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Publisher's Note
Editor's Introduction
Contributing Reviewers
A & P--John Updike
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog--Stephanie Vaughn
Absolution--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Acceptance of Their Ways--Mavis Gallant
Ace in the Hole--John Updike
Across the Bridge--Heinrich Böll
Across the Bridge--Mavis Gallant
Across the Bridge--Graham Greene
Act of Faith--Irwin Shaw
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me--A. E. Coppard
Admiral and the Nuns, The--Frank Tuohy
Admirer, The--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Adulterous Woman, The--Albert Camus
Adventure of the Dancing Men, The--Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the German Student--Washington Irving
Adventure of the Speckled Band, The--Arthur Conan Doyle
Aeroplanes at Brescia, The--Guy Davenport
Africa Kills Her Sun--Ken Saro-Wiwa
After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday--Sonia Sanchez
After the Fair--Dylan Thomas
After the Storm--Ernest Hemingway
Aghwee the Sky Monster--Kenzabur{omacr} {Omacr}e
Albatross, The--Susan Hill
Aleph, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Alien Corn, The--W. Somerset Maugham
All Shall Love Me and Despair--Jean Thompson
All Sorts of Impossible Things--John McGahern
All the Years of Her Life--Morley Callaghan
"All You Zombies--"--Robert A. Heinlein
Alpine Idyll, An--Ernest Hemingway
Altar of the Dead, The--Henry James
Alyosha the Pot--Leo Tolstoy
Amanda--Roberta Fernández
Amateur's Guide to the Night, An--Mary Robison
Ambitious Guest, The--Nathaniel Hawthorne
America! America!--Delmore Schwartz
American History--Judith Ortiz Cofer
Amish Farmer, The--Vance Bourjaily
Among the Dangs--George P. Elliott
Amy Foster--Joseph Conrad
Anatomy of Desire, The--John L'Heureux
. . . and the earth did not part--Tomás Rivera
Angel Levine--Bernard Malamud
Angel of the Bridge, The--John Cheever
Angels at the Ritz--William Trevor
Another Part of the Sky--Nadine Gordimer
Another Time--Edna O'Brien
Apocalypse at Solentiname--Julio Cortázar
Approximations--Mona Simpson
April Witch, The--Ray Bradbury
Arabesque--The Mouse--A. E. Coppard
Araby--James Joyce
Argentine Ant, The--Italo Calvino
Ark of Bones--Henry Dumas
Art of Living, The--John Gardner
Artificial Family, The--Anne Tyler
Artificial Nigger, The--Flannery O'Connor
Artist of the Beautiful, The--Nathaniel Hawthorne
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun--Alistair MacLeod
Assorted Fire Events--David Means
Astrologer's Day, An--R. K. Narayan
Astronomer's Wife--Kay Boyle
At the Bay--Katherine Mansfield
At the Bottom of the River--Jamaica Kincaid
At the Jim Bridger--Ron Carlson
Aunt Carrie--Rita Dove
Aunt Granny Lith--Chris Offutt
Aunt Moon's Young Man--Linda Hogan
Aunt Rosana's Rocker--Nicholasa Mohr
Autumn in the Oak Woods--Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov
Axolotl--Julio Cortázar
Babette's Feast--Isak Dinesen
Babylon Revisited--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babysitter, The--Robert Coover
Bad Characters--Jean Stafford
Ballad of the Sad Café, The--Carson McCullers
Balloon, The--Donald Barthelme
Ballroom of Romance, The--William Trevor
Bambino, The--May Sinclair
Barbados--Paule Marshall
Barn Burning--William Faulkner
Bartleby the Scrivener--Herman Melville
Baseball Glove, The--Víctor Martínez
Basement Room, The--Graham Greene
Battle Royal--Ralph Ellison
Battler, The--Ernest Hemingway
Beach Umbrella, The--Cyrus Colter
Bears in Mourning--Adam Mars-Jones
Beast in the Jungle, The--Henry James
Because We Are So Poor--Juan Rulfo
Beckoning Fair One, The--Oliver Onions
Beet Queen, The--Louise Erdrich
Beggar Maid, The--Alice Munro
Beggar My Neighbor--Dan Jacobson
Beggarwoman of Locarno, The--Heinrich von Kleist
Beginning of an Idea, The--John McGahern
Behavior of the Hawkweeds, The--Andrea Barrett
Belle Zoraïde, La--Kate Chopin
Bench, The--Richard Rive
Benito Cereno--Herman Melville
Best of Everything, The--Richard Yates
Bet, The--Anton Chekhov
Beyond the Glass Mountain--Wallace Stegner
Beyond the Pale--William Trevor
Bezhin Meadow--Ivan Turgenev
Big Bad Love--Larry Brown
Big Bear of Arkansas, The--T. B. Thorpe
Big Bertha Stories--Bobbie Ann Mason
Big Blonde--Dorothy Parker
Big Boy Leaves Home--Richard Wright
Big-Breasted Pilgrim, The--Ann Beattie
Big Fish, Little Fish--Italo Calvino
Big Me--Dan Chaon
Big Two-Hearted River--Ernest Hemingway
Bijou--Stuart Dybek
Birthmark, The--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Birthmates--Gish Jen
Bishop, The--Anton Chekhov
Bit of a Smash in Madras, A--Julian Maclaren-Ross
Bitter Honeymoon--Alberto Moravia
Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles--Gabriel García Márquez
Black Cat, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Black Is My Favorite Color--Bernard Malamud
Black Madonna, The--Muriel Spark
Black Prince, The--Shirley Ann Grau
Black Queen, The--Barry Callaghan
Black Tickets--Jayne Anne Phillips
Black Venus--Angela Carter
Blackberry Winter--Robert Penn Warren
Blank Page, The--Isak Dinesen
Blankets--Alex La Guma
Blight--Stuart Dybek
Blind Man, The--D. H. Lawrence
Bliss--Katherine Mansfield
Blizzard, The--Alexander Pushkin
Blood-Burning Moon--Jean Toomer
Bloody Chamber, The--Angela Carter
Blow-Up--Julio Cortázar
Blue Cross, The--G. K. Chesterton
Blue Hotel, The--Stephen Crane
Blush, The--Elizabeth Taylor
Boarding House, The--James Joyce
Bobok--Fyodor Dostoevski
Bontsha the Silent--Isaac Leib Peretz
Bottle Imp, The--Robert Louis Stevenson
Bottle of Milk for Mother, A--Nelson Algren
Boule de Suif--Guy de Maupassant
Bound Man, The--Ilse Aichinger
Bowmen of Shu, The--Guy Davenport
Boxcar of Chrysanthemums--Fumiko Enchi
Boy in the Summer Sun--Mark Schorer
Boy Who Drew Cats, The--Lafcadio Hearn
Boys and Girls--Alice Munro
Brains--Gottfried Benn
Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The--Stephen Crane
Bridegroom, The--Ha Jin
Bridge, The--Pamela Painter
Bridge of Dreams, The--Jun'ichir{omacr} Tanizaki
Bridging--Max Apple
Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The--John Cheever
Bright and Morning Star--Richard Wright
Brokeback Mountain--E. Annie Proulx
Brother, The--Robert Coover
Buck Stops Here, The--Stuart M. Kaminsky
Bunchgrass Edge of the World, The--E. Annie Proulx
Burning House, The--Ann Beattie
Burrow, The--Franz Kafka
But at the Stroke of Midnight--Sylvia Townsend Warner
Butcher Bird--Wallace Stegner
By the Waters of Babylon--Stephen Vincent Benét
Camberwell Beauty, The--V. S. Pritchett
Canary for One, A--Ernest Hemingway
Cap for Steve, A--Morley Callaghan
Car Crash While Hitchhiking--Denis Johnson
Cardinal's First Tale, The--Isak Dinesen
Careful--Raymond Carver
Cariboo Café, The--Helena María Viramontes
Cask of Amontillado, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Catbird Seat, The--James Thurber
Cathedral--Raymond Carver
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The--Mark Twain
Celestial Omnibus, The--E. M. Forster
Chain of Love, A--Reynolds Price
Change--Larry Woiwode
