You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy I tried not to select stories because they illustrated a theme or portion of the national experience but because they struck me as lively, beautiful, believable, and, in the human news they brought, important. art of the past four decades. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Both "Greenleaf" and "The Country Husband" display animals - a bull, a dog - as spiritual presences; J. F. Powers's "Death of a Favorite" is told by a cat. He thinks of himself: "He is free: helpless." John Updike is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed "Rabbit" novels, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Paperback)Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NWSince 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. Classic short stories including the following: THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS by George THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES series has also always been known for making literary discoveries, and discovery proved to be an essential part of selecting the stories for this volume too. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. For Powers, like O'Connor a Catholic, the mundane, heavily politicized celibate life of male priests was a serious and all but exclusive obsession. Collections from years past yielded a rich harvest of surprises, stories that may have been forgotten but still retain their relevance and luster. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Expertly curated help for Best American Short Stories of the Century.
now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. If John O'Hara and Mary McCarthy-two Irish-Americans with a sociological bent-had been available, I might have included them, but neither ever made a The fifties, though underrepresented, are represented handsomely, with two of the century's supreme masters of the short story, John Cheerer and Flannery O'Connor.
Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and scores of others. The result is a volume that not only gathers some of the most significant stories of our century between two covers but resurrects a handful of lost literary gems as well. Both were religious - O'Connor, fated to die young, fiercely so - and transcendent currents, perhaps, enabled them to light up their characters like paper lanterns, to impart an electric momentum to their narratives, and to situate human misadventure in a crackling moral context. An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to ... First, I wanted this selection to reflect the century, with each decade given roughly equal weight - what amounted to between six and eight stories per decade.
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