Title: The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Description: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe
The last lovely city / Alice Adams
Dominoes / Jack Agueros
The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende
Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood
My first goose / Isaac Babel
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme
Janus / Ann Beattie
[Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
The eye / Paul Bowles
Black boy / Kay Boyle
Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle
A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler
The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio
The guest / Albert Camus
The erl-king / Angela Carter
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Errand / Raymond Carver
What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The swimmer / John Cheever
The darling / Anton Chekhov
The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov
The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt
[Désirée's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) / Kate Chopin
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin
Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Axolotl / Julio Cortázar
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner
[That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
1933 / Mavis Gallant
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life / Bessie Head
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The beast in the jungle / Henry James
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce
[The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera
Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Braids / David Leavitt
The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing
Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz
Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield
The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
[Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville
Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima
How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore
Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates
Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
Good country people / Flannery O'Connor
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
In the shadow of war / Ben Okri
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
A conversation with my father / Grace Paley
My life with the wave / Octavio Paz
[The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allen Poe
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe
He / Katherine Anne Porter
A great day / Frank Sargeson
Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko
Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Long distance / Jane Smiley
The way we live now / Susan Sontag
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Two kinds / Amy Tan
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
Night / Tatyana Tolstaya
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
A & P / John Updike
Roselily / Alice Walker
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Roman fever / Edith Wharton
The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman
Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf
Say yes / Tobias Wolff
Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto
Subjects: American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfillment, meaning of love, short story, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, African Americans, husband and wife, race relations, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, Revenge, History, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union
Places: Louisiana, L’Abri, Mallard residence, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Ireland, Galway, New York, Wall Street, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Quentin Compson, Nancy, Caddy, Jason, Dilsey, Jesus, Mrs. Compson, Mr. Stovall, Jailer, Mr. Lovelady, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Mangan's sister, 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, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: Carnival, 19th century, Antebellum era, 1600s, 1861-65