Charles--Shirley Jackson
Charlotte--Tony Earley
Chaser, The--John Collier
Cheap in August--Graham Greene
Check!--S{lstrok}awomir Mro{zdot}ek
Chemist's Wife, The--Anton Chekhov
Chickamauga--Ambrose Bierce
Child of Queen Victoria, The--William Plomer
Childhood of Luvers, The--Boris Pasternak
Children of Strikers--Fred Chappell
Children on Their Birthdays--Truman Capote
Children's Campaign, The--Pär Lagerkvist
Child's Drawings, A--Varlam Shalamov
Childybawn--Seán O'Faoláin
China Browne--Gerald Vizenor
Christ in Concrete--Pietro di Donato
Christmas Every Day--Heinrich Böll
Christmas Memory, A--Truman Capote
Christmas Morning--Frank O'Connor
Chroma--Frederick Barthelme
Chronicle of Young Satan, The--Mark Twain
Chrysanthemums, The--John Steinbeck
Cimarron--Francine Prose
Cinderella Waltz, The--Ann Beattie
Cinnamon Shops--Bruno Schulz
Circular Ruins, The--Jorge Luis Borges
City Boy--Leonard Michaels
City Life--Mary Gordon
City of Boys--Beth Nugent
Clarisa--Isabel Allende
Clay--James Joyce
Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A--Ernest Hemingway
Cliff, The--Charles Baxter
Closing Down of Summer, The--Alistair MacLeod
Cloud, Castle, Lake--Vladimir Nabokov
Cloud Cover Caribbean--Ana Lydia Vega
Coach--Mary Robison
Coal Shoveller, The--Keith Fort
Collector of Treasures, The--Bessie Head
Color Me Real--J. California Cooper
Color of Darkness--James Purdy
Come Out the Wilderness--James Baldwin
Comedian, The--John L'Heureux
Comfort--David Michael Kaplan
Coming, Aphrodite--Willa Cather
Communist--Richard Ford
Condel, Il--Joseph Conrad
Condolence Visit--Rohinton Mistry
Conjurer Made Off with the Dish, The--Naguib Mahfouz
Consolation--Giovanni Verga
Conversation with My Father, A--Grace Paley
Conversion of the Jews, The--Philip Roth
Convict, The--James Lee Burke
Cooking Lesson--Rosario Castellanos
Counterparts--James Joyce
Counting Months--David Leavitt
Country Doctor, A--Franz Kafka
Country Girl, A--Mary Hood
Country Husband, The--John Cheever
Country Love Story, A--Jean Stafford
Country of the Blind, The--H. G. Wells
Count's Wife, The--Dino Buzzati
Coup de Grâce, The--Ambrose Bierce
Courting of Sister Wisby, The--Sarah Orne Jewett
Cousins, The--Elizabeth Spencer
Cowboys Are My Weakness--Pam Houston
Crazy Sunday--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creature, The--Edna O'Brien
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers--Stanley Elkin
Critical Introduction to The Best of S. J. Perelman by Sidney
Namlerep, A--S. J. Perelman
Critique de la Vie Quotidienne--Donald Barthelme
Crocodile, The--Fyodor Dostoevski
Crossing into Poland--Isaac Babel
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment--Mary McCarthy
Cruise of The Breadwinner, The--H. E. Bates
Curse, The--Andre Dubus
Customs of the Country--Madison Smartt Bell
Cyclists' Raid, The--Frank Rooney
Daddy Was a Number Runner--Louise Meriwether
Daddy Wolf--James Purdy
Damballah--John Edgar Wideman
Dancing After Hours--Andre Dubus
Dante and the Lobster--Samuel Beckett
Dare's Gift--Ellen Glasgow
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The--William Saroyan
Dark Avenues--Ivan Bunin
Dark City, The--Conrad Aiken
Darling, The--Anton Chekhov
Daughters of the Late Colonel, The--Katherine Mansfield
Dawn of Remembered Spring--Jesse Stuart
Day Stalin Died, The--Doris Lessing
Day the Flowers Came, The--David Madden
Day They Took My Uncle, The--Lionel G. García
Daydreams of a Drunk Woman, The--Clarice Lispector
De Mortuis--John Collier
Dead, The--James Joyce
Dead Man, The--Horacio Quiroga
Dead Men's Path--Chinua Achebe
Deal in Wheat, A--Frank Norris
Death and the Child--Stephen Crane
Death in Jerusalem--William Trevor
Death in Midsummer--Yukio Mishima
Death in the Woods--Sherwood Anderson
Death in Venice--Thomas Mann
Death of a Huntsman--H. E. Bates
Death of a Traveling Salesman--Eudora Welty
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The--Leo Tolstoy
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period--J. D. Salinger
Dédé--Mavis Gallant
Deer Woman--Paula Gunn Allen
Defeated, The--Nadine Gordimer
Defender of the Faith--Philip Roth
Delicate Prey, The--Paul Bowles
Delta Autumn--William Faulkner
Deluge at Norderney, The--Isak Dinesen
Demon Lover, The--Elizabeth Bowen
Demonology--Rick Moody
Descent into the Maelström, A--Edgar Allan Poe
Desire to Be a Man, The--Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Désirée's Baby--Kate Chopin
Destructors, The--Graham Greene
Devil and Daniel Webster, The--Stephen Vincent Benét
Devil and Tom Walker, The--Washington Irving
Dharma--Vikram Chandra
Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diamond Lens, The--Fitz-James O'Brien
Diary of a Madman, The--Nikolai Gogol
Difference, The--Ellen Glasgow
Di Grasso--Isaac Babel
Dinner at Eight--Ezekiel Mphahlele
Disorder and Early Sorrow--Thomas Mann
Displaced Person, The--Flannery O'Connor
Distance of the Moon, The--Italo Calvino
Distant Episode, A--Paul Bowles
District Doctor, The--Ivan Turgenev
Doc's Story--John Edgar Wideman
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor's Son, The--John O'Hara
Doe Season--David Michael Kaplan
Dog Days--Judy Budnitz
Dog Stories--Francine Prose
Dogged Underdog--Irvin S. Cobb
Doll Queen, The--Carlos Fuentes
Doll's House, The--Katherine Mansfield
Donagh, The--William Carleton
Don't Call Me by My Right Name--James Purdy
Door, The--E. B. White
Downward Path to Wisdom, The--Katherine Anne Porter
Dragons--Julian Barnes
Dragon's Seed--Madison Smartt Bell
Dream Cargoes--J. G. Ballard
Dream Children--Gail Godwin
Dream Lover, The--William Boyd
Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The--Fyodor Dostoevski
Dream Stuff--David Malouf
Dreamers in a Dead Language--Grace Paley
Drenched in Light--Zora Neale Hurston
Drive in the Country, A--Graham Greene
Drover's Wife, The--Henry Lawson
Drunkard, The--Frank O'Connor
Dry September--William Faulkner
Duel, The--Anton Chekhov
Duel--Richard Matheson
Dunwich Horror, The--H. P. Lovecraft
Earthquake in Chile, The--Heinrich von Kleist
Easter Eve--Anton Chekhov
Easy Time--Jack López
Eating Naked--Stephen Dobyns
Ecco--Ronald Sukenick
Edie--Harriet Doerr
Editha--William Dean Howells
Edward and God--Milan Kundera
Egg, The--Sherwood Anderson
Eight Views of Tokyo--Osamu Dazai
Eighty-Yard Run, The--Irwin Shaw
Eisenheim the Illusionist--Steven Millhauser
Elephant, The--S{lstrok}awomir Mro{zdot}ek
Elephant Vanishes, The--Haruki Murakami
Emergency--Denis Johnson
Emperor of the Air--Ethan Canin
Empress's Ring, The--Nancy Hale
Enchanted Doll, The--Paul Gallico
End, The--Samuel Beckett
End of Old Horse, The--Simon J. Ortiz
End of the Game--Julio Cortázar
Enduring Chill, The--Flannery O'Connor
Enemies--Anton Chekhov
Enemies, The--Dylan Thomas
Enero--Mary Helen Ponce
Engagement in Santo Domingo, The--Heinrich von Kleist
English Lesson, The--Nicholasa Mohr
Englishwoman, The--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Enoch Soames--Max Beerbohm
Enormous Radio, The--John Cheever
Entropy--Thomas Pynchon
Envy--Cynthia Ozick
EPICAC--Kurt Vonnegut
Episode of War, An--Stephen Crane
