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Classic Short Stories:

The Best from the Masters of the Genre

For educational purposes only, for students and writers of all ages.

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 Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) o

A Story of Ravenna

 Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)

 o

The Spanish-English Lady

E. T. A. Hoffman (1776-1822) o

The Cremona Violin

Washington Irving (1783-1859) o

Governor Manco and the Soldier o o o

The Stout Gentleman

The Adventure of the German Student

The Specter Bridegroom o o o o

Rip Van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Widow and Her Son

The Devil and Tom Walker Good Choice!!!!!

 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

 o

Fanny McDermot

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) o

The Lake Gun

John Polidori (1795-1821) o

The Vampyre

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) o

The Mortal Immortal

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) o

La Grande Breteche o

The Red Inn o

The Atheist's Mass

 Alexander Pushkin(1799-1837) o

The Queen of Spades

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) o o

Zodmirsky's Duel

Solange: Dr. Ledru’s Story of the Reign of Terror

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) o

A Fight with a Cannon

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) o

Slavery's Pleasant Homes o

The Quadroons

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) o o

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Young Goodman Brown o o o o

The Birth-mark

Rappaccini’s Daughter

The Minister’s Black Veil

The May-Pole of Merry Mount o o o o o o o

The Snow-Image

Lady Eleanore's Mantle

Alice Doan's Appeal

Ethan Brand

Wakefield

The Gentle Boy

Endicott and the Red Cross o o o o o

Feathertop

The Gray Champion

The Great Carbuncle

The Great Stone Face

The Ambitious Guest o

The Wives of the Dead

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) o

The Overcoat

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) o

The Murders in the Rue Morgue o o

The Gold-Bug

The Tell-Tale Heart o o o o o

The Cask of Amontillado

Ligeia

The Black Cat

MS. Found in a Bottle

The Fall of the House of Usher

 o o o o o

The Masque of the Red Death

The Purloined Letter

William Wilson

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Imp of the Perverse

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) o

The Manchester Marriage o o

Half-Brothers

The Old Nurse's Story

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) o

The Ghost in the Mill o

Miss Asphyxia

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) o

The Schoolboy's Story o

A Christmas Carol

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) o

Dickon the Devil o o

The Murdered Cousin

Squire Toby's Will o o

Laura Silver Bell

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

 o o o

The Angel Over the Right Shoulder

Calico o

Night-Watchers

Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)

The Big Bear of Arkansas

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) o

Yermolai and the Miller's Wife

George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] (1819-1880) o Brother Jacob

 Herman Melville (1819-1891)

 o o o o o

The Lightning-Rod Man

The Piazza

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Billy Budd, Foretopman

I and My Chimney

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) o

The Thief

o

Notes From Underground

 Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

 o

A Simple Heart

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902) o

Lemorne Versus Huell

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) o

A Terribly Strange Bed

Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) o

The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter o

Love in a Garden

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) o

The Two Offers

Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) o

Miss Lucinda o

Dely's Cow o o

About Dolly

Grit

Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) o

What Was It?

