Masterplots II, Short Story
Series, Rev. Ed.
Editor: Charles E. May,
California State University, Long Beach
ISBN: 978-1-58765-140-3
List Price: $599
January 2004 · 8 volumes · 4,944 pages · 6"x 9"
Table of Contents
Publisher's Note, xi
Editor's Introduction, xv
Contributing Reviewers, xvii
A
A & P--John Updike, 1
*Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog--Stephanie Vaughn, 4
Absolution--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 7
Acceptance of Their Ways--Mavis Gallant, 10
Ace in the Hole--John Updike, 13
Across the Bridge--Heinrich Böll, 16
Across the Bridge--Mavis Gallant, 19
Across the Bridge--Graham Greene, 22
Act of Faith--Irwin Shaw, 25
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me--A. E. Coppard, 28
The Admiral and the Nuns--Frank Tuohy, 31
The Admirer--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 34
The Adulterous Woman--Albert Camus, 37
The Adventure of the Dancing Men--Arthur Conan Doyle, 40
Adventure of the German Student--Washington Irving, 44
The Adventure of the Speckled Band--Arthur Conan Doyle, 47
The Aeroplanes at Brescia--Guy Davenport, 50
*Africa Kills Her Sun--Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54
After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday--Sonia Sanchez, 57
After the Fair--Dylan Thomas, 61
After the Storm--Ernest Hemingway, 64
*Aghwee the Sky Monster--Kenzaburō Ōe, 67
The Albatross--Susan Hill, 70
The Aleph--Jorge Luis Borges, 73
The Alien Corn--W. Somerset Maugham, 77
*All Shall Love Me and Despair--Jean Thompson, 81
*All Sorts of Impossible Things--John McGahern, 84
All the Years of Her Life--Morley Callaghan, 87
"All You Zombies--"--Robert A. Heinlein, 90
An Alpine Idyll--Ernest Hemingway, 93
The Altar of the Dead--Henry James, 96
Alyosha the Pot--Leo Tolstoy, 99
Amanda--Roberta Fernández, 103
An Amateur's Guide to the Night--Mary Robison, 106
The Ambitious Guest--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 109
America! America!--Delmore Schwartz, 112
American History--Judith Ortiz Cofer, 115
The Amish Farmer--Vance Bourjaily, 118
Among the Dangs--George P. Elliott, 121
Amy Foster--Joseph Conrad, 124
The Anatomy of Desire--John L'Heureux, 128
. . . and the earth did not part--Tomás Rivera, 131
Angel Levine--Bernard Malamud, 134
The Angel of the Bridge--John Cheever, 137
*Angels at the Ritz--William Trevor, 140
Another Part of the Sky--Nadine Gordimer, 143
Another Time--Edna O'Brien, 146
Apocalypse at Solentiname--Julio Cortázar, 149
Approximations--Mona Simpson, 152
The April Witch--Ray Bradbury, 155
Arabesque--The Mouse--A. E. Coppard, 158
Araby--James Joyce, 161
The Argentine Ant--Italo Calvino, 164
Ark of Bones--Henry Dumas, 167
The Art of Living--John Gardner, 170
The Artificial Family--Anne Tyler, 173
The Artificial Nigger--Flannery O'Connor, 176
The Artist of the Beautiful--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 179
*As Birds Bring Forth the Sun--Alistair MacLeod, 182
*Assorted Fire Events--David Means, 185
An Astrologer's Day--R. K. Narayan, 188
Astronomer's Wife--Kay Boyle, 191
At the Bay--Katherine Mansfield, 194
At the Bottom of the River--Jamaica Kincaid, 197
*At the Jim Bridger--Ron Carlson, 201
Aunt Carrie--Rita Dove, 204
*Aunt Granny Lith--Chris Offutt, 207
Aunt Moon's Young Man--Linda Hogan, 210
Aunt Rosana's Rocker--Nicholasa Mohr, 213
Autumn in the Oak Woods--Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov, 216
Axolotl--Julio Cortázar, 219
B
Babette's Feast--Isak Dinesen, 222
Babylon Revisited--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 225
The Babysitter--Robert Coover, 228
Bad Characters--Jean Stafford, 231
The Ballad of the Sad Café--Carson McCullers, 234
The Balloon--Donald Barthelme, 238
*The Ballroom of Romance--William Trevor, 241
The Bambino--May Sinclair, 244
Barbados--Paule Marshall, 247
Barn Burning--William Faulkner, 251
Bartleby the Scrivener--Herman Melville, 254
The Baseball Glove--Víctor Martínez, 257
The Basement Room--Graham Greene, 260
Battle Royal--Ralph Ellison, 263
The Battler--Ernest Hemingway, 266
The Beach Umbrella--Cyrus Colter, 269
*Bears in Mourning--Adam Mars-Jones, 272
The Beast in the Jungle--Henry James, 275
Because We Are So Poor--Juan Rulfo, 278
The Beckoning Fair One--Oliver Onions, 281
The Beet Queen--Louise Erdrich, 284
The Beggar Maid--Alice Munro, 287
Beggar My Neighbor--Dan Jacobson, 290
The Beggarwoman of Locarno--Heinrich von Kleist, 293
*The Beginning of an Idea--John McGahern, 296
*The Behavior of the Hawkweeds--Andrea Barrett, 299
*La Belle Zoraïde--Kate Chopin, 302
The Bench--Richard Rive, 305
Benito Cereno--Herman Melville, 308
*The Best of Everything--Richard Yates, 311
The Bet--Anton Chekhov, 314
Beyond the Glass Mountain--Wallace Stegner, 317
Beyond the Pale--William Trevor, 321
Bezhin Meadow--Ivan Turgenev, 324
Big Bad Love--Larry Brown, 327
*The Big Bear of Arkansas--T. B. Thorpe, 330
*Big Bertha Stories--Bobbie Ann Mason, 333
Big Blonde--Dorothy Parker, 336
Big Boy Leaves Home--Richard Wright, 339
*The Big-Breasted Pilgrim--Ann Beattie, 342
Big Fish, Little Fish--Italo Calvino, 345
*Big Me--Dan Chaon, 348
Big Two-Hearted River--Ernest Hemingway, 351
Bijou--Stuart Dybek, 355
The Birthmark--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 358
*Birthmates--Gish Jen, 361
The Bishop--Anton Chekhov, 364
A Bit of a Smash in Madras--Julian Maclaren-Ross, 368
Bitter Honeymoon--Alberto Moravia, 371
Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles--Gabriel García Márquez, 375
The Black Cat--Edgar Allan Poe, 379
Black Is My Favorite Color--Bernard Malamud, 383
The Black Madonna--Muriel Spark, 386
The Black Prince--Shirley Ann Grau, 389
The Black Queen--Barry Callaghan, 392
Black Tickets--Jayne Anne Phillips, 395
Black Venus--Angela Carter, 398
Blackberry Winter--Robert Penn Warren, 401
The Blank Page--Isak Dinesen, 404
*Blankets--Alex La Guma, 407
Blight--Stuart Dybek, 410
The Blind Man--D. H. Lawrence, 413
Bliss--Katherine Mansfield, 416
The Blizzard--Alexander Pushkin, 420
Blood-Burning Moon--Jean Toomer, 424
The Bloody Chamber--Angela Carter, 427
Blow-Up--Julio Cortázar, 430
The Blue Cross--G. K. Chesterton, 433
The Blue Hotel--Stephen Crane, 436
*The Blush--Elizabeth Taylor, 440
The Boarding House--James Joyce, 443
Bobok--Fyodor Dostoevski, 446
Bontsha the Silent--Isaac Leib Peretz, 450
The Bottle Imp--Robert Louis Stevenson, 453
A Bottle of Milk for Mother--Nelson Algren, 456
Boule de Suif--Guy de Maupassant, 459
The Bound Man--Ilse Aichinger, 462
The Bowmen of Shu--Guy Davenport, 465
Boxcar of Chrysanthemums--Fumiko Enchi, 468
Boy in the Summer Sun--Mark Schorer, 471
The Boy Who Drew Cats--Lafcadio Hearn, 474
Boys and Girls--Alice Munro, 477
Brains--Gottfried Benn, 480
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky--Stephen Crane, 483
*The Bridegroom--Ha Jin, 486
The Bridge--Pamela Painter, 489
The Bridge of Dreams--Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 492
Bridging--Max Apple, 495
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow--John Cheever, 498
Bright and Morning Star--Richard Wright, 501
*Brokeback Mountain--E. Annie Proulx, 504
The Brother--Robert Coover, 507
The Buck Stops Here--Stuart M. Kaminsky, 510
*The Bunchgrass Edge of the World--E. Annie Proulx, 513
The Burning House--Ann Beattie, 516
The Burrow--Franz Kafka, 519
But at the Stroke of Midnight--Sylvia Townsend Warner, 523
Butcher Bird--Wallace Stegner, 527
By the Waters of Babylon--Stephen Vincent Benét, 530
C
The Camberwell Beauty--V. S. Pritchett, 533
A Canary for One--Ernest Hemingway, 536
A Cap for Steve--Morley Callaghan, 539
*Car Crash While Hitchhiking--Denis Johnson, 542
The Cardinal's First Tale--Isak Dinesen, 545
Careful--Raymond Carver, 548
The Cariboo Café--Helena María Viramontes, 551
The Cask of Amontillado--Edgar Allan Poe, 554
The Catbird Seat--James Thurber, 557
Cathedral--Raymond Carver, 560
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County--Mark Twain, 563
The Celestial Omnibus--E. M. Forster, 566
A Chain of Love--Reynolds Price, 569
Change--Larry Woiwode, 572
Charles--Shirley Jackson, 575
*Charlotte--Tony Earley, 577
The Chaser--John Collier, 580
Cheap in August--Graham Greene, 583
Check!--Sławomir Mrożek, 586
The Chemist's Wife--Anton Chekhov, 589
Chickamauga--Ambrose Bierce, 592
The Child of Queen Victoria--William Plomer, 595
The Childhood of Luvers--Boris Pasternak, 599
Children of Strikers--Fred Chappell, 602
Children on Their Birthdays--Truman Capote, 605
The Children's Campaign--Pär Lagerkvist, 608
A Child's Drawings--Varlam Shalamov, 611
Childybawn--Seán O'Faoláin, 614
China Browne--Gerald Vizenor, 617
*Christ in Concrete--Pietro Di Donato, 620
Christmas Every Day--Heinrich Böll, 623
A Christmas Memory--Truman Capote, 626
Christmas Morning--Frank O'Connor, 629
Chroma--Frederick Barthelme, 632
*The Chronicle of Young Satan--Mark Twain, 636
The Chrysanthemums--John Steinbeck, 640
Cimarron--Francine Prose, 644
*The Cinderella Waltz--Ann Beattie, 647
Cinnamon Shops--Bruno Schulz, 650
The Circular Ruins--Jorge Luis Borges, 653
*City Boy--Leonard Michaels, 656
*City Life--Mary Gordon, 659
*City of Boys--Beth Nugent, 662
Clarisa--Isabel Allende, 665
Clay--James Joyce, 668
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place--Ernest Hemingway, 671
The Cliff--Charles Baxter, 674
*The Closing Down of Summer--Alistair MacLeod, 677
Cloud, Castle, Lake--Vladimir Nabokov, 681
*Cloud Cover Caribbean--Ana Lydia Vega, 684
Coach--Mary Robison, 687
The Coal Shoveller--Keith Fort, 690
The Collector of Treasures--Bessie Head, 694
*Color Me Real--J. California Cooper, 699
Color of Darkness--James Purdy, 702
Come Out the Wilderness--James Baldwin, 705
The Comedian--John L'Heureux, 708
Comfort--David Michael Kaplan, 711
Coming, Aphrodite--Willa Cather, 714
Communist--Richard Ford, 717
Il Condel--Joseph Conrad, 720
*Condolence Visit--Rohinton Mistry, 723
*The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish--Naguib Mahfouz, 726
Consolation--Giovanni Verga, 729
A Conversation with My Father--Grace Paley, 733
The Conversion of the Jews--Philip Roth, 736
*The Convict--James Lee Burke, 739
Cooking Lesson--Rosario Castellanos, 742
Counterparts--James Joyce, 745
Counting Months--David Leavitt, 748
A Country Doctor--Franz Kafka, 751
A Country Girl--Mary Hood, 754
The Country Husband--John Cheever, 757
A Country Love Story--Jean Stafford, 760
The Country of the Blind--H. G. Wells, 763
The Count's Wife--Dino Buzzati, 766
The Coup de Grâce--Ambrose Bierce, 769
*The Courting of Sister Wisby--Sarah Orne Jewett, 772
The Cousins--Elizabeth Spencer, 775
*Cowboys Are My Weakness--Pam Houston, 778
Crazy Sunday--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 781
The Creature--Edna O'Brien, 784
*Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers--Stanley Elkin, 787
A Critical Introduction to The Best of S. J. Perelman by Sidney Namlerep--S. J. Perelman, 790
Critique de la Vie Quotidienne--Donald Barthelme, 793
The Crocodile--Fyodor Dostoevski, 796
Crossing into Poland--Isaac Babel, 799
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment--Mary McCarthy, 802
The Cruise of The Breadwinner--H. E. Bates, 805
*The Curse--Andre Dubus, 808
*Customs of the Country--Madison Smartt Bell, 811
The Cyclists' Raid--Frank Rooney, 814
D
Daddy Was a Number Runner--Louise Meriwether, 817
Daddy Wolf--James Purdy, 820
Damballah--John Edgar Wideman, 822
*Dancing After Hours--Andre Dubus, 825
Dante and the Lobster--Samuel Beckett, 828
*Dare's Gift--Ellen Glasgow, 832
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze--William Saroyan, 835
Dark Avenues--Ivan Bunin, 838
The Dark City--Conrad Aiken, 841
The Darling--Anton Chekhov, 845
The Daughters of the Late Colonel--Katherine Mansfield, 848
Dawn of Remembered Spring--Jesse Stuart, 851
The Day Stalin Died--Doris Lessing, 854
The Day the Flowers Came--David Madden, 858
The Day They Took My Uncle--Lionel G. García, 861
The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman--Clarice Lispector, 864
De Mortuis--John Collier, 867
The Dead--James Joyce, 870
The Dead Man--Horacio Quiroga, 875
Dead Men's Path--Chinua Achebe, 878
A Deal in Wheat--Frank Norris, 881
Death and the Child--Stephen Crane, 885
*Death in Jerusalem--William Trevor, 889
Death in Midsummer--Yukio Mishima, 893
Death in the Woods--Sherwood Anderson, 896
Death in Venice--Thomas Mann, 900
Death of a Huntsman--H. E. Bates, 903
Death of a Traveling Salesman--Eudora Welty, 906
The Death of Ivan Ilyich--Leo Tolstoy, 909
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period--J. D. Salinger, 913
*Dédé--Mavis Gallant, 917
Deer Woman--Paula Gunn Allen, 920
The Defeated--Nadine Gordimer, 923
Defender of the Faith--Philip Roth, 926
The Delicate Prey--Paul Bowles, 929
Delta Autumn--William Faulkner, 932
The Deluge at Norderney--Isak Dinesen, 935
The Demon Lover--Elizabeth Bowen, 939
*Demonology--Rick Moody, 942
A Descent into the Maelström--Edgar Allan Poe, 946
The Desire to Be a Man--Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 949
Désirée's Baby--Kate Chopin, 952
The Destructors--Graham Greene, 955
The Devil and Daniel Webster--Stephen Vincent Benét, 958
The Devil and TomWalker--Washington Irving, 962
*Dharma--Vikram Chandra, 965
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 968
The Diamond Lens--Fitz-James O'Brien, 972
The Diary of a Madman--Nikolai Gogol, 975
The Difference--Ellen Glasgow, 979
Di Grasso--Isaac Babel, 983
Dinner at Eight--Ezekiel Mphahlele, 986
Disorder and Early Sorrow--Thomas Mann, 989
The Displaced Person--Flannery O'Connor, 991
The Distance of the Moon--Italo Calvino, 994
A Distant Episode--Paul Bowles, 997
The District Doctor--Ivan Turgenev, 1000
*Doc's Story--John Edgar Wideman, 1003
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1006
The Doctor's Son--John O'Hara, 1009
Doe Season--David Michael Kaplan, 1012
*Dog Days--Judy Budnitz, 1015
Dog Stories--Francine Prose, 1018
*Dogged Underdog--Irvin S. Cobb, 1021
The Doll Queen--Carlos Fuentes, 1024
The Doll's House--Katherine Mansfield, 1027
The Donagh--William Carleton, 1030
Don't Call Me by My Right Name--James Purdy, 1033
The Door--E. B. White, 1036
The Downward Path to Wisdom--Katherine Anne Porter, 1039
*Dragons--Julian Barnes, 1042
Dragon's Seed--Madison Smartt Bell, 1045
*Dream Cargoes--J. G. Ballard, 1048
Dream Children--Gail Godwin, 1051
*The Dream Lover--William Boyd, 1054
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man--Fyodor Dostoevski, 1058
*Dream Stuff--David Malouf, 1061
Dreamers in a Dead Language--Grace Paley, 1064
*Drenched in Light--Zora Neale Hurston, 1068
A Drive in the Country--Graham Greene, 1071
The Drover's Wife--Henry Lawson, 1074
The Drunkard--Frank O'Connor, 1077
Dry September--William Faulkner, 1080
The Duel--Anton Chekhov, 1083
Duel--Richard Matheson, 1086
The Dunwich Horror--H. P. Lovecraft, 1090
E
The Earthquake in Chile--Heinrich von Kleist, 1093
Easter Eve--Anton Chekhov, 1096
Easy Time--Jack López, 1099
*Eating Naked--Stephen Dobyns, 1102
Ecco--Ronald Sukenick, 1105
Edie--Harriet Doerr, 1108
Editha--William Dean Howells, 1112
Edward and God--Milan Kundera, 1115
The Egg--Sherwood Anderson, 1118
Eight Views of Tokyo--Osamu Dazai, 1122
The Eighty-Yard Run--Irwin Shaw, 1126
*Eisenheim the Illusionist--Steven Millhauser, 1129
*The Elephant--Sławomir Mrożek, 1133
*The Elephant Vanishes--Haruki Murakami, 1136
*Emergency--Denis Johnson, 1139
Emperor of the Air--Ethan Canin, 1143
The Empress's Ring--Nancy Hale, 1146
The Enchanted Doll--Paul Gallico, 1148
The End--Samuel Beckett, 1151
The End of Old Horse--Simon J. Ortiz, 1154
End of the Game--Julio Cortázar, 1157
The Enduring Chill--Flannery O'Connor, 1160
Enemies--Anton Chekhov, 1163
The Enemies--Dylan Thomas, 1166
Enero--Mary Helen Ponce, 1169
The Engagement in Santo Domingo--Heinrich von Kleist, 1172
The English Lesson--Nicholasa Mohr, 1176
The Englishwoman--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1179
Enoch Soames--Max Beerbohm, 1182
The Enormous Radio--John Cheever, 1185
Entropy--Thomas Pynchon, 1188
Envy--Cynthia Ozick, 1191
EPICAC--Kurt Vonnegut, 1194
An Episode of War--Stephen Crane, 1197