Errand--Raymond Carver
Esmeralda--Roberta Fernández
Esther--Jean Toomer
Ethan Brand--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Europe--Henry James
Eve of the Spirit Festival, The--Lan Samantha Chang
Eveline--James Joyce
Evening in Paris--Denise Chávez
Evening Performance, An--George Garrett
Everyday Use--Alice Walker
Everything in This Country Must--Colum McCann
Everything That Rises Must Converge--Flannery O'Connor
Excerpts from Swan Lake--Peter Cameron
Exchange Value--Charles Johnson
Experiment in Misery, An--Stephen Crane
Fable, A--Robert Fox
Faces of Blood Kindred, The--William Goyen
Faith in a Tree--Grace Paley
Faithful Wife, The--Morley Callaghan
Fall, The--Alberto Moravia
Fall of the House of Usher, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Falling Girl, The--Dino Buzzati
Falls, The--George Saunders
Family Affair, A--Guy de Maupassant
Family Supper, A--Kazuo Ishiguro
Fancy Woman, The--Peter Taylor
Farm, The--Joy Williams
Fat Girl, The--Andre Dubus
Fat Man in History, The--Peter Carey
Fat of the Land, The--Anzia Yezierska
Father and I--Pär Lagerkvist
Father-to-Be, A--Saul Bellow
Fathers--Robley Wilson
Father's Daughters, The--Muriel Spark
Father's Story, A--Andre Dubus
Faustino--Max Martínez
Female Trouble--Antonya Nelson
Fern--Jean Toomer
Fever--John Edgar Wideman
Field of Blue Children, The--Tennessee Williams
Field of Mustard, The--A. E. Coppard
Fiesta, 1980--Junot Díaz
Fight, The--Dylan Thomas
Figure in the Carpet, The--Henry James
Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance, The--Lee K. Abbott
Finding Natasha--Madison Smartt Bell
Finding the Chain--Mary Hood
Fireman's Wife, The--Richard Bausch
First, Body--Melanie Rae Thon
First Communion--Tomás Rivera
First Confession--Frank O'Connor
First Dark--Elizabeth Spencer
First Love and Other Sorrows--Harold Brodkey
First Love, Last Rites--Ian McEwan
Firstborn--Larry Woiwode
Fisherman from Chihuahua, The--Evan S. Connell, Jr.
Fitting Ends--Dan Chaon
Five-Forty-Eight, The--John Cheever
Five-Twenty--Patrick White
Flesh and the Mirror--Angela Carter
Fleur--Louise Erdrich
Flight--John Steinbeck
Floating Bridge--Alice Munro
Flood, The--Joy Harjo
Flowering Judas--Katherine Anne Porter
Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes
Fly, The--Katherine Mansfield
Flying Home--Ralph Ellison
Footfalls--Wilbur Daniel Steele
For Esmé--with Love and Squalor--J. D. Salinger
Forgiveness--Edna O'Brien
Forks, The--J. F. Powers
Frazer Avenue--Guy García
Freshest Boy, The--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friend of Kafka, A--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Frog Dances--Stephen Dixon
Funes, the Memorious--Jorge Luis Borges
Fur Coat, The--Seán O'Faoláin
Furnished Room, The--O. Henry
Games at Twilight--Anita Desai
Garden of Forking Paths, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Garden-Party, The--Katherine Mansfield
Gardener, The--Rudyard Kipling
Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel, The--William Maxwell
Generous Wine--Italo Svevo
Gent--Rick DeMarinis
Gentleman from Cracow, The--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gentleman from San Francisco, The--Ivan Bunin
Geraldo No Last Name--Sandra Cisneros
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt--William Goyen
Ghost Soldiers, The--Tim O'Brien
Ghosts, The--Lord Dunsany
Gift, The--John Steinbeck
Gift of the Magi, The--O. Henry
Gilded Six-Bits, The--Zora Neale Hurston
Gilgul of Park Avenue, The--Nathan Englander
Gimpel the Fool--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gioconda Smile, The--Aldous Huxley
Girl--Jamaica Kincaid
Girl in the Flammable Skirt, The--Aimee Bender
Girl on the Plane, The--Mary Gaitskill
Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, The--Deborah Eisenberg
Girls in Their Summer Dresses, The--Irwin Shaw
Gladius Dei--Thomas Mann
Glass Mountain, The--Donald Barthelme
Gleaner, The--H. E. Bates
Glimpse into Another Country--Wright Morris
Gobseck--Honoré de Balzac
Gogol's Wife--Tommaso Landolfi
Going--Amy Hempel
Going After Cacciato--Tim O'Brien
Going Ashore--Mavis Gallant
Going Home--William Trevor
Going to Meet the Man--James Baldwin
Gold-Bug, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Gold Coast--James Alan McPherson
Golden Apple of Eternal Desire, The--Milan Kundera
Golden Honeymoon, The--Ring Lardner
Gonzaga Manuscripts, The--Saul Bellow
Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies--Salman Rushdie
Good Country People--Flannery O'Connor
Good Man Is Hard to Find, A--Flannery O'Connor
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A--Robert Olen Butler
Goodbye, My Brother--John Cheever
Goophered Grapevine, The--Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Gooseberries--Anton Chekhov
Gorilla, My Love--Toni Cade Bambara
Gospel According to Mark, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Gospel Singers--Langston Hughes
Grace--James Joyce
Grande Bretèche, La--Honoré de Balzac
Graphomaniacs--Abram Tertz
Grasshopper and the Cricket, The--Yasunari Kawabata
Grave, The--Katherine Anne Porter
Graveyard Day--Bobbie Ann Mason
Gravity--David Leavitt
Greasy Lake--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Great Beyond, The--Cyprian Ekwensi
Great Good Place, The--Henry James
Great Wall of China, The--Franz Kafka
Great Wave, The--Mary Lavin
Greek Interpreter, The--Arthur Conan Doyle
Green Tea--Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Greenleaf--Flannery O'Connor
Greyhound People--Alice Adams
Gryphon--Charles Baxter
Guest, The--Albert Camus
Guests of the Nation--Frank O'Connor
Gun Shop, The--John Updike
Gusev--Anton Chekhov
Gussuk--Mei Mei Evans
Guy de Maupassant--Isaac Babel
Haircut--Ring Lardner
Half-Skinned Steer, The--E. Annie Proulx
Halfway Diner, The--John Sayles
Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District--Ivan Turgenev
Hammer of God, The--G. K. Chesterton
Hammon and the Beans, The--Américo Parédes
Hands--Sherwood Anderson
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, The--Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness--Mary Lavin
Happy August the Tenth--Tennessee Williams
Happy Autumn Fields, The--Elizabeth Bowen
Harmony--Ring Lardner
Harrison Bergeron--Kurt Vonnegut
Haunted House, A--Virginia Woolf
Headless Hawk, The--Truman Capote
Health--Joy Williams
Heart of the Artichoke, The--Herbert Gold
Heat--Joyce Carol Oates
Hector Quesadilla Story, The--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Helix--Mahoko Yoshimoto
Helping--Robert Stone
Her First Ball--Katherine Mansfield
Her Quaint Honor--Caroline Gordon
Her Sweet Jerome--Alice Walker
Her Table Spread--Elizabeth Bowen
Herakleitos--Guy Davenport
Hermit's Story, The--Rick Bass
Hérodias--Gustave Flaubert
Heroes in the Dark House, The--Benedict Kiely
He's at the Office--Allan Gurganus
Higgler, The--A. E. Coppard
Hills Like White Elephants--Ernest Hemingway
Hint of an Explanation, The--Graham Greene
His Final Mother--Reynolds Price
His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft--Harold Brodkey