Good Choice!!!!! o o o

My Wife's Tempter

The Diamond Lens

The Golden Ingot o o

The Wondersmith

The Child Who Loved A Grave

 Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) o

The Death of Ivan Ilych

 o

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) o

Krambambuli

Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892) o o

The Phantom Coach

The Four-Fifteen Express

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) o

Life in the Iron-Mills o

The Wife's Story

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) o

Transcendental Wild Oats o o

How I Went Out to Service

The Blue and the Gray

o

A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe

 Frank Stockton (1834-1902) o o o

The Lady or the Tiger

The Griffin and the Minor Canon

The Widow's Cruise

 o o o o

My Unwilling Neighbor

A Piece of Red Calico

Love Before Breakfast

Captain Eli's Best Ear o

The Christmas Wreck

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) o

Circumstance o o o

Moonstone Mass

In a Cellar

The Mad Lady o The Nemesis of Motherhood

 Mark Twain (1835-1910) o o o o o

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Story of the Old Ram

The Californian's Tale

The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief o o

The Mysterious Stranger

The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) o

Marjorie Daw

 o o

Quite So

Bret Harte (1836-1902) o

The Iliad of Sandy Bar

The Luck of Roaring Camp o o

Tennessee’s Partner

The Outcasts of Poker Flat o

The Idyll of Red Gulch

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) o

Editha

Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889) o

The Torture of Hope o o

Vera

Olympe and Henrietta

o

The Desire to be a Man

 Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

 o

The Last Lesson

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) o

Peter, the Parson

 o o

Felipa

Miss Grief

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) o

Squire Petrick's Lady o o o

An Imaginative Woman

The Grave by the Handpost

Old Mrs Chundle Good Choice!!!!!

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) o

Cavalleria Rusticana o

The Saint Joseph's Ass

Emile Zola (1840-1902) o

The Death of Olivier Becaille o o

Rentafoil

Big Michu

 W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) o

Story of a Piebald Horse

 Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) o o o o o

The Damned Thing

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

One of the Missing

One Summer Night

A Horseman in the Sky o o o

What I Saw of Shiloh

George Thurston

Killed at Resaca o Chickamauga

 Henry James (1843-1916)

 o o o o o

The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux

Daisy Miller: A Study

The Beast in the Jungle

The Great Good Place

The Story in it o

The Real Thing

Anatole France (1844-1924) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1921

 o o

The Procurator of Judea

The Mass of Shadows

George Washington Cable (1844-1925) o o

Belles Demoiselles Plantation

Café des Exilés o o

"Posson Jone'"

Jean-ah Poquelin

 o o o

'Tite Poulette

'Sieur George

Madame Délicieuse

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) o o

Dracula's Guest o

The Secret of the Growing Gold

Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)

Maverick o Friend Barton's Concern

 Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

 o Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) o o o

A White Heron

Miss Tempy's Watchers

The Hiltons' Holiday o o

The Foreigner

The Flight of Betsey Lane

 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) o

Markheim o o

The Bottle Imp o

The Body-Snatcher

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

The Necklace o o

The Jewels of M. Lantin

The Trip of the Horla o

The Grave

Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary Noailles Murfree] 1850-1922 o

The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove

Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939) o

A Marriage o

The Death Mask

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

 o o o o o o o

At The 'Cadian Ball

The Storm [A Sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball"]

Regret Good Choice!!!!!

Ozème's Holiday

At Chênière Caminada

The Story of an Hour

A Respectable Woman o o o o

A Night in Acadie

Désirée's Baby

Ripe Figs

Madame Célestin's Divorce

Grace King (1852-1932) o o

The Little Convent Girl

La Grande Demoiselle

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) o o o o

The Revolt of "Mother"

A New England Nun

A Church Mouse

Old Woman Magoun o o o

The Lost Ghost

A Mistaken Charity

One Good Time

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) o

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime o

The Canterville Ghost

Harold Frederic (1856-1898) o

The Eve of the Fourth

George Gissing (1857-1903) o

The Foolish Virgin

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) o o o o

The Lagoon

The Inn of the Two Witches—A Find

Youth

The Secret Sharer o

Heart of Darkness

Charles A. Eastman (1858-1939) o

The Madness of Bald Eagle

Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) o

The Sheriff's Children

 o o

The Goophered Grapevine

Po' Sandy o o

Dave's Neckliss

The Wife of His Youth

George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright] (1859-1945) o o

Wedlock

A Little Grey Glove Good Choice!!!!!

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) o

A Scandal in Bohemia o o o

The Red-Headed League

A Case of Identity

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans o o o

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

The Final Problem

The Adventure of the Empty House o The Parasite

 Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) o o o o o o o o o o

The Darling

Misery Good Choice!!!!!

