The Portable American Realism Reader

The Portable American Realism Reader collects forty-seven of the best stories published in the United States between 1865 and 1918 - the most celebrated period of short fiction in American literary history. The editors have expanded the sweep of American Realism to include stories by women, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Native-American writers.

Introduction

The Historical Context

vii

Tom Quirk

The Literary Context

xx

James Nagel

Suggestions for Further Reading

xxxiii

Chronology

xxxvii

PART I Regionalism and Local Color

``Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog''

3

(5)

Mark Twain

``The Luck of Roaring Camp''

8

(9)

Bret Harte

``The Story of the Old Ram''

17

(5)

Mark Twain

``The Minister's Housekeeper''

22

(10)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

``Belles Demoiselles Plantation''

32

(15)

George Washington Cable

``Rodman the Keeper''

47

(24)

Constance Fenimore Woolson

``A White Heron''

71

(9)

Sarah Orne Jewett

``A Church Mouse''

80

(13)

Mary Wilkins Freeman

``How Celia Changed Her Mind''

93

(17)

Rose Terry Cooke

``La Grande Demoiselle''

110

(6)

Grace Elizabeth King

``Athenaise''

116

(27)

Kate Chopin

``The Goodness of Saint Rocque''

143

(8)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

PART II Realism

``Free Joe and the Rest of the World''

151

(10)

Joel Chandler Harris

``Miss Tempy's Watchers''

161

(9)

Sarah Orne Jewett

``The Sheriff's Children''

170

(15)

Charles W. Chesnutt

``The Return of a Private''

185

(15)

Hamlin Garland

``An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''

200

(8)

Ambrose Bierce

``The Revolt of `Mother'''

208

(14)

Mary Wilkins Freeman

``My Aunt Susan''

222

(11)

Harold Frederic

``The Real Thing''

233

(21)

Henry James

``The Yellow Wallpaper''

254

(15)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

``Desiree's Baby''

269

(5)

Kate Chopin

``The Little Room''

274

(11)

Madelene Yale Wynne

``The Beast in the Jungle''

285

(37)

Henry James

``The Blue Hotel''

322

(24)

Stephen Crane

``The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky''

346

(10)

Stephen Crane

``A Providential Match''

356

(18)

Abraham Cahan

``Sister Josepha''

374

(6)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

``The Wife of His Youth''

380

(11)

Charles W. Chesnutt

``The Trial Path''

391

(4)

Zitkala-Sa

``The Other Two''

395

(10)

Edith Wharton

``A Wagner Matinee''

405

(7)

Willa Cather

``Editha''

412

(12)

William Dean Howells

``The Walking Woman''

424

(7)

Mary Austin

``Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor''

431

(7)

Zona Gale

```Mrs. Spring Fragrance''

438

(13)

Sui Sin Far

PART III Naturalism

``The Men in the Storm''

451

(6)

Stephen Crane

``An Experiment in Misery''

457

(9)

Stephen Crane

``The Open Boat''

466

(21)

Stephen Crane

``Under the Lion's Paw''

487

(12)

Hamlin Garland

``Curious Shifts of the Poor''

499

(9)

Theodore Dreiser

``The Law of Life''

508

(6)

Jack London

``A Deal in Wheat''

514

(10)

Frank Norris

``The Lynching of Jube Benson''

524

(7)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

``The Problem of Old Harjo''

531

(6)

John M. Oskison

``To Build a Fire''

537

(14)

Jack London

``The Second Choice''

551

(18)

Theodore Dreiser

Biographical Notes

569

(20)

Notes on the Texts

589

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