
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
William FaulknerMark TwainRing LardnerIsaac BabelAmbrose BierceErnest HemingwayFrancis ParkmanJohn CheeverD. H. LawrencePeter QuennellSaul BellowSherwood AndersonLuigi PirandelloGuy de MaupassantStephen CraneO. HenryFrank O'ConnorJames JoyceColetteF. Scott FitzgeraldAngus WilsonCleanth BrooksEudora WeltyKatherine Anne PorterCaroline GordonJohn CollierJoseph ConradAlbert CamusIrwin ShawChristopher SykesBret HarteJesse StuartHonoré de BalzacDylan ThomasMary Mc CarthyWilliam SansomIsak DinesenThomas WolfeJames Purdy - undifferentiatedCarson McCullersMarcel AyméRudyard KiplingАнтон Павлович ЧеховRay BradburyFlannery O'ConnorRobert Penn WarrenShirley JacksonKatherine MansfieldDino BuzzatiThomas MannJames ThurberHanson Weightman BaldwinTruman CapoteFranz Kafka
First published 1959
About this book
The Attack on the Fort
Sir Tatton Sykes
Captain Isaiah Sellers
Lady Blessington
RMS. Titanic
The Man Who Would Be King
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Lottery
The Girls in Their Sunnner Dresses
The Furnished Room
De Mortuis
The Necklace
[Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)
A Piece of Neus
I See You Never
Haircut
Crossing into Poland
War
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Tennessee's Partner
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W)
The Drunkard
The Lament
Tickets, Please
Eventide
Old Red
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment
A Domestic Dilennna
Christ in Flanders
Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book
Love
The Killers
The Fly
I Want to Knou Why
The Adulterous Woman
[A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In the Penal Colony
Through the Quinquina Glass
The Bitch
A Father-to-Be
The Fight
The Far and the Near
The Sensible Thing
A Christmas Memory
Realpolitik
The Sailor Boy's Tale
Amy Foster
The Killing of the Dragon
Dermuche
Disorder and Early Sorro•-w
No Place for You, My Love
1 Write
Goodbye, My Brother
What Happened
Noon Wine
Blackberry Winter
Subjects
History and criticismShort storiesFictiontraditionchangedeathallegorynonlinear narrativegentleman's agreementsreclusesMentally ill womenHistoryClassic LiteratureJuvenile audiencecivil warhangingAmerican Civil War