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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

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Ernest HemingwayArthur Conan DoyleMark TwainJorge Luis BorgesАнтон Павлович ЧеховAmbrose BierceWilliam FaulknerФёдор Михайлович ДостоевскийRay BradburyPhilip RothJohn SteinbeckNathaniel HawthorneF. Scott FitzgeraldEdgar Allan PoeHerman MelvilleJames JoyceRichard WrightVladimir NabokovShirley JacksonGustave FlaubertR. V. Cassill1 editions

Talking about fiction Story form in our time/ Ernest Hemingway Revenge/ Giraldis Cambrensis Heart of darkness/ Joseph Conrad The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parson The owl who was God/ James Thurber Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford God's country and my people/ Wright Morris The egg/ Sherwood Anderson Death in the woods/ Sherwood Anderson Karl-Yankel/ Isaac Babel Sonny's blues/ Janes Baldwin A passion in the desert/ Honoré de Balzac Life-story/ John Barth The glass mountain/ Donald Barthelme Leaving the yellow house/ Saul Bellow [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce Pierre Menard, author of Quixote/ Jorge Luis Borges Rest cure/ Kay Boyle The exiles/ Ray Bradbury Where the girls were different/ Erskine Caldwell A tree of night/ Truman Capote The biggest band/ R.V. Cassill The old beauty/ Willa Cather The fourth alarm/ John Cheever The lady with the pet dog/ Anton Chekhov A visit to friends/ Anton Chekhov The darling/ Anton Chekhov The star/ Arthur C. Clarke The notorious jumping from of Calaveras county/ Sameul Clemens (Mark Twain) Hearts fo darkness/ Joseph Conrad The babysitter/ Robert Coover Murphy's Xmas/ Mark Costello The open boat/ Stephen Crane The blue hotel/ Stephen Crane Sorrow-acre/ Isak Dinesen The peasant Marey/ Fyodor Dostoevsky [A scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W)/ Arthur Conan Doyle The NRACP/ George P. Elliott King of the bingo game/ Ralph Ellison [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner Golden Land/ William Faulkner [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W)/ William Faulkner Roar lion roar/ Irvin Faust Babylon revisited/ F. Scott Fitzgerald The legend of Saint Julian the hospitaller/ Gustave Flaubert The road from Colonus/ E.M. Forster Acceptance of their ways/ Mavis Gallant The hermit/ Maxim Gorky [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway The lottery/ Shirley Jackson The tree of knowledge/ Henry James White rat/ Gayl Jones [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W)/ James Joyce [A little cloud](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179222W)/ James Joyce [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W)/ James Joyce A hunger Artist/ Franz Kafka The metamorphosis/ Franz Kafka Follow the eagle/ William Kotzwinkle The horse dealer's daughter/ D.H. Lawrence Tickets, please/ D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence The new Atlantis/ Ursula K. Le Guin The black Modonna/ Doris Lessing The jockey/ Carson McCullers A solo song: For doc/ James Alan McPherson The jewbird/ Bernard Malamud Disorder and early sorrow/ Thomas Mann The garden-party/ Katherine Mansfield The outstation/ W. Somerset Maugham The necklace/ Guy de Maupassant [Bartleby the scivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)/ Herman Melville Patriotism/ Yukio Mishima Signs and symbols/ Vladimir Nabokov How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again/ Joyce Carol Oates A good man in hard to find/ Flannery O'Connor Everything that rises must converge/ Flannery O'Connor Parker's back/ Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation/ Frank O'Connor Tell me a riddle/ Tillie Olsen The used-boy raisers/ Grace Paley Big blonde/ Dorothy Parker The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parsons Call me Monty, and grovel freely/ S.J. Perelman [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)/ Edgar Allan Poe Old mortality/ Katherine Anne Porter The valiant woman/ J.F. Powers The conversion of the Jew/ Philip Roth Love, here is my hat/ William Saroyan The girls in their summer dresses/ Irwin Shaw The spinoza of Market street/ Isaac Bashevis Singer Goin' to town/ Wallace Stegner The chrysanthemums/ John Steinbeck Dean of men/ Peter Taylor The peaches/ Dylan Thomas You could look it up/ James Thurber God sees the truth, but waits/ Leo Tolstoy A & P/ John Updike The manned missiles/ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The worn path/ Eudora Welty Powerhouse/ Eudora Welty Taking care/ Joy Williams The use of force/ William carlos Williams Kew Gardens/ Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright A really good jazz piano/ Richard Yates

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