Title: The Short Story
Subtitle: 30 Masterpieces
Description: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W): a story of Wall Street / Herman Melville --
The pupil / Henry James --
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce --
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
[Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
A worn path / Eudora Welty --
The country husband / John Cheever --
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer --
Sonny's blue / James Baldwin --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
The balloon / Donald Barthelme --
A & P / John Updike --
Where are you going? Where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, class conflict, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, New York, Wall Street, Mallard residence, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Justice of the Peace Court
People: Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Mangan's sister, Sartoris Snopes, Abner Snopes, Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato
Time periods: 1600s, 19th century, Carnival