List of short stories by Alice Munro

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There are a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, "The Dimensions of a Shadow" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere.

Contents

Short stories by title (sortable)

Some of the data in the list below are still needed in this spreadsheet, e.g., which journal a story was published in.

Compilations

  • s96 = Selected Stories – 1996
  • s03 = No Love Lost – 2003
  • s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004
  • s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an introduction by Margaret Atwood
  • s11 = New Selected Stories – 2011, published in 2014 as Lying under the Apple Tree. Selected Stories (Vintage, London)

a = in an anthology at about this time
f = first published in a collection (most likely a journal publication came later)
s = selected again for the compilation of the year given

TitleSee alsoJournal6871747882869094980104060912s96s03s04s06s11
A Basket of Strawberries1953-11
A Queer Streakx
A Real Life1992-02-10x
A Trip to the Coastx
A Wilderness Station1992-04-27xss
Accident1977-11x
Age of Faithx
Ally and Lizzyx
Amundsen (short story) de;2012-08-27 Web x
An Ounce of Curex
At the Other Place1955-09
Axis2011-01-31
Baptizingx
Bardon Busxx
Before the Change1998-08-24x
Boys and Girls (Web) de;1964 [1] x
Carried Away (short story) de;1991-10-21xssss
Chaddeleys and Flemings I: The Connection1979 [2] xs
Chaddeleys and Flemings II: The Stone in the Field1979-04xs
Chance2004-06-14xs
Changes and Ceremoniesx
Characters1978
Child's Playx
Circle of Prayer1986x
Comfortx
Connection1978-11
Corrie (short story) de;2010-10-11 Web x
Cortes Island1998-10-12x
Dance of the Happy Shades1961 [2] xs
Day of the Butterfly1956 [3] x
Dear Life (short story) de;2011-09-19 Web x
Deep-Holes 2008-06-30 Web xs
Differently (short story) 1989-01-02xsss
Dimensions (short story) de;2006-06-05 Web xs
Dolly2012-05-29x
Dulse1980-07-21xas
Epilogue: The Photographerx
Eskimo1985-12x
Executionersx
Face (short story) 2008-09-08 Web x
Family Furnishingsxs
Fathers x
Fiction (short story) de;2007-08x
Fits1986 [2] xs
Five Points1988-03-14x
Floating Bridge2000-07-31x
Forgiveness in Familiesxs
Free Radicals (short story) de;2008-02-11 Web xs
Friend of My Youth (short story) de;1990-01-22xss
Goodbye Myra1956-07
Goodness and Mercy1989-03-20x
Gravel (short story) de;2011-06-27 Web x
Half a Grapefruit1978-05x
Hard-Luck Storiesx
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short story) de;xssss
Haven2012-03-05x
Heirs of the Living Bodyx
Hired Girl 1994-04-11xs
Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass1988-12x
Home Web, 2006 de;1974x
How Could I Do That?1956-03
How I Met My Husband 1974-02x
Illinois x
Imagesxs
In Sight of the Lake de;2012-02-22 [4] x
Jakarta de;x
Jesse and Meribethx
Labor Day Dinner1981-09-28xs
Leaving Maverley de;2011-11-28x
Lichen1985-07-15xs
Lives of Girls and Womenx
Lying Under the Apple Tree 2002-06-17xs
Marrakeshx
Material1973-11xs
Memorialx
Meneseteung de;1988-01-11xss
Messenger x
Miles City, Montana1985-01-14xss
Mischief1978-04xs
Monsieur les Deux Chapeauxx
Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kiddx
My Mother's Dreamxs
Nettles2000-02-21x
Night (short story) de;2012-Spring [5] x
No Advantages x
Oh, What Avails1987-11-16x
Open Secrets1993-02-08x
Oranges and Apples1988-10-24x
Passion (short story) de;2004-03-22 Web x
Pictures of the Ice1990-01x
Post and Beam2000-12-11x
Postcard1968 [2] xs
Powersx
Pride2011-04x
Princess Idax
Privilegex
Providence1977-08x
Prue1981-03-30x
Queenie (short story) 1998-07-30 Web x
Red Dress1946 /The Red Dress-1973-03f
Rich as Stinkx
Royal Beatings1977-03-14xs
Runaway (short story) de;2003-08-11 Web xs
Save the Reaper de;1998-06-22xs
Silence2004-06-14xs
Simon's Luck1978 [6] xss
Some Women2008-12-22x
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You1974 [2] xs
Soon2005-06-14xs
Spaceships Have Landedx
Spelling1978-06-17x
Story for Sunday1950-12
Sunday Afternoonx
Tell Me Yes or No1974-03x
Thanks for the Ridex
The Albanian Virgin de;1994-06-27 /07-04xsss
The Bear Came Over the Mountain de;1999-12-27 /2000-01-03 Web xsss
The Beggar Maid1977-06-27xs
The Children Stay1997-12-22xss
The Dangerous One1957-07
The Dimensions of a Shadow1950-04
The Edge of Town1955-08
The Eye (short story) de;x
The Ferguson Girls Must Never Marry1982
The Flats Roadx
The Found Boatx
The Idyllic Summer1954-08
The Jack Randa Hotel1993-07-19x
The Love of a Good Woman (short story) de;1996-12-23xss
The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink1986-03-31x
The Moons of Jupiter (short story) de;1978-05-22xsss
The Officex
The Ottawa Valley1974 [2] xs
The Peace of Utrechtx
The Progress of Love (short story) de;1985-10-07xsss
The Shining Housesx
The Spanish Ladyx
The Ticket x
The Time of Deathx
The Turkey Season1980-12-29xss
The View from Castle Rock de;2005-08-29xs
The Widower1951-04
The Wilds of Morris Townshipx
To Reach Japan de;2012 Web x
Too Much Happiness2009-08x
Train (short story) de;2012-04 Web x
Trespassesx
Tricksx
Vandals1993-10-04xss
Visitors1982-04x
Voices (short story) de;x
Walker Brothers Cowboy 1968 [2] xs
Walking on Waterx
Wenlock Edge (short story) de;2005-12-05 Web x
What Do You Want to Know For? 1994 [7] ax
What is Remembered2001-01-19x
White Dump1986-07-28xs
Who Do You Think You Are?x
Wigtime1989-09-04x
Wild Swans1978-04xs
Winter Windx
Wood (short story) (Web, 2009) de;1980-11-24x
Working for a Living 1981-08x