Errand--Raymond Carver, 1200
Esmeralda--Roberta Fernández, 1203
Esther--Jean Toomer, 1206
Ethan Brand--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1209
Europe--Henry James, 1212
*The Eve of the Spirit Festival--Lan Samantha Chang, 1215
Eveline--James Joyce, 1218
Evening in Paris--Denise Chávez, 1221
An Evening Performance--George Garrett, 1224
Everyday Use--Alice Walker, 1228
*Everything in This Country Must--Colum McCann, 1231
Everything That Rises Must Converge--Flannery O'Connor, 1234
Excerpts from Swan Lake --Peter Cameron, 1238
Exchange Value--Charles Johnson, 1241
An Experiment in Misery--Stephen Crane, 1244
F
A Fable--Robert Fox, 1248
The Faces of Blood Kindred--William Goyen, 1251
Faith in a Tree--Grace Paley, 1255
The Faithful Wife--Morley Callaghan, 1259
The Fall--Alberto Moravia, 1262
The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe, 1265
The Falling Girl--Dino Buzzati, 1269
*The Falls--George Saunders, 1272
A Family Affair--Guy de Maupassant, 1275
*A Family Supper--Kazuo Ishiguro, 1278
The Fancy Woman--Peter Taylor, 1281
The Farm--Joy Williams, 1285
The Fat Girl--Andre Dubus, 1288
*The Fat Man in History--Peter Carey, 1291
The Fat of the Land--Anzia Yezierska, 1294
Father and I--Pär Lagerkvist, 1297
A Father-to-Be--Saul Bellow, 1300
Fathers--Robley Wilson, 1303
The Father's Daughters--Muriel Spark, 1306
A Father's Story--Andre Dubus, 1310
Faustino--Max Martínez, 1313
*Female Trouble--Antonya Nelson, 1317
Fern--Jean Toomer, 1321
*Fever--John Edgar Wideman, 1324
The Field of Blue Children--Tennessee Williams, 1327
The Field of Mustard--A. E. Coppard, 1330
*Fiesta, 1980--Junot Díaz, 1333
The Fight--Dylan Thomas, 1337
The Figure in the Carpet--Henry James, 1340
The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance--Lee K. Abbott, 1343
Finding Natasha--Madison Smartt Bell, 1346
Finding the Chain--Mary Hood, 1349
*The Fireman's Wife--Richard Bausch, 1352
*First, Body--Melanie Rae Thon, 1356
First Communion--Tomás Rivera, 1359
First Confession--Frank O'Connor, 1362
First Dark--Elizabeth Spencer, 1365
First Love and Other Sorrows--Harold Brodkey, 1368
*First Love, Last Rites--Ian McEwan, 1371
Firstborn--Larry Woiwode, 1374
*The Fisherman from Chihuahua--Evan S. Connell, Jr., 1377
*Fitting Ends--Dan Chaon, 1380
The Five-Forty-Eight--John Cheever, 1383
Five-Twenty--Patrick White, 1386
*Flesh and the Mirror--Angela Carter, 1390
Fleur--Louise Erdrich, 1393
Flight--John Steinbeck, 1396
*Floating Bridge--Alice Munro, 1399
The Flood--Joy Harjo, 1402
Flowering Judas--Katherine Anne Porter, 1405
Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes, 1409
The Fly--Katherine Mansfield, 1413
Flying Home--Ralph Ellison, 1416
Footfalls--Wilbur Daniel Steele, 1421
For Esmé--with Love and Squalor--J. D. Salinger, 1424
Forgiveness--Edna O'Brien, 1427
The Forks--J. F. Powers, 1430
Frazer Avenue--Guy García, 1433
The Freshest Boy--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1436
A Friend of Kafka--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1440
Frog Dances--Stephen Dixon, 1443
The Funes Memorious--Jorge Luis Borges, 1446
The Fur Coat--Seán O'Faoláin, 1449
The Furnished Room--O. Henry, 1452
G
*Games at Twilight--Anita Desai, 1456
The Garden of Forking Paths--Jorge Luis Borges, 1459
The Garden-Party--Katherine Mansfield, 1462
The Gardener--Rudyard Kipling, 1466
*The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel--William Maxwell, 1469
Generous Wine--Italo Svevo, 1472
*Gent--Rick DeMarinis, 1475
The Gentleman from Cracow--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1478
The Gentleman from San Francisco--Ivan Bunin, 1481
Geraldo No Last Name--Sandra Cisneros, 1484
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt--William Goyen, 1487
*The Ghost Soldiers--Tim O'Brien, 1491
The Ghosts--Lord Dunsany, 1494
The Gift--John Steinbeck, 1497
The Gift of the Magi--O. Henry, 1500
*The Gilded Six-Bits--Zora Neale Hurston, 1503
*The Gilgul of Park Avenue--Nathan Englander, 1506
Gimpel the Fool--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1509
The Gioconda Smile--Aldous Huxley, 1512
Girl--Jamaica Kincaid, 1515
*The Girl in the Flammable Skirt--Aimee Bender, 1518
*The Girl on the Plane--Mary Gaitskill, 1521
*The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor--Deborah Eisenberg, 1524
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses--Irwin Shaw, 1527
Gladius Dei--Thomas Mann, 1531
The Glass Mountain--Donald Barthelme, 1534
The Gleaner--H. E. Bates, 1537
Glimpse into Another Country--Wright Morris, 1540
Gobseck--Honoré de Balzac, 1543
Gogol's Wife--Tommaso Landolfi, 1547
Going--Amy Hempel, 1551
Going After Cacciato--Tim O'Brien, 1554
Going Ashore--Mavis Gallant, 1557
Going Home--William Trevor, 1560
Going to Meet the Man--James Baldwin, 1563
The Gold-Bug--Edgar Allan Poe, 1567
Gold Coast--James Alan McPherson, 1571
The Golden Apple of Eternal Desire--Milan Kundera, 1574
The Golden Honeymoon--Ring Lardner, 1577
The Gonzaga Manuscripts--Saul Bellow, 1580
*Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies--Salman Rushdie, 1583
Good Country People--Flannery O'Connor, 1586
A Good Man Is Hard to Find--Flannery O'Connor, 1589
*A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain--Robert Olen Butler, 1593
Goodbye, My Brother--John Cheever, 1596
The Goophered Grapevine--Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1600
Gooseberries--Anton Chekhov, 1603
Gorilla, My Love--Toni Cade Bambara, 1606
The Gospel According to Mark--Jorge Luis Borges, 1609
Gospel Singers--Langston Hughes, 1612
Grace--James Joyce, 1615
La Grande Bretèche--Honoré de Balzac, 1618
Graphomaniacs--Abram Tertz, 1621
The Grasshopper and the Cricket--Yasunari Kawabata, 1624
The Grave--Katherine Anne Porter, 1627
Graveyard Day--Bobbie Ann Mason, 1630
Gravity--David Leavitt, 1633
Greasy Lake--T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1636
*The Great Beyond--Cyprian Ekwensi, 1639
The Great Good Place--Henry James, 1642
The Great Wall of China--Franz Kafka, 1645
The Great Wave--Mary Lavin, 1649
The Greek Interpreter--Arthur Conan Doyle, 1652
Green Tea--Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1655
Greenleaf--Flannery O'Connor, 1659
Greyhound People--Alice Adams, 1663
Gryphon--Charles Baxter, 1666
The Guest--Albert Camus, 1669
Guests of the Nation--Frank O'Connor, 1672
The Gun Shop--John Updike, 1675
Gusev--Anton Chekhov, 1678
Gussuk--Mei Mei Evans, 1681
Guy de Maupassant--Isaac Babel, 1684
H
Haircut--Ring Lardner, 1688
*The Half-Skinned Steer--E. Annie Proulx, 1691
The Halfway Diner--John Sayles, 1694
Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District--Ivan Turgenev, 1697
The Hammer of God--G. K. Chesterton, 1701
The Hammon and the Beans--Américo Parédes, 1704
Hands--Sherwood Anderson, 1707
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World--Gabriel García Márquez, 1710
*Happiness--Mary Lavin, 1713
Happy August the Tenth--Tennessee Williams, 1716
The Happy Autumn Fields--Elizabeth Bowen, 1719
Harmony--Ring Lardner, 1723
Harrison Bergeron--Kurt Vonnegut, 1726
A Haunted House--Virginia Woolf, 1729
The Headless Hawk--Truman Capote, 1732
Health--Joy Williams, 1735
The Heart of the Artichoke--Herbert Gold, 1738
*Heat--Joyce Carol Oates, 1741
The Hector Quesadilla Story--T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1744
*Helix--Mahoko Yoshimoto, 1747
*Helping--Robert Stone, 1750
Her First Ball--Katherine Mansfield, 1754
Her Quaint Honor--Caroline Gordon, 1757
Her Sweet Jerome--Alice Walker, 1760
Her Table Spread--Elizabeth Bowen, 1763
Herakleitos--Guy Davenport, 1766
*The Hermit's Story--Rick Bass, 1769
Hérodias--Gustave Flaubert, 1772
The Heroes in the Dark House--Benedict Kiely, 1776
*He's at the Office--Allan Gurganus, 1779
The Higgler--A. E. Coppard, 1782
Hills Like White Elephants--Ernest Hemingway, 1785
The Hint of an Explanation--Graham Greene, 1789
His Final Mother--Reynolds Price, 1792
His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft--Harold Brodkey, 1795
The Hitchhiking Game--Milan Kundera, 1799