Hitchhiking Game, The--Milan Kundera
Hodel--Sholom Aleichem
Homage for Isaac Babel--Doris Lessing
Home--Jayne Anne Phillips
Home Sickness--George Moore
Homeland--Barbara Kingsolver
Honest Thief, An--Fyodor Dostoevski
Hook--Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Horla, The--Guy de Maupassant
Horse and Two Goats, A--R. K. Narayan
Horse Dealer's Daughter, The--D. H. Lawrence
House Behind, The--Lydia Davis
House in Turk Street, The--Dashiell Hammett
House of Cobwebs, The--George Gissing
House Opposite--R. K. Narayan
House with the Grape-vine, The--H. E. Bates
Housebreaker of Shady Hill, The--John Cheever
How Beautiful with Shoes--Wilbur Daniel Steele
How Claeys Died--William Sansom
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction
and Began My Life over Again--Joyce Carol Oates
How I Finally Lost My Heart--Doris Lessing
How I Met My Husband--Alice Munro
How It Was Done in Odessa--Isaac Babel
How Much Land Does a Man Need?--Leo Tolstoy
How the Devil Came Down Division Street--Nelson Algren
How to Talk to a Hunter--Pam Houston
Hunger Artist, A--Franz Kafka
Hungry Stones, The--Rabindranath Tagore
Hunter Gracchus, The--Franz Kafka
Hunters in the Snow--Tobias Wolff
Hunting Season--Joanne Greenberg
I-80 Nebraska M.490-M.205--John Sayles
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe--Stanley Elkin
I See You Never--Ray Bradbury
I Stand Here Ironing--Tillie Olsen
I Want to Know Why--Sherwood Anderson
Ice House, The--Caroline Gordon
Ice Wagon Going Down the Street, The--Mavis Gallant
Icicle, The--Abram Tertz
Idiots First--Bernard Malamud
Idle Days on the Yann--Lord Dunsany
If the River Was Whiskey--T. Coraghessan Boyle
I'm a Fool--Sherwood Anderson
I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard--Clark Blaise
I'm Your Horse in the Night--Luisa Valenzuela
Imagination Dead Imagine--Samuel Beckett
Imagined Scenes--Ann Beattie
Imitation of the Rose, The--Clarice Lispector
Immigration Blues--Bienvenido N. Santos
Impulse--Conrad Aiken
In a Father's Place--Christopher Tilghman
In a Great Man's House--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
In a Grove--Ry{umacr}nosuke Akutagawa
In Another Country--Ernest Hemingway
In Darkness and Confusion--Ann Petry
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities--Delmore Schwartz
In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks--Hortense Calisher
In Search of Epifano--Rudolfo A. Anaya
In the American Society--Gish Jen
In the Basement--Isaac Babel
In the Cage--Henry James
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried--Amy Hempel
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs--Tobias Wolff
In the Gloaming--Alice Elliott Dark
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country--William H. Gass
In the Land of the Free--Sui Sin Far
In the Penal Colony--Franz Kafka
In the Region of Ice--Joyce Carol Oates
In the Shadow of War--Ben Okri
In the White Night--Ann Beattie
In the Zoo--Jean Stafford
Ind Aff--Fay Weldon
Indian Camp--Ernest Hemingway
Indian Uprising, The--Donald Barthelme
Indissoluble Matrimony--Rebecca West
Infant Prodigy, The--Thomas Mann
Innocence--Harold Brodkey
Innocence--Seán O'Faoláin
Instructions for John Howell--Julio Cortázar
Intensive Care--Lee Smith
Interest in Life, An--Grace Paley
Interior Castle, The--Jean Stafford
Interlopers, The--Saki
Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri
Intertextuality--Mary Gordon
Inventing the Abbotts--Sue Miller
Invisible Man, The--G. K. Chesterton
Island at Noon, The--Julio Cortázar
Islands on the Moon--Barbara Kingsolver
It May Never Happen--V. S. Pritchett
Ivy Day in the Committee Room--James Joyce
Ivy Gripped the Steps--Elizabeth Bowen
Jackals and Arabs--Franz Kafka
Jacklighting--Ann Beattie
Janus--Ann Beattie
Japanese Hamlet--Toshio Mori
Japanese Quince, The--John Galsworthy
Jasmine--Bharati Mukherjee
Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot--Robert Olen Butler
Jean-ah Poquelin--George Washington Cable
Jewbird, The--Bernard Malamud
Jilting of Granny Weatherall, The--Katherine Anne Porter
Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn--Mark Twain
John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore--Angela Carter
John Napper Sailing Through the Universe--John Gardner
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams--Sylvia Plath
Jolly Corner, The--Henry James
Jordan's End--Ellen Glasgow
Jorinda and Jorindel--Mavis Gallant
Josephine the Singer--Franz Kafka
Journey Back to the Source--Alejo Carpentier
Journey Through the Night--Jakov Lind
Judas--Frank O'Connor
Julia and the Bazooka--Anna Kavan
Julia Cahill's Curse--George Moore
Jury of Her Peers, A--Susan Glaspell
Just Lather, That's All--Hernando Téllez
Just Like a Tree--Ernest J. Gaines
Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden--Eudora Welty
Kepi, The--Colette
Kerchief, The--Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Key, The--Vþ Phiên
Kill Day on the Government Wharf--Audrey Thomas
Killed at Resaca--Ambrose Bierce
Killers, The--Ernest Hemingway
Killing of a State Cop, The--Simon J. Ortiz
Killings--Andre Dubus
Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, The--Reginald McKnight
Kindred Spirits--Alice Walker
King of the Bingo Game--Ralph Ellison
King Solomon--Isaac Rosenfeld
King's Indian, The--John Gardner
Kiss, The--Anton Chekhov
Kleist in Thun--Robert Walser
Kneel to the Rising Sun--Erskine Caldwell
Knife Thrower, The--Steven Millhauser
Kugelmass Episode, The--Woody Allen
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District--Nikolai Leskov
Lady or the Tiger?, The--Frank R. Stockton
Lady with the Dog, The--Anton Chekhov
Lady with the Pet Dog, The--Joyce Carol Oates
Lagoon, The--Joseph Conrad
Lamb to the Slaughter--Roald Dahl
Language of Cats, The--Spencer Holst
Last Class, The--Alphonse Daudet
Last Days of a Famous Mime, The--Peter Carey
Last Judgment, The--Karel {Ccaron}apek
Last Mohican, The--Bernard Malamud
Laugher, The--Heinrich Böll
Laughter of My Father, The--José Antonio Villarreal
Laura--Saki
Lawns--Mona Simpson
Lazarus--Leonid Andreyev
Leader of the People, The--John Steinbeck
Leaning Tower, The--Katherine Anne Porter
Leap, The--Louise Erdrich
Learning to Swim--Graham Swift
Leaves--John Updike
Leaving the Yellow House--Saul Bellow
Leaving This Island Place--Austin Clarke
Lechery--Jayne Anne Phillips
Ledge, The--Lawrence Sargent Hall
Lefty--Nikolai Leskov
Legal Aid--Frank O'Connor
Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler, The--Gustave Flaubert
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The--Washington Irving
Lena--Mavis Gallant
Lenz--Georg Büchner
Lesson, The--Toni Cade Bambara
Lesson of the Master, The--Henry James
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead--Milan Kundera
Liar, The--Tobias Wolff
Liars in Love--Richard Yates
Library of Babel, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Life in the Air Ocean--Sylvia Foley
Life in the Iron Mills--Rebecca Harding Davis
Life-Story--John Barth
Life You Save May Be Your Own, The--Flannery O'Connor
Lifeguard--John Updike
Ligeia--Edgar Allan Poe
Light Action in the Caribbean--Barry Lopez
Lightning--Donald Barthelme
Like a Winding Sheet--Ann Petry
Like the Night--Alejo Carpentier
Lions, Harts, Leaping Does--J. F. Powers
Lispeth--Rudyard Kipling
Little Cloud, A--James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann--Thomas Mann
Little Legend of the Dance, A--Gottfried Keller
Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality--Vassily Aksyonov
Little Wife, The--William March
Little Woman--Sally Benson
Living Relic, A--Ivan Turgenev
Livingstone's Companions--Nadine Gordimer
Lodging for the Night, A--Robert Louis Stevenson
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, The--Alan Sillitoe
Long Day in November, A--Ernest J. Gaines
Long Distance--Jane Smiley
Long-Distance Runner, The--Grace Paley
Looking for a Rain God--Bessie Head
Looking for Mr. Green--Saul Bellow
Loons, The--Margaret Laurence
Lost Boy, The--Thomas Wolfe
Lost in the Funhouse--John Barth
Lost Phoebe, The--Theodore Dreiser
Lottery, The--Shirley Jackson
Lottery in Babylon, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Loudest Voice, The--Grace Paley
Love--Guy de Maupassant
Love Decoy, The--S. J. Perelman
Love of a Good Woman, The--Alice Munro
Lover of Horses, The--Tess Gallagher
Luck of Roaring Camp, The--Bret Harte
Lullaby--Leslie Marmon Silko
Lust--Susan Minot
Lyubka the Cossack--Isaac Babel
Madame Célestin's Divorce--Kate Chopin
Madame Tellier's Establishment--Guy de Maupassant
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland--Carson McCullers
Ma'Dear--Terry McMillan
Mademoiselle Fifi--Guy de Maupassant
Madness of Doctor Montarco, The--Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Magic Barrel, The--Bernard Malamud
Maiden in a Tower--Wallace Stegner
Mammon and the Archer--O. Henry
Man from Mars, The--Margaret Atwood
Man in a Case, The--Anton Chekhov
Man in the Black Suit, The--Stephen King
Man of the World, The--Frank O'Connor
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The--Mark Twain
Man to Send Rain Clouds, The--Leslie Marmon Silko
Man Who Became a Woman, The--Sherwood Anderson
Man Who Could Work Miracles, The--H. G. Wells
Man Who Found a Pistol, The--Rudolfo A. Anaya
Man Who Invented Sin, The--Seán O'Faoláin
Man Who Knew Belle Starr, The--Richard Bausch
Man Who Lived Underground, The--Richard Wright
Man Who Loved Islands, The--D. H. Lawrence
Man Who Studied Yoga, The--Norman Mailer
Man Who Was Almost a Man, The--Richard Wright
Man Who Would Be King, The--Rudyard Kipling
Man with the Dog, The--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Man with the Lapdog, The--Beth Lordan
Man, Woman and Boy--Stephen Dixon
Management of Grief, The--Bharati Mukherjee
Ms. Found in a Bottle--Edgar Allan Poe
Many Are Disappointed--V. S. Pritchett
Margins--Donald Barthelme
María Concepción--Katherine Anne Porter
Marijuana Party, The--Mary Helen Ponce
Mario and the Magician--Thomas Mann
Marjorie Daw--Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mark on the Wall, The--Virginia Woolf
Markheim--Robert Louis Stevenson
Marquise of O----, The--Heinrich von Kleist
Marriage à la Mode--Katherine Mansfield
Masque of the Red Death, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Master and Man--Leo Tolstoy
Mateo Falcone--Prosper Mérimée
Matryona's House--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
May Day--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Medusa's Ankles--A. S. Byatt
Meeting in the Dark, A--Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Melungeons--Chris Offutt
Memories of the Space Age--J. G. Ballard
Memory, A--Eudora Welty
Men Under Water--Ralph Lombreglia
Meneseteung--Alice Munro
Metamorphoses--John Cheever
Metamorphosis, The--Franz Kafka
Midair--Frank Conroy
Middle Years, The--Henry James
Midnight Mass--Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Midsummer Night Madness--Seán O'Faoláin
Migrants--Elizabeth Tallent
Minister's Black Veil, The--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Minor Heroism--Allan Gurganus
Miracle Boy--Pinckney Benedict
Miracle of the Birds, The--Jorge Amado
Miriam--Truman Capote
Mirrors--Carol Shields
Misery--Anton Chekhov
Miss Brill--Katherine Mansfield
Miss Cynthie--Rudolph Fisher
Miss Leonora When Last Seen--Peter Taylor
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself--Radclyffe Hall
Miss Tempy's Watchers--Sarah Orne Jewett
Moccasin Game--Gerald Vizenor
Mole, The--Yasunari Kawabata
Monkey, The--Isak Dinesen
Monkey's Paw, The--W. W. Jacobs
Monster, The--Stephen Crane
Moon and Madness--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Moon Deluxe--Frederick Barthelme
Moons of Jupiter, The--Alice Munro
Moor, The--Russell Banks
Mosby's Memoirs--Saul Bellow
Most Dangerous Game, The--Richard Connell
Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nry J*m*s, The--Max Beerbohm
Mother's Tale, A--James Agee
Moths, The--Helena María Viramontes
Mountain Tavern, The--Liam O'Flaherty
Moving, The--James Still
Moving Pictures--Charles Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Baby--Mark Strand
Mrs. Fortescue--Doris Lessing
Mrs. Plum--Ezekiel Mphahlele
Mrs. Ripley's Trip--Hamlin Garland
Municipal Report, A--O. Henry
Murderers--Leonard Michaels
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Murke's Collected Silences--Heinrich Böll
My First Goose--Isaac Babel
My Kinsman, Major Molineux--Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Man Bovanne--Toni Cade Bambara
My Mother--Jamaica Kincaid
My Oedipus Complex--Frank O'Connor
My Old Man--Ernest Hemingway
My Side of the Matter--Truman Capote
My Warszawa--Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Kôr--Elizabeth Bowen
Nairobi--Joyce Carol Oates
Nasty Story, A--Fyodor Dostoevski
National Honeymoon--Paul Horgan
Native of Winby, A--Sarah Orne Jewett
Nebraska--Ron Hansen
Necklace, The--Guy de Maupassant
Neighbor Rosicky--Willa Cather
Neighbors--Raymond Carver
Neighbors--Diane Oliver
Nevada Gas--Raymond Chandler
New Apartment, The--Heinz Huber
New England Nun, A--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
New Islands--María Luisa Bombal
New Year for Fong Wing--Monfoon Leong
New Year's Eve Adventure, A--E. T. A. Hoffmann
Night-Sea Journey--John Barth
Night Swimming--Pete Fromm
Night Women--Edwidge Danticat
Nightfall--Isaac Asimov
No One's a Mystery--Elizabeth Tallent
No Place for You, My Love--Eudora Welty
No Trace--David Madden
Nomad and Viper--Amos Oz
Noon Wine--Katherine Anne Porter
North Light--Mark Helprin
Northern Lights, The--Joy Harjo
Norwegian Rat, The--Naguib Mahfouz
Nose, The--Nikolai Gogol
Not a Good Girl--Perri Klass
Now That April's Here--Morley Callaghan
Nun, The--Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Nun's Mother, The--Mary Lavin
Occasion of Sin, An--John Montague
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An--Ambrose Bierce
Odour of Chrysanthemums--D. H. Lawrence
Of This Time, Of That Place--Lionel Trilling
Official Position, An--W. Somerset Maugham
Oh, the Wonder!--Jeremy Larner
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"--M. R. James
