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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Art of the Short Story | |
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| Stories | |
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| Dead Men's Path | |
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| Author's Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture | |
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| Hands | |
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| Author's Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story | |
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| Happy Endings | |
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| Author's Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity | |
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| Sonny's Blues | |
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| Author's Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer | |
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| The Garden of Forking Paths | |
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| Author's Perspective: Borges on Literature as Experience | |
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| The Guest | |
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| Author's Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria | |
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| Cathedral | |
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| A Small Good Thing | |
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| Author's Perspective: Carver on Commonplace but Precise Language | |
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| Paul's Case | |
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| Author's Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification | |
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| The Swimmer | |
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| Author's Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories | |
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| The Lady with the Pet Dog | |
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| Misery | |
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| Author's Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and "The Center of Gravity." | |
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| The Storm | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| Author's Perspective: Chopin on Her Writing Method | |
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| Barbie-Q | |
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| Author's Perspective: Cisneros on Style | |
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| The Secret Sharer | |
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| Author's Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art | |
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| The Open Boat | |
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| Author's Perspective: Crane on The Sinking of the Commodore | |
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| A Party Down at the Square | |
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| Author's Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction | |
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| Barn Burning | |
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| A Rose for Emily | |
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| Author's Perspective: Faulkner on The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself | |
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| Babylon Revisited | |
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| Author's Perspective: Fitzgerald on His Own Literary Aims | |
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| A Simple Heart | |
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| Author's Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style | |
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| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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| Author's Perspective: Garc�a M�rquez on His Beginnings as a Writer | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| Author's Perspective: Gilman on Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper." | |
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| The Overcoat | |
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| Author's Perspective: Gogol on Realism | |
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| A Company of Laughing Faces | |
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| Author's Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel | |
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| Young Goodman Brown | |
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| The Birthmark | |
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| Author's Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories | |
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| A Clean Well-Lighted Place | |
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| Author's Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence | |
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| Sweat | |
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| Author's Perspective: Hurston on Eatonville When You Look at It | |
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| The Lottery | |
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| Author's Perspective: Jackson on the Public Reception of the Lottery | |
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| The Real Thing | |
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| Author's Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness | |
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| Saboteur | |
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| Author's Perspective: Jin on sources of His Fiction | |
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| The Dead | |
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| Araby | |
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| Author's Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies | |
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| Before the Law | |
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| The Metamorphosis | |
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| Author's Perspective: Kafka on Discussing "The Metamorphosis." | |
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| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
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| Odour of Chrysanthemums | |
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| Author's Perspective: Lawrence on the Novel Is the Bright Book of Life | |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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| Author's Perspective: Le Guin on "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." | |
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| A Woman on a Roof | |
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| Author's Perspective: Lessing on "My Beginnings as a Writer." | |
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| To Build A Fire | |
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| Author's Perspective: London Defending the Factuality of "To Build a Fire." | |
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| The Garden-Party | |
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| Miss Brill | |
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| Author's Perspective: Mansfield on "The Garden-Party." | |
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| Shiloh | |
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| Author's Perspective: Mason on Minimalist Fiction | |
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| The Necklace | |
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| Author's Perspective: Maupassant on the Realist Method | |
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| Bartleby, the Scrivener | |
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| Author's Perspective: Melville on Hawthorne and American Literature | |
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| Patriotism | |
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| Author's Perspective: Mishima on the Japanese Code | |
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| How I Met My Husband | |
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| Author's Perspective: Munro on How I Write Short Stories | |
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| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
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| Author's Perspective: Oates on Productivity and the Critics | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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| Revelation | |
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| Author's Perspective: O'Connor on the Element of Suspense in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." | |
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| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
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| The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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| Author's Perspective: Poe on the Tale and Its Effect | |
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| Flowering Judas | |
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| Author's Perspective: Porter on Writing Short Stories | |
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| The Man to Send Rain Clouds | |
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| Author's Perspective: Silko on the Basis of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." | |
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| Gimpel the Fool | |
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| Author's Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel | |
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| The Death of Ivan Ilych | |
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| Author's Perspective: Tolstoy on the Moral Responsibilities of Art | |
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| Separating | |
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| Author's Perspective: Updike on Why Write? | |
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| Everyday Use | |
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| Author's Perspective: Walker on the Black Woman Writer in America | |
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| Why I Live at the P.O | |
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| Author's Perspective: Welty on the Plot of the Short Story | |
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| Roman Fever | |
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| Author's Perspective: Wharton on the Subject of Short Stories | |
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| A Haunted House | |
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| Author's Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction | |
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| Writing | |
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| The Elements of Short Fiction | |
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| Plot | |
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| Characterization | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Setting | |
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| Theme | |
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| Style | |
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| Writing about Fiction | |
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| Critical Approaches to Fiction | |
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| Formalist Criticism | |
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| Light and Darkness in "Sonny's Blues." | |
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| Biographical Criticism | |
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| Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Love | |
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| Historical Criticism | |
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| The Argentinean Context of Borges's Fantastic Fiction | |
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| Psychological Criticism | |
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| The Father-Figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart." | |
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| Mythological Criticism | |
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| Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning." | |
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| Sociological Criticism | |
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| Money and Labor in "The Rocking-Horse Winner." | |
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| Gender Criticism | |
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| Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper." | |
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| Reader-Response Criticism | |
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| An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily." | |
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| Deconstructionist Criticism | |
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| The Death of the Author | |
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| Cultural Studies | |
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| What is Cultural Studies? | |
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| Glossary Of Literary Terms | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories | |
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| Listing of Authors with Second Story | |
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| Carver, A Small, Good Thing | |
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| Chekhov, Misery | |
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| Chopin, The Story of an Hour | |
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| Faulkner, A Rose for Emily | |
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| Hawthorne, The Birthmark | |
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| Joyce, Araby | |
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| Kafka, Before the Law | |
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| Lawrence, The Odour of Chrysanthemums | |
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| Mansfield, Miss Brill | |
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| O'Connor, Revelation | |
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| Poe, The Fallof the House of Usher | |