Hodel--Sholom Aleichem, 1802
Homage for Isaac Babel--Doris Lessing, 1806
Home--Jayne Anne Phillips, 1809
Home Sickness--George Moore, 1812
*Homeland--Barbara Kingsolver, 1815
An Honest Thief--Fyodor Dostoevski, 1818
Hook--Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 1821
The Horla--Guy de Maupassant, 1824
A Horse and Two Goats--R. K. Narayan, 1827
The Horse Dealer's Daughter--D. H. Lawrence, 1831
*The House Behind--Lydia Davis, 1835
The House in Turk Street--Dashiell Hammett, 1838
*The House of Cobwebs--George Gissing, 1841
*House Opposite--R. K. Narayan, 1844
The House with the Grape-vine--H. E. Bates, 1847
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill--John Cheever, 1849
How Beautiful with Shoes--Wilbur Daniel Steele, 1852
How Claeys Died--William Sansom, 1855
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and
Began My Life over Again--Joyce Carol Oates, 1859
How I Finally Lost My Heart--Doris Lessing, 1863
How I Met My Husband--Alice Munro, 1866
How It Was Done in Odessa--Isaac Babel, 1869
How Much Land Does a Man Need?--Leo Tolstoy, 1872
How the Devil Came Down Division Street--Nelson Algren, 1875
*How to Talk to a Hunter--Pam Houston, 1878
A Hunger Artist--Franz Kafka, 1881
*The Hungry Stones--Rabindranath Tagore, 1885
The Hunter Gracchus--Franz Kafka, 1888
*Hunters in the Snow--Tobias Wolff, 1892
Hunting Season--Joanne Greenberg, 1895
I
*I-80 Nebraska M.490-M.205--John Sayles, 1898
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe--Stanley Elkin, 1901
*I See You Never--Ray Bradbury, 1904
I Stand Here Ironing--Tillie Olsen, 1907
I Want to Know Why--Sherwood Anderson, 1910
The Ice House--Caroline Gordon, 1914
The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street--Mavis Gallant, 1917
The Icicle--Abram Tertz, 1920
Idiots First--Bernard Malamud, 1923
Idle Days on the Yann--Lord Dunsany, 1926
If the River Was Whiskey--T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1930
I'm a Fool--Sherwood Anderson, 1933
I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard--Clark Blaise, 1936
*I'm Your Horse in the Night--Luisa Valenzuela, 1939
Imagination Dead Imagine--Samuel Beckett, 1942
Imagined Scenes--Ann Beattie, 1945
The Imitation of the Rose--Clarice Lispector, 1949
Immigration Blues--Bienvenido N. Santos, 1952
Impulse--Conrad Aiken, 1955
In a Father's Place--Christopher Tilghman, 1959
In a Great Man's House--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1962
In a Grove--Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 1965
In Another Country--Ernest Hemingway, 1968
In Darkness and Confusion--Ann Petry, 1971
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities--Delmore Schwartz, 1974
In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks--Hortense Calisher, 1977
In Search of Epifano--Rudolfo A. Anaya, 1980
In the American Society--Gish Jen, 1983
In the Basement--Isaac Babel, 1986
In the Cage--Henry James, 1989
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried--Amy Hempel, 1993
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs--Tobias Wolff, 1996
*In the Gloaming--Alice Elliott Dark, 2000
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country--William H. Gass, 2003
In the Land of the Free--Sui Sin Far, 2006
In the Penal Colony--Franz Kafka, 2009
In the Region of Ice--Joyce Carol Oates, 2013
*In the Shadow of War--Ben Okri, 2016
In the White Night--Ann Beattie, 2019
In the Zoo--Jean Stafford, 2022
*Ind Aff--Fay Weldon, 2025
Indian Camp--Ernest Hemingway, 2028
The Indian Uprising--Donald Barthelme, 2031
Indissoluble Matrimony--Rebecca West, 2035
The Infant Prodigy--Thomas Mann, 2039
Innocence--Harold Brodkey, 2042
Innocence--Seán O'Faoláin, 2045
Instructions for John Howell--Julio Cortázar, 2049
*Intensive Care--Lee Smith, 2052
An Interest in Life--Grace Paley, 2055
The Interior Castle--Jean Stafford, 2058
The Interlopers--Saki, 2061
*Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri, 2064
*Intertextuality--Mary Gordon, 2068
*Inventing the Abbotts--Sue Miller, 2071
The Invisible Man--G. K. Chesterton, 2074
The Island at Noon--Julio Cortázar, 2077
Islands on the Moon--Barbara Kingsolver, 2080
It May Never Happen--V. S. Pritchett, 2083
Ivy Day in the Committee Room--James Joyce, 2086
Ivy Gripped the Steps--Elizabeth Bowen, 2090
J
Jackals and Arabs--Franz Kafka, 2094
Jacklighting--Ann Beattie, 2097
Janus--Ann Beattie, 2100
Japanese Hamlet--Toshio Mori, 2103
The Japanese Quince--John Galsworthy, 2106
Jasmine--Bharati Mukherjee, 2109
*Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot--Robert Olen Butler, 2112
Jean-ah Poquelin--George Washington Cable, 2115
The Jewbird--Bernard Malamud, 2118
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall--Katherine Anne Porter, 2121
Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn--Mark Twain, 2124
*John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore--Angela Carter, 2127
John Napper Sailing Through the Universe--John Gardner, 2130
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams--Sylvia Plath, 2134
The Jolly Corner--Henry James, 2137
Jordan's End--Ellen Glasgow, 2140
Jorinda and Jorindel--Mavis Gallant, 2143
Josephine the Singer--Franz Kafka, 2147
Journey Back to the Source--Alejo Carpentier, 2150
Journey Through the Night--Jakov Lind, 2153
Judas--Frank O'Connor, 2156
Julia and the Bazooka--Anna Kavan, 2159
Julia Cahill's Curse--George Moore, 2162
A Jury of Her Peers--Susan Glaspell, 2165
Just Lather, That's All--Hernando Téllez, 2168
Just Like a Tree--Ernest J. Gaines, 2171
K
The Keela Outcast Indian Maiden--Eudora Welty, 2174
The Kepi--Colette, 2177
The Kerchief--Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 2180
*The Key--Võ Phiên, 2184
*Kill Day on the Government Wharf--Audrey Thomas, 2187
Killed at Resaca--Ambrose Bierce, 2190
The Killers--Ernest Hemingway, 2193
The Killing of a State Cop--Simon J. Ortiz, 2196
*Killings--Andre Dubus, 2199
*The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas--Reginald McKnight, 2202
Kindred Spirits--Alice Walker, 2205
King of the Bingo Game--Ralph Ellison, 2208
King Solomon--Isaac Rosenfeld, 2211
The King's Indian--John Gardner, 2214
The Kiss--Anton Chekhov, 2218
Kleist in Thun--Robert Walser, 2221
*Kneel to the Rising Sun--Erskine Caldwell, 2224
*The Knife Thrower--Steven Millhauser, 2227
The Kugelmass Episode--Woody Allen, 2230
L
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District--Nikolai Leskov, 2233
The Lady or the Tiger?--Frank R. Stockton, 2237
The Lady with the Dog--Anton Chekhov, 2240
*The Lady with the Pet Dog--Joyce Carol Oates, 2243
The Lagoon--Joseph Conrad, 2247
Lamb to the Slaughter--Roald Dahl, 2250
The Language of Cats--Spencer Holst, 2253
The Last Class--Alphonse Daudet, 2256
*The Last Days of a Famous Mime--Peter Carey, 2259
The Last Judgment--Karel Čapek, 2262
The Last Mohican--Bernard Malamud, 2265
The Laugher--Heinrich Böll, 2268
The Laughter of My Father--José Antonio Villarreal, 2271
Laura--Saki, 2274
Lawns--Mona Simpson, 2277
Lazarus--Leonid Andreyev, 2280
The Leader of the People--John Steinbeck, 2283
The Leaning Tower--Katherine Anne Porter, 2286
The Leap--Louise Erdrich, 2290
*Learning to Swim--Graham Swift, 2294
Leaves--John Updike, 2297
Leaving the Yellow House--Saul Bellow, 2300
Leaving This Island Place--Austin Clarke, 2303
*Lechery--Jayne Anne Phillips, 2306
The Ledge--Lawrence Sargent Hall, 2309
Lefty--Nikolai Leskov, 2312
Legal Aid--Frank O'Connor, 2317
The Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler--Gustave Flaubert, 2320
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving, 2323
*Lena--Mavis Gallant, 2326
Lenz--Georg Büchner, 2329
The Lesson--Toni Cade Bambara, 2332
The Lesson of the Master--Henry James, 2335
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead--Milan Kundera, 2338
*The Liar--Tobias Wolff, 2341
*Liars in Love--Richard Yates, 2344
The Library of Babel--Jorge Luis Borges, 2348
*Life in the Air Ocean--Sylvia Foley, 2351
*Life in the Iron Mills--Rebecca Harding Davis, 2354
Life-Story--John Barth, 2358
The Life You Save May Be Your Own--Flannery O'Connor, 2362
