Preface

A Brief History of Short Fiction

The Elements of Short Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Sarah Orne Jewett

A White Heron

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Sherwood Anderson

Death in the Woods

James Joyce

Araby

Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens

Franz Kafka

A Country Doctor

Isak Dinesen

The Blue Jar

David Herbert Lawrence

The Horse-Dealer's Daughter

Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party

Katherine Anne Porter

Theft

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

Ernest Hemingway

Hills like White Elephants

Vladimir Nabokov

Signs and Symbols

Eudora Welty

A Worn Path

John Cheever

The Enormous Radio

Doris Lessing

Through the Tunnel

Gabriel García Márquez

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

References