01965cam a2200325 i 4500 373593500 TxAuBib 20190320120000.0 000613s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00268458 9780395843680 0395843685 (OCoLC)40964002 TxAuBib rda The best American short stories of the century / John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xxiv, 775 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series. "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. 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 others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket. 20190320. Short stories, American. Siena Donor: In memory of John M. B. Carroll. . United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. American fiction 20th century. Updike, John. Kenison, Katrina.