Lifeguard--John Updike, 2365
Ligeia--Edgar Allan Poe, 2368
*Light Action in the Caribbean--Barry Lopez, 2371
Lightning--Donald Barthelme, 2374
Like a Winding Sheet--Ann Petry, 2377
Like the Night--Alejo Carpentier, 2380
Lions, Harts, Leaping Does--J. F. Powers, 2383
Lispeth--Rudyard Kipling, 2386
A Little Cloud--James Joyce, 2390
Little Herr Friedemann--Thomas Mann, 2394
A Little Legend of the Dance--Gottfried Keller, 2398
Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality--Vassily Aksyonov, 2401
*The Little Wife--William March, 2404
Little Woman--Sally Benson, 2407
A Living Relic--Ivan Turgenev, 2410
Livingstone's Companions--Nadine Gordimer, 2413
A Lodging for the Night--Robert Louis Stevenson, 2416
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner--Alan Sillitoe, 2419
A Long Day in November--Ernest J. Gaines, 2423
Long Distance--Jane Smiley, 2426
The Long-Distance Runner--Grace Paley, 2429
*Looking for a Rain God--Bessie Head, 2432
Looking for Mr. Green--Saul Bellow, 2435
The Loons--Margaret Laurence, 2438
*The Lost Boy--Thomas Wolfe, 2441
Lost in the Funhouse--John Barth, 2444
The Lost Phoebe--Theodore Dreiser, 2447
The Lottery--Shirley Jackson, 2450
The Lottery in Babylon--Jorge Luis Borges, 2453
The Loudest Voice--Grace Paley, 2456
Love--Guy de Maupassant, 2459
The Love Decoy--S. J. Perelman, 2462
*The Love of a Good Woman--Alice Munro, 2465
The Lover of Horses--Tess Gallagher, 2468
The Luck of Roaring Camp--Bret Harte, 2471
Lullaby--Leslie Marmon Silko, 2474
Lust--Susan Minot, 2477
Lyubka the Cossack--Isaac Babel, 2480
M
*Madame Célestin's Divorce--Kate Chopin, 2483
Madame Tellier's Establishment--Guy de Maupassant, 2486
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland--Carson McCullers, 2489
*Ma'Dear--Terry McMillan, 2493
Mademoiselle Fifi--Guy de Maupassant, 2496
The Madness of Doctor Montarco--Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, 2499
The Magic Barrel--Bernard Malamud, 2502
Maiden in a Tower--Wallace Stegner, 2505
Mammon and the Archer--O. Henry, 2508
The Man from Mars--Margaret Atwood, 2511
The Man in a Case--Anton Chekhov, 2514
*The Man in the Black Suit--Stephen King, 2517
The Man of the World--Frank O'Connor, 2520
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg--Mark Twain, 2523
The Man to Send Rain Clouds--Leslie Marmon Silko, 2526
The Man Who Became a Woman--Sherwood Anderson, 2529
The Man Who Could Work Miracles--H. G. Wells, 2532
The Man Who Found a Pistol--Rudolfo A. Anaya, 2535
The Man Who Invented Sin--Seán O'Faoláin, 2538
The Man Who Knew Belle Starr--Richard Bausch, 2541
The Man Who Lived Underground--Richard Wright, 2544
The Man Who Loved Islands--D. H. Lawrence, 2547
The Man Who Studied Yoga--Norman Mailer, 2550
The Man Who Was Almost a Man--Richard Wright, 2553
The Man Who Would Be King--Rudyard Kipling, 2556
The Man with the Dog--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 2559
*The Man with the Lapdog--Beth Lordan, 2562
Man, Woman and Boy--Stephen Dixon, 2565
The Management of Grief--Bharati Mukherjee, 2568
Ms. Found in a Bottle--Edgar Allan Poe, 2571
Many Are Disappointed--V. S. Pritchett, 2574
Margins--Donald Barthelme, 2577
María Concepción--Katherine Anne Porter, 2580
The Marijuana Party--Mary Helen Ponce, 2583
Mario and the Magician--Thomas Mann, 2586
Marjorie Daw--Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 2589
The Mark on the Wall--Virginia Woolf, 2592
Markheim--Robert Louis Stevenson, 2596
The Marquise of O------Heinrich von Kleist, 2599
Marriage à la Mode--Katherine Mansfield, 2604
The Masque of the Red Death--Edgar Allan Poe, 2608
Master and Man--Leo Tolstoy, 2611
Mateo Falcone--Prosper Mérimée, 2615
Matryona's House--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 2618
May Day--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2622
*Medusa's Ankles--A. S. Byatt, 2626
*A Meeting in the Dark--Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 2630
*Melungeons--Chris Offutt, 2633
*Memories of the Space Age--J. G. Ballard, 2636
A Memory--Eudora Welty, 2639
*Men Under Water--Ralph Lombreglia, 2642
*Meneseteung--Alice Munro, 2645
Metamorphoses--John Cheever, 2648
The Metamorphosis--Franz Kafka, 2651
Midair--Frank Conroy, 2655
The Middle Years--Henry James, 2658
Midnight Mass--Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 2661
Midsummer Night Madness--Seán O'Faoláin, 2664
Migrants--Elizabeth Tallent, 2668
The Minister's Black Veil--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2671
*Minor Heroism--Allan Gurganus, 2675
*Miracle Boy--Pinckney Benedict, 2679
The Miracle of the Birds--Jorge Amado, 2682
Miriam--Truman Capote, 2686
*Mirrors--Carol Shields, 2689
Misery--Anton Chekhov, 2692
Miss Brill--Katherine Mansfield, 2695
Miss Cynthie--Rudolph Fisher, 2699
Miss Leonora When Last Seen--Peter Taylor, 2702
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself--Radclyffe Hall, 2705
Miss Tempy's Watchers--Sarah Orne Jewett, 2708
Moccasin Game--Gerald Vizenor, 2710
The Mole--Yasunari Kawabata, 2713
The Monkey--Isak Dinesen, 2716
The Monkey's Paw--W. W. Jacobs, 2720
The Monster--Stephen Crane, 2723
Moon and Madness--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2727
Moon Deluxe--Frederick Barthelme, 2730
*The Moons of Jupiter--Alice Munro, 2733
*The Moor--Russell Banks, 2736
Mosby's Memoirs--Saul Bellow, 2739
The Most Dangerous Game--Richard Connell, 2742
The Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nry J*m*s--Max Beerbohm, 2745
A Mother's Tale--James Agee, 2747
The Moths--Helena María Viramontes, 2750
The Mountain Tavern--Liam O'Flaherty, 2753
The Moving--James Still, 2756
Moving Pictures--Charles Johnson, 2759
Mr. and Mrs. Baby--Mark Strand, 2763
Mrs. Fortescue--Doris Lessing, 2766
*Mrs. Plum--Ezekiel Mphahlele, 2769
*Mrs. Ripley's Trip--Hamlin Garland, 2772
A Municipal Report--O. Henry, 2775
*Murderers--Leonard Michaels, 2779
The Murders in the Rue Morgue--Edgar Allan Poe, 2782
Murke's Collected Silences--Heinrich Böll, 2785
My First Goose--Isaac Babel, 2788
My Kinsman, Major Molineux--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2792
My Man Bovanne--Toni Cade Bambara, 2796
My Mother--Jamaica Kincaid, 2800
My Oedipus Complex--Frank O'Connor, 2803
My Old Man--Ernest Hemingway, 2806
My Side of the Matter--Truman Capote, 2809
My Warszawa--Joyce Carol Oates, 2813
Mysterious Kôr--Elizabeth Bowen, 2817
N
Nairobi--Joyce Carol Oates, 2820
A Nasty Story--Fyodor Dostoevski, 2824
National Honeymoon--Paul Horgan, 2828
A Native of Winby--Sarah Orne Jewett, 2831
*Nebraska--Ron Hansen, 2834
The Necklace--Guy de Maupassant, 2837
Neighbor Rosicky--Willa Cather, 2841
Neighbors--Raymond Carver, 2844
Neighbors--Diane Oliver, 2847
Nevada Gas--Raymond Chandler, 2850
The New Apartment--Heinz Huber, 2854
A New England Nun--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 2858
New Islands--María Luisa Bombal, 2861
New Year for Fong Wing--Monfoon Leong, 2865
A New Year's Eve Adventure--E. T. A. Hoffmann, 2868
Night-Sea Journey--John Barth, 2871
*Night Swimming--Pete Fromm, 2874
*Night Women--Edwidge Danticat, 2877
Nightfall--Isaac Asimov, 2880
No One's a Mystery--Elizabeth Tallent, 2883
*No Place for You, My Love--Eudora Welty, 2886
No Trace--David Madden, 2889
*Nomad and Viper--Amos Oz, 2892
Noon Wine--Katherine Anne Porter, 2896
North Light--Mark Helprin, 2900
The Northern Lights--Joy Harjo, 2903
*The Norwegian Rat--Naguib Mahfouz, 2906
The Nose--Nikolai Gogol, 2909
Not a Good Girl--Perri Klass, 2913
Now That April's Here--Morley Callaghan, 2916
The Nun--Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, 2919
The Nun's Mother--Mary Lavin, 2922
O
*An Occasion of Sin--John Montague, 2925
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge--Ambrose Bierce, 2928
Odour of Chrysanthemums--D. H. Lawrence, 2932
Of This Time, of That Place--Lionel Trilling, 2935
An Official Position--W. Somerset Maugham, 2938
Oh, the Wonder!--Jeremy Larner, 2941
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"--M. R. James, 2945
The Old Bird--J. F. Powers, 2948
