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Table of Contents

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Preface for Instructors
Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
*Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
James Joyce, “Araby”
*Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
*Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
*John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
*Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
*George Saunders, “Sticks”
*Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
*ZZ Packer, “Brownies”
*Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong”
Lauren Groff, “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
*Ramona Ausubel, “You Can Find Love Now”
Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
*Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi”
*Grace Oluseyi, “A Modern Marriage”
*Meron Hadero, “The Suitcase”

Reading Short Stories Closely
Writing about Short Stories
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of Authors and Titles

Authors

Beverly Lawn

Beverly Lawn is Professor of English Emerita and taught undergraduate and graduate fiction and poetry courses for over three decades. She is editor or coeditor of several literature anthologies, including 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology and is also the author of Throat of Feathers, a book of poems.

Joanne Diaz

Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, the co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, and the co-host of the Poetry for All podcast. She is the Isaac Funk Endowed Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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