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I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot Character Setting Point of view Theme Symbol and allegory Style and tone. -- Stories. My kinsman, Major Molineux Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall of the House of Usher Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) The necklace / Guy de Maupassant The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy The adventure of the speckled band / Athur Conan Doyle The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The blue hotel / Stephen Crane The darling / Anton Chekhov Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad The tree of knowledge / Henry james Araby / James Joyce I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The fly / Katherine Mansfield Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway A rose for Emily Barn burning / William Faulkner Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty Th

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