The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition

Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood My first goose / Isaac Babel Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Lost in the funhouse / John Barth The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme Janus / Ann Beattie [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski The eye / Paul Bowles Black boy / Kay Boyle Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio The guest / Albert Camus The erl-king / Angela Carter Cathedral / Raymond Carver Errand / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever The darling / Anton Chekhov The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt [Désirée's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) / Kate Chopin [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Axolotl / Julio Cortázar The open boat / Stephen Crane The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert 1933 / Mavis Gallant A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne Life / Bessie Head Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston The lottery / Shirley Jackson The beast in the jungle / Henry James A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Braids / David Leavitt The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant [Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro Heat / Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Good country people / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor In the shadow of war / Ben Okri I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The shawl / Cynthia Ozick A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allen Poe [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe He / Katherine Anne Porter A great day / Frank Sargeson Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer Long distance / Jane Smiley The way we live now / Susan Sontag The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Two kinds / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber Night / Tatyana Tolstaya The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Roselily / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty A worn path / Eudora Welty Roman fever / Edith Wharton The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf Say yes / Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto