40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Fifth Edition)

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Cask Of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby, The Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The Story Of An Hour / Kate Chopin -- The Lady With The Dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Paul's Case / Willa Cather -- Araby / James Joyce -- A Hunger Artist / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- A Rose For Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- A Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- A Good Man Is Hard To Find / Flannery O'connor -- A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- A & P / John Updike -- Inbound / Edith Pearlman -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- The Things They Carried / Tim O'brien -- The Night Of The Satellite / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The Man To Send Rain Clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- The House On Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The Gun / Mark Haddon -- The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Interpreter Of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz -- A Man Like Him / Yiyun Li -- The Breeze / Joshua Ferris -- Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners / Lauren Groff -- Vampires In The Lemon Grove / Karen Russell -- Reading Short Stories Closely -- Writing About Short Stories -- Biographical Notes On The Authors -- Glossary Of Literary Terms -- Acknowledgements -- Index Of Authors And Titles. Edited By Beverly Lawn. Includes Index. Cover......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Preface for Instructors......Page 7 Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents......Page 19 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Young Goodman Brown......Page 25 EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Cask of Amontillado......Page 39 HERMAN MELVILLE: Bartleby, the Scrivener......Page 47 KATE CHOPIN: The Story of an Hour......Page 83 ANTON CHEKHOV: The Lady with the Dog......Page 86 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: The Yellow Wallpaper......Page 103 WILLA CATHER: Paul’s Case......Page 120 JAMES JOYCE: Araby......Page 140 FRANZ KAFKA: A Hunger Artist......Page 147 KATHERINE MANSFIELD: Miss Brill......Page 156 WILLIAM FAULKNER: A Rose for Emily......Page 161 ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Hills Like White Elephants......Page 171 EUDORA WELTY: A Worn Path......Page 177 RALPH ELLISON: Battle Royal......Page 187 SHIRLEY JACKSON: The Lottery......Page 203 JAMES BALDWIN: Sonny’s Blues......Page 212 FLANNERY O’CONNOR: A Good Man Is Hard to Find......Page 244 GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings......Page 260 JOHN UPDIKE: A & P......Page 268 EDITH PEARLMAN: Inbound......Page 275 RAYMOND CARVER: Cathedral......Page 285 JOYCE CAROL OATES: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?......Page 300 TONI CADE BAMBARA: The Lesson......Page 317 MARGARET ATWOOD: Happy Endings......Page 325 ALICE WALKER: Everyday Use......Page 329 TIM O’BRIEN: The Things They Carried......Page 339 T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE: The Night of the Satellite......Page 357 LESLIE MARMON SILKO: The Man to Send Rain Clouds......Page 372 JAMAICA KINCAID: Girl......Page 378 AMY TAN: Two Kinds......Page 381 SANDRA CISNEROS: The House on Mango Street......Page 394 MARK HADDON: The Gun......Page 396 SHERMAN ALEXIE: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven......Page 411 JHUMPA LAHIRI: Interpreter of Maladies......Page 419 JUNOT DíAZ: Fiesta, 1980......Page 439 YIYUN LI: A Man Like Him......Page 453 JOSHUA FERRIS: The Breeze......Page 468 CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE: Birdsong......Page 484 LAUREN GROFF: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners......Page 499 KAREN RUSSELL: Vampires in the Lemon Grove......Page 516 Reading Short Stories Closely......Page 532 Writing about Short Stories......Page 540 Biographical Notes on the Authors......Page 552 Glossary of Literary Terms......Page 576 Acknowledgments......Page 591 Index of Authors and Titles......Page 596 Contains: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) EDGAR ALLAN POE [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) HERMAN MELVILLE [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) KATE CHOPIN [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) ANTON CHEKHOV The Lady with the Dog CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN The Yellow Wallpaper WILLA CATHER Paul's Case JAMES JOYCE [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) FRANZ KAFKA A Hunger Artist KATHERINE MANSFIELD Miss Brill WILLIAM FAULKNER [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hills Like White Elephants EUDORA WELTY A Worn Path RALPH ELLISON Battle Royal SHIRLEY JACKSON The Lottery JAMES BALDWIN Sonny's Blues FLANNERY O'CONNOR A Good Man Is Hard to Find GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings JOHN UPDIKE EDITH PEARLMAN Inbound 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 T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE The Night of the Satellite LESLIE MARMON SILKO The Man to Send Rain Clouds JAMAICA KINCAID Girl AMY TAN Two Kinds SANDRA CISNEROS The House on Mango Street MARK HADDON The Gun SHERMAN ALEXIE The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven JHUMPA LAHIRI Interpreter of Maladies JUNOT DIAZ Fiesta, 1980 YIYUN Ll A Man Like Him JOSHUA FERRIS The Breeze CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Birdsong LAUREN GROFF At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners KAREN RUSSELL Vampires in the Lemon Grove 40 Short Stories includes forty chronologically-arranged classic and contemporary fiction selections with reading and writing support built in