Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
by Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle
Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson -- Rape fantasies / M. Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / I. Babel -- Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin -- The lesson / T.C. Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth -- A city of churches / D. Barthelme -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce -- Like a bad dream / H. Böll -- The end of the duel / J.L. Borges -- Cathedral / R. Carver -- Paul's case / W. Cather -- The enormous radio ; The swimmer / J. Cheever -- The darling ; Gooseberies ; The lady with the dog / A. Chekhov -- The story of an hour / K. Chopin -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / S. Clemens (M. Twain) -- The secret sharer / J. Conrad -- The magic poker / R. Coover ; The blue hotel ; The open boat / S. Crane ; The way up to heaven / R. Dahl -- The red-headed league / A.C. Doyle -- The doctor / A. Dubus -- King of the bingo game / R. Ellison -- Dry September ; A rose for Emily ; That evening sun / W. Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tuesday siesta / G.G. Márquez ; The yellow wallpaper / C.P. Gilman -- The overcoat / N. Gogol -- T
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