Books like The best American short stories of the century by John Updike

African-American fiction

A collection of forty‑three short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, blending his most celebrated works with lesser‑known tales that showcase his literary breadth and include pieces originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.

A carefully curated anthology of twenty standout short stories from the U.S. in 2014, showcasing the breadth and depth of contemporary American fiction.

A 48‑story anthology of classic American literature, featuring supernatural tales, Civil War narratives, horror and detective fiction that span the breadth of U.S. social life and customs.

Lydia Davis’s complete collection of short stories, spanning from 1986’s *Break it Down* to the 2007 National Book Award finalist *Varieties of Disturbance*.

A curated collection of American short horror and Gothic tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, featuring classic and contemporary voices from Charles Brockden Brown to Stephen King.

A curated anthology of classic American short stories, featuring works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, William Faulkner, and many others, compiled by Wallace Stegner.

A carefully curated anthology of 31 nineteenth‑century Southern short stories, showcasing celebrated and lesser‑known voices such as Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, with introductions, author notes, and extensive bibliographies.

Discovering Fiction 2 presents a curated selection of classic and contemporary North American short stories to help students develop critical reading skills, infer context, and write analytical responses.

The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place where individuals, relationships, and family histories not only matter but buttress everyday life. Both are part of that rarest and most indispensable groundspring of literature, memory. The memory of being 'Downhome.'". Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who - from their various backgrounds, from their different eras - draw on that shared legacy she describes in her introduction. That memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically, echoes throughout the seven sections here, which range from Growing Up to Kinfolk and Courtship to Passing On, and in the words of these special authors.

Contains fifty acclaimed American short stories from the 20th century.