The Old Forest--Peter Taylor, 2951
Old Light--Barry Targan, 2954
*The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff--Patrick Chamoiseau, 2957
Old Mortality--Katherine Anne Porter, 2960
Old Red--Caroline Gordon, 2964
Old Vemish--Barry Targan, 2968
Old West--Richard Bausch, 2972
Old Woman Magoun--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 2975
Old-World Landowners--Nikolai Gogol, 2979
On Account of a Hat--Sholom Aleichem, 2983
On Discovery--Maxine Hong Kingston, 2987
On Hope--Spencer Holst, 2990
*On the Golden Porch--Tatyana Tolstaya, 2993
On the Road--Langston Hughes, 2996
On the Shore of Chad Creek--Jack Matthews, 2999
One Holy Night--Sandra Cisneros, 3002
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note--Mark Twain, 3005
*One of a Kind--Julian Barnes, 3008
One of Cleopatra's Nights--Théophile Gautier, 3011
One of the Missing--Ambrose Bierce, 3014
One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts--Shirley Jackson, 3017
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas--Ursula K. Le Guin, 3020
The Only Man on Liberty Street--William Melvin Kelley, 3023
The Open Boat--Stephen Crane, 3026
Open House--Nadine Gordimer, 3029
The Open Window--Saki, 3032
The Oranging of America--Max Apple, 3035
Order of Insects--William H. Gass, 3038
*The Ordinary Son--Ron Carlson, 3041
The Other Paris--Mavis Gallant, 3044
The Other Side of the Hedge--E. M. Forster, 3048
The Other Two--Edith Wharton, 3051
The Outcasts of Poker Flat--Bret Harte, 3054
The Outlaws--Selma Lagerlöf, 3058
An Outpost of Progress--Joseph Conrad, 3061
The Outrage--Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin, 3065
Outside the Machine--Jean Rhys, 3068
The Outstation--W. Somerset Maugham, 3071
The Overcoat--Nikolai Gogol, 3075
The Overcoat II--T. Coraghessan Boyle, 3079
P
The Pacific--Mark Helprin, 3082
The Pacing Goose--Jessamyn West, 3085
The Pagan Rabbi--Cynthia Ozick, 3088
A Painful Case--James Joyce, 3091
Pale Horse, Pale Rider--Katherine Anne Porter, 3094
*The Paperhanger--William Gay, 3097
Paradise--Edna O'Brien, 3101
Paraguay--Donald Barthelme, 3106
Parker's Back--Flannery O'Connor, 3109
The Parsley Garden--William Saroyan, 3112
*The Passing of Grandison--Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 3116
A Passion for History--Stephen Minot, 3119
A Passion in the Desert--Honoré de Balzac, 3122
*Pastoralia--George Saunders, 3125
Patriotism--Yukio Mishima, 3129
Paul's Case--Willa Cather, 3133
The Peach Stone--Paul Horgan, 3136
The Peaches--Dylan Thomas, 3139
The Pearl--John Steinbeck, 3142
The Peasant Marey--Fyodor Dostoevski, 3146
The Pedersen Kid--William H. Gass, 3149
A Pedestrian Accident--Robert Coover, 3152
*People Like That Are the Only People Here--Lorrie Moore, 3156
People of the Dog--Alma Villanueva, 3159
A Perfect Day for Bananafish--J. D. Salinger, 3162
*Pet Fly--Walter Mosley, 3165
*Pet Milk--Stuart Dybek, 3168
*Peter Rugg, the Missing Man--William Austin, 3171
Petrified Man--Eudora Welty, 3174
A Piece of News--Eudora Welty, 3177
A Piece of Steak--Jack London, 3180
The Piece of String--Guy de Maupassant, 3183
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote--Jorge Luis Borges, 3187
Pigeon Feathers--John Updike, 3190
*Pipa's Story--Lan Samantha Chang, 3193
The Pit and the Pendulum--Edgar Allan Poe, 3196
Pkhentz--Abram Tertz, 3199
The Pleasure of Her Company--Jane Smiley, 3203
The Poet--Hermann Hesse, 3206
A Poetics for Bullies--Stanley Elkin, 3209
The Portable Phonograph--Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 3213
The Portobello Road--Muriel Spark, 3216
The Post Office--Liam O'Flaherty, 3220
Powerhouse--Eudora Welty, 3223
Prelude--Katherine Mansfield, 3227
Pretty Ice--Mary Robison, 3231
Prince of Darkness--J. F. Powers, 3234
The Prison--Bernard Malamud, 3237
Private Domain--James Alan McPherson, 3240
*Prize Stock--Kenzaburō Ōe, 3243
The Problem of Cell Thirteen--Jacques Futrelle, 3246
The Procurator of Judea--Anatole France, 3249
Profession: Housewife--Sally Benson, 3252
*The Prophet from Jupiter--Tony Earley, 3255
*Prowler--Elizabeth Tallent, 3259
The Prussian Officer--D. H. Lawrence, 3262
The Psychiatrist--Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 3265
*Psychopolis--Ian McEwan, 3268
*The Pugilist at Rest--Thom Jones, 3271
The Pupil--Henry James, 3274
The Purloined Letter--Edgar Allan Poe, 3277
Putois--Anatole France, 3280
Puttermesser Paired--Cynthia Ozick, 3283
The Puzzleheaded Girl--Christina Stead, 3286
Q
Queen of Diamonds--Michael Anthony Dorris, 3289
The Queen of Spades--Alexander Pushkin, 3292
A Queer Heart--Elizabeth Bowen, 3295
R
The Ragman's Daughter--Alan Sillitoe, 3297
The Rags of Time--Barry Targan, 3300
The Raid--Leo Tolstoy, 3303
Rain--W. Somerset Maugham, 3306
The Rainy Moon--Colette, 3310
Ralph the Duck--Frederick Busch, 3313
The Ram in the Thicket--Wright Morris, 3316
The Ransom of Red Chief--O. Henry, 3319
Rape Fantasies--Margaret Atwood, 3322
Rappaccini's Daughter--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 3325
Rashōmon--Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 3329
Raymond's Run--Toni Cade Bambara, 3332
The Real Thing--Henry James, 3335
A Reasonable Facsimile--Jean Stafford, 3338
A Recluse--Walter de la Mare, 3342
*The Red Convertible--Louise Erdrich, 3347
The Red-Headed League--Arthur Conan Doyle, 3350
Red Leaves--William Faulkner, 3353
Redemption--John Gardner, 3356
Rembrandt's Hat--Bernard Malamud, 3359
Remembering Orchards--Barry Lopez, 3362
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman--Harlan Ellison, 3365
A Report to an Academy--Franz Kafka, 3368
The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin--Tennessee Williams, 3371
Reservations--Peter Taylor, 3375
Residents and Transients--Bobbie Ann Mason, 3378
The Return of a Private--Hamlin Garland, 3381
The Return of Chorb--Vladimir Nabokov, 3385
Return to Return--Barry Hannah, 3388
The Reunion--Maya Angelou, 3391
Revelation--Flannery O'Connor, 3394
A Revenant--Walter de la Mare, 3397
*The Reverent Wooing of Archibald--P. G. Wodehouse, 3401
The Revolt of "Mother"--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 3404
A Revolutionary Tale--Nikki Giovanni, 3407
The Rich Boy--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 3410
The Rich Brother--Tobias Wolff, 3414
*A Riddle--Antonio Tabucchi, 3417
Rip Van Winkle--Washington Irving, 3420
The Rise of Maud Martha--Gwendolyn Brooks, 3424
Ritter Gluck--E. T. A. Hoffmann, 3427
The River--Flannery O'Connor, 3430
The Road from Colonus--E. M. Forster, 3433
Road to the Isles--Jessamyn West, 3436
Rock Springs--Richard Ford, 3439
The Rocking-Horse Winner--D. H. Lawrence, 3442
*Rodman the Keeper--Constance Fenimore Woolson, 3445
Roger Malvin's Burial--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 3448
Roman Fever--Edith Wharton, 3451
Rope--Katherine Anne Porter, 3455
Rosa--Cynthia Ozick, 3458
A Rose for Emily--William Faulkner, 3462
A Rose in the Heart of New York--Edna O'Brien, 3466
Rose-Johnny--Barbara Kingsolver, 3469
Roses, Rhododendron--Alice Adams, 3472
Rothschild's Fiddle--Anton Chekhov, 3475
Round by Round--Conrad Aiken, 3478
Royal Beatings--Alice Munro, 3482
Rules of the Game--Amy Tan, 3485
S
*Saboteur--Ha Jin, 3489
The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox--Joel Chandler Harris, 3492
The Sailor-Boy's Tale--Isak Dinesen, 3495
Sailor Off the Bremen--Irwin Shaw, 3498
The Saint--V. S. Pritchett, 3501
Saint Augustine's Pigeon--Evan S. Connell, Jr, 3504
Saint Marie--Louise Erdrich, 3508
Saints--Denise Chávez, 3511
*Sam the Cat--Matthew Klam, 3514
*Same Place, Same Things--Tim Gautreaux, 3517
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass--Bruno Schulz, 3520
The Sandman--E. T. A. Hoffmann, 3523
*A Sandstone Farmhouse--John Updike, 3527
Sarah Cole--Russell Banks, 3530
Saturday Night--James T. Farrell, 3533
*Save the Reaper--Alice Munro, 3537
Say Yes--Tobias Wolff, 3540
A Scandal in Bohemia--Arthur Conan Doyle, 3543
A Scandalous Woman--Edna O'Brien, 3547
The Scapegoat--Paul Laurence Dunbar, 3550
The Schartz-Metterklume Method--Saki, 3554
