Contents

• v.1. Araby / James Joyce ; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; Children of the Sea / Edwidge Danticat ; The Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving ; The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston ; The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen ; The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter ; King of the Bingo Game / Ralph Ellison ; The Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell ; The Open Window / Saki ; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber ; The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad ; The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway ; There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury ; Through the Tunnel / Doris Lessing ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates ; The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• v.2. The Bear / William Faulkner ; A Christmas Memory / Truman Capote ; Everyday Use / Alice Walker ; The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe ; The Gift of the Magi / O. Henry ; Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O’Connor ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield ; The Monkey’s Paw / W.W. Jacobs ; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Paul’s Case / Willa Cather ; The Red-Headed League / Arthur Conan Doyle ; The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence ; Sonny’s Blues / James Baldwin ; The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin ; The Swimmer / John Cheever ; The Train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer ; A Worn Path / Eudora Welty
• v.3. A & P / John Updike ; Axolotl / Julio Cortazar ; Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street / Herman Melville ; A Conversation with My Father / Grace Paley ; The Door in the Wall / H.G. Wells ; Flight / John Steinbeck ; In the Penal Colony / Franz Kafka ; The Japanese Quince / John Galsworthy ; A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell ; The Lady, or the Tiger? / Frank R. Stockton ; The Man Who Lived Underground / Richard Wright ; On Discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston ; The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte ; Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood ; Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning / Donald Barthelme ; The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick ; Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason ; Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen ; Vengeful Creditor / Chinua Achebe ; Where I’m Calling From / Raymond Carver ; Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros - - v.4. Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The Bloody Chamber / Angela Carter ; Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird / Toni Cade Bambara ; Disorder and Early Sorrow / Thomas Mann ; The Guest / Albert Camus ; In the Garden of the North American Martyrs / Tobias Wolff ; Lamb to the Slaughter / Roald Dahl ; Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far ; The Necklace / Guy de Maupassant ; The New Dress / Virginia Woolf ; The Open Boat / Stephen Crane ; Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges ; The Revolt of ‘Mother’ / Mary Wilkins Freeman ; Shooting an Elephant / George Orwell ; Slave on the Block / Langston Hughes ; Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson ; Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips ; The Star / Arthur C. Clarke ; The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe ; A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett ; Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
• v.6. The beast in the jungle ; Bloodchild ; Cathedral ; The chrysanthemums ; The dead ; Fever ; A guide to Berlin ; Hills like white elephants ; Lost in the funhouse ; Odour of chrysanthemums ; Pomegranate seed ; The ring ; A rose for Emily ; A simple heart ; Spunk ; Swimming lessons ; A very old man with enormous wings
• v.7. The blues I’m playing ; The Canterville ghost ; The cask of Amontillado ; The daffodil sky ; Girl ; A hunger artist ; The life you save may be your own ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg ; The management of grief ; The minister’s black veil ; Neighbour Rosicky ; The overcoat ; Raymond’s run ; Roman fever ; The stone boy ; To build a fire ; Waldo