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The Short Story

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Jorge Luis BorgesАнтон Павлович ЧеховWilliam FaulknerJohn SteinbeckNathaniel HawthorneF. Scott FitzgeraldGabriel García MárquezEdgar Allan PoeHerman MelvilleJames JoyceBeverly LawnKate ChopinShirley Jackson2 editions

[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W): a story of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- The pupil / Henry James -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The country husband / John Cheever -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer -- Sonny's blue / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- A & P / John Updike -- Where are you going? Where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.

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