The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation

Overview:

  • Title: The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation
  • Author: Editors of The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction
  • Year: 1997
  • ISBN-10: 0395813867
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Pages: xvii+1235
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Lottery
  • Notes:
    • A textbook with discussion questions after each story and numerous other study materials.
    • First printing per number line.
    • The source for "The Garden of Forking Paths" is given as Labyrinths, where it is translated by Donald A. Yates, but the translator is given as "Based on a translation by Donald A. Yates" (no indication of who revised this version).
    • Only speculative stories and ones by authors significant in the genre have been listed in the contents here. The Aesopian fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (translated by S. A. Handford, 1954) is not listed because traditional stories are outside the scope of this database.