Old Bird, The--J. F. Powers
Old Forest, The--Peter Taylor
Old Light--Barry Targan
Old Man Slave and the Mastiff, The--Patrick Chamoiseau
Old Mortality--Katherine Anne Porter
Old Red--Caroline Gordon
Old Vemish--Barry Targan
Old West--Richard Bausch
Old Woman Magoun--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Old-World Landowners--Nikolai Gogol
On Account of a Hat--Sholom Aleichem
On Discovery--Maxine Hong Kingston
On Hope--Spencer Holst
On the Golden Porch--Tatyana Tolstaya
On the Road--Langston Hughes
On the Shore of Chad Creek--Jack Matthews
One Holy Night--Sandra Cisneros
{pound}1,000,000 Bank-Note, The--Mark Twain
One of a Kind--Julian Barnes
One of Cleopatra's Nights--Théophile Gautier
One of the Missing--Ambrose Bierce
One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts--Shirley Jackson
Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The--Ursula K. Le Guin
Only Man on Liberty Street, The--William Melvin Kelley
Open Boat, The--Stephen Crane
Open House--Nadine Gordimer
Open Window, The--Saki
Oranging of America, The--Max Apple
Order of Insects--William H. Gass
Ordinary Son, The--Ron Carlson
Other Paris, The--Mavis Gallant
Other Side of the Hedge, The--E. M. Forster
Other Two, The--Edith Wharton
Outcasts of Poker Flat, The--Bret Harte
Outlaws, The--Selma Lagerlöf
Outpost of Progress, An--Joseph Conrad
Outrage, The--Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
Outside the Machine--Jean Rhys
Outstation, The--W. Somerset Maugham
Overcoat, The--Nikolai Gogol
Overcoat II, The--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Pacific, The--Mark Helprin
Pacing Goose, The--Jessamyn West
Pagan Rabbi, The--Cynthia Ozick
Painful Case, A--James Joyce
Pale Horse, Pale Rider--Katherine Anne Porter
Paperhanger, The--William Gay
Paradise--Edna O'Brien
Paraguay--Donald Barthelme
Parker's Back--Flannery O'Connor
Parsley Garden, The--William Saroyan
Passing of Grandison, The--Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Passion for History, A--Stephen Minot
Passion in the Desert, A--Honoré de Balzac
Pastoralia--George Saunders
Patriotism--Yukio Mishima
Paul's Case--Willa Cather
Peach Stone, The--Paul Horgan
Peaches, The--Dylan Thomas
Pearl, The--John Steinbeck
Peasant Marey, The--Fyodor Dostoevski
Pedersen Kid, The--William H. Gass
Pedestrian Accident, A--Robert Coover
People Like That Are the Only People Here--Lorrie Moore
People of the Dog--Alma Villanueva
Perfect Day for Bananafish, A--J. D. Salinger
Pet Fly--Walter Mosley
Pet Milk--Stuart Dybek
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man--William Austin
Petrified Man--Eudora Welty
Piece of News, A--Eudora Welty
Piece of Steak, A--Jack London
Piece of String, The--Guy de Maupassant
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote--Jorge Luis Borges
Pigeon Feathers--John Updike
Pipa's Story--Lan Samantha Chang
Pit and the Pendulum, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Pkhentz--Abram Tertz
Pleasure of Her Company, The--Jane Smiley
Poet, The--Hermann Hesse
Poetics for Bullies, A--Stanley Elkin
Portable Phonograph, The--Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Portobello Road, The--Muriel Spark
Post Office, The--Liam O'Flaherty
Powerhouse--Eudora Welty
Prelude--Katherine Mansfield
Pretty Ice--Mary Robison
Prince of Darkness--J. F. Powers
Prison, The--Bernard Malamud
Private Domain--James Alan McPherson
Prize Stock--Kenzabur{omacr} {Omacr}e
Problem of Cell Thirteen, The--Jacques Futrelle
Procurator of Judea, The--Anatole France
Profession: Housewife--Sally Benson
Prophet from Jupiter, The--Tony Earley
Prowler--Elizabeth Tallent
Prussian Officer, The--D. H. Lawrence
Psychiatrist, The--Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Psychopolis--Ian McEwan
Pugilist at Rest, The--Thom Jones
Pupil, The--Henry James
Purloined Letter, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Putois--Anatole France
Puttermesser Paired--Cynthia Ozick
Puzzleheaded Girl, The--Christina Stead
Queen of Diamonds--Michael Anthony Dorris
Queen of Spades, The--Alexander Pushkin
Queer Heart, A--Elizabeth Bowen
Ragman's Daughter, The--Alan Sillitoe
Rags of Time, The--Barry Targan
Raid, The--Leo Tolstoy
Rain--W. Somerset Maugham
Rainy Moon, The--Colette
Ralph the Duck--Frederick Busch
Ram in the Thicket, The--Wright Morris
Ransom of Red Chief, The--O. Henry
Rape Fantasies--Margaret Atwood
Rappaccini's Daughter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rash{omacr}mon--Ry{umacr}nosuke Akutagawa
Raymond's Run--Toni Cade Bambara
Real Thing, The--Henry James
Reasonable Facsimile, A--Jean Stafford
Recluse, A--Walter de la Mare
Red Convertible, The--Louise Erdrich
Red-Headed League, The--Arthur Conan Doyle
Red Leaves--William Faulkner
Redemption--John Gardner
Rembrandt's Hat--Bernard Malamud
Remembering Orchards--Barry Lopez
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman--Harlan Ellison
Report to an Academy, A--Franz Kafka
Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, The--Tennessee
Williams
Reservations--Peter Taylor
Residents and Transients--Bobbie Ann Mason
Return of a Private, The--Hamlin Garland
Return of Chorb, The--Vladimir Nabokov
Return to Return--Barry Hannah
Reunion, The--Maya Angelou
Revelation--Flannery O'Connor
Revenant, A--Walter de la Mare
Reverent Wooing of Archibald, The--P. G. Wodehouse
Revolt of "Mother," The--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Revolutionary Tale, A--Nikki Giovanni
Rich Boy, The--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rich Brother, The--Tobias Wolff
Riddle, A--Antonio Tabucchi
Rip Van Winkle--Washington Irving
Rise of Maud Martha, The--Gwendolyn Brooks
Ritter Gluck--E. T. A. Hoffmann
River, The--Flannery O'Connor
Road from Colonus, The--E. M. Forster
Road to the Isles--Jessamyn West
Rock Springs--Richard Ford
Rocking-Horse Winner, The--D. H. Lawrence
Rodman the Keeper--Constance Fenimore Woolson
Roger Malvin's Burial--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Roman Fever--Edith Wharton
Rope--Katherine Anne Porter
Rosa--Cynthia Ozick
Rose for Emily, A--William Faulkner
Rose in the Heart of New York, A--Edna O'Brien
Rose-Johnny--Barbara Kingsolver
Roses, Rhododendron--Alice Adams
Rothschild's Fiddle--Anton Chekhov
Round by Round--Conrad Aiken
Royal Beatings--Alice Munro
Rules of the Game--Amy Tan
Saboteur--Ha Jin
Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, The--Joel Chandler Harris
Sailor-Boy's Tale, The--Isak Dinesen
Sailor Off the Bremen--Irwin Shaw
Saint, The--V. S. Pritchett
Saint Augustine's Pigeon--Evan S. Connell, Jr
Saint Marie--Louise Erdrich
Saints--Denise Chávez
Sam the Cat--Matthew Klam
Same Place, Same Things--Tim Gautreaux
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass--Bruno Schulz
Sandman, The--E. T. A. Hoffmann
Sandstone Farmhouse, A--John Updike
Sarah Cole--Russell Banks
Saturday Night--James T. Farrell
Save the Reaper--Alice Munro
Say Yes--Tobias Wolff
Scandal in Bohemia, A--Arthur Conan Doyle
Scandalous Woman, A--Edna O'Brien
Scapegoat, The--Paul Laurence Dunbar
Schartz-Metterklume Method, The--Saki
