I Introduction to Short Fiction
1 Reading Stories
2 Writing about Stories
II Stories and Casebooks
Casebook: The Folk Story: Tricksters and Lies
Helping to Lie (Germany)
The Tall Tales (Burma)
A Dispute in Sign Language (Israel)
The Barn Is Burning (African American)
The Emperor''s New Clothes (Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark)
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Young Goodman Brown
The Maypole of Merry Mount
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tale-Tale Heart
Hop-Frog
Casebook Edgar Allan Poe and Poe
Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Poe
From Marginalia Poe
Review of Hawthorne''s Twice-Told Tales D.H. Lawrence
From Edgar Allen Poe Joseph Patrick Roppolo
From Meaning and "The Masque of the Red Death " Richard Wilbur
From The House of Poe Patrick Weekes
Looking Death in the Eye: Poe''s "The Masque of the Red Death" (student essay) Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Bartelby, the Scrivener Leo Tolstoy
Three Deaths Mark Twain
Political Economy Henry James
Paste Sarah Orne Jewett
A White Heron Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace
Confessing Kate Chopin
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Storm Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer Charles Chesnutt
The Web of Circumstance Anton Chekhov
The Schoolmistress
The Bet
The Darling
Casebook Anton Chekhov
From The Letters of Anton Chekhov Maxim Gorky
From the Fragments from Reminiscences Leo Tolstoy
From the Afterword to "The Darling " Conrad Aiken
Anton Chekhov Vladimir Nabokov
From Chekhov''s Prose Eudora Welty
From Reality in Chekhov''s Stories Charles E. May
Chekhov and the Modern Short Story Renato Poggioli
From Storytelling in a Double Key Joseph Hsieh
Inner and Outer Worlds: A Comparison of Chekhov''s "The Darling" and "The Schoolmistress" (student essay) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper Edith Wharton
The Dilettante Stephen Crane
The Open Boat Sherwood Anderson
Hands James Joyce
Araby
The Boarding House Virginia Woolf
The Symbol Franz Kafka
A Report to an Academy D.H. Lawrence
Wintry Peacocks
The Rocking Horse Winner Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle
The Garden-Party
Casebook Katherine Mansfield
From Katherine Mansfield''s Journal
from Katherine Mansfield''s Letters Middleton Murry
From Katherine Mansfield Elizabeth Bowen
From A Living Writer: Katherine Mansfield Mary Burgan
From Illness
Gender
and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield Cathy Young
Joyce''s "Araby" and Mansfield''s "The Garden-Party" : The Epiphany of Adolescence (student essay) Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Isaac Babel
Guy de Maupassant F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Baby Party William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning Ernest Hemingway
Hills like White Elephants Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand John Steinbeck
The Chrysanthemums Isaac Bashevis Singer
The S茅ance R. K. Narayan
An Astrologer''s Day Eudora Welty
A Visit of Charity
A Worn Path
Casebook: Eudora Welty Jo Brans
Struggling against the Plaid: An Interview with Eudora Welty Eudora Welty
Words into Fiction Eudora Welty
Place in Fiction Eudora Welty
Is Phoenix Jackson''s Grandson Really Dead? Ruth M Vande Kieft
From Eudora Welty: Visited and Revisited Alfred Appel, Jr
From A Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty Amanda Morgan
The Shadow Child: A Sequel to "A Worn Path" (student essay) Naguib Mahfouz
The Norwegian Rat John Cheever
Clancy in the Tower of Babel
The Five-Forty-Eight Tillie Olsen
I Stand Here Ironing Bernard Malamud
Angel Levine Ralph Ellison
King of the Bingo Game Doris Lessing
How I Finally Lost My Heart
The Mother of the Child in Question Grace Paley
A Conversation with My Father Italo Calvino
The Adventure of a Reader Nadine Gordimer
Crimes of Conscience James Baldwin
The Rockpile
Sonny''s Blues
Casebook James Baldwin and Jordan Elgrably and George Plimpton
From The Art of Fiction: An Interview with James Baldwin James Baldwin
Autobiographical Notes James Baldwin
The Creative Process John M. Reilly
From "Sonny''s Blues" James Baldwin''s
Image of Black Community Keith E. Byerman
Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny''s Blues." Pancho Savery
Baldwin
Bebop
and "Sonny''s Blues." Zachary Roberts
Listening to "Sonny''s Blues" (student essay) Kobo Abe
The Magic Chalk Flannery O'' Connor
Revelation Yukio Mishima
Swaddling Clothes Clarice Lispector
The Evolution of Myopia Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Chinua Achebe
The Madman John Barth
Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction Donald Barthelme
The Sandman Alice Munro
Circle of Prayer John Updike
The Brown Chest Elena Poniatowska
Park Cinema Gerald Vizenor
Almost Browne Chen Rong
Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter Bessie Head
Snapshots of a Wedding Joyce Carol Oates
Why Don''t You Come Live with Me It''s Time Raymond Carver
Intimacy
Cathedral Margaret Atwood
Simmering Toni Cade Bambara
Raymond''s Run Amos Oz
Nomad and Viper Bharati Mukherjee
A Wife''s Story Bobbie Ann Mason
Airwaves John Edgar Wideman