All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some eerie, and some magical. The Chicago Sun-Times writes: "A sparkling gathering of traditional, yet little-known, tales from all parts of the globe. The female characters. . . manage to outsmart, outdo, and over-power the villains with nerves of steel, cunning minds, and disarming senses of humor."

    The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

    Nearly 800 masterpieces by 115 American poetics are included in this single volume beginning with Anne Bradstreet. Read the graceful love poetry of Emily Dickinson, the powerful voice of Walt Whitman, the dark musings of Edgar Allan Poe; poems by T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, E.E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, Anne Sexton, Hart Crane, Erica Jong, Adrienne Rich, among others. Fully indexed by poet, title, and first line. Sure to bring years of browsing and reading pleasure.

    Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical.The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”

    All of the poets included in the previous editions have been retained, although their selections have been carefully reconsidered. Among new poets added to this edition are Anne Carson, Dionne Brand, Daphne Marlatt, and Fred Wah

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    Heinlein23 • Fifteen Miles • [Kinsman] • (1967) • shortstory by Ben Bova39 • Dolphin's Way • (1964) • shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson63 • The Royal Opera House • (1972) • shortstory by Carl Jacobi77 • Special Aptitude • (1951) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon99 • The Underdweller • (1957) • shortstory by William F. Nolan (aka Small World)115 • I'm in Marsport Without Hilda • (1957) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov133 • A Nice, Shady Place • (1963) • shortstory by Dennis Etchison151 • Construction Shack • (1973) • shortstory by Clifford D. Simak169 • A Little Journey • (1951) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury181 • The Visible Man • (1975) • novelette by Gardner Dozois217 • Mister Magister • (1978) • shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone225 • What Johnny Did on His Summer Vacation • (1978) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman and Robert Thurston239 • Little Old Miss Macbeth • (1958) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber

    

    Because it contains its own mythology and its own set of rules, it has also proved a psychologically attractive genre for many writers from its Romantic inception to the present day.

    W. Jacobs The Foster portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The poor relations story by Charles Dickens The real thing by Henry James The hostage by C. S. Forster Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving The girls in their summer dresses by Irving Shaw The street that got mislaid by Patrick Waddington A piece of steak by Jack London The secret ingredient by Paul Gallico The hawk by Liam O'Flaherty The apprentice by Dorothy Canfeld Fisher A sick call by Morley Callaghan A terribly strange bed by Wilkie Collins The loss by Gillian Tindall The mouse by Saki (H. H. Munro) Tickets, please by D. H. Lawrence The country of the blind by H. G. Wells The gifts of war by Margaret Drabble The skedule by H. H. Wilson "Well I'm - !" by G. E. M. Skues The weather breeder by Merrill Dennison In and out the houses by Elizabeth Taylor A rose for Emily by William Faulkner The test by Brendan Gill The hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton The pocketbook game by Alice Childress The wedding gift by Thomas Raddell The adventures of the speckled band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The pit and the pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe The boy who drew cats by Lafcadio Hern The little governess by Katharine Mansfield Running wolf by Algernon Blackwood The peach stone by Paul Horgan Red by W. Somerset Maugham The firey wooing of Mordred by P. G. Wodehouse A sunrise on the veld by Doris Lessing The ghost by Richard Hughes The birds by Daphne du Maurier The story of the widow's son by Mary Lavin The train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer Dygartsbush by Walter D. Edmonds The jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Winter's morning by Len Deighton The lady on the gray by John Collier The wind and the snow of winter by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

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    Weinbaum;* Proxima Centauri / Murray Leinster;* The Accursed Galaxy / Edmond Hamilton;Part Seven: 1936 by Isaac Asimov* He Who Shrank / Henry Hasse;* The Human Pets of Mars / Leslie F. Stone;* The Brain Stealers of Mars / John W. Campbell;* Devolution / Edmond Hamilton;* Big Game / Isaac Asimov [Written 11/18/41];Part Eight: 1937 by Isaac Asimov* Other Eyes Watching / John W. Campbell, Jr.;* Minus Planet / John D. Clark, Ph.D.;* Past, Present and Future / Nat Schachner;Part Nine: 1938 by Isaac Asimov* The Men and the Mirror / Ross Rocklynne.Originally 26 stories published in one hardcover volume.Each of these classics has an introduction by Dr. Asimov. "In an unusual 'autobiographical' science fiction anthology, Asimov has assembled all of his favorite stories that he read as a boy, that helped lead him to become a scientist and sf author...The slam-bang action is still enjoyable." - Library Journal

    In England, the movement arose as the logical evolution of 19th century literature's dominant concern - the psychopathology of the artist's mind. Being unconcerned with conventional morality, it had few affinities with the humanist tradition of literature and saw the classical tradition as antithetical to literature altogether. This book examines surrealist poetry in English literature.