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The Oxford book of American short stories
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From the Book
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin
The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens
a white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
The storm / Kate Chopin
The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The middle years / Henry James
In a far country / Jack London
Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The little regiment / Stephen Crane
A journey / Edith Wharton
The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson.
A death in the desert / Willa Cather
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The girl with a pimply face / William Carlos Williams
He / Katherine Anne Porter
That evening sun / William Faulkner
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston / Red-headed baby / Langston Hughes
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
A distant episode / Paul Bowles
A late encounter with the enemy / Falnnery O'Connor
Sony's blues / James Baldwin
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor
Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty.
The lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer
My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud
Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow
The death of Justina / John Cheever
Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin
The school / Donald Barthelme / The persistence of desire / John Updike
Alaska / Alice Adams
Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver
Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates
Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason
Fever / John Edgar Wideman
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Two kinds / Amy Tan
Fleur / Louise Erdrich
Gravity / David Leavitt.
The house on Mango Street; What Sally said; Linoleum roses; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros
Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict.
From the Book
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin
Wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville
Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens
White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Storm / Kate Chopin
Sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt
Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Middle years / Henry James
In a far country / Jack London
Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Little regiment / Stephen Crane
Journey / Edith Wharton
Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson.
Death in the desert / Willa Cather
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
Clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl with a pimply face / William Carlos Williams
He / Katherine Anne Porter
That evening sun / William Faulkner
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
Red-headed baby / Langston Hughes
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Distant episode / Paul Bowles
Late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison
There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor
Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty.
Lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer
My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud
Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow
Death of Justina / John Cheever
Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin
School / Donald Barthelme / Persistence of desire / John Updike
Alaska / Alice Adams
Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver
Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
Shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates
Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason
Fever / John Edgar Wideman
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Two kinds / Amy Tan
Fleur / Louise Erdrich
Gravity / David Leavitt
House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; House of my own / Sandra Cisneros
Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict.
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9780192824066
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