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Classic Short Stories:
The Best from the Masters of the GenreFor educational purposes only, for students and writers of all ages.
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)o A Story of Ravenna
Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
o The Spanish-English Lady
E. T. A. Hoffman (1776-1822)
o The Cremona Violin
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
o Governor Manco and the Soldier
o The Stout Gentleman
o The Adventure of the German Student
o The Specter Bridegroom
o Rip Van Winkle
o The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
o The Widow and Her Son
o The Devil and Tom Walker Good Choice!!!!!
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
o Fanny McDermot
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
o The Lake Gun
John Polidori (1795-1821)
o The Vampyre
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
o The Mortal Immortal
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
o La Grande Breteche
o The Red Inn
o The Atheist's Mass
Alexander Pushkin(1799-1837)
o The Queen of Spades
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
o Zodmirsky's Duel
o Solange: Dr. Ledru’s Story of the Reign of Terror
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
o A Fight with a Cannon
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
o Slavery's Pleasant Homes
o The Quadroons
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
o My Kinsman, Major Molineux
o Young Goodman Brown
o The Birth-mark
o Rappaccini’s Daughter
o The Minister’s Black Veil
o The May-Pole of Merry Mount
o The Snow-Image
o Lady Eleanore's Mantle
o Alice Doan's Appeal
o Ethan Brand
o Wakefield
o The Gentle Boy
o Endicott and the Red Cross
o Feathertop
o The Gray Champion
o The Great Carbuncle
o The Great Stone Face
o The Ambitious Guest
o The Wives of the Dead
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
o The Overcoat
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
o The Murders in the Rue Morgue
o The Gold-Bug
o The Tell-Tale Heart
o The Cask of Amontillado
o Ligeia
o The Black Cat
o MS. Found in a Bottle
o The Fall of the House of Usher
o The Masque of the Red Death
o The Purloined Letter
o William Wilson
o The Pit and the Pendulum
o The Imp of the Perverse
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
o The Manchester Marriage
o Half-Brothers
o The Old Nurse's Story
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
o The Ghost in the Mill
o Miss Asphyxia
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
o The Schoolboy's Story
o A Christmas Carol
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
o Dickon the Devil
o The Murdered Cousin
o Squire Toby's Will
o Laura Silver Bell
o An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)
o The Angel Over the Right Shoulder
o Calico
o Night-Watchers
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)
o The Big Bear of Arkansas
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
o Yermolai and the Miller's Wife
George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] (1819-1880)
o Brother Jacob
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
o The Lightning-Rod Man
o The Piazza
o Bartleby, the Scrivener
o Billy Budd, Foretopman
o I and My Chimney
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
o The Thief
o Notes From Underground
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
o A Simple Heart
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902)
o Lemorne Versus Huell
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
o A Terribly Strange Bed
Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
o The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter
o Love in a Garden
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
o The Two Offers
Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
o Miss Lucinda
o Dely's Cow
o About Dolly
o Grit
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862)
o What Was It? Good Choice!!!!!
o My Wife's Tempter
o The Diamond Lens
o The Golden Ingot
o The Wondersmith
o The Child Who Loved A Grave
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
o The Death of Ivan Ilych
o How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
o Krambambuli
Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
o The Phantom Coach
o The Four-Fifteen Express
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
o Life in the Iron-Mills
o The Wife's Story
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
o Transcendental Wild Oats
o How I Went Out to Service
o The Blue and the Gray
o A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe
Frank Stockton (1834-1902)
o The Lady or the Tiger
o The Griffin and the Minor Canon
o The Widow's Cruise
o My Unwilling Neighbor
o A Piece of Red Calico
o Love Before Breakfast
o Captain Eli's Best Ear
o The Christmas Wreck
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
o Circumstance
o Moonstone Mass
o In a Cellar
o The Mad Lady
o The Nemesis of Motherhood
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
o The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
o The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
o The Story of the Old Ram
o The Californian's Tale
o The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief
o The Mysterious Stranger
o The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
o Marjorie Daw
o Quite So
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
o The Iliad of Sandy Bar
o The Luck of Roaring Camp
o Tennessee’s Partner
o The Outcasts of Poker Flat
o The Idyll of Red Gulch
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
o Editha
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889)
o The Torture of Hope
o Vera
o Olympe and Henrietta
o The Desire to be a Man
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
o The Last Lesson
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
o Peter, the Parson
o Felipa
o Miss Grief
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
o Squire Petrick's Lady
o An Imaginative Woman
o The Grave by the Handpost
o Old Mrs Chundle Good Choice!!!!!
