stories within represent the cultural diversity in the American Short Story well. Highlights for me include: John Edgar Wideman's "Fever"; Saul Bellow's "Something to Remember Me By"; Paul Bowles' "A Distant Episode"; Jack London's "In a Far Country"; and Tobias Wolff's "Hunter's in the Snow". Maybe my favorites do not represent the diversity of race and gender well, but having read a handful of the stories before deciding to teach the anthology, re-reading them, Not a perfect anthology, but the stories within represent the cultural diversity in the American Short Story well. Highlights for me include: John Edgar Wideman's "Fever"; Saul Bellow's "Something to Remember Me By"; Paul Bowles' "A Distant Episode"; Jack London's "In a Far Country"; and Tobias Wolff's "Hunter's in the Snow". Maybe my favorites do not represent the diversity of race and gender well, but having read a handful of the stories before deciding to teach the anthology, re-reading them, and reading the rest of the stories, these are the one's, at this moment, that stand out to me. Also, a note should be made that, I teach thirteen stories in a semester, and I have yet to teach any of these five stories. So, take that how you may. Maybe I'll teach all five of them next semester just to shut-up the critics.
William Keenan
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on September 27, 2010I've never read an anthology of this breadth and depth from start to finish. It was time well spent... even if that time spanned a good five or six months. I pulled it off my shelf between novels and read the introduction. I was intrigued and compelled to start at the beginning and work my way through. Many of the authors I had read before -- certainly not all. Several of the selections I had read, or was at least familiar with. But, I really appreciated that most were not necessarily the most often anthologized choices. I also enjoyed following the thread of Oates thoght process in her selections. ...
James Boehlke
reviewed The Oxford Book of American Short Stories on December 13, 2008Oates selected short stories written by famous writers, most of them rather unknown. She orders them chronologically, from Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" to Pinckney Benedict's (1954- )Town Smokes.
56 stories, including works byPoe, Mark Twain, Henry James,, Stephen Crane, Faaulkner, Ellison, Updike,and Oates herself. An excellent collection if one studies the craft of writing short stories. Oates selected short stories written by famous writers, most of them rather unknown. She orders them chronologically, from Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" to Pinckney Benedict's (1954- )Town Smokes.
56 stories, including works byPoe, Mark Twain, Henry James,, Stephen Crane, Faaulkner, Ellison, Updike,and Oates herself. An excellent collection if one studies the craft of writing short stories.
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