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SHORT STORIES FOR STUDENTS
Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories

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Poe Edgar Alan Black Cat, The 26
Borges Jorge Luis Circular Ruins, The 26
Chesnutt Charles Goophered Grapevine, The 26
Chekhov Anton Gusev 26
Gibson William Johnny Mnemonic 26
Davis Rebecca Harding Life in the Iron Mills 26
Lessing Doris Mild Attack of Locusts, A 26
Welty Eudora Moon Lake 26
Freeman Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Old Woman Magoun 26
Hemingway Ernest Soldier's Home 26
Chopin Kate Storm, The 26
Lahriri Jhumpa This Blessed House 26
Williams William Carlos Use of Force, The 26

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Packer Z. Z. Brownies 25
Danticat Edwidge Caroline's Wedding 25
Fitzgerald F. Scott Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The 25
Highsmith Patricia Girl Like Phyl, A 25
Williams Joy Girls, The 25
McCracken Elizabeth Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry 25
Salter James Last Night 25
Baida Peter Nurse's Story, A 25
Helprin Mark Nurse's Story, A 25
Lee Don Price of Eggs in China, The 25
Bender Aimee Rememberer, The 25
Doerr Anthony Shell Collector, The 25
Powell Padgett Trick or Treat 25
Silver Marisa What I Saw From Where I Stood 25

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Irving Washington Devil and Tom Walker 1
Hurston Zora Neale Eatonville Anthology 1
Garcia Marquez Gabriel Handsomest Drowned Man in the 1
World
Olsen Tillie I Stand Here Ironing 1
Porter Katherine Anne Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1
Ellison Ralph King of the Bingo Game 1
Jackson Shirley Lottery 1
Connell Richard Most Dangerous Game 1
Saki Open Window 1
Thurber James Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1
Conrad Joseph Secret Sharer 1
Hemingway Ernest Short, Happy Life of Francis 1
Macomber
Bradbury Ray There Will Come Soft Rains 1
Lessing Doris Through the Tunnel 1
Oates Joyce Carol Where Are You Going, Where Have 1
You Been?
Gilman Charlotte Perkins Yellow Wallpaper 1
Hawthorne Nathaniel Young Goodman Brown 1

Faulkner William Bear 2

Capote Truman Christmas Memory 2
Walker Alice Everyday Use 2
Poe Edgar Allan Fall of the House of Usher 2
Henry O. Gift of the Magi 2
Singer Isaac Bashevis Gimpel the Fool 2
O'Connor Flannery Good Man Is Hard to Find 2
Hempel Amy In the Cemetary Where Al Jolson Is 2
Buried
Mansfield Katherine Miss Brill 2
Jacobs W(illiam) W(ymark) Monkey's Paw 2
Bierce Ambrose Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 2
Le Guin Ursula K(roeber) Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 2
Cather Willa Paul's Case 2
Doyle Arthur Conan Red-Headed League 2
Lawrence D. H. Rocking Horse Winner 2
Baldwin James Sonny's Blues 2
Chopin Kate Story of an Hour 2
Cheever John Swimmer 2
Gordimer Nadine Train from Rhodesia 2
Welty Eudora Worn Path 2

Updike John A&P 3

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Cortazar Julio Axolotl 3
Melville Herman Bartleby, Scrivener 3
Paley Grace Conversation with My Father 3
Wells H.G. Door in the Wall 3
Steinbeck John Flight 3
Kafka Franz In the Penal Colony 3
Galsworthy John Japanese Quince 3
Glaspell Susan Jury of Her Peers 3
Stockton Frank R. Lady or the Tiger 3
Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Man Who Lived Underground 3
Kingston Maxine Hong On Discovery 3
Harte Bret Outcasts of Poker Flat 3
Atwood Margaret Rape Fantasies 3
Barthelme Donald Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning 3

Ozick Cynthia Shawl 3

Mason Bobbie Ann Shiloh 3
Dinesen Isak Sorrow-Acre 3
Achebe Chinua Vengeful Creditor 3
Carver Raymond Where I'm Calling From 3
Cisneros Sandra Woman Hollering Creek 3

Fitzgerald F. Scott Babylon Revisited 4

Carter Angela Bloody Chamber 4
Bambara Toni Cade Blues Ain't No Mockingbird 4
Mann Thomas Disorder and Early Sorrow 4
Camus Albert Guest 4
Wolff Tobias In the Garden of the North American 4
Martyrs
Dahl Roald Lamb to the Slaughter 4
Sui Sin Far Mrs. Spring Fragrance 4
de Maupassant Guy Necklace 4
Woolf (Adeline) Virginia New Dress 4
Crane Stephen Open Boat 4
Borges Jorge Luis Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 4
Freeman Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Revolt of Mother 4
Orwell George Shooting an Elephant 4
Hughes Langston Slave on the Block 4
Anderson Sherwood Sophistication 4
Phillips Jayne Anne Souvenir 4
Clarke Arthur C. Star 4
Poe Edgar Allan Tell-Tale Heart 4
Jewett Sarah Orne White Heron 4
Silko Leslie Marmon Yellow Woman 4
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Faulkner William Barn Burning 5

Parker Dorothy Big Blonde 5
Toomer Jean Blood-Burning Moon 5
Munro Alice Boys and Girls 5
Tolstoy Leo Death of Ivan Ilych 5
Bowen Elizabeth Demon Lover 5
O'Connor Frank Guests of the Nation 5
Naoya Shiga Han's Crime 5
Vonnegut Kurt Harrison Bergeron 5
Narayan R.K. Horse and Two Goats 5
Chekhov Anton Lady with the Pet Dog 5
Stein Gertrude Melanctha 5
Morrison Toni Recitatif 5
Gaines Ernest J(ames) Sky Is Gray 5
Head Bessie Snapshots of a Wedding 5
Mishima Yukio Swadding Clothes 5
O'Brien Tim Things They Carried 5
O'Flaherty Liam Wave 5
Kincaid Jamaica What Have I Been Doing Lately 5
McCullers Carson Wunderkind 5

James Henry Beast in the Jungle 6

Butler Octavia Bloodchild 6
Carver Raymond Cathedral 6
Steinbeck John Chrysanthemums 6
Joyce James Dead 6
Wideman John Edgar Fever 6
Nabokov Vladmir Guide to Berlin 6
Hemingway Ernest Hills Like White Elephants 6
Barth John Lost in the Funhouse 6
Lawrence D. H. Odor of Chrysanthemums 6
Wharton Edith Pomegranate Seed 6
Dinesen Isak Ring 6
Faulkner William Rose for Emily 6
Flaubert Gustave Simple Heart 6
Hurston Zora Neale Spunk 6
Mistry rohinton Swimming Lessons 6
Garcia Marquez Gabriel Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 6

Hughes Langston Blues I'm Playing 7

Wilde Oscar Canterville Ghost 7
Poe Edgar Allan Cask of Amontillado 7
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Bates H. E. Daffodil Sky 7
Kincaid Jamaica Girl 7
Kafka Franz Hunger Artist 7
O'Connor Flannery Life You Save May Be Your Own 7
Twain Mark Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 7
Mukherjee Bharati Management of Grief 7
Hawthorne Nathaniel Minister's Black Veil 7
Cather Willa Neighbor Rosicky 7
Gogol Nikolai Overcoat 7
Bambara Toni Cade Raymond's Run 7
Wharton Edith Roman Fever 7
Berriault Gina Stone Boy 7
London Jack To Build a Fire 7
Heinlein Robert Waldo 7

Warren Robert Penn Blackberry Winter 8

Porter Katherine Anne Flowering Judas 8
Mansfield Katherine Garden Party 8
Dostoevski Fedor Grand Inquisitor 8
Oates Joyce Carol How I Contemplated the World 8
Hemingway Ernest In Another Country 8
Irving Washington Legend of Sleepy Hollow 8
Eliot George Lifted Veil 8
Malamud Bernard Magic Barrel 8
Silko Leslie Marmon Man to Send Rainclouds 8
Poe Edgar Allan Masque of the Red Death 8
Merimee Prosper Mateo Falcone 8
Kipling Rudyard Mrs. Bathurst 8
Freeman Mary E(leanor) Wilkins New England Nun 8
Gardner John Redemption 8
Mason Bobbie Ann Residents and Transients 8
Aiken Conrad Silent Snow, Secret Snow 8

Bierce Ambrose Boarded Window, The 9

Hemingway Ernest Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A 9
Mann Thomas Death in Venice 9
Glasgow Ellen Difference, The 9
Borges Jorge Luis Garden of Forking Paths, The 9
Mahfouz Naguib Half a Day 9
Beattie Ann Janus 9
James Henry Jolly Corner, The 9
Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Man Who Was Almost a Man, The 9
Solzhenitsyn Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 9
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Taylor Peter (Hillsman) Spinster's Tale, A 9
Pushkin Alexander Stationmaster, The 9
Tan Amy Two Kinds 9
Gilchrist Ellen Victory over Japan 9
Sartre Jean-Paul Wall, The 9

Mansfield Katherine Bliss 10

Thurber James Catbird Seat 10
Anderson Sherwood Death in the Woods 10
O'Connor Flannery Everything That Rises Must Converge 10
Dubus Andre Fat Girl 10
Balzac Honore de Grande Breteche 10
Kundera Milan Hitchhiking Game 10
Wodehouse P.G. Jeeves Takes Charge 10
Silko Leslie Marmon Lullaby 10
Babel Isaac My First Goose 10
Trevor William News from Ireland 10
Scott Walter Wandering Willie's Tale 10
Sontag Susan Way We Live Now 10
Boyle Kay White Horses of Vienna, The 10
Welty Eudora Why I Live at the P.O. 10

Allende Isabel And of Clay Are We Created 11

Ellison Ralph Battle Royal 11
Hurston Zora Neale Gilded Six-Bits 11
Butler Robert Olen Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 11
Porter Katherine Anne Grave 11
Anderson Sherwood Hands 11
Mansfield Katherine Marriage a la Mode 11
Mphahlele Es'kia Mrs. Plum 11
Hawthorne Nathaniel My Kinsman, Major Molineux 11
Walker Alice Roselily 11
Wolff Tobias Say Yes 11
Chesnutt Charles Sheriff's Children 11
Bloom Amy Silver Water 11
Hemingway Ernest Snows of Kilimanjaro 11
Silko Leslie Marmon Storyteller 11
Berriault Gina Women in Their Beds 11

Wideman John Edgar Beginning of Homewood 12

Lessing Doris Debbie and Julie 12
Carter Angela Erl-King 12
Calvino Italo Feathered Ogre 12
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Mishima Yukio Fountains in the Rain 12
Roth Philip Goodbye, Columbus 12
Conrad Joseph Heart of Darkness 12
Woolf (Adeline) Virginia Kew Gardens 12
Bellow Saul Leaving the Yellow House 12
Bambara Toni Cade Lesson 12
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis 12
Ozick Cynthia Pagan Rabbi 12
Singer Isaac Bashevis Spinoza of Market Street 12
Sayers Dorothy Suspicion 12
Faulkner William That Evening Sun 12
Carver Raymond What We Talk About When We Talk 12
About Love

Boyle Kay Astronomer's Wife 13

Achebe Chinua Civil Peace 13
Chekhov Anton Darling 13
Chopin Kate Desiree's Baby 13
Agueros Jack Dominoes 13
Carver Raymond Errand 13
Malamud Bernard First Seven Years 13
Atwood Margaret Happy Endings 13
Ellison Harlan Jeffty Is Five 13
Head Bessie Life 13
Cisneros Sandra Little Miracles, Kept Promises 13
Paz Octavio My Life with the Wave 13
Dinesen Isak Sailor-Boy's Tale 13
Boyle T. C. Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on 13
My Trail
Borowski Tadeusz This Way To the Gas, Ladies and 13
Gentlemen
Munro Alice Walker Brothers Cowboy 13

Brown Jason Animal Stories 14

Boyle Kay Black Boy 14
Ellison Harlan Boy and His Dog 14
Vargas Llosa Mario Challenge, The 14
Cheever John Country Husband, The 14
Greene Graham Destructors 14
du Maurier Daphne Don't Look Now 14
Yamamoto Hisaye Eskimo Connection 14
Wolf Christa Exchanging Glances 14
Chekhov Anton Gooseberries, The 14
Adams Alice Last Lovely City 14
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Tolstaya Tatyana Night 14
Erdrich Louise Red Convertible 14
Saroyan William Resurrection of a Life 14
Hendel Yehudit Small Change 14
Gordimer Nadine Town and Country Lovers 14

Rivera Beatriz African Passions 15

Yezierska Anzia America and I 15
Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Bright and Morning Star 15
Beckett Samuel (Barclay) Dante and the Lobster 15
Manto Sadat Hasan Dog of Tithwal 15
Ogot Grace Green Leave, The 15
Rivera Tomas Harvest, The 15
O'Brien (William) Tim(othy) How To Tell A True War Story 15
Ellison Harlan (Jay) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 15
Munro H(ector) H(ugh) Interlopers, The 15
Robbe-Grillet Alain Replacement, The 15
Nabokov Vladimir (Vladimirovich) That In Aleppo Once... 15
Marshall Paule To Da-Duh in Memoriam 15
Fitzgerald F(rancis) Scott (Key) Winter Dreams 15
Hawthorne Nathaniel Wives of the Dead 15

du Maurier Daphne Birds, The 16

Malamud Bernard Black Is My Favorite Color 16
Chandra Vikram Dharma (Art of the Short Story) 16
Cather Willa Sibert Diamond Mine, The 16
Allende Isabel Gold of Tomas Vargas, The 16
Porter Katherine Anne He 16
Singer Isaac Bashevis Henne Fire 16
Clemens Samuel Langhorne Invalid's Story, The 16
Yoshimoto Mahoko Kitchen 16
Johnson Charles (Richard) Menagerie, A Child's Fable 16
Poe Edgar Allan Purloined Letter 16
Irving Washington Rip Van Winkle 16
Tan Amy (Ruth) Rules of the Game 16
Garcia Marquez Gabriel (Jose) Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock, The 16

Borges Jorge Luis Aleph, The 17

Tyler Anne Average Waves in Unprotected 17
Waters
Houston Pam Best Girlfriend You Never Had, The 17
El-Bisatie Mohamed Conversation from the Third Floor, A 17
Bowles Paul (Frederick) Eye 17
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Maugham W(illiam) Somerset Fall of Edward Barnard, The 17
Oates Joyce Carol Four Summers 17
Jin Xuefei In the Kindergarten 17
Barthelme Donald Indian Uprising 17
Hemingway Ernest (Miller) Killers, The 17
Reed Wetzel Marlene Map of Tripoli, 1967, A 17
Devlin Anne Naming the Names 17
Asimov Isaac Nightfall 17
Salinger J(erome) D(avid) Perfect Day for Bananafish, A 17
Chopin Katherine Point At Issue, A 17

Kohler Sheila (May) Africans 18

Alexie Sherman (Joseph) (Jr.) Because My Father Always Said He 18
Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled
Banner" at Woodstock
Friedman Bruce Jay Brazzaville Teen-ager 18
Roth Philip (Milton) Conversion of the Jews 18
Wolfe Thomas (Clayton) Far and Near 18
Proulx E(dna) Annie Half-Skinned Steer, The 18
Clarke Arthur C(harles) If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth… 18
Hoeg Peter Journey Into A Dark Heart 18
Lagerlof Selma Legend of the Christmas Rose, The 18
Porter William Sydney Mammon and the Archer 18
Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter 18
Baldwin James (Arthur) Rockpile, The 18
Gilman Charlotte (Anna) Perkins Three Thanksgivings 18
(Stetson)
Bisson Terry (Ballantine) Toxic Doughnut, The (Bears Discover 18
Fire)
Edwards Kim Way It Felt to Be Falling, The 18

Callaghan Morley All the Years of Her Life 19

O'Connor Flannery Circle in the Fire, A 19
Morales Alejandro Curing Woman, The 19
Joyce James Eveline 19
Santos Bienvenido Immigration Blues 19
Smiley Jane Long Distance 19
Munro Alice Meneseteung 19
Thurber James Night the Ghost Got In, The 19
Updike John Slump, The 19
Hurston Zora Neale Sweat 19
Lahiri Jhumpa Temporary Matter, A 19
Gordimer Nadine Ultimate Safari, The 19
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Boyle T. Coraghessan Underground Gardens, The 19
Moore Lorrie Yourre Ugly, Too 19

Dinesen Isak Babette's Feast 20

Wright Richard Big Black Good Man 20
Boll Heinrich Christmas Not Just Once a Year 20
Sargeson Frank Great Day, A 20
Beattie Ann Imagined Scenes 20
Okri Ben In the Shadow of War 20
Paley Grace Long-Distance Runner, The 20
Mason Bobbie Ann Private Lies 20
Cortazar Julio Pursuer, The 20
Unamuno Miguel de Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr 20
O'Flaherty Liam Sniper, The 20
Diaz Junot Sun, the Moon, the Stars, The 20
Lessing Doris To Room Nineteen 20
Bradbury Ray Veldt, The 20

Burton Sir Richard Arabian Nights, The 21

Maupassant Guy de Boule de Suif 21
Hurston Zora Neale Conscience of the Court 21
Fitzgerald F. Scott Crazy Sunday 21
Garcia Marquez Gabriel Eyes of a Blue Dog 21
Bambara Toni Cade Gorilla, My Love 21
Adams Alice Greyhound People 21
Sharma Akhil If You Sing like That for Me 21
Stafford Jean In the Zoo 21
Allen Woody Kugelmass Episode, The 21
Twain Mark No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger 21
Ellison Harlan ''Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the 21
Ticktockman
Kipling Rudyard Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 21
Davies Peter Ho Think of England 21

Waters Mary Yukari Aftermath 22

Bowen Elizabeth Day in the Dark, A 22
Ortiz Simon J. End of Old Horse, The 22
Benet Stephen Vincent End to Dreams, An 22
Erdrich Louise Fleur 22
Upadhyay Samrat Good Shopkeeper, The 22
Gustafsson Lars Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases 22
Hemon Aleksandar Islands 22
Kipling Rudyard Mowgli's Brothers 22
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Steinbeck John Pearl, The 22
Ozick Cynthia Rosa 22
Bellow Saul Silver Dish, A 22
Butler Robert Olen Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda 22
Triangle

Proulx Annie Brokeback Mountain 23

Saramago Jose Centaur, The 23
Swan Mary Deep, The 23
McPherson James Alan Elbow Room 23
Murakami Haruki Elephant Vanishes, The 23
Porter Katherine Anne Holiday 23
Dybek Stuart Hot Ice 23
Lavin Mary In the Middle of the Fields 23
Julavits Heidi Marry the One Who Gets There First 23
Ferrell Carolyn Proper Library 23
Jones Thom Pugilist at Rest, The 23
Hurst James Scarlet Ibis, The 23
Carver Raymond Small, Good Thing, A 23
Orringer Julie Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones, The 23

Yates Richard Canal, The 24

Barrett Andrea English Pupil, The 24
McCorkle Jill Fish 24
Haslett Adam Good Doctor, The 24
Malouf David Great Day 24
Li Yiyun Immortality 24
Leffland Ella Last Courtesies 24
Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Meeting Mrinal 24
Barnes Julian Melon 24
Mukherjee Bharati Middleman, The 24
Ochsner Gina Necessary Grace to Fall, The 24
Walbert Kate Paris 1991 24
Eisenberg Deborah Someone to Talk To 24
Wideman John Edgar What We Cannot Speak About We Must 24

Packer Z. Z. Brownies 25
Danticat Edwidge Caroline's Wedding 25
Fitzgerald F. Scott Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The 25
Highsmith Patricia Girl Like Phyl, A 25
Williams Joy Girls, The 25
McCracken Elizabeth Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry 25
Salter James Last Night 25
Baida Peter Nurse's Story, A 25
Helprin Mark Perfection 25
Lee Don Price of Eggs in China, The 25
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Doerr Anthony Shell Collector, The 25
Powell Padgett Trick or Treat 25
Silver Marisa What I Saw From Where I Stood 25

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