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Sherwood Anderson "A Lie" "Hands" "Mother"	Margaret Atwood "Age of Lead" "Happy Endings"	Isaac Babel "Di Grasso" "My First Goose"	James Baldwin "Sonny's Blues" "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"
Paule Barton "Emilie Plead Choose One Egg"	Ann Beattie "The Burning House" "Snow"	Ambrose Bierce "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "The Boarded Window"	Heinrich Boll "Like a Bad Dream" "The Laugher"
Tadeusz Borowski "This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"	Albert Camus "The Guest"	Raymond Carver "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" "The Gazebo"	Willa Cather "The Garden Lodge" "A Wagner Matinee" "Paul's Case"
Geoffrey Chaucer "Knight's Tale" "Merchant's Tale" "Miller's Tale"	Geoffrey Chaucer, continued "Pardoner's Tale" "Prioress' Tale" "Wife of Bath's Tale"	John Cheever "The Country Husband" "The Swimmer"	Kate Chopin "The Awakening" "The Story of An Hour" "A Respectable Woman" "The Storm"
Sandra Cisneros "Alicia Who Sees Mice" "The House on Mango Street"	Colette "The Hollow Nut" "The Other Wife"	Arthur Conan Doyle "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" "The Red-Headed League" "The Mystery of the Speckled Band"	Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness" "The Secret Sharer"
Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" "The Men in the Storm"	Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" "The Cricket on the Hearth"	Fyodor Dostoevsky "White Nights" "Notes From The Underground"	William Faulkner "Barn Burning" "A Rose for Emily" "Spotted Horses"
F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" "The Rich Boy" "Crazy Sunday"	Ernest J. Gaines "The Sky is Gray"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper"	Susan Glaspell "A Jury of Her Peers"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birthmark" "Young Goodman Brown" "The Minister's Black Veil" "Rappaccini's Daughter"	Bessie Head "Looking for a Rain God" "The Collector of Treasures"	Ernest Hemingway "A Cat in the Rain" "Hills Like White Elephants" "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"	Ernest Hemingway, continued "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" "Soldier's Home"
W.D. Howells "Christmas Every Day" "Editha"	Henry James "Daisy Miller" "The Real Thing" "The Ghostly Rental" "The Turn of the Screw"	James Joyce "Araby" "The Boarding House" "The Dead"	Franz Kafka "The Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Metamorphosis"
Margaret Laurence "A Bird in the House"	D.H. Lawrence "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" "The Odour of Chrysanthemums"	Clarice Lispector "The Chicken" "The Fifth Story"	H.P. Lovecraft "The Colour out of Space" "The Shadow out of Time"
Bobbie Ann Mason "Drawing Names" "Shiloh"	Guy de Maupassant "Boule de Suif" "Mademoiselle Fifi" "The Necklace"	Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener"	Flannery O'Connor "Greenleaf" "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Flannery O'Connor, continued "Good Country People" "Revelation" "The River"	Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl"	Edgar Allan Poe "The Cask of Amontillado" "The Tell-Tale Heart" "Ligeia"	Edgar Allan Poe, continued "Murders on the Rue Morgue" "The Purloined Letter" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "William Wilson"
Saki (H.H. Munro) "The Open Window" "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" "Adrian"	J.P. Sartre "The Wall"	James Thurber "The Catbird Seat" "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" "The Unicorn in the Garden"	Leo Tolstoy "God Sees the Truth, but Waits" "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
John Updike "A & P" "Wife Wooing"	Eudora Welty "Death of a Traveling Salesman" "Why I Live at the P.O." "A Worn Path"	Tobias Wolff "Hunters in the Snow"	Characterization
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