Title: 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Description: Contains:
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[An occurrence at owl creek bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W)/ Ambrose Bierce --
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin --
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce --
Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf --
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner --
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --
The swimmer / John Cheever--
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Girl / Jamaica --
The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --
The red convertible / Louise Erdich --
Sticks / George Sanders --
The great Silence / Ted Chang --
Brownies / ZZ Packer --
Echo Ave. / Adrian Tomine --
Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff --
You can find love now / Ramona Ausubel --
Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell --
If you see me, don't say hi / Neel Patel --
A modern marriage / Grace Oluseyi --
The suitcase / Meron Hadero.
Subjects: Satanism, Fiction, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, History, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Mallard residence, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Peyton Farquhar, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Mangan's sister, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: 1600s, Carnival, 1861-65, 19th century, Antebellum era