The best American short stories of the century 
John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike. 
 - Expanded ed. 
 - Boston  Houghton Mifflin  c2000. 
 - xxiv, 835 p.  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series. 
<br/><br/> Zelig  Little selves  Jury of her peers  Other woman  Golden honeymoon  Blood-burning moon  Killers  Resurrection of a life  Christmas gift  Bright and morning star  Hitch-hikers  Peach stone  "That in Aleppo once..."  Interior castle  Miami-New York  Second tree from the corner  Farmer's children  Death of a favorite  Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin  Country husband  Greenleaf  Ledge  Defender of the faith  Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers  German refugee  Where are you going, where have you been?  Rotifer  Gold Coast  Key  Cty of churches  How to win  Silver dish  Gesturing  Shawl  Where I'm calling from  Janus  Way we live now  Things they carried  Meneseteung  You're ugly, too  I want to live !  In the gloaming  Proper library  Birthmates  Soon  Half-skinned steer  Benjamin Rosenblatt --  Mary Lerner --  Susan Glaspell --  Sherwood Anderson --  Ring Lardner --  Jean Toomer --  Ernest Hemingway --  William Saroyan --  Robert Penn Warren --  Richard Wright --  Eudora Welty --  Paul Horgan --  Vladimir Nabokov --  Jean Stafford --  Martha Gellhorn --  E.B. White --  Elizabeth Bishop --  J.F. Powers --  Tennessee Williams --  John Cheever --  Flannery O'Connor --  Lawrence Sargent Hall --  Philip Roth --  Stanley Elkin --  Bernard Malamud --  Joyce Carol Oates --  Mary Ladd Gavell --  James Alan McPherson --  Isaac Bashevis Singer --  Donald Barthelme --  Rosellen speaks  Harold Brodkey --  Saul Bellow --  John Updike --  Cynthia Ozick --  Raymond Carver --  Ann Beattie --  Susan Sontag --  Tim O'Brien --  Alice Munro --  Lorrie Moore --  Thom Jones --  Alice Elliott Dark --  Carolyn Ferrell --  Gish Jen --  Pam Durban --  Annie Proulx. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395843677 (pbk.) 0395843685 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00269492  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories , American<br/>American fiction--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social life and customs--20th century.--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS648.S5  / B45 2000