The Schreuderspitze--Mark Helprin, 3557
Schrödinger's Cat--Ursula K. Le Guin, 3561
The Scorpion--Paul Bowles, 3564
The Screamers--Amiri Baraka, 3567
The Sculptor's Funeral--Willa Cather, 3570
Seaton's Aunt--Walter de la Mare, 3573
The Second Tree from the Corner--E. B. White, 3577
The Secret Integration--Thomas Pynchon, 3580
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty--James Thurber, 3583
The Secret Lives of Dieters--Perri Klass, 3587
The Secret Miracle--Jorge Luis Borges, 3590
The Secret Room--Alain Robbe-Grillet, 3593
The Secret Sharer--Joseph Conrad, 3596
See the Moon?--Donald Barthelme, 3599
Sense of Humour--V. S. Pritchett, 3602
The Sentinel--Arthur C. Clarke, 3605
*Servants of the Map--Andrea Barrett, 3608
*Settled on the Cranberry Coast--Michael Byers, 3611
Seven Floors--Dino Buzzati, 3614
Seventeen Syllables--Hisaye Yamamoto, 3617
The Seventh Trunk--Heinrich Böll, 3620
A Shape of Light--William Goyen, 3623
The Shape of the Sword--Jorge Luis Borges, 3627
The Shawl--Cynthia Ozick, 3630
She Is Beautiful in Her Whole Being--N. Scott Momaday, 3633
The She-Wolf--Giovanni Verga, 3636
The Sheriff's Children--Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 3639
Shifting--Ann Beattie, 3643
Shiloh--Bobbie Ann Mason, 3646
Shoemaker Arnold--Earl Lovelace, 3649
Short Friday--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 3653
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber--Ernest Hemingway, 3656
The Shot--Alexander Pushkin, 3660
A Shower of Gold--Donald Barthelme, 3663
Shower of Gold--Eudora Welty, 3666
A Sick Call--Morley Callaghan, 3669
The Sick Child--Colette, 3672
*The Signal-Man--Charles Dickens, 3675
The Signing--Stephen Dixon, 3678
Signs and Symbols--Vladimir Nabokov, 3681
Silence--Carlos Bulosan, 3684
*The Silence of the Llano--Rudolfo A. Anaya, 3687
*Silent Passengers--Larry Woiwode, 3690
Silent Snow, Secret Snow--Conrad Aiken, 3693
A Silver Dish--Saul Bellow, 3697
The Silver Mine--Selma Lagerlöf, 3701
*Silver Water--Amy Bloom, 3705
A Simple Heart--Gustave Flaubert, 3708
The Sin-Eater--Margaret Atwood, 3712
Singing Dinah's Song--Frank London Brown, 3715
The Singing Man--Fielding Dawson, 3718
The Sire de Malétroit's Door--Robert Louis Stevenson, 3721
The Sisters--James Joyce, 3724
The Sky Is Gray--Ernest J. Gaines, 3727
Slaughterhouse--Greg Sarris, 3731
Sleep--Larry Brown, 3734
The Slide Area--Gavin Lambert, 3737
A Small, Good Thing--Raymond Carver, 3740
The Smallest Woman in the World--Clarice Lispector, 3743
The Smell of Death and Flowers--Nadine Gordimer, 3746
The Smiles of Konarak--George Dennison, 3750
*The Smoker--David Schickler, 3753
The Snake--John Steinbeck, 3756
The Snake Charmer--Varlam Shalamov, 3759
The Sniper--Liam O'Flaherty, 3762
The Sniper--Alan Sillitoe, 3765
Snow--Alice Adams, 3769
Snow--Ann Beattie, 3772
Snow--Ted Hughes, 3775
The Snow-Storm--Leo Tolstoy, 3778
*The Snows of Kilimanjaro--Ernest Hemingway, 3781
So Much Water So Close to Home--Raymond Carver, 3784
So On He Fares--George Moore, 3787
A Soldier's Embrace--Nadine Gordimer, 3790
Soldier's Home--Ernest Hemingway, 3793
Solo on the Drums--Ann Petry, 3796
Some Like Them Cold--Ring Lardner, 3799
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby--Donald Barthelme, 3802
*Some Say the World--Susan Perabo, 3806
*Somebody Up There Likes Me--Ralph Lombreglia, 3809
Something Out There--Nadine Gordimer, 3812
*Somnambulism--Charles Brockden Brown, 3815
*Son of the Wolfman--Michael Chabon, 3818
Sonny's Blues--James Baldwin, 3821
Sophistication--Sherwood Anderson, 3824
Sorrow-Acre--Isak Dinesen, 3827
A Sorrowful Woman--Gail Godwin, 3831
Sound of a Drunken Drummer--H. W. Blattner, 3834
The South--Jorge Luis Borges, 3837
The Southern Thruway--Julio Cortázar, 3840
*Speck's Idea--Mavis Gallant, 3844
The Spinoza of Market Street--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 3847
Spirit Woman--Paula Gunn Allen, 3850
Split Cherry Tree--Jesse Stuart, 3853
Spotted Horses--William Faulkner, 3857
Spring Victory--Jesse Stuart, 3860
Spunk--Zora Neale Hurston, 3863
Sredni Vashtar--Saki, 3866
Stalking--Joyce Carol Oates, 3869
The Star--Arthur C. Clarke, 3872
Star Food--Ethan Canin, 3875
*State of England--Martin Amis, 3878
The Station-Master--Alexander Pushkin, 3881
Steady Going Up--Maya Angelou, 3884
The Steppe--Anton Chekhov, 3887
A Stick of Green Candy--Jane Bowles, 3891
The Stone Boy--Gina Berriault, 3895
The Storm--Kate Chopin, 3898
A Story--Dylan Thomas, 3901
A Story by Maupassant--Frank O'Connor, 3904
The Story of an Hour--Kate Chopin, 3907
The Story of My Dovecot--Isaac Babel, 3910
The Story of Serapion--E. T. A. Hoffmann, 3914
The Storytellers--Fred Chappell, 3918
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes--Rudyard Kipling, 3921
The Street of Crocodiles--Bruno Schulz, 3924
Strong Horse Tea--Alice Walker, 3927
*Structural Anthropology--Adam Mars-Jones, 3930
*The Stucco House--Ellen Gilchrist, 3934
A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring--Alice Walker, 3937
The Suicide Club--Robert Louis Stevenson, 3940
Suicides--Cesare Pavese, 3945
The Suitor--Larry Woiwode, 3948
Summer Evening--Kay Boyle, 3951
Summer League--Danny Romero, 3954
Summer Night--Elizabeth Bowen, 3957
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse--William Saroyan, 3960
A Summer Tragedy--Arna Bontemps, 3963
A Summer's Reading--Bernard Malamud, 3966
Sun--D. H. Lawrence, 3969
Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn--Anatole Broyard, 3972
Sunday in the Park--Bel Kaufman, 3976
The Supper at Elsinore--Isak Dinesen, 3979
The Supremacy of the Hunza--Joanne Greenberg, 3982
Sur--Ursula K. Le Guin, 3985
Susanna at the Beach--Herbert Gold, 3989
Swaddling Clothes--Yukio Mishima, 3992
Sweat--Zora Neale Hurston, 3995
*The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong--Tim O'Brien, 3999
The Swimmer--John Cheever, 4003
The Swimmers--Joyce Carol Oates, 4006
Sylvie--Gérard de Nerval, 4009
The Symbol--Virginia Woolf, 4012
T
The Tables of the Law--William Butler Yeats, 4015
Take Pity--Bernard Malamud, 4020
*Taking Care--Joy Williams, 4023
The Tale--Joseph Conrad, 4026
Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta--Kate Braverman, 4029
*Talpa--Juan Rulfo, 4032
Tatuana's Tale--Miguel Ángel Asturias, 4035
Tears, Idle Tears--Elizabeth Bowen, 4038
Teenage Wasteland--Anne Tyler, 4041
Tell Me a Riddle--Tillie Olsen, 4044
*Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone--James Baldwin, 4048
The Tell-Tale Heart--Edgar Allan Poe, 4051
Tell Them Not to Kill Me!--Juan Rulfo, 4054
The Tender Shoot--Colette, 4057
Tennessee's Partner--Bret Harte, 4061
*Terrific Mother--Lorrie Moore, 4064
Territory--David Leavitt, 4067
Testimony of Pilot--Barry Hannah, 4070
Texts for Nothing 3--Samuel Beckett, 4073
Thank You, M'am--Langston Hughes, 4076
Thanksgiving Day--Susan Minot, 4078
That Evening Sun--William Faulkner, 4081
That in Aleppo Once--Vladimir Nabokov, 4085
Theater--Jean Toomer, 4088
Theft--Katherine Anne Porter, 4091
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero--Jorge Luis Borges, 4094
There Will Come Soft Rains--Ray Bradbury, 4097
*These Hands--Kevin Brockmeier, 4100
They--Rudyard Kipling, 4103
They Won't Crack It Open--Yong-Ik Kim, 4107
Thief--Robley Wilson, 4110
The Things They Carried--Tim O'Brien, 4113
*The Third and Final Continent--Jhumpa Lahiri, 4116
The Third Bank of the River--João Guimarães Rosa, 4119
The Third Prize--A. E. Coppard, 4122
This Indolence of Mine--Italo Svevo, 4125
*This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona--Sherman Alexie, 4128
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon--James Baldwin, 4132
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman--Tadeusz Borowski, 4135
The Three-Day Blow--Ernest Hemingway, 4138
Three Deaths--Leo Tolstoy, 4142
The Three Hermits--Leo Tolstoy, 4145
*The Three of Them--Edna Ferber, 4148
Three Players of a Summer Game--Tennessee Williams, 4151
*The Three Strangers--Thomas Hardy, 4154
Thrown Away--Rudyard Kipling, 4157
Tickets, Please--D. H. Lawrence, 4160
The Time of Her Time--Norman Mailer, 4163
