40 short stories: a portable anthology

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The

Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe

Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville

A

White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett

The

Story of an hour / Kate Chopin

The

Lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov

The

Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paul's case / Willa Cather

Araby / James Joyce

The

Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka

The

Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence

The

Garden-party / Katherine Mansfield

Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald

A

Rose for Emily / William Faulkner

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

A

Worn path / Eudora Welty

Battle royal / Ralph Ellison

The

Lottery / Shirley Jackson

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin

A

Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor

The

Shawl / Cynthia Ozick

The

Handsome drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Child's play / Alice Munro

A & P / John Updike

Cathedral / Raymond Carver

Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates

The

Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara

Everyday use / Alice Walker

The

Things they carried / Tim O'Brian

Balto / T. Coraghessan Boyle

The

Man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko

Girl / Jamaica Kincaid

Two kinds / Amy Tan

Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros

Saboteur / Ha Jin

The

Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie

Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri

Drown / Junot Diaz

Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Blue water djinn / Tea Obreht.

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe

Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville

The story of an hour / Kate Chopin

The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov

The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paul's case / Willa Cather

Araby / James Joyce

A hunger artist / Franz Kafka

Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield

A rose for Emily / William Faulkner

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

A worn path / Eudora Welty

Battle royal / Ralph Ellison

The lottery / Shirley Jackson

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin

A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor

A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez

A & P / John Updike

Inbound / Edith Pearlman

Cathedral / Raymond Carver

Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates

The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara

Happy endings / Margaret Atwood

Everyday use / Alice Walker

The things they carried / Tim O'Brien

The night of the satellite / T. Coraghessan Boyle

The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko

Girl / Jamaica Kincaid

Two kinds / Amy Tan

The house on mango street / Sandra Cisneros

The gun / Mark Haddon

The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie

Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz

A man like him / Yiyun Li

The breeze / Joshua Ferris

Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff

Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell

Reading short stories closely

Writing about short stories

Biographical notes on the authors

Glossary of literary terms

Acknowledgements

Index of authors and titles.