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• ISBN: 0023955406
• ISBN: 9780023955402
• Physical Description: xii, 1172 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: 4th ed.
• Publisher: New York : Macmillan, ©1985.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- At the beach / Alice Adams -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The oranging of America / Max Apple -- The bicentennial man / Isaac Asimov -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- Shifting / Ann Beattie -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow -- An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury -- The faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The darling / Anton Chekhov -- Athenaise: a story of a temperament / Kate Chopin -- The kidnapped prime minister / Agatha Christie -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The grand inquisitor / Fedor Dostoevski -- The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Repent, harlequin! said the tick-tockman / Harlan Ellison -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- Watch time fly / Laura Furman -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- Daisy Miller / Henry James.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The man who shot Liberty Valance / Dorothy M. Johnson -- Araby / James Joyce -- The dead / James Joyce -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- Men to match the hills / Louis L'Amour -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Wine / Doris Lessing -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- The fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Thanks for the ride / Alice Munro -- Something special / Iris Murdoch -- Four summers / Joyce Carol Oates -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo -- Yellow woman / Leslie Silko -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Saint Emmanuel the good, martyr / Miquel de Unamuno -- A & P / John Updike -- Report on the barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- Petrified man / Eudora Welty -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright.

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