ILSE AICHINGER 1
The Bound Man 1
SHERWOOD ANDERSON 9
I Want to Know Why 9
JAMES BALDWIN 15
This Morning，This Evening，So Soon 15
JOHN BARTH 38
Title 38
DONALD BARTHELME 43
A Shower of Gold 43
AMBROSE BIERCE 49
Chickamauga 49
HEINRICH BOLL 53
Christmas Every Day 53
ARNA BONTEMPS 66
A Summer Tragedy 66
JORGE LUIs BORGES 72
The Garden of Forking Paths 72
The Library of Babel 78
The South 83
ELIZABETH BOWEN 88
Her Table Spread 88
KAY BOYLE 93
Astronomer’s Wife 93
RAY BRADBURY 97
August 2002：Night Meeting 97
ALBERT CAMUS 102
The Guest 102
JOHN CHEEVER 110
The Country Husband 110
ANTON CHEKHOV 125
The Bet 125
The Darling 130
Gooseberries 138
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER 145
The Flashlight 145
SAMUEL L.CLEMENS 164
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 164
WILKIE COLLINS 190
The Traveler’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed 190
JOSEPH CONRAD 200
The Secret Sharer 200
HUBERT CRACKANTHORPE 223
Anthony Garstin’s Courtship 223
STEPHEN CRANE 239
The Blue Hotel 239
ROBERT CREELEY 255
The Grace 255
CHARLES DICKENS 259
The Signal-Man 259
ISAK DINESEN 267
The Sailor-Boy’s Tale 267
FEDOR DOSTOEVSKI 274
The Grand Inquisitor 274
RALPH ELLISON 286
King of the Bingo Game 286
WILLIAM FAULKNER 292
Dry September 292
The Old People 299
That Evening Sun 310
F.SCOTT FITZGERALD 320
Absolution 320
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 329
The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller 329
E.M.FORSTER 343
The Celestial Omnibus 343
BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN 352
A Change of Plan 352
WILLIAM H.GASS 356
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 356
GEORGE GISSING 371
The House of Cobwebs 371
NIKOLAI GOGOL 382
The Overcoat 382
THOMAS HARDY 400
The Three Strangers 400
BRET HARTE 413
Tennessee’s Partner 413
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 419
My Kinsman，Major Molineux 419
Roger Malvin’s Burial 430
Young Goodman Brown 441
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 449
The Killers 449
HERMANN HESSE 455
The Poet 455
WASHINGTON IRVING 459
Rip Van Winkle 459
SHIRLEY JACKSON 468
One Ordinary Day，with Peanuts 468
DAN JACOBSON 474
Led Astray 474
HENRY JAMES 481
The Beast in the Jungle 481
Four Meetings 506
The Tree of Knowledge 523
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 532
The Town Poor 532
JAMES JOYCE 539
Araby 539
The Dead 543
Ivy Day in the Committee Room 566
FRANZ KAFKA 574
A Hunger Artist 574
RUDYARD KIPLING 580
The Gardener 580
“They” 586
Without Benefit of Clergy 598
TOMMASO LANDOLFI 611
Gogol’s Wife 611
D.H.LAWRENCE 618
The Shadow in the Rose Garden 618
DORIS LESSING 626
One off the Short List 626
JAKOV LIND 641
Journey Through the Night 641
JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON 645
Gold Coast 645
DAVID MADDEN 658
No Trace 658
BERNARD MALAMUD 671
The Magic Barrel 671
THOMAS MANN 681
Mario and the Magician 681
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 706
The Man Without a Temperament 706
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM 714
The Outstation 714
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 731
Little Soldier 731
HERMAN MELVILLE 735
Bartleby，the Scrivener 735
YUKIO MISHIMA 756
Patriotism 756
H.H.MUNRO （Saki） 770
Sredni Vashtar 770
JOYCE CAROL OATES 773
Four Summers 773
FLANNERY O’CONNOR 784
The Artificial Nigger 784
Everything That Rises Must Converge 796
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 805
FRANK O’CONNOR 815
Guests of the Nation 815
EDGAR ALLAN POE 822
The Cask of Amontillado 822
The Man of the Crowd 826
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 832
The Grave 832
J.F.POWERS 836
The Valiant Woman 836
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET 842
The Secret Room 842
ALAN SILLITOE 846
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner 846
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER 868
Gimpel the Fool 868
MURIEL SPARK 877
The Twins 877
JOHN STEINBECK 883
The Chrysanthemums 883
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 890
Markheim 890
PETER TAYLOR 900
Miss Leonora When Last Seen 900
JAMES THURBER 917
The Catbird Seat 917
LEO TOLSTOY 923
The Death of Ivan Ilych 923
LIONEL TRIL LING 955
Of This Time，Of Thai Place 955
IVAN TURGENEV 977
The Country Doctor 977
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO 983
Saint Emmanuel the Good，Martyr 983
JOHN UPDIKE 1003
A＆P 1003
H.G.WELLS 1008
The Lord of the Dynamos 1008
EUDORA WELTY 1014
Powerhouse 1014
RICHARD WRIGHT 1021
The Man Who Was Almost a Man 1021
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1028