The experience of the American woman : 30 stories / edited by Barbara H. Solomon.

"451-ME1646"--P. [1] of cover.

"A Mentor book."

Includes bibliographical references.

The revolt of "Mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A respectable woman / Kate Chopin -- The guests of Mrs. Timms / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A day's pleasure / Hamlin Garland -- Souls belated / Edith Wharton -- The new woman and the old / Anne Warner -- The second choice / Theodore Dreiser -- Mother / Sherwood Anderson -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- A night in June / William Carlos Williams -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- The ram in the thicket / Wright Morris -- Barrow Street / Richard Sherman -- Blue Island / J. F. Powers -- Beatrice Trueblood's story / Jean Stafford -- The condemned librarian / Jessamyn West -- The pocketbook game / Alice Childress -- Rima the bird girl / Rona Jaffe -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Wife-wooing / John Updike -- Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaea / Joanne Greenberg -- The star blanket / Shirley Schoonover -- Accomplished desires / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sandra / George P. Elliott -- Debut / Kristin Hunter -- Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambera.