Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition

by Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle

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Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson -- Rape fantasies / M. Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / I. Babel -- Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin -- The lesson / T.C. Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth -- A city of churches / D. Barthelme -- / A. Bierce -- Like a bad dream / H. Böll -- The end of the duel / J.L. Borges -- Cathedral / R. Carver -- Paul's case / W. Cather -- The enormous radio ; The swimmer / J. Cheever -- The darling ; Gooseberies ; The lady with the dog / A. Chekhov -- / K. Chopin -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / S. Clemens (M. Twain) -- The secret sharer / J. Conrad -- The magic poker / R. Coover ; The blue hotel ; The open boat / S. Crane ; / R. Dahl -- / A.C. Doyle -- The doctor / A. Dubus -- King of the bingo game / R. Ellison -- Dry September ; ; / W. Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tuesday siesta / G.G. Márquez ; The yellow wallpaper / C.P. Gilman -- The overcoat / N. Gogol -- The life of the imagination / N. Gordimer -- Two gentle people / G. Greene -- Argument and persuasion / D. Hall -- Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver / T. Hardy -- ; / N. Hawthorne -- A Vermont tale / M. Helprin -- Hills like white elephants / E. Hemingway -- The lottery / S. Jackson -- The real thing ; The tree of knowledge / H. James -- A white heron / S.O. Jewett -- ; / J. Joyce -- A hunger artist / F. Kafka -- The man who would be king ; Mary Postgate / R. Kipling -- Not a good girl / P. Klass -- Haircut / R. Lardner -- The horse-dealer's daughter ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The professor's houses / U.K. LeGuin -- One off the short list ; A sunrise on the veld / D. Lessing -- To build a fire / J. London -- A tree, a rock, a cloud / C. McCullers -- The magic barrel / B. Malamud -- A dill pickle ; Miss Brill / K. Mansfield -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- The necklace / G. de Maupassant -- / H. Melville -- Patriotism / Y. Mishima -- Boys and girls / A. Munro -- The passenger / V. Nabokov -- The going-away party ; Where are you going, where have you been? / J.C. Oates -- The creature / E. O'Brien -- Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation ; My oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Do you like it here? / J. O'Hara -- I stand here ironing / T. Olsen -- A conversation with my father / G. Paley -- War / L. Pirandello -- ; ; / E.A. Poe -- Flowering Judas ; The grave / K.A. Porter -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The diver / V.S. Pritchett -- The shot / A. Pushkin -- The conversion of the Jews / P. Roth -- I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 / J. Sayles -- Gimpel the fool / I.B. Singer -- The chrysanthemums / J. Steinbeck -- The catbird seat / J. Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / L. Tolstoy -- The tryst / I. Turgenev -- A & P ; The music school ; Made in heaven / J. Updike -- Roselily ; To hell with dying / A. Walker -- Blackberry winter ; The patented gate and the mean hamburger / R.P. Warren -- Petrified man ; A worn path / E. Welty -- The other two ; Roman fever / E. Wharton -- The use of force / W.C. Williams -- Smokers / T. Wolff -- The man who was almost a man / R. Wright -- Writers on writing: How to tell a story / S. Clemens (M. Twain) -- Stephen Crane's own story / S. Crane -- Biography of a story / S. Jackson -- On her own work / F. O'Connor -- The brief prose tale / E.A. Poe -- "Blackberry winter": a recollection / R.P. Warren -- Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / E. Welty.

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