Title: Introduction to Literature, Stories -- third edition
Description: A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
The maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)/ Edgar Allan Poe --
The last of the Valreii / Henry James --
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) ; [Desiree's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) / Kate Chopin --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The new villa / Anton Chekhov --
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather --
Tonio Kroger / Thomas Mann --
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson --
The knot hole / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --
The machine stops / E.M. Forster --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce --
The shades of spring / D.H. Lawrence --
The pearls / Isak Dinesen --
Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
My first goose / Isaac Babel --
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
World of little doves / H.L. Davis --
Delta autumn / William Faulkner --
A way you'll never be / Ernest Hemingway --
Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen. 
Green thoughts / John Collier --
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor --
Esther Kreindel the Second / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --
Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow --
Bad characters / Jean Stafford --
A story of love, etc. / Daniel Curley --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Homage for Isaac Babel ; Our friend Judith / Doris Lessing --
Exodus ; The rockpile / James Baldwin --
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor --
Reena / Paule Marshall --
Report / Donald Barthelme --
Accomplished desires / Joyce Carol Oates.
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfillment, meaning of love, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism
Places: Paris, Mallard residence, Louisiana, L’Abri, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar
People: C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Mangan's sister
Time periods: 19th century, Antebellum era