Schreuderspitze, The--Mark Helprin
Schrödinger's Cat--Ursula K. Le Guin
Scorpion, The--Paul Bowles
Screamers, The--Amiri Baraka
Sculptor's Funeral, The--Willa Cather
Seaton's Aunt--Walter de la Mare
Second Tree from the Corner, The--E. B. White
Secret Integration, The--Thomas Pynchon
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The--James Thurber
Secret Lives of Dieters, The--Perri Klass
Secret Miracle, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Secret Room, The--Alain Robbe-Grillet
Secret Sharer, The--Joseph Conrad
See the Moon?--Donald Barthelme
Sense of Humour--V. S. Pritchett
Sentinel, The--Arthur C. Clarke
Servants of the Map--Andrea Barrett
Settled on the Cranberry Coast--Michael Byers
Seven Floors--Dino Buzzati
Seventeen Syllables--Hisaye Yamamoto
Seventh Trunk, The--Heinrich Böll
Shape of Light, A--William Goyen
Shape of the Sword, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Shawl, The--Cynthia Ozick
She Is Beautiful in Her Whole Being--N. Scott Momaday
She-Wolf, The--Giovanni Verga
Sheriff's Children, The--Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Shifting--Ann Beattie
Shiloh--Bobbie Ann Mason
Shoemaker Arnold--Earl Lovelace
Short Friday--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The--Ernest Hemingway
Shot, The--Alexander Pushkin
Shower of Gold, A--Donald Barthelme
Shower of Gold--Eudora Welty
Sick Call, A--Morley Callaghan
Sick Child, The--Colette
Signal-Man, The--Charles Dickens
Signing, The--Stephen Dixon
Signs and Symbols--Vladimir Nabokov
Silence--Carlos Bulosan
Silence of the Llano, The--Rudolfo A. Anaya
Silent Passengers--Larry Woiwode
Silent Snow, Secret Snow--Conrad Aiken
Silver Dish, A--Saul Bellow
Silver Mine, The--Selma Lagerlöf
Silver Water--Amy Bloom
Simple Heart, A--Gustave Flaubert
Sin-Eater, The--Margaret Atwood
Singing Dinah's Song--Frank London Brown
Singing Man, The--Fielding Dawson
Sire de Malétroit's Door, The--Robert Louis Stevenson
Sisters, The--James Joyce
Sky Is Gray, The--Ernest J. Gaines
Slaughterhouse--Greg Sarris
Sleep--Larry Brown
Slide Area, The--Gavin Lambert
Small, Good Thing, A--Raymond Carver
Smallest Woman in the World, The--Clarice Lispector
Smell of Death and Flowers, The--Nadine Gordimer
Smiles of Konarak, The--George Dennison
Smoker, The--David Schickler
Snake, The--John Steinbeck
Snake Charmer, The--Varlam Shalamov
Sniper, The--Liam O'Flaherty
Sniper, The--Alan Sillitoe
Snow--Alice Adams
Snow--Ann Beattie
Snow--Ted Hughes
Snow-Storm, The--Leo Tolstoy
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The--Ernest Hemingway
So Much Water So Close to Home--Raymond Carver
So on He Fares--George Moore
Soldier's Embrace, A--Nadine Gordimer
Soldier's Home--Ernest Hemingway
Solo on the Drums--Ann Petry
Some Like Them Cold--Ring Lardner
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby--Donald
Barthelme
Some Say the World--Susan Perabo
Somebody Up There Likes Me--Ralph Lombreglia
Something Out There--Nadine Gordimer
Somnambulism--Charles Brockden Brown
Son of the Wolfman--Michael Chabon
Sonny's Blues--James Baldwin
Sophistication--Sherwood Anderson
Sorrow-Acre--Isak Dinesen
Sorrowful Woman, A--Gail Godwin
Sound of a Drunken Drummer--H. W. Blattner
South, The--Jorge Luis Borges
Southern Thruway, The--Julio Cortázar
Speck's Idea--Mavis Gallant
Spinoza of Market Street, The--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Spirit Woman--Paula Gunn Allen
Split Cherry Tree--Jesse Stuart
Spotted Horses--William Faulkner
Spring Victory--Jesse Stuart
Spunk--Zora Neale Hurston
Sredni Vashtar--Saki
Stalking--Joyce Carol Oates
Star, The--Arthur C. Clarke
Star Food--Ethan Canin
State of England--Martin Amis
Station-Master, The--Alexander Pushkin
Steady Going Up--Maya Angelou
Steppe, The--Anton Chekhov
Stick of Green Candy, A--Jane Bowles
Stone Boy, The--Gina Berriault
Storm, The--Kate Chopin
Story, A--Dylan Thomas
Story by Maupassant, A--Frank O'Connor
Story of an Hour, The--Kate Chopin
Story of My Dovecot, The--Isaac Babel
Story of Serapion, The--E. T. A. Hoffmann
Storytellers, The--Fred Chappell
Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The--Rudyard Kipling
Street of Crocodiles, The--Bruno Schulz
Strong Horse Tea--Alice Walker
Structural Anthropology--Adam Mars-Jones
Stucco House, The--Ellen Gilchrist
Sudden Trip Home in the Spring, A--Alice Walker
Suicide Club, The--Robert Louis Stevenson
Suicides--Cesare Pavese
Suitor, The--Larry Woiwode
Summer Evening--Kay Boyle
Summer League--Danny Romero
Summer Night--Elizabeth Bowen
Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, The--William Saroyan
Summer Tragedy, A--Arna Bontemps
Summer's Reading, A--Bernard Malamud
Sun--D. H. Lawrence
Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn--Anatole Broyard
Sunday in the Park--Bel Kaufman
Supper at Elsinore, The--Isak Dinesen
Supremacy of the Hunza, The--Joanne Greenberg
Sur--Ursula K. Le Guin
Susanna at the Beach--Herbert Gold
Swaddling Clothes--Yukio Mishima
Sweat--Zora Neale Hurston
Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, The--Tim O'Brien
Swimmer, The--John Cheever
Swimmers, The--Joyce Carol Oates
Sylvie--Gérard de Nerval
Symbol, The--Virginia Woolf
Tables of the Law, The--William Butler Yeats
Take Pity--Bernard Malamud
Taking Care--Joy Williams
Tale, The--Joseph Conrad
Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta--Kate Braverman
Talpa--Juan Rulfo
Tatuana's Tale--Miguel þngel Asturias
Tears, Idle Tears--Elizabeth Bowen
Teenage Wasteland--Anne Tyler
Tell Me a Riddle--Tillie Olsen
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone--James Baldwin
Tell-Tale Heart, The--Edgar Allan Poe
Tell Them Not to Kill Me!--Juan Rulfo
Tender Shoot, The--Colette
Tennessee's Partner--Bret Harte
Terrific Mother--Lorrie Moore
Territory--David Leavitt
Testimony of Pilot--Barry Hannah
Texts for Nothing 3--Samuel Beckett
Thank You, M'am--Langston Hughes
Thanksgiving Day--Susan Minot
That Evening Sun--William Faulkner
That in Aleppo Once--Vladimir Nabokov
Theater--Jean Toomer
Theft--Katherine Anne Porter
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero--Jorge Luis Borges
There Will Come Soft Rains--Ray Bradbury
These Hands--Kevin Brockmeier
They--Rudyard Kipling
They Won't Crack It Open--Yong-Ik Kim
Thief--Robley Wilson
Things They Carried, The--Tim O'Brien
Third and Final Continent, The--Jhumpa Lahiri
Third Bank of the River, The--Joþo Guimarþes Rosa
Third Prize, The--A. E. Coppard
This Indolence of Mine--Italo Svevo
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona--Sherman Alexie
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon--James Baldwin
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman--Tadeusz Borowski
Three-Day Blow, The--Ernest Hemingway
Three Deaths--Leo Tolstoy
Three Hermits, The--Leo Tolstoy
Three of Them, The--Edna Ferber
Three Players of a Summer Game--Tennessee Williams
Three Strangers, The--Thomas Hardy
Thrown Away--Rudyard Kipling
Tickets, Please--D. H. Lawrence
Time of Her Time, The--Norman Mailer
Time the Tiger--Wyndham Lewis