The Lady with the Dog

About Love

Anna on the Neck

Gooseberries

The Grasshopper

Gusev

The Huntsman

The Kiss

 o o o o o o o

The Teacher of Literature

The Man in a Case

The Party

Peasants

Oh! the Public

In the Ravine

Sleepy o o o

Small Fry

The Student

Vanka o

Ward No. 6

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

 o o o o o

Under the Lion's Paw

The Return of a Private

Up the Coulee

A Branch Road

Among the Corn Rows o o o o

The Creamery Man

Uncle Ethan Ripley

A "Good Fellow's" Wife

A Day's Pleasure o o

God's Ravens

Mrs. Ripley's Trip

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

 o o

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Turned

M. R. James (1862-1936) o "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"

 Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

 o o o

Roman Fever

Souls Belated o

The Other Two

O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)

The Whirligig of Life o o o o o

The Cop and the Anthem

The Gift of the Magi

A Municipal Report

The Caballero's Way

Buried Treasure

 o

The Ransom of Red Chief

Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) o

Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) o

The Money-Box o o

Jerry Bundler

The Changeling o o o o o

Angels' Visits

In the Family

Low Water

A Circular Tour

The Rival Beauties

o

The Monkey's Paw

Andrew Barton ‘Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941) o o o

Three Elephant Power

His Masterpiece

White-when-he's-wanted

Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) o

How Hefty Burke Got Even o

The Nature Faker

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 o o o o o o

Without Benefit of Clergy

The Mark of the Beast

The Phantom 'Rickshaw

'They'

The Man Who Would Be King

The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) o

The Jilting of Jane o o

The Magic Shop

The Country of the Blind o

The Door in the Wall

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 o

War Good Choice!!!!!

Henry Lawson (1867-1922) o

The Drover's Wife o o o

The Golden Graveyard

The Hairy Man

The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife o

In a Wet Season

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) o

Twenty-Six Men and a Girl

Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916) o

The Lumber-Room o o

Gabriel-Ernest

Tobermory o o o

The Open Window

The Cobweb

The Story-Teller

Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson] (1870-1946) o

Two Hanged Women

Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1933 o

The Gentleman from San Francisco

Frank Norris (1870-1902) o

Fantaisie Printaniere o

The Ship That Saw a Ghost o o o o

The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson

Two Hearts That Beat As One

A Deal in Wheat

A Case for Lombroso Good Choice!!!!!

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) o

An Experiment in Misery Good Choice!!!!! o

The Open Boat o o o o o o o

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

The Blue Hotel

The Little Regiment

The Price of the Harness

A Detail

A Mystery of Heroism

A Gray Sleeve o o o

The Pace Of Youth

Three Miraculous Soldiers

One Dash-Horses o

The Mesmeric Mountain

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) o o o

Old Rogaum and His Theresa

Married

The Lost Phoebe o

Ida Hauchawout Good Choice!!!!!

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) o

The Lynching of Jube Benson

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) o

The Shadowy Third o

The Past

Willa Cather (1873-1947) o o o o o

Jack-a-Boy

The Burgler's Christmas

Paul's Case

On the Divide

Lou, the Prophet

 o o o o o

The Enchanted Bluff

The Affair at Grover Station

Neighbour Rosicky

The Bohemian Girl

On the Gull's Road

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) o

The Blue Cross

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) o

In a Strange Land o o o

Mackintosh

The Lotus Eater

Rain

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) o

The Good Anna o

Melanctha

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) o

The Treasure Ship

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 o

Tonio Kroger o o o

The Infant Prodigy

Disorder and Early Sorrow

Death in Venice

 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) o

Sister Josepha

 Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) o

A Jury of Her Peers

 Jack London (1876-1916) o o o

The Mexican

The Heathen

The Seed of McCoy o o o o

South of the Slot

To Build a Fire

The Law of Life

In a Far Country

 o o

All Gold Canyon

The White Silence

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) o o

I'm a Fool

Seeds

 o o o o o o o o o o o o

The Other Woman

Unlighted Lamps

The Door of the Trap

Brothers

War

Motherhood

Senility

The Man in the Brown Coat

The Philosopher

The Egg

I Want to Know Why

The New Englander

 o o o

Hands

Mother

Adventure

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) o

The Voice in the Night

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 o

Within and Without o

In the Old "Sun"

