Classic Short Stories:

The Best from the Masters of the Genre

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· Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

· A Story of Ravenna

· Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)

· The Spanish-English Lady

· E. T. A. Hoffman (1776-1822)

· The Cremona Violin

· Washington Irving (1783-1859)

· Governor Manco and the Soldier

· The Stout Gentleman

· The Adventure of the German Student

· The Specter Bridegroom

· 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)

· Fanny McDermot

· James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

· The Lake Gun

· John Polidori (1795-1821)

· The Vampyre

· Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

· The Mortal Immortal

· Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

· La Grande Breteche

· The Red Inn

· The Atheist's Mass

· Alexander Pushkin(1799-1837)

· The Queen of Spades

· Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

· Zodmirsky's Duel

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

· Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

· A Fight with a Cannon

· Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

· Slavery's Pleasant Homes

· The Quadroons

· Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

· My Kinsman, Major Molineux

· Young Goodman Brown

· The Birth-mark

· Rappaccini’s Daughter

· The Minister’s Black Veil

· The May-Pole of Merry Mount

· The Snow-Image

· Lady Eleanore's Mantle

· Alice Doan's Appeal

· Ethan Brand

· Wakefield

· The Gentle Boy

· Endicott and the Red Cross

· Feathertop

· The Gray Champion

· The Great Carbuncle

· The Great Stone Face

· The Ambitious Guest

· The Wives of the Dead

· Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

· The Overcoat

· Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

· The Murders in the Rue Morgue

· The Gold-Bug

· The Tell-Tale Heart

· The Cask of Amontillado

· Ligeia

· The Black Cat

· MS. Found in a Bottle

· The Fall of the House of Usher

· 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)

· The Manchester Marriage

· Half-Brothers

· The Old Nurse's Story

· Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

· The Ghost in the Mill

· Miss Asphyxia

· Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

· The Schoolboy's Story

· A Christmas Carol

· Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)

· Dickon the Devil

· The Murdered Cousin

· Squire Toby's Will

· Laura Silver Bell

· An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

· Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

· The Angel Over the Right Shoulder

· Calico

· Night-Watchers

· Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)

· The Big Bear of Arkansas

· Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

· Yermolai and the Miller's Wife

· George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] (1819-1880)

· Brother Jacob

· Herman Melville (1819-1891)

· The Lightning-Rod Man

· The Piazza

· Bartleby, the Scrivener

· Billy Budd, Foretopman

· I and My Chimney

· Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

· The Thief

· Notes From Underground

· Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

· A Simple Heart

· Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902)

· Lemorne Versus Huell

· Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

· A Terribly Strange Bed

· Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)

· The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter

· Love in a Garden

· Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

· The Two Offers

· Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

· Miss Lucinda

· Dely's Cow

· About Dolly

· Grit

· Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862)

· What Was It? Good Choice!!!!!

· My Wife's Tempter

· The Diamond Lens

· The Golden Ingot

· The Wondersmith

· The Child Who Loved A Grave

· Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

· The Death of Ivan Ilych

· How Much Land Does a Man Need?

· Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)

· Krambambuli

· Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)

· The Phantom Coach

· The Four-Fifteen Express

· Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

· Life in the Iron-Mills

· The Wife's Story

· Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

· Transcendental Wild Oats

· How I Went Out to Service

· The Blue and the Gray

· A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe

· Frank Stockton (1834-1902)

· The Lady or the Tiger

· The Griffin and the Minor Canon

· The Widow's Cruise

· My Unwilling Neighbor

· A Piece of Red Calico

· Love Before Breakfast

· Captain Eli's Best Ear

· The Christmas Wreck

· Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

· Circumstance

· Moonstone Mass

· In a Cellar

· The Mad Lady

· The Nemesis of Motherhood

· Mark Twain (1835-1910)

· 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

· The Mysterious Stranger

· The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

· Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

· Marjorie Daw

· Quite So

· Bret Harte (1836-1902)

· The Iliad of Sandy Bar

· The Luck of Roaring Camp

· Tennessee’s Partner

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat

· The Idyll of Red Gulch

· William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

· Editha

· Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889)

· The Torture of Hope

· Vera

· Olympe and Henrietta

· The Desire to be a Man

· Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

· The Last Lesson

· Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

· Peter, the Parson

· Felipa

· Miss Grief

· Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

· Squire Petrick's Lady

· An Imaginative Woman

· The Grave by the Handpost

· Old Mrs Chundle Good Choice!!!!!

· Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)

· Cavalleria Rusticana

· The Saint Joseph's Ass

· Emile Zola (1840-1902)

· The Death of Olivier Becaille

· Rentafoil

· Big Michu

· W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)

· Story of a Piebald Horse

· Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

· The Damned Thing

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

· One of the Missing

· One Summer Night

· A Horseman in the Sky

· What I Saw of Shiloh

· George Thurston

· Killed at Resaca

· Chickamauga

· Henry James (1843-1916)

· The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux

· Daisy Miller: A Study

· The Beast in the Jungle

· The Great Good Place

· The Story in it

· The Real Thing

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

· The Procurator of Judea

· The Mass of Shadows

· George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

· Belles Demoiselles Plantation

· Café des Exilés

· "Posson Jone'"

· Jean-ah Poquelin

· 'Tite Poulette

· 'Sieur George

· Madame Délicieuse

· Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

· Dracula's Guest

· The Secret of the Growing Gold

· Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)

· Maverick

· Friend Barton's Concern

· Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

· Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby

· Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

· A White Heron

· Miss Tempy's Watchers

· The Hiltons' Holiday

· The Foreigner

· The Flight of Betsey Lane

· Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

· Markheim

· The Bottle Imp

· The Body-Snatcher

· Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

· The Necklace

· The Jewels of M. Lantin

· The Trip of the Horla

· The Grave

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

· The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove

· Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939)

· A Marriage

· The Death Mask

· Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

· 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

· A Night in Acadie

· Désirée's Baby

· Ripe Figs

· Madame Célestin's Divorce

· Grace King (1852-1932)

· The Little Convent Girl

· La Grande Demoiselle

· Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

· The Revolt of "Mother"

· A New England Nun

· A Church Mouse

· Old Woman Magoun

· The Lost Ghost

· A Mistaken Charity

· One Good Time

· Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

· Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

· The Canterville Ghost

· Harold Frederic (1856-1898)

· The Eve of the Fourth

· George Gissing (1857-1903)

· The Foolish Virgin

· Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

· The Lagoon

· The Inn of the Two Witches—A Find

· Youth

· The Secret Sharer

· Heart of Darkness

· Charles A. Eastman (1858-1939)

· The Madness of Bald Eagle

· Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)

· The Sheriff's Children

· The Goophered Grapevine

· Po' Sandy

· Dave's Neckliss

· The Wife of His Youth

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

· Wedlock

· A Little Grey Glove Good Choice!!!!!

· Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

· A Scandal in Bohemia

· The Red-Headed League

· A Case of Identity

· The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

· The Adventure of the Speckled Band

· The Final Problem

· The Adventure of the Empty House

· The Parasite

· Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

· The Darling

· Misery Good Choice!!!!!

· The Lady with the Dog

· About Love

· Anna on the Neck

· Gooseberries

· The Grasshopper

· Gusev

· The Huntsman

· The Kiss

· The Teacher of Literature

· The Man in a Case

· The Party

· Peasants

· Oh! the Public

· In the Ravine

· Sleepy

· Small Fry

· The Student

· Vanka

· Ward No. 6

· Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

· Under the Lion's Paw

· The Return of a Private

· Up the Coulee

· A Branch Road

· Among the Corn Rows

· The Creamery Man

· Uncle Ethan Ripley

· A "Good Fellow's" Wife

· A Day's Pleasure

· God's Ravens

· Mrs. Ripley's Trip

· Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

· The Yellow Wall-Paper

· Turned

· M. R. James (1862-1936)

· "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"

· Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

· Roman Fever

· Souls Belated

· The Other Two

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

· The Whirligig of Life

· The Cop and the Anthem

· The Gift of the Magi

· A Municipal Report

· The Caballero's Way

· Buried Treasure

· The Ransom of Red Chief

· Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)

· Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper

· W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)

· The Money-Box

· Jerry Bundler

· The Changeling

· Angels' Visits

· In the Family

· Low Water

· A Circular Tour

· The Rival Beauties

· The Monkey's Paw

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

· Three Elephant Power

· His Masterpiece

· White-when-he's-wanted

· Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)

· How Hefty Burke Got Even

· The Nature Faker

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

· 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)

· The Jilting of Jane

· The Magic Shop

· The Country of the Blind

· The Door in the Wall

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

· War Good Choice!!!!!

· Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

· The Drover's Wife

· The Golden Graveyard

· The Hairy Man

· The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife

· In a Wet Season

· Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

· Twenty-Six Men and a Girl

· Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916)

· The Lumber-Room

· Gabriel-Ernest

· Tobermory

· The Open Window

· The Cobweb

· The Story-Teller

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

· Two Hanged Women

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

· The Gentleman from San Francisco

· Frank Norris (1870-1902)

· Fantaisie Printaniere

· The Ship That Saw a Ghost

· 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)

· An Experiment in Misery Good Choice!!!!!

· The Open Boat

· 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

· The Pace Of Youth

· Three Miraculous Soldiers

· One Dash-Horses

· The Mesmeric Mountain

· Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

· Old Rogaum and His Theresa

· Married

· The Lost Phoebe

· Ida Hauchawout Good Choice!!!!!

· Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

· The Lynching of Jube Benson

· Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

· The Shadowy Third

· The Past

· Willa Cather (1873-1947)

· Jack-a-Boy

· The Burgler's Christmas

· Paul's Case

· On the Divide

· Lou, the Prophet

· The Enchanted Bluff

· The Affair at Grover Station

· Neighbour Rosicky

· The Bohemian Girl

· On the Gull's Road

· G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

· The Blue Cross

· W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

· In a Strange Land

· Mackintosh

· The Lotus Eater

· Rain

· Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

· The Good Anna

· Melanctha

· Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

· The Treasure Ship

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

· Tonio Kroger

· The Infant Prodigy

· Disorder and Early Sorrow

· Death in Venice

· Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

· Sister Josepha

· Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

· A Jury of Her Peers

· Jack London (1876-1916)

· The Mexican

· The Heathen

· The Seed of McCoy

· South of the Slot

· To Build a Fire

· The Law of Life

· In a Far Country

· All Gold Canyon

· The White Silence

· Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

· I'm a Fool

· Seeds

· 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

· Hands

· Mother

· Adventure

· William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)

· The Voice in the Night

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

· Within and Without

· In the Old "Sun"

· A.E. Coppard (1878-1957)

· Broadsheet Ballad Good Choice!!!!!

· The Higgler

· Arabesque: The Mouse

· The Hurly-Burly

· E.M. Forster (1879-1970)

· The Road from Colonus

· Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties

· Mr. Andrews

· The Eternal Moment

· The Story of the Siren

· James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

· Porcelain Cups

· Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

· A Drop in the Bucket

· The Artist

· Horacio Quiroga (1879-1937)

· The Feather Pillow

· Damon Runyon (1880-1946)

· The Bloodhounds of Broadway

· Blood Pressure

· A Piece of Pie Good Choice!!!!!

· Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)

· The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit

· P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

· Uncle Fred Flits By

· James Joyce (1882-1941)

· Araby

· The Sisters

· Eveline

· A Little Cloud

· Counterparts

· Clay

· The Dead

· Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

· Kew Gardens

· The Duchess and the Jeweller

· Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

· The Metamorphosis

· A Hunger Artist

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

· Dreaming Child

· The Ring

· The Pearls

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

· Moths in the Arc Light

· 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)

· The Man Who Loved Islands

· Two Bluebirds

· Love Among the Haystacks

· The Horse Dealer's Daughter

· The Thorn in the Flesh

· The Shades of Spring

· The Christening

· Odour of Chrysanthemums

· The White Stocking

· The Prussian Officer

· Daughters of the Vicar

· Adolf

· Monkey Nuts

· Rex

· The Rocking-Horse Winner

· Ring Lardner (1885-1933)

· I Can't Breathe

· My Roomy

· Alibi Ike

· Haircut

· Carmen

· The Golden Honeymoon

· Horseshoes

· The Water Cure

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

· Thérèse and the Doctor

· Edna Ferber (1887-1968)

· April 25th, As Usual

· Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

· Killer in the Rain

· Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

· The Stranger

· Miss Brill

· The Garden-Party

· The Doll's House

· The Fly

· Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

· Silent Snow, Secret Snow

· Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

· The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

· He

· The Old Order

· Flowering Judas

· Theft

· Rope

· Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

· Sweat

· The Gilded Six-Bits

· Story in Harlem Slang

· Spunk

· Black Death

· Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

· Sanctuary

· Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)

· In a Grove

· J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

· Leaf by Niggle

· Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)

· The Phoenix Good Choice!!!!!

· Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

· You Were Perfectly Fine

· A Telephone Call

· Big Blonde

· Travelogue

· The Last Tea

· Arrangement in Black and White

· Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

· Blood-Burning Moon

· Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

· Nightmare Town

· Ruffian's Wife

· The Man Who Killed Dan Odams

· Night Shots

· The Assistant Murderer

· Death on Pine Street

· The Second-Story Angel

· Afraid of a Gun

· One Hour

· Who Killed Bob Teal?

· Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

· The Gioconda Smile

· The Tillotson Banquet

· Nuns at Luncheon Good Choice!!!!!

· James Thurber (1894-1961)

· The Catbird Seat

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

· Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)

· The Sniper

· The Inquisition

· The Reaping Race

· The Challenge

· F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

· The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

· The Offshore Pirate

· The Jelly-bean

· The Baby Party

· The Rich Boy

· Babylon Revisited

· Winter Dreams

· A Short Trip Home

· An Alcoholic Case

· Crazy Sunday

· The Rough Crossing

· Design in Plaster

· Two for a Cent

· A Man in the Way

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

· A Rose for Emily

· Lucas Beauchamp

· Barn Burning

· That Evening Sun Go Down

· Wash

· Dry September

· Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)

· The Devil and Daniel Webster

· By the Waters of Babylon

· Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

· The Man on the Threshold

· Death and the Compass

· The Garden of Forking Paths

· Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1968

· The Jay

· Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

· The Easter Egg Party

· The Demon Lover

· Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

· First Love

· "That in Aleppo Once . . ."

· Sounds

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

· The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio

· 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

· Big Two-Hearted River: Part I

· Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

· Cat in the Rain

· The Killers

· Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

· The Lost Boy

· His Father’s Earth

· Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

· Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991)

· Fugue

· V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997)

· The Saint

· Blind Love

· Katherine Brush (1902-1952)

· Night Club

· Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

· Convalescence

· Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

· Thank You, Ma'm

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

· The Chrysanthemums

· Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

· Love Among the Ruins

· Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)

· First Confession

· The Drunkard

· My Oedipus Complex

· Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)

· The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored

· Yellow Girl

· The Strawberry Season

· Kneel to the Rising Sun

· Saturday Afternoon

· Graham Greene (1904-1991)

· The Destructors

· The Hint of an Explanation

· I Spy

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

· The Spinoza of Market Street

· The Washwoman

· Gimpel the Fool

· Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)

· 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

· The Wall

· Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)

· A Man Called Horse

· R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)

· An Astrologer's Day

· Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

· They

· Louis L’Amour (1908-1988)

· Trap of Gold

· Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

· Why I Live at the P.O.

· Petrified Man

· A Curtain of Green

· The Hitch-Hikers

· A Worn Path

· Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

· The Eye Good Choice!!!!!

· Jack Finney (1911-1995)

· Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets

· Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

· The Yellow Bird

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

· The Norwegian Rat

· Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)

· I Stand Here Ironing

· John Cheever (1912-1982)

· The Swimmer

· Clementina

· The Enormous Radio

· Goodbye, My Brother

· The Five-Forty-Eight

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

· The Guest

· Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)

· Axolotl

· Blowup

· The Night Face Up

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

· My Life with the Wave

· The Blue Bouquet

· Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

· Battle Royal

· Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

· The Magic Barrel

· The Jewbird

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

· A Silver Dish

· Leaving the Yellow House

· Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)

· The Lottery

· Charles

· One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts

· Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

· Wunderkind

· The Sojourner

· A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.

· The Jockey

· A Domestic Dilemma

· Peter Taylor (1917-1994)

· A Spinster’s Tale

· Es'Kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)

· Mrs. Plum

· Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

· The Evitable Conflict

· Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994)

· My First and Most Beloved Friend Good Choice!!!!!

· Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)

· The Bracelet

· Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)

· Harrison Bergeron

· Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951)

· This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

· Italo Calvino (1923-1985)

· The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man

· The Adventure of a Photographer

· The Adventure of a Poet

· Truman Capote (1924-1984)

· A Christmas Memory

· Miriam

· Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994)

· Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu

· Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

· 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)

· Fountains in the Rain

· Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

· The King of the Elves

· John Updike (1932-2009)

· Pigeon Feathers Good Choice!!!!!

· A & P

· Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)

· The Lesson

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