Time the Tiger--Wyndham Lewis, 4166
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--Jorge Luis Borges, 4169
To Build a Fire--Jack London, 4173
To Hell with Dying--Alice Walker, 4177
To Room Nineteen--Doris Lessing, 4180
Toad's Mouth--Isabel Allende, 4183
Today Will Be a Quiet Day--Amy Hempel, 4186
Together and Apart--Virginia Woolf, 4189
Tommy--John Edgar Wideman, 4193
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth--John Updike, 4196
Tonio Kröger--Thomas Mann, 4199
*The Toughest Indian in the World--Sherman Alexie, 4203
Town and Country Lovers--Nadine Gordimer, 4206
The Town Poor--Sarah Orne Jewett, 4210
*Town Smokes--Pinckney Benedict, 4212
The Tractor--Peter Cowan, 4215
*Train--Joy Williams, 4218
The Train from Rhodesia--Nadine Gordimer, 4221
Traveler--Ellen Gilchrist, 4224
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.--Carson McCullers, 4227
The Tree of Knowledge--Henry James, 4230
A Tree of Night--Truman Capote, 4233
*Trick or Treat--Padgett Powell, 4236
A Trifling Occurrence--Anton Chekhov, 4239
*Trilobites--Breece D'J Pancake, 4244
Tristan--Thomas Mann, 4247
The Trout--Seán O'Faoláin, 4251
Truant--Claude McKay, 4254
*A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal--Daniel Defoe, 4257
A True Story--Mark Twain, 4260
The Trumpet--Walter de la Mare, 4263
Truth and Lies--Reynolds Price, 4266
Truth or Consequences--Alice Adams, 4269
*The Tumblers--Nathan Englander, 4272
*The Twenty-seventh Man--Nathan Englander, 4275
Twenty-six Men and a Girl--Maxim Gorky, 4279
Two Blue Birds--D. H. Lawrence, 4282
The Two Bottles of Relish--Lord Dunsany, 4285
*Two Brothers--Brian Evenson, 4289
The Two Drovers--Sir Walter Scott, 4292
The Two Elenas--Carlos Fuentes, 4295
Two Gallants--James Joyce, 4298
Two Kinds--Amy Tan, 4301
Two Little Soldiers--Guy de Maupassant, 4304
Two Lovely Beasts--Liam O'Flaherty, 4307
Typhoon--Joseph Conrad, 4310
U
*The Ugliest House in the World--Peter Ho Davies, 4314
The Ugliest Pilgrim--Doris Betts, 4317
Uncle--R. K. Narayan, 4320
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut--J. D. Salinger, 4324
Under a Glass Bell--Anaïs Nin, 4328
*Under the Banyan Tree--R. K. Narayan, 4331
*Under the Lion's Paw--Hamlin Garland, 4334
Under the Rose--Thomas Pynchon, 4337
The Unknown Masterpiece--Honoré de Balzac, 4340
Unmailed, Unwritten Letters--Joyce Carol Oates, 4343
*Unperformed Experiments Have No Results--Janette Turner Hospital, 4346
*An Unsound Sleep--Nhât Tiên, 4349
*Up Among the Eagles--Luisa Valenzuela, 4352
Up the Bare Stairs--Seán O'Faoláin, 4355
Upon the Sweeping Flood--Joyce Carol Oates, 4359
The Upturned Face--Stephen Crane, 4362
The Use of Force--William Carlos Williams, 4365
The Used-Boy Raisers--Grace Paley, 4368
V
The Valiant Woman--J. F. Powers, 4371
The Valley of Sin--Lee K. Abbott, 4374
The Vane Sisters--Vladimir Nabokov, 4377
Vanka--Anton Chekhov, 4381
The Veldt--Ray Bradbury, 4384
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time--Peter Taylor, 4387
*Verona--Harold Brodkey, 4390
The Vertical Ladder--William Sansom, 4393
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings--Gabriel García Márquez, 4397
The Very Thing That Happens--Russell Edson, 4400
Victory over Japan--Ellen Gilchrist, 4403
Victrola--Wright Morris, 4406
Views of My Father Weeping--Donald Barthelme, 4409
*A Village Singer--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 4412
Villon's Wife--Osamu Dazai, 4415
A Visit of Charity--Eudora Welty, 4418
A Visit to Grandmother--William Melvin Kelley, 4421
The Visitor--Russell Banks, 4424
Viy--Nikolai Gogol, 4427
W
The Wait--Rick Bass, 4431
Waiting--Joyce Carol Oates, 4434
Wakefield--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 4437
The Walk--José Donoso, 4441
The Walk--Robert Walser, 4444
*A Walk in the Sun--Geoffrey A. Landis, 4448
*Walker Brothers Cowboy--Alice Munro, 4451
The Wall--William Sansom, 4454
The Wall--Jean-Paul Sartre, 4457
Walter Briggs--John Updike, 4460
Waltz of the Fat Man--Alberto Ríos, 4464
The Wanderers--Alun Lewis, 4467
*Wandering Willie's Tale--Sir Walter Scott, 4470
War--Luigi Pirandello, 4473
Ward No. 6--Anton Chekhov, 4477
The Warrior Princess Ozimba--Reynolds Price, 4480
Wash--William Faulkner, 4483
The Watch--Rick Bass, 4487
The Watcher--Italo Calvino, 4490
*Water Liars--Barry Hannah, 4495
*A Way of Talking--Patricia Grace, 4499
Way Stations--Harriet Doerr, 4502
The Way We Live Now--Susan Sontag, 4505
*We Blacks All Drink Coffee--Mirta Yáñez, 4508
Wedding Night--Tommaso Landolfi, 4512
Welcome to Utah--Michel Butor, 4515
*Welding with Children--Tim Gautreaux, 4518
A Wet Day--Mary Lavin, 4521
Wet Saturday--John Collier, 4524
What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?--Joyce Carol Oates, 4527
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--Raymond Carver, 4530
What You Hear from 'Em?--Peter Taylor, 4533
When I Was Thirteen--Denton Welch, 4536
When the Light Gets Green--Robert Penn Warren, 4539
*When We Were Wolves--Jon Billman, 4543
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?--Joyce Carol Oates, 4546
*Where Is the Voice Coming From?--Eudora Welty, 4549
*Where Is the Voice Coming From?--Rudy Wiebe, 4552
*Where the Jackals Howl--Amos Oz, 4555
*White Angel--Michael Cunningham, 4559
A White Heron--Sarah Orne Jewett, 4562
*A White Horse--Thom Jones, 4565
The White Horses of Vienna--Kay Boyle, 4568
White Nights--Fyodor Dostoevski, 4572
*White Rat--Gayl Jones, 4575
The White Stocking--D. H. Lawrence, 4578
A Whole Loaf--Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 4582
The Whore of Mensa--Woody Allen, 4586
Why Can't They Tell You Why?--James Purdy, 4589
Why Don't You Dance?--Raymond Carver, 4592
Why I Live at the P.O.--Eudora Welty, 4595
Wicked Girl--Isabel Allende, 4598
The Wide Net--Eudora Welty, 4601
*The Widow--Beth Lordan, 4604
The Widow's Son--Mary Lavin, 4607
The Wife of His Youth--Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 4610
A Wife's Story--Bharati Mukherjee, 4613
Wild Swans--Alice Munro, 4616
*Wildgoose Lodge--William Carleton, 4620
The Will--Mary Lavin, 4623
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?--Raymond Carver, 4626
William Wilson--Edgar Allan Poe, 4629
Willis Carr at Bleak House--David Madden, 4632
The Willows--Algernon Blackwood, 4635
The Wind and the Snow of Winter--Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 4638
Winter Dreams--F. Scott Fitzgerald, 4641
Winter Night--Kay Boyle, 4645
Winter: 1978--Ann Beattie, 4647
Wireless--Rudyard Kipling, 4651
The Wish House--Rudyard Kipling, 4655
Wissler Remembers--Richard G. Stern, 4659
Witch's Money--John Collier, 4662
Within and Without--Hermann Hesse, 4665
The Witness--Ann Petry, 4669
The Woman at the Store--Katherine Mansfield, 4672
*Woman Hollering Creek--Sandra Cisneros, 4675
A Woman on a Roof--Doris Lessing, 4678
The Woman Who Rode Away--D. H. Lawrence, 4681
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story--Joel Chandler Harris, 4684
The Wondersmith--Fitz-James O'Brien, 4687
Work--David Plante, 4692
The World According to Hsü--Bharati Mukherjee, 4695
A World Ends--Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 4699
The World of Apples--John Cheever, 4702
The World of Stone--Tadeusz Borowski, 4705
A Worn Path--Eudora Welty, 4709
Wrack--Donald Barthelme, 4712
Wunderkind--Carson McCullers, 4715
X
Y
The Year of the Hot Jock--Irvin Faust, 4719
The Yellow Wallpaper--Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 4722
Yellow Woman--Leslie Marmon Silko, 4725
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy--Isaac Bashevis Singer, 4729
Yermolai and the Miller's Wife--Ivan Turgenev, 4732
*You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town--Zoë Wicomb, 4735
Young Archimedes--Aldous Huxley, 4738
Young Goodman Brown--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 4741
*You're Ugly Too--Lorrie Moore, 4745
Youth--Joseph Conrad, 4748
Z
The Zulu and the Zeide--Dan Jacobson, 4751
Glossary, 4754
Bibliography, 4769
Chronological List of Titles, 4797
Title Index, CXCIX
Author Index, CCXXV
Geographical Index, CCLI
Type of Plot Index, CCXCI