Title: Literature--second edition
Description: I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot
Character
Setting
Point of view
Theme
Symbol and allegory
Style and tone. -- Stories. 
My kinsman, Major Molineux
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe
The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev
[Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
[The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Athur Conan Doyle
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
The darling / Anton Chekhov
Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad
The tree of knowledge / Henry james
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)
[Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence
Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter
August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The guest / Albert Camus
Wine / Doris Lessing
The office / Alice Munro
A & P / John Updike
Patriotism / Yuko Mishima
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez
Nine lives / Ursuala Le Guin
Yellow woman / Leslie Silko
Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Watch time fly / Laura Furman

II: Poetry.

III: Drama. What is drama? Drama and poetry
Drama and fiction
The actors
The audience
The theater. -- The elements of drama. Dialogue
Story
Character
Action. -- The classifications of drama. Tragedy
Comedy. -- Analyzing and evaluating drama -- 
Plays. 
King Oedipus / Sophocles
Lysistrata / Aristophanes
Othello / William Shakespeare
Tartuffe / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw
The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov
Trifles / Susan Glaspell
Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill
The real inspector hound / Tom Stoppard
Amadeus / Peter Shaffer
Subjects: American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns, Literature, Collections, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, detective fiction, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, Mystery and detective stories, Drama, Private investigators, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, class conflict, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, New York, Wall Street, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Justice of the Peace Court, England, Calcutta, India, Surrey
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott, Mangan's sister, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Sartoris Snopes, Abner Snopes, Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato
Time periods: 1600s, Antebellum era, 19th century, Carnival