The Best American Short Stories of the Century

DIVJohn Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is a spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement (Entertainment Weekly). Available for the first time on compact disc, this extraordinary collection features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading from their own work. Containing twenty-two unabridged stories in all, the expanded audio edition includes a new story from THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999 to round out the century./DIVDIVForeword Introduction By John UpdikebrbrZelig By Benjamin RosenblattbrbrLittle Selves By Mary LernerbrbrA Jury of Her Peers By Susan GlaspellbrbrThe Other Woman By Sherwood AndersonbrbrThe Golden Honeymoon By Ring LardnerbrbrBlood-Burning Moon By Jean ToomerbrbrThe Killers By Ernest HemingwaybrbrDouble Birthday By Willa CatherbrbrWild Plums By Grace Stone CoatesbrbrTheft By Katherine Anne PorterbrbrThat Evening Sun Go Down By William FaulknerbrbrHere We Are By Dorothy ParkerbrbrCrazy Sunday By F. Scott FitzgeraldbrbrMy Dead Brother Comes to America By Alexander GodinbrbrResurrection of a Life By William SaroyanbrbrChristmas Gift By Robert Penn WarrenbrbrBright and Morning Star By Richard WrightbrbrThe Hitch-Hikers By Eudora WeltybrbrThe Peach Stone By Paul HorganbrbrThat in Aleppo Once ... By Vladimir NabokovbrbrThe Interior Castle By Jean StaffordbrbrMiami - New York By Martha GellhornbrbrThe Second Tree from the Corner By E. B. WhitebrbrThe Farmer's Children By Elizabeth BishopbrbrDeath of a Favorite By J. F. PowersbrbrThe Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin By Tennessee WilliamsbrbrThe Country Husband By John CheeverbrbrGreenleaf By Flannery O'ConnorbrbrThe Ledge By Lawrence Sargent HallbrbrDefender of the Faith By Philip R