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The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation

Editors of The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction

First published 1997
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Sir Edward Burne-Jones & Marcel Duchamp
Pages xvii+1235
ISBN 0395813867

  • A textbook with discussion questions after each story and numerous other study materials.
  • First printing per number line.
  • The source for "The Garden of Forking Paths" is given as Labyrinths, where it is translated by Donald A. Yates, but the translator is given as "Based on a translation by Donald A. Yates" (no indication of who revised this version).
  • Only speculative stories and ones by authors significant in the genre have been listed in the contents here. The Aesopian fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (translated by S. A. Handford, 1954) is not listed because traditional stories are outside the scope of this database.

Searching by ISBN: 0395813867

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Gluskabe and the Four Wishes Joseph Bruchac Short Story
7 Daedalus and Icarus Ovid Short Fiction
15 Fairy Tale: The Blue Beard Charles Perrault Short Story
19 The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann Novelette
45 Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Deidrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving Short Story
57 My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
76 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
104 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
107 The Overcoat Nikolái Vasilievich Gógol Novelette
155 Lizzie Leigh Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Novelette
191 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street Herman Melville Novelette
275 The Ruby Rubén Darío Short Story
280 Hunter Quatermain's Story H. Rider Haggard Short Story
295 Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce Short Story
317 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
441 Sredni Vashtar Saki Short Story
604 Dry September William Faulkner Short Story
614 Silent Snow, Secret Snow Conrad Aiken Short Story
730 The Garden of Forking Paths Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
738 The Lottery Shirley Jackson Short Story
788 Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
837 Immortality Yasunari Kawabata Short Story
840 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
869 The Balloon Donald Barthelme Short Story
895 The Blue Bouquet Octavio Paz Short Story
958 At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid Short Story
967 The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter Novelette
1033 The Time and the Place Naguib Mahfouz Short Story
1131 "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" Robert Olen Butler, Jr. Short Story