Seagull Reader: Stories

W. W. Norton proudly announces the Seagull Readers, a new collection of the most frequently taught stories. Ideal for genre or introductory literature courses, the Seagull Readers offer a compact and affordable alternative to larger anthologies. Each volume includes a wide selection of both classic and contemporary works, as well as a thorough introduction to each genre and biographies of the authors. An inexpensive and portable alternative to bulky anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Stories offers twnety-nine stories, from time honored favorites such as Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” to contemporary classics such as Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.” The Seagull Reader: Stories is lightly supplemented by editorial apparatus, including an introduction to the major concepts of the genre, brief headnotes to each piece, annotations within stories where necessary, a glossary of terms, and biographical sketches of each author.

Uncle Ben’s choice /Chinua Achebe —
What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie —
Sonny’s blues / James Baldwin —
Cathedral / Raymond Carver —
The swimmer / John Cheever —
At home / Anton Chekhov —
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin —
The open boat / Stephen Crane —
I’m a mad dog biting myself for sympathy / Louise Erdrich —
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner —
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez —
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman —
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne —
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway —
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel —
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry —
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett —
Araby / James Joyce —
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka —
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid —
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason —
A loaf of bread / James Alan McPherson —
Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville —
Boys and girls / Alice Munro —
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates —
The things they carried / Tim O’Brien —
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O’Connor —
Guests of the Nation / Frank O’Connor —
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen —
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Alan Poe —
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Ann Porter —
Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell —
Winky / George Saunders —
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko —
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck —
The memory priest of the Creech people / Paul Theroux —
A & P / John Updike —
Currents / Hannah Voskuil —
Everyday use / Alice Walker —
A worn path / Eudora Welty —
Roman fever / Edith Wharton —
The new dress / Virginia Woolf