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