*new to this edition
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Young Goodman BrownEdgar Allan Poe,
The Cask of AmontilladoHerman Melville,
Bartleby, the Scrivener*Sarah Orne Jewett,
A White HeronKate Chopin,
The Story of an Hour*Anton Chekhov,
The Lady with the DogCharlotte Perkins Gilman,
The Yellow WallpaperWilla Cather,
Paul's CaseJames Joyce,
ArabyFranz Kafka,
The MetamorphosisD. H. Lawrence,
The Rocking-Horse Winner*Katherine Mansfield,
The Garden-PartyF. Scott Fitzgerald,
Winter Dreams*William Faulkner,
A Rose for EmilyErnest Hemingway,
Hills Like White ElephantsEudora Welty,
A Worn PathRalph Ellison,
Battle RoyalShirley Jackson,
The LotteryJames Baldwin,
Sonny's BluesFlannery O'Connor,
A Good Man Is Hard to FindCynthia Ozick,
The Shawl*Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World*Alice Munro,
Child's PlayJohn Updike,
A & PRaymond Carver,
CathedralJoyce Carol Oates,
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?Toni Cade Bambara,
The LessonAlice Walker,
Everyday UseTim O'Brien,
The Things They Carried*T. C. Boyle,
Balto*Leslie Marmon Silko,
The Man to Send Rain CloudsJamaica Kincaid,
GirlAmy Tan,
Two Kinds*Sandra Cisneros,
Woman Hollering Creek*Ha Jin,
Saboteur*Sherman Alexie,
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven*Jhumpa Lahiri,
Interpreter of Maladies*Junot Diaz,
Drown*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Birdsong*Tea Obreht,
Blue Water DjinnClose-Reading Short StoriesWriting about Short StoriesBiographical Notes on the AuthorsGlossary of Literary Terms