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--Jorge Luis Borges
To Build a Fire--Jack London
To Hell with Dying--Alice Walker
To Room Nineteen--Doris Lessing
Toad's Mouth--Isabel Allende
Today Will Be a Quiet Day--Amy Hempel
Together and Apart--Virginia Woolf
Tommy--John Edgar Wideman
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth--John Updike
Tonio Kröger--Thomas Mann
Toughest Indian in the World, The--Sherman Alexie
Town and Country Lovers--Nadine Gordimer
Town Poor, The--Sarah Orne Jewett
Town Smokes--Pinckney Benedict
Tractor, The--Peter Cowan
Train--Joy Williams
Train from Rhodesia, The--Nadine Gordimer
Traveler--Ellen Gilchrist
Tree. A Rock. A Cloud., A--Carson McCullers
Tree of Knowledge, The--Henry James
Tree of Night, A--Truman Capote
Trick or Treat--Padgett Powell
Trifling Occurrence, A--Anton Chekhov
Trilobites--Breece D'J Pancake
Tristan--Thomas Mann
Trout, The--Seán O'Faoláin
Truant--Claude McKay
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, A--Daniel Defoe
True Story, A--Mark Twain
Trumpet, The--Walter de la Mare
Truth and Lies--Reynolds Price
Truth or Consequences--Alice Adams
Tumblers, The--Nathan Englander
Twenty-seventh Man, The--Nathan Englander
Twenty-six Men and a Girl--Maxim Gorky
Two Blue Birds--D. H. Lawrence
Two Bottles of Relish, The--Lord Dunsany
Two Brothers--Brian Evenson
Two Drovers, The--Sir Walter Scott
Two Elenas, The--Carlos Fuentes
Two Gallants--James Joyce
Two Kinds--Amy Tan
Two Little Soldiers--Guy de Maupassant
Two Lovely Beasts--Liam O'Flaherty
Typhoon--Joseph Conrad
Ugliest House in the World, The--Peter Ho Davies
Ugliest Pilgrim, The--Doris Betts
Uncle--R. K. Narayan
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut--J. D. Salinger
Under a Glass Bell--Anaïs Nin
Under the Banyan Tree--R. K. Narayan
Under the Lion's Paw--Hamlin Garland
Under the Rose--Thomas Pynchon
Unknown Masterpiece, The--Honoré de Balzac
Unmailed, Unwritten Letters--Joyce Carol Oates
Unperformed Experiments Have No Results-- Janette Turner Hospital
Unsound Sleep, An--Nhât Tiên
Up Among the Eagles--Luisa Valenzuela
Up the Bare Stairs--Seán O'Faoláin
Upon the Sweeping Flood--Joyce Carol Oates
Upturned Face, The--Stephen Crane
Use of Force, The--William Carlos Williams
Used-Boy Raisers, The--Grace Paley
Valiant Woman, The--J. F. Powers
Valley of Sin, The--Lee K. Abbott
Vane Sisters, The--Vladimir Nabokov
Vanka--Anton Chekhov
Veldt, The--Ray Bradbury
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time--Peter Taylor
Verona--Harold Brodkey
Vertical Ladder, The--William Sansom
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, A--Gabriel García Márquez
Very Thing That Happens, The--Russell Edson
Victory over Japan--Ellen Gilchrist
Victrola--Wright Morris
Views of My Father Weeping--Donald Barthelme
Village Singer, A--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Villon's Wife--Osamu Dazai
Visit of Charity, A--Eudora Welty
Visit to Grandmother, A--William Melvin Kelley
Visitor, The--Russell Banks
Viy--Nikolai Gogol
Wait, The--Rick Bass
Waiting--Joyce Carol Oates
Wakefield--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walk, The--José Donoso
Walk, The--Robert Walser
Walk in the Sun, A--Geoffrey A. Landis
Walker Brothers Cowboy--Alice Munro
Wall, The--William Sansom
Wall, The--Jean-Paul Sartre
Walter Briggs--John Updike
Waltz of the Fat Man--Alberto Ríos
Wanderers, The--Alun Lewis
Wandering Willie's Tale--Sir Walter Scott
War--Luigi Pirandello
Ward No. 6--Anton Chekhov
Warrior Princess Ozimba, The--Reynolds Price
Wash--William Faulkner
Watch, The--Rick Bass
Watcher, The--Italo Calvino
Water Liars--Barry Hannah
Way of Talking, A--Patricia Grace
Way Stations--Harriet Doerr
Way We Live Now, The--Susan Sontag
We Blacks All Drink Coffee--Mirta Yáñez
Wedding Night--Tommaso Landolfi
Welcome to Utah--Michel Butor
Welding with Children--Tim Gautreaux
Wet Day, A--Mary Lavin
Wet Saturday--John Collier
What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?--Joyce Carol Oates
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--Raymond Carver
What You Hear from 'Em?--Peter Taylor
When I Was Thirteen--Denton Welch
When the Light Gets Green--Robert Penn Warren
When We Were Wolves--Jon Billman
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?--Joyce Carol Oates
Where Is the Voice Coming From?--Eudora Welty
Where Is the Voice Coming From?--Rudy Wiebe
Where the Jackals Howl--Amos Oz
White Angel--Michael Cunningham
White Heron, A--Sarah Orne Jewett
White Horse, A--Thom Jones
White Horses of Vienna, The--Kay Boyle
White Nights--Fyodor Dostoevski
White Rat--Gayl Jones
White Stocking, The--D. H. Lawrence
Whole Loaf, A--Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Whore of Mensa, The--Woody Allen
Why Can't They Tell You Why?--James Purdy
Why Don't You Dance?--Raymond Carver
Why I Live at the P.O.--Eudora Welty
Wicked Girl--Isabel Allende
Wide Net, The--Eudora Welty
Widow, The--Beth Lordan
Widow's Son, The--Mary Lavin
Wife of His Youth, The--Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Wife's Story, A--Bharati Mukherjee
Wild Swans--Alice Munro
Wildgoose Lodge--William Carleton
Will, The--Mary Lavin
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?--Raymond Carver
William Wilson--Edgar Allan Poe
Willis Carr at Bleak House--David Madden
Willows, The--Algernon Blackwood
Wind and the Snow of Winter, The--Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Winter Dreams--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winter Night--Kay Boyle
Winter: 1978--Ann Beattie
Wireless--Rudyard Kipling
Wish House, The--Rudyard Kipling
Wissler Remembers--Richard G. Stern
Witch's Money--John Collier
Within and Without--Hermann Hesse
Witness, The--Ann Petry
Woman at the Store, The--Katherine Mansfield
Woman Hollering Creek--Sandra Cisneros
Woman on a Roof, A--Doris Lessing
Woman Who Rode Away, The--D. H. Lawrence
Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, The--Joel Chandler Harris
Wondersmith, The--Fitz-James O'Brien
Work--David Plante
World According to Hsü, The--Bharati Mukherjee
World Ends, A--Wolfgang Hildesheimer
World of Apples, The--John Cheever
World of Stone, The--Tadeusz Borowski
Worn Path, A--Eudora Welty
Wrack--Donald Barthelme
Wunderkind--Carson McCullers
Year of the Hot Jock, The--Irvin Faust
Yellow Wallpaper, The--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yellow Woman--Leslie Marmon Silko
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yermolai and the Miller's Wife--Ivan Turgenev
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town--Zoë Wicomb
Young Archimedes--Aldous Huxley
Young Goodman Brown--Nathaniel Hawthorne
You're Ugly Too--Lorrie Moore
Youth--Joseph Conrad
Zulu and the Zeide, The--Dan Jacobson
APPENDICES
Glossary
Bibliography
Chronological List of Stories
INDEXES
Title Index
Author Index
Geographical Index
Type of Plot Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Fiction 19th century Stories, plots, etc, Fiction 19th century History and criticism, Fiction 20th century Stories, plots, etc, Fiction 20th century History and criticism, Short story