Fiction 100: an anthology of short stories [by] James H. Pickering.

Gift from Joanne Ford.

The bound man / Ilse Aichinger -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Title / John Barth -- A shower of gold / Donald Barthelme -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- Christmas every day / Heinrich Boll -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The garden of forking paths ; The library of Babel ; The south / Jorge Luis Borges -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- Astonomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- August 2002 : night meeting / Ray Bradbury -- The guest / Albert Camus -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The bet ; The darling ; Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- The flashlight / Eldridge Cleaver -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain] -- The traveler's story of a terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Anthony Garstin's courtship / Hubert Crackanthorpe -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The grace / Robert Creeley -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dineson -- The grand inquisitor / Fedor Dostoevski -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Dry September ; The old people ; That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Absolution / F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The legend of Saint Julian the hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert -- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- A change of plan / Bruce Jay Friedman -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass -- The house of cobwebs / George Gissing -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- My kinsman, Major Molineaux ; Roger Malvin's burial ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The poet / Herman Hesse -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- Led astray / Dan Jacobson -- The beast in the jungle ; Four meetings ; The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Araby ; The dead ; Ivy Day in the committee room / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The gardener ; "They" ; Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling -- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- The shadow in the rose garden / D.H. Lawrence -- One off the short list / Doris Lessing -- Journey through the night / Jakov Lind -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- No trace / David Madden -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- The man without a temperament / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- Little soldier / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima.

Sredni Vashtar / H.H. Munro (Saki) -- Four summers / Joyce Carol Oates -- The artificial nigger ; Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- The cask of Amontillado ; The man of the crowd / Edgar Allan Poe -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The twins / Muriel Spark -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Miss Leonora when last seen / Peter Taylor -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- OF this time, of the place / Lionel Trilling -- The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev -- Saint Emmanuel the Good, martyr / Miguel de Unamuno -- A & P / John Updike -- The lord of the dynamos / H.G. Wells -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright.