Title: The Short Story
Subtitle: fiction in transition
Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne / The artist of the beautiful
Edgar Allan Poe / [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Herman Melville / [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W): A tale of Wall Street
Fyodor Dostoevsky / The crocodile
Anton Chekhov / On official business
Guy De Maupassant / Minuet
Giovanni Verga / The she-wolf
Henry James / The middle years
Joseph Conrad / Il Conde
J.F. Powers / Lions, harts, leaping does
Stephen Crane / The blue hotel
Maxim Gorky / Twenty-six men and a girl
James Joyce / [Counterparts](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570464W)
Italo Svevo / Generous wine
Dennis Lynds / A blue blonde in the sky over Pennsylvania
John Galsworthy / The Japanese quince
Franz Kafka / In the penal colony
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The diamond as big as the Ritz
Luigi Pirandello / In the abyss
Katherine Mansfield / The fly
Sherwood Anderson / Death in the woods
William Faulkner / [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)
Ernest Hemingway / The short happy life of Francis Macomber
Frank Rooney / Cyclists' raid
Flannery O'Connor / A good man is hard to find
James Thurber / The unicorn in the garden
Shirley Jackson / The witch
Carson McCullers / Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland
Philip Roth / The conversion of the Jews
Jorge Luis Borges / Death and the compass
Julio Cortazar / Bestiary
Paul Bowles / The scorpion
Ilse Aichinger / The bound man
Ted Hughes / Snow
Robert Creeley / The boat
Douglas Woolf / The flyman
Michael Rumaker / The pipe
Alain ARobbe-Grillet / The secret room
Subjects: Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism
Places: New York, Wall Street, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Farrington, Mr. Alleyne, Tom, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: Carnival, Antebellum era