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
o Cavalleria Rusticana
o The Saint Joseph's Ass
Emile Zola (1840-1902)
o The Death of Olivier Becaille
o Rentafoil
o Big Michu
W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
o Story of a Piebald Horse
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
o The Damned Thing
o An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
o One of the Missing
o One Summer Night
o A Horseman in the Sky
o What I Saw of Shiloh
o George Thurston
o Killed at Resaca
o Chickamauga
Henry James (1843-1916)
o The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux
o Daisy Miller: A Study
o The Beast in the Jungle
o The Great Good Place
o The Story in it
o The Real Thing
Anatole France (1844-1924) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
o The Procurator of Judea
o The Mass of Shadows
George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
o Belles Demoiselles Plantation
o Café des Exilés
o "Posson Jone'"
o Jean-ah Poquelin
o 'Tite Poulette
o 'Sieur George
o Madame Délicieuse
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
o Dracula's Guest
o The Secret of the Growing Gold
Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
o Maverick
o Friend Barton's Concern
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
o Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
o A White Heron
o Miss Tempy's Watchers
o The Hiltons' Holiday
o The Foreigner
o The Flight of Betsey Lane
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
o Markheim
o The Bottle Imp
o The Body-Snatcher
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
o The Necklace
o The Jewels of M. Lantin
o The Trip of the Horla
o The Grave
Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary Noailles Murfree] 1850-1922
o The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove
Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939)
o A Marriage
o The Death Mask
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
o At The 'Cadian Ball
o The Storm [A Sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball"]
o Regret Good Choice!!!!!
o Ozème's Holiday
o At Chênière Caminada
o The Story of an Hour
o A Respectable Woman
o A Night in Acadie
o Désirée's Baby
o Ripe Figs
o Madame Célestin's Divorce
Grace King (1852-1932)
o The Little Convent Girl
o La Grande Demoiselle
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
o The Revolt of "Mother"
o A New England Nun
o A Church Mouse
o Old Woman Magoun
o The Lost Ghost
o A Mistaken Charity
o One Good Time
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
o Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
o The Canterville Ghost
Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
o The Eve of the Fourth
George Gissing (1857-1903)
o The Foolish Virgin
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
o The Lagoon
o The Inn of the Two Witches—A Find
o Youth
o The Secret Sharer
o Heart of Darkness
Charles A. Eastman (1858-1939)
o The Madness of Bald Eagle
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
o The Sheriff's Children
o The Goophered Grapevine
o Po' Sandy
o Dave's Neckliss
o The Wife of His Youth
George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright] (1859-1945)
o Wedlock
o A Little Grey Glove Good Choice!!!!!
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
o A Scandal in Bohemia
o The Red-Headed League
o A Case of Identity
o The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
o The Adventure of the Speckled Band
o The Final Problem
o The Adventure of the Empty House
o The Parasite
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
o The Darling
o Misery Good Choice!!!!!
o The Lady with the Dog
o About Love
o Anna on the Neck
o Gooseberries
o The Grasshopper
o Gusev
o The Huntsman
o The Kiss
o The Teacher of Literature
o The Man in a Case
o The Party
o Peasants
o Oh! the Public
o In the Ravine
o Sleepy
o Small Fry
o The Student
o Vanka
o Ward No. 6
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
o Under the Lion's Paw
o The Return of a Private
o Up the Coulee
o A Branch Road
o Among the Corn Rows
o The Creamery Man
o Uncle Ethan Ripley
o A "Good Fellow's" Wife
o A Day's Pleasure
o God's Ravens
o Mrs. Ripley's Trip
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
o The Yellow Wall-Paper
o Turned
M. R. James (1862-1936)
o "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
o Roman Fever
o Souls Belated
o The Other Two
O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)
o The Whirligig of Life
o The Cop and the Anthem
o The Gift of the Magi
o A Municipal Report
o The Caballero's Way
o Buried Treasure
o The Ransom of Red Chief
Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
o Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)
o The Money-Box
o Jerry Bundler
o The Changeling
o Angels' Visits
o In the Family
o Low Water
o A Circular Tour
o The Rival Beauties
o The Monkey's Paw
Andrew Barton ‘Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
o Three Elephant Power
o His Masterpiece
o White-when-he's-wanted
Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
o How Hefty Burke Got Even
o The Nature Faker
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
o Without Benefit of Clergy
o The Mark of the Beast
o The Phantom 'Rickshaw
o 'They'
o The Man Who Would Be King
o The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
o The Jilting of Jane
o The Magic Shop
o The Country of the Blind
o The Door in the Wall
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
o War Good Choice!!!!!
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
o The Drover's Wife
o The Golden Graveyard
o The Hairy Man
o The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife
o In a Wet Season
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
o Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916)
o The Lumber-Room
o Gabriel-Ernest
o Tobermory
o The Open Window
o The Cobweb
o The Story-Teller
Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson] (1870-1946)
o Two Hanged Women
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
o The Gentleman from San Francisco
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
o Fantaisie Printaniere
o The Ship That Saw a Ghost
o The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
o Two Hearts That Beat As One
o A Deal in Wheat
o A Case for Lombroso Good Choice!!!!!
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
o An Experiment in Misery Good Choice!!!!!
o The Open Boat
o The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
o The Blue Hotel
o The Little Regiment
o The Price of the Harness
o A Detail
o A Mystery of Heroism
o A Gray Sleeve
o The Pace Of Youth
o Three Miraculous Soldiers
o One Dash-Horses
o The Mesmeric Mountain
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
o Old Rogaum and His Theresa
o Married
o The Lost Phoebe
o Ida Hauchawout Good Choice!!!!!
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
o The Lynching of Jube Benson
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
o The Shadowy Third
o The Past
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
o Jack-a-Boy
o The Burgler's Christmas
o Paul's Case
o On the Divide
o Lou, the Prophet
o The Enchanted Bluff
o The Affair at Grover Station
o Neighbour Rosicky
o The Bohemian Girl
o On the Gull's Road
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
o The Blue Cross
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
o In a Strange Land
o Mackintosh
o The Lotus Eater
o Rain
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
o The Good Anna
o Melanctha
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
o The Treasure Ship
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
o Tonio Kroger
o The Infant Prodigy
o Disorder and Early Sorrow
o Death in Venice
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
o Sister Josepha
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
o A Jury of Her Peers
Jack London (1876-1916)
o The Mexican
o The Heathen
o The Seed of McCoy
o South of the Slot
o To Build a Fire
o The Law of Life
o In a Far Country
o All Gold Canyon
o The White Silence
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
o I'm a Fool
o Seeds
o The Other Woman
o Unlighted Lamps
o The Door of the Trap
o Brothers
o War
o Motherhood
o Senility
o The Man in the Brown Coat
o The Philosopher
o The Egg
o I Want to Know Why
o The New Englander
o Hands
o Mother
o Adventure
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
o The Voice in the Night
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
o Within and Without
o In the Old "Sun"
A.E. Coppard (1878-1957)
o Broadsheet Ballad Good Choice!!!!!
o The Higgler
o Arabesque: The Mouse
o The Hurly-Burly
E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
o The Road from Colonus
o Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties
o Mr. Andrews
o The Eternal Moment
o The Story of the Siren
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
o Porcelain Cups
Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)
o A Drop in the Bucket
o The Artist
Horacio Quiroga (1879-1937)
o The Feather Pillow
Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
o The Bloodhounds of Broadway
o Blood Pressure
o A Piece of Pie Good Choice!!!!!
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
o The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
o Uncle Fred Flits By
James Joyce (1882-1941)
o Araby
o The Sisters
o Eveline
o A Little Cloud
o Counterparts
o Clay
o The Dead
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
o Kew Gardens
o The Duchess and the Jeweller
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
o The Metamorphosis
o A Hunger Artist
Isak Dinesen [Baroness Karen Blixen] (1885-1962)
o Dreaming Child
o The Ring
o The Pearls
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
o Moths in the Arc Light
o Go East, Young Man
o Let's Play King
o The Hack Driver
o The Willow Walk
o The Cat of Stars
o The Kidnaped Memorial
o Things
o Land
o Speed
o A Letter From the Queen
o The Ghost Patrol
o Young Man Axelbrod
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
o The Man Who Loved Islands
o Two Bluebirds
o Love Among the Haystacks
o The Horse Dealer's Daughter
o The Thorn in the Flesh
o The Shades of Spring
o The Christening
o Odour of Chrysanthemums
o The White Stocking
o The Prussian Officer
o Daughters of the Vicar
o Adolf
o Monkey Nuts
o Rex
o The Rocking-Horse Winner
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
o I Can't Breathe
o My Roomy
o Alibi Ike
o Haircut
o Carmen
o The Golden Honeymoon
o Horseshoes
o The Water Cure
François Mauriac (1885-1970) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
o Thérèse and the Doctor
Edna Ferber (1887-1968)
o April 25th, As Usual
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
o Killer in the Rain
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
o The Stranger
o Miss Brill
o The Garden-Party
o The Doll's House
o The Fly
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
o Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
o The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
o He
o The Old Order
o Flowering Judas
o Theft
o Rope
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
o Sweat
o The Gilded Six-Bits
o Story in Harlem Slang
o Spunk
o Black Death
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
o Sanctuary
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
o In a Grove
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
o Leaf by Niggle
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
o The Phoenix Good Choice!!!!!
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
o You Were Perfectly Fine
o A Telephone Call
o Big Blonde
o Travelogue
o The Last Tea
o Arrangement in Black and White
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
o Blood-Burning Moon
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
o Nightmare Town
o Ruffian's Wife
o The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
o Night Shots
o The Assistant Murderer
o Death on Pine Street
o The Second-Story Angel
o Afraid of a Gun
o One Hour
o Who Killed Bob Teal?
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
o The Gioconda Smile
o The Tillotson Banquet
o Nuns at Luncheon Good Choice!!!!!
James Thurber (1894-1961)
o The Catbird Seat
o The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
o The Sniper
o The Inquisition
o The Reaping Race
o The Challenge
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
o The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
o The Offshore Pirate
o The Jelly-bean
o The Baby Party
o The Rich Boy
o Babylon Revisited
o Winter Dreams
o A Short Trip Home
o An Alcoholic Case
o Crazy Sunday
o The Rough Crossing
o Design in Plaster
o Two for a Cent
o A Man in the Way
William Faulkner (1897-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
o A Rose for Emily
o Lucas Beauchamp
o Barn Burning
o That Evening Sun Go Down
o Wash
o Dry September
Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
o The Devil and Daniel Webster
o By the Waters of Babylon
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
o The Man on the Threshold
o Death and the Compass
o The Garden of Forking Paths
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
o The Jay
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
o The Easter Egg Party
o The Demon Lover
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
o First Love
o "That in Aleppo Once . . ."
o Sounds
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
o The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
o The End of Something
o My Old Man
o A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
o A Very Short Story
o The Snows of Kilimanjaro
o The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
o Hills Like White Elephants
o Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
o Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
o Cat in the Rain
o The Killers
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
o The Lost Boy
o His Father’s Earth
o Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991)
o Fugue
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997)
o The Saint
o Blind Love
Katherine Brush (1902-1952)
o Night Club
Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
o Convalescence
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
o Thank You, Ma'm
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1962
o The Chrysanthemums
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
o Love Among the Ruins
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
o First Confession
o The Drunkard
o My Oedipus Complex
Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)
o The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored
o Yellow Girl
o The Strawberry Season
o Kneel to the Rising Sun
o Saturday Afternoon
Graham Greene (1904-1991)
o The Destructors
o The Hint of an Explanation
o I Spy
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
o The Spinoza of Market Street
o The Washwoman
o Gimpel the Fool
Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)
o Over the River and through the Woods
o A Death in the House Good Choice!!!!!
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
o The Wall
Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)
o A Man Called Horse
R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
o An Astrologer's Day
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
o They
Louis L’Amour (1908-1988)
o Trap of Gold
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
o Why I Live at the P.O.
o Petrified Man
o A Curtain of Green
o The Hitch-Hikers
o A Worn Path
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
o The Eye Good Choice!!!!!
Jack Finney (1911-1995)
o Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
o The Yellow Bird
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
o The Norwegian Rat
Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
o I Stand Here Ironing
John Cheever (1912-1982)
o The Swimmer
o Clementina
o The Enormous Radio
o Goodbye, My Brother
o The Five-Forty-Eight
Albert Camus (1913-1960) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
o The Guest
Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
o Axolotl
o Blowup
o The Night Face Up
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
o My Life with the Wave
o The Blue Bouquet
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
o Battle Royal
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
o The Magic Barrel
o The Jewbird
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
o A Silver Dish
o Leaving the Yellow House
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
o The Lottery
o Charles
o One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
o Wunderkind
o The Sojourner
o A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
o The Jockey
o A Domestic Dilemma
Peter Taylor (1917-1994)
o A Spinster’s Tale
Es'Kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)
o Mrs. Plum
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
o The Evitable Conflict
Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994)
o My First and Most Beloved Friend Good Choice!!!!!
Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
o The Bracelet
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
o Harrison Bergeron
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951)
o This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
o The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man
o The Adventure of a Photographer
o The Adventure of a Poet
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
o A Christmas Memory
o Miriam
Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994)
o Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
o Everything That Rises Must Converge
o Good Country People
o The Artificial Nigger
o A Circle of Fire
o The Life You Save May Be Your Own
o Parker's Back
o Revelation
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
o Fountains in the Rain
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
o The King of the Elves
John Updike (1932-2009)
o Pigeon Feathers Good Choice!!!!!
o A & P
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
o The Lesson
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