Short stories by title

This list contains some extra information compared with the table above.

Short stories in anthologies

Works by Munro that appeared in anthologies may be more difficult to locate than those that were published in journals or in Munro's original collections but they are likely to be numerous. Please add.

Alice Munro's short-story collections

Short stories by short-story compilation

Selected Stories (1996)

No Love Lost (2003)

Selected and with an afterword by Jane Urquhart

Vintage Munro (2004)

according to this Table of Contents

Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories, XVIII, 509 p. (Toronto 2006/2008) / Carried Away: A Selection of Stories, XXXV, 559 p. (New York 2006)

With an introduction by Margaret Atwood

New Selected Stories (2011)

From The Love of a Good Woman (1998)

From Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)

From Runaway (2004)

From The View from Castle Rock (2006)

From Too much happiness (2009)

Vintage Munro (2014)

According to the Buffalo & Erie County Library [20]

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References

  1. see title of study by Reingard M. Nischick, (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, 'Boys and Girls' (1964) , in: The Canadian short story. Interpretations. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Rochester, NY: Camden House 2007, pp. 203–218. ISBN   978-1-57113-127-0
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Bibliographical Note, in: Alice Munro: Selected Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996, pp. 547–548.
  3. originally as "Goodbye Myra"
  4. 1 2 "In Sight of the Lake". 2 February 2012.
  5. http://www.granta.com/Archive/Granta-120-Medicine, beginning of the story
  6. originally as "Emily"
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Alice Munro/Walter Martin reference materials. Finding Aid : GA 85. Special Collections, University of Waterloo Library. Series 1.3 : Works by Alice Munro : Published : Short Stories Published Separately
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Allan Weiss (compiler), A comprehensive bibliography of English Canadian short stories, 1950–1983, Toronto: ECW Press, 1988, ISBN   0-920763-67-7
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Carol L. Beran, The Luxury of Excellence: Alice Munro in the New Yorker, in The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro, edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN   1-55022-392-5, pp. 204–231, footnote 1, p. 227–228.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades and other stories, Published by Vintage 2000, bibliographical notice, backside of the title page.
  11. Ian McGillis found that reading Alice Munro's latest short story Axis, in the January 31 issue of The New Yorker, completely distracted him from the world events (Egypt) that had so absorbed him
  12. Year also given in title of study by Reingard M. Nischick, (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, 'Boys and Girls' (1964) , in The Canadian short story. Interpretations. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Rochester, NY: Camden House 2007, pp. 203–218. ISBN   978-1-57113-127-0
  13. 1 2 3 Alice Munro, Dear Life, first Vintage international open-market edition, July 2013, page on the left of the table of contents.
  14. Mentioned in the Editorial of Tin House Issue 29 May 2012
  15. Summary
  16. "Granta 120: Medicine".
  17. not even an abstract
  18. Reference found in ABELL
  19. Rita Charon, "The Novelization of the Body, or, How Medicine and Stories Need One Another", in: Narrative, Vol 19, No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 33–50.
  20. "Table of Contents: Vintage Munro /". www.buffalolib.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.