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Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- The Grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- A sense of shelter / John Updike -- The innocent / Graham Greene -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow -- The tone of time. The jolly corner. The lesson of the master / Henry James -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The gambler, the nun and the radio / Ernest Hemingway -- A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- The flower garden / Shirley Jackson -- A losing game / J.F. Powers -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Entropy / Thomas Pynchon -- The waiting / James Agee -- Odor of chrysanthemums. The shadow in the rose garden. The white stocking / D.H. Lawrence -- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Araby / James Joyce -- Out of place / Joyce Carol Oates -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- Take pity / Bernard Malamud -- The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- The fire and the hearth. Delta Autumn. Raid / William Faulkner -- When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Lytle -- What you hear from 'Em? / Peter Taylor.
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