A.E. Coppard (1878-1957) o

Broadsheet Ballad Good Choice!!!!! o o

The Higgler

Arabesque: The Mouse o

The Hurly-Burly

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) o o o

The Road from Colonus

Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties

Mr. Andrews o

The Eternal Moment o The Story of the Siren

 James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) o

Porcelain Cups

Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) o o

A Drop in the Bucket

The Artist

Horacio Quiroga (1879-1937) o

The Feather Pillow

Damon Runyon (1880-1946)

 o o

The Bloodhounds of Broadway

Blood Pressure o

A Piece of Pie Good Choice!!!!!

Giovanni Papini (1881-1956) o

The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) o

Uncle Fred Flits By

James Joyce (1882-1941) o

Araby o o o

The Sisters

Eveline

A Little Cloud

 o o o

Counterparts

Clay

The Dead

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) o

Kew Gardens o The Duchess and the Jeweller

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) o o

The Metamorphosis

A Hunger Artist

 Isak Dinesen [Baroness Karen Blixen] (1885-1962)

 o o o

Dreaming Child

The Ring o

The Pearls

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1930

Moths in the Arc Light o o o o o o o o o o o o

Go East, Young Man

Let's Play King

The Hack Driver

The Willow Walk

The Cat of Stars

The Kidnaped Memorial

Things

Land

Speed

A Letter From the Queen

The Ghost Patrol

Young Man Axelbrod

 D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) o

The Man Who Loved Islands o o o

Two Bluebirds

Love Among the Haystacks

The Horse Dealer's Daughter o o o o o o o

The Thorn in the Flesh

The Shades of Spring

The Christening

Odour of Chrysanthemums

The White Stocking

The Prussian Officer

Daughters of the Vicar o o o

Adolf

Monkey Nuts

Rex o The Rocking-Horse Winner

 Ring Lardner (1885-1933)

 o o o o o

I Can't Breathe

My Roomy

Alibi Ike

Haircut

Carmen o o

The Golden Honeymoon

Horseshoes o

The Water Cure

François Mauriac (1885-1970) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 o

Thérèse and the Doctor

Edna Ferber (1887-1968) o

April 25th, As Usual

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) o Killer in the Rain

 Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

 o o o o o

The Stranger

Miss Brill

The Garden-Party

The Doll's House

The Fly

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) o

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) o

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall o o o

He

The Old Order

Flowering Judas o o

Theft

Rope

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) o

Sweat o o o

The Gilded Six-Bits

Story in Harlem Slang

Spunk

 o

Black Death

Nella Larsen (1891-1964) o

Sanctuary

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) o

In a Grove

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) o

Leaf by Niggle

 Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) o

The Phoenix Good Choice!!!!!

 Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) o o o o o

You Were Perfectly Fine

A Telephone Call

Big Blonde

Travelogue

The Last Tea

 o

Arrangement in Black and White

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) o

Blood-Burning Moon

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) o

Nightmare Town o o

Ruffian's Wife

The Man Who Killed Dan Odams o o o o o

Night Shots

The Assistant Murderer

Death on Pine Street

The Second-Story Angel

Afraid of a Gun

 o o

One Hour

Who Killed Bob Teal?

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) o

The Gioconda Smile o

The Tillotson Banquet o Nuns at Luncheon Good Choice!!!!!

 James Thurber (1894-1961)

 o o o

The Catbird Seat

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) o

The Sniper

The Inquisition o o

The Reaping Race

The Challenge

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

 o o o o o o o

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Offshore Pirate

The Jelly-bean

The Baby Party

The Rich Boy

Babylon Revisited

Winter Dreams o o o o o

A Short Trip Home

An Alcoholic Case

Crazy Sunday

The Rough Crossing

Design in Plaster o o

Two for a Cent

A Man in the Way

William Faulkner (1897-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 o o o o

A Rose for Emily

Lucas Beauchamp

Barn Burning

That Evening Sun Go Down o o

Wash

Dry September

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) o o

The Devil and Daniel Webster

By the Waters of Babylon

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) o

The Man on the Threshold o o

Death and the Compass

The Garden of Forking Paths

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 o The Jay

 Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

 o o o

The Easter Egg Party

The Demon Lover

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) o

First Love

"That in Aleppo Once . . ." o

Sounds

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 o

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio o o o o o o o

The End of Something

My Old Man

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

A Very Short Story

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Hills Like White Elephants o o o o

Big Two-Hearted River: Part I

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

Cat in the Rain

The Killers

 Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) o o o

The Lost Boy

His Father’s Earth

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) o

Fugue

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) o

The Saint o

Blind Love

Katherine Brush (1902-1952) o

Night Club

Kay Boyle (1902-1992) o

Convalescence

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) o

Thank You, Ma'm

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 o

The Chrysanthemums

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) o Love Among the Ruins

 Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)

 o o o

First Confession

The Drunkard o

My Oedipus Complex

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)

The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored o o o

Yellow Girl

The Strawberry Season

Kneel to the Rising Sun o Saturday Afternoon

 Graham Greene (1904-1991)

 o o o

The Destructors

The Hint of an Explanation o

I Spy

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1978

The Spinoza of Market Street o o

The Washwoman

Gimpel the Fool

 Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) o o

Over the River and through the Woods

A Death in the House Good Choice!!!!!

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 o

The Wall

Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984) o A Man Called Horse

 R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)

 o

An Astrologer's Day

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) o

They

Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) o

Trap of Gold

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) o

Why I Live at the P.O.

 o o

Petrified Man

A Curtain of Green o o

The Hitch-Hikers

A Worn Path

Paul Bowles (1910-1999) o The Eye Good Choice!!!!!

 Jack Finney (1911-1995)

 o

Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) o

The Yellow Bird

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 o

The Norwegian Rat

Tillie Olsen (1912-2007) o

I Stand Here Ironing

John Cheever (1912-1982)

 o o o o

The Swimmer

Clementina

The Enormous Radio

Goodbye, My Brother o

The Five-Forty-Eight

Albert Camus (1913-1960) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 o

The Guest

 Julio Cortazar (1914-1984) o

Axolotl o o

Blowup

The Night Face Up

 Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1990

 o o

My Life with the Wave

The Blue Bouquet

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) o Battle Royal

 Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) o o

The Magic Barrel

The Jewbird

 Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 o

A Silver Dish

 o

Leaving the Yellow House

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) o

The Lottery

 o o

Charles

One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) o

Wunderkind o

The Sojourner o o

A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.

The Jockey o

A Domestic Dilemma

Peter Taylor (1917-1994) o

A Spinster’s Tale

Es'Kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)

 o

Mrs. Plum

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) o

The Evitable Conflict

Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994) o My First and Most Beloved Friend Good Choice!!!!!

 Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)

 o The Bracelet

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) o

Harrison Bergeron

Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) o

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

 Italo Calvino (1923-1985) o

The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man o o

The Adventure of a Photographer

The Adventure of a Poet

 Truman Capote (1924-1984)

 o o

A Christmas Memory

Miriam

Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994) o Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu

 Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) o o o o o o o

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Good Country People

The Artificial Nigger

A Circle of Fire

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Parker's Back

Revelation

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) o

Fountains in the Rain

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) o

The King of the Elves

John Updike (1932-2009) o o

Pigeon Feathers

A & P

Good Choice!!!!!

Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) o

The Lesson

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