The Oxford book of American short stories

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.

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.