Title: The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised
Description: [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ Edgar Allan Poe
The jewels / Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The tree of knowledge / Henry James
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
[The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner
The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre
Judas / Frank O'Connor
Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
Subjects: tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction, christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Short story, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Irish literature, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder
Places: Ireland, Galway, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: 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, PEOPLE Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling
Time periods: Antebellum era