Title: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Description: Talking about fiction
Story form in our time/ Ernest Hemingway
Revenge/ Giraldis Cambrensis
Heart of darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parson
The owl who was God/ James Thurber
Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford
God's country and my people/ Wright Morris
The egg/ Sherwood Anderson
Death in the woods/ Sherwood Anderson
Karl-Yankel/ Isaac Babel
Sonny's blues/ Janes Baldwin
A passion in the desert/ Honoré de Balzac
Life-story/ John Barth
The glass mountain/ Donald Barthelme
Leaving the yellow house/ Saul Bellow
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of Quixote/ Jorge Luis Borges
Rest cure/ Kay Boyle
The exiles/ Ray Bradbury
Where the girls were different/ Erskine Caldwell
A tree of night/ Truman Capote
The biggest band/ R.V. Cassill
The old beauty/ Willa Cather
The fourth alarm/ John Cheever
The lady with the pet dog/ Anton Chekhov
A visit to friends/ Anton Chekhov
The darling/ Anton Chekhov
The star/ Arthur C. Clarke
The notorious jumping from of Calaveras county/ Sameul Clemens (Mark Twain)
Hearts fo darkness/ Joseph Conrad
The babysitter/ Robert Coover
Murphy's Xmas/ Mark Costello
The open boat/ Stephen Crane
The blue hotel/ Stephen Crane
Sorrow-acre/ Isak Dinesen
The peasant Marey/ Fyodor Dostoevsky
[A scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W)/ Arthur Conan Doyle
The NRACP/ George P. Elliott
King of the bingo game/ Ralph Ellison
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner
Golden Land/ William Faulkner
[Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W)/ William Faulkner
Roar lion roar/ Irvin Faust
Babylon revisited/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The legend of Saint Julian the hospitaller/ Gustave Flaubert
The road from Colonus/ E.M. Forster
Acceptance of their ways/ Mavis Gallant
The hermit/ Maxim Gorky
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
[The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W)/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway
The lottery/ Shirley Jackson
The tree of knowledge/ Henry James
White rat/ Gayl Jones
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W)/ James Joyce
[A little cloud](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179222W)/ James Joyce
[The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W)/ James Joyce
A hunger Artist/ Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis/ Franz Kafka
Follow the eagle/ William Kotzwinkle
The horse dealer's daughter/ D.H. Lawrence
Tickets, please/ D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence
The new Atlantis/ Ursula K. Le Guin
The black Modonna/ Doris Lessing
The jockey/ Carson McCullers
A solo song: For doc/ James Alan McPherson
The jewbird/ Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow/ Thomas Mann
The garden-party/ Katherine Mansfield
The outstation/ W. Somerset Maugham
The necklace/ Guy de Maupassant
[Bartleby the scivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)/ Herman Melville
Patriotism/ Yukio Mishima
Signs and symbols/ Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again/ Joyce Carol Oates
A good man in hard to find/ Flannery O'Connor
Everything that rises must converge/ Flannery O'Connor
Parker's back/ Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation/ Frank O'Connor
Tell me a riddle/ Tillie Olsen
The used-boy raisers/ Grace Paley
Big blonde/ Dorothy Parker
The nightingales sing/ Elizabeth Parsons
Call me Monty, and grovel freely/ S.J. Perelman
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)/ Edgar Allan Poe
Old mortality/ Katherine Anne Porter
The valiant woman/ J.F. Powers
The conversion of the Jew/ Philip Roth
Love, here is my hat/ William Saroyan
The girls in their summer dresses/ Irwin Shaw
The spinoza of Market street/ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Goin' to town/ Wallace Stegner
The chrysanthemums/ John Steinbeck
Dean of men/ Peter Taylor
The peaches/ Dylan Thomas
You could look it up/ James Thurber
God sees the truth, but waits/ Leo Tolstoy
A & P/ John Updike
The manned missiles/ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The worn path/ Eudora Welty
Powerhouse/ Eudora Welty
Taking care/ Joy Williams
The use of force/ William carlos Williams
Kew Gardens/ Virginia Woolf
The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright
A really good jazz piano/ Richard Yates
Subjects: Short stories, Anthologies, cabinet cards, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, prima donnas, smoke bombs, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, class conflict, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Irish literature, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, History, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union
Places: Bohemia, Scandinavia, Warsaw, London, 221B Baker Street, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Charing Cross railway station, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Justice of the Peace Court, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, North Wall, Dublin, England, Ireland, Galway, New York, Wall Street, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Sartoris Snopes, Abner Snopes, Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Aylmer, Georgiana, Mangan's sister, Little Chandler, Ignatius Gallaher, Gabriel Conroy, Kate Morkan, Julia Morkan, Mary Jane Morkan, Lily, Gretta Conroy, Molly Ivors, Mr Browne, Freddy Malins, Mrs Malins, Bartell D'Arcy, Patrick Morkan, Michael Furey, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 1888, Antebellum era, 19th